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Pedro Álvarez

Pedro Manuel Alvarez

Position: Third Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 235 lb.

Born: February 6, 1987 in Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional, D.R.
High School: Horace Mann (New York, NY)
Drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1st round (2nd pick) of the 2008 amateur draft.
Signed September 24, 2008. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 16, 2010 vs. CHW 2 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB
Team: Pirates 2010-2011
2012 Contract Status: Pre-Arb Eligible (team option), 4 yrs/$8.15M (09-12) & 13-14 team option (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 1.085, Arb Eligible: 2014, Free Agent: 2017 [*], Agents: Scott Boras [*]
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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB	Pos
2009	22	PIT-min	A+,AA	126	542	465	80	134	32	1	27	95	2	1	71	129	.288	.378	.535	.914		249	7	0	0	6	9	LBG,ATO · CARL,EL
2010	23	PIT-min	AAA	66	278	242	42	67	15	4	13	53	4	4	32	68	.277	.363	.533	.896		129	4	2	0	2	2	INA · IL
2010	23	PIT	NL	95	386	347	42	89	21	1	16	64	0	0	37	119	.256	.326	.461	.788	112	160	8	0	0	2	1	5
2011	24	PIT-min	AAA,A+,Rk	42	170	142	18	35	5	1	6	21	0	1	25	47	.246	.365	.423	.787		60	3	2	0	1	3	INA,BDT,BRD · IL,FLOR,GULF
2011	24	PIT	NL	74	262	235	18	45	9	1	4	19	1	0	24	80	.191	.272	.289	.561	56	68	11	2	1	0	1	5
2 Seasons				169	648	582	60	134	30	2	20	83	1	0	61	199	.230	.304	.392	.696	90	228	19	2	1	2	2
162 Game Avg.				162	621	558	58	128	29	2	19	80	1	0	58	191	.230	.304	.392	.696	90	219	18	2	1	2	2

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Rbat	Rbaser	Rroe	Rdp	Rfield	Rpos	Rrep	RAR	WAR	oRAR	oWAR	dWAR	Salary	Pos
2010	23	PIT	NL	386	5	-0	-1	-1	-14	1	11	-0	0.0	14	1.4	-1.4	$	5
2011	24	PIT	NL	262	-14	-2	-1	-1	-2	1	7	-13	-1.4	-11	-1.2	-0.2	$2,050,000	5
2 Seasons				648	-9	-3	-3	-2	-16	2	18	-13	-1.4	3	0.2	-1.6	$2,050,000

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Adv Fielding w/ run summary

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rtot	Rdrs	Rtot/yr	Rdrs/yr	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG
2010	PIT	NL	23	3B	94				276	61	198	17	17	.938	-14	-11				2.76	.951		2.52
2011	PIT	NL	24	3B	66	62	55	549.0	214	55	145	14	15	.935	-2	-6	-5	-13	3.28	3.03	.954	2.53	2.53
	2 Seasons			3B	160	62	55	549.0	490	116	343	31	32	.937	-16	-17	-35	-37	3.28	2.87	.952	2.53	2.52
	2 Seasons			TOT	160	62	55	549.0	490	116	343	31	32	.937	-16	-17	-35	-37	3.28	2.87	.952	2.53	2.52

Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.

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Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.

Pre-1950 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
From 1950 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1950 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1919 on.
Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1950 to 1973 and complete from then on.
Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1919) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
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Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y 2010 NL 17 (4th) 2011 NL 14 (4th)	Range Factor/9Inn as 3B† s c a p y 2010 NL 2.86 (3rd)	Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y 2010 NL 2.76 (3rd)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
2010 NL 17 (4th)
2011 NL 14 (4th)

Range Factor/9Inn as 3B† s c a p y
2010 NL 2.86 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
2010 NL 2.76 (3rd)

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Transactions

June 7, 2005: Drafted by the Boston Red Sox in the 14th round of the 2005 amateur draft, but did not sign.
June 5, 2008: Drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1st round (2nd pick) of the 2008 amateur draft. Player signed September 24, 2008.

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Salaries

Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses

Year	Age	Team	Salary	Sources	Notes
2011	24	Pittsburgh Pirates	$2,050,000

2012	25	Pittsburgh Pirates	$700,000
2013	26	Pittsburgh Pirates	*$700,000	$700k Team Option	option may be voided if player is arb eligible
2014	27	Pittsburgh Pirates	*$700,000	$700k Team Option

Career to date (may be incomplete)			$2,050,000	Does not include future salaries

Salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.

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