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Carlos Baerga

Carlos Obed (Ortiz) Baerga

Positions: Second Baseman and Third Baseman
Bats: Both, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 165 lb.

Born: November 4, 1968 in Santurce, P.R.
High School: Rooshart (Rio Piedras, DO)
Signed
by the San Diego Padres as an amateur free agent in 1985. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 14, 1990
Teams (by GP): Indians/Mets/Diamondbacks/Nationals/RedSox/... 1990-2005
Agents: Scott Boras [*]
Final Game: September 30, 2005
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All-Time Rank (among Batters): #661. Tommy McCarthy… #662. Bill Bradley… #663. John Reilly… #664. CARLOS BAERGA… #665. Willie Jones… #666. Leo Cardenas… #667. Socks Seybold… 

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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 Awards
1990 21 CLE AL 108 338 312 46 81 17 2 7 47 0 2 16 57 .260 .300 .394 .694 93 123 4 4 1 5 2 56/4
1991 22 CLE AL 158 654 593 80 171 28 2 11 69 3 2 48 74 .288 .346 .398 .744 106 236 12 6 4 3 5 54/6
1992 23 CLE AL 161 716 657 92 205 32 1 20 105 10 2 35 76 .312 .354 .455 .809 127 299 15 13 2 9 10 *4 AS,MVP-11
1993 24 CLE AL 154 680 624 105 200 28 6 21 114 15 4 34 68 .321 .355 .486 .840 124 303 17 6 3 13 7 *4 AS,MVP-10,SS
1994 25 CLE AL 103 469 442 81 139 32 2 19 80 8 2 10 45 .314 .333 .525 .858 119 232 10 6 3 8 1 *4 SS
1995 26 CLE AL 135 600 557 87 175 28 2 15 90 11 2 35 31 .314 .355 .452 .807 109 252 15 3 0 5 6 *4 AS
1996 27 TOT MLB 126 544 507 59 129 28 0 12 66 1 1 21 27 .254 .293 .381 .674 72 193 23 9 2 5 0 43/5
1996 27 CLE AL 100 453 424 54 113 25 0 10 55 1 1 16 25 .267 .302 .396 .698 76 168 15 7 2 4 0 43/54
1996 27 NYM NL 26 91 83 5 16 3 0 2 11 0 0 5 2 .193 .253 .301 .554 49 25 8 2 0 1 0 43/54
1997 28 NYM NL 133 498 467 53 131 25 1 9 52 2 6 20 54 .281 .311 .396 .707 86 185 13 3 3 5 1 *4
1998 29 NYM NL 147 551 511 46 136 27 1 7 53 0 1 24 55 .266 .303 .364 .667 76 186 21 6 3 7 6 *4
1999 30 TOT MLB 55 152 137 10 33 1 0 3 10 2 1 10 24 .241 .300 .314 .614 59 43 5 2 2 1 1 54/3
1999 30 CLE AL 22 63 57 4 13 0 0 1 5 1 1 4 10 .228 .274 .281 .555 40 16 3 0 1 1 1 545/43
1999 30 SDP NL 33 89 80 6 20 1 0 2 5 1 0 6 14 .250 .318 .338 .656 73 27 2 2 1 0 0 545/43
2002 33 BOS AL 73 194 182 17 52 11 0 2 19 6 0 7 20 .286 .316 .379 .695 82 69 6 2 1 2 1 4/5
2003 34 ARI NL 105 231 207 31 71 13 0 4 39 1 1 18 20 .343 .396 .464 .859 117 96 6 2 1 3 1 34/5
2004 35 ARI NL 79 94 85 6 20 2 0 2 11 0 0 6 12 .235 .309 .329 .638 62 28 7 3 0 0 0 /3
2005 36 WSN NL 93 174 158 18 40 7 0 2 19 0 0 7 17 .253 .318 .335 .653 76 53 4 8 1 0 0 53/4
14 Seasons 1630 5895 5439 731 1583 279 17 134 774 59 24 291 580 .291 .332 .423 .754 100 2298 158 73 26 66 41
162 Game Avg. 162 586 541 73 157 28 2 13 77 6 2 29 58 .291 .332 .423 .754 100 228 16 7 3 7 4
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 Awards
CLE (8 yrs) 941 3973 3666 549 1097 190 15 104 565 49 16 198 386 .299 .339 .444 .783 109 1629 91 45 16 48 32
NYM (3 yrs) 306 1140 1061 104 283 55 2 18 116 2 7 49 111 .267 .302 .373 .676 78 396 42 11 6 13 7
ARI (2 yrs) 184 325 292 37 91 15 0 6 50 1 1 24 32 .312 .370 .425 .795 101 124 13 5 1 3 1
BOS (1 yr) 73 194 182 17 52 11 0 2 19 6 0 7 20 .286 .316 .379 .695 82 69 6 2 1 2 1
SDP (1 yr) 33 89 80 6 20 1 0 2 5 1 0 6 14 .250 .318 .338 .656 73 27 2 2 1 0 0
WSN (1 yr) 93 174 158 18 40 7 0 2 19 0 0 7 17 .253 .318 .335 .653 76 53 4 8 1 0 0
AL (9 yrs) 1014 4167 3848 566 1149 201 15 106 584 55 16 205 406 .299 .338 .441 .779 108 1698 97 47 17 50 33
NL (7 yrs) 616 1728 1591 165 434 78 2 28 190 4 8 86 174 .273 .318 .377 .695 82 600 61 26 9 16 8

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 Awards
1990 21 CLE AL 338 -1 -1 -1 1 -2 2 12 10 1.0 12 1.2 -0.2 $100,000 56/4
1991 22 CLE AL 654 2 -1 0 2 -2 2 22 25 2.5 27 2.8 -0.3 $205,000 54/6
1992 23 CLE AL 716 21 2 0 0 6 2 23 54 5.5 48 4.9 0.6 $525,000 *4 AS,MVP-11
1993 24 CLE AL 680 19 5 -1 0 1 2 22 48 4.8 47 4.7 0.1 $1,383,333 *4 AS,MVP-10,SS
1994 25 CLE AL 469 12 1 -1 0 -4 1 15 24 2.3 28 2.6 -0.3 $2,358,333 *4 SS
1995 26 CLE AL 600 5 2 2 0 -8 2 19 22 2.2 30 2.9 -0.7 $3,633,333 *4 AS
1996 27 CLE AL 453 -18 0 -1 0 -16 1 14 -21 -1.9 -4 -0.4 -1.5 $4,750,000 43/54
1996 27 NYM NL 91 -7 0 0 -2 -1 -1 3 -8 -0.9 -7 -0.7 -0.2 $ 43/54
1997 28 NYM NL 498 -4 -1 1 0 3 2 14 15 1.5 12 1.2 0.3 $4,750,000 *4
1998 29 NYM NL 551 -18 0 0 -1 -1 2 16 -2 -0.3 -1 -0.1 -0.2 $4,749,999 *4
1999 30 SDP NL 89 -3 0 0 1 -6 0 3 -4 -0.4 1 0.1 -0.5 $ 545/43
1999 30 CLE AL 63 -5 0 0 0 -1 0 2 -5 -0.5 -3 -0.3 -0.2 $500,000 545/43
2002 33 BOS AL 194 -4 1 -2 0 0 -3 7 -1 -0.1 -1 -0.1 0.0 $700,000 4/5
2003 34 ARI NL 231 4 0 -2 1 2 -1 7 10 1.0 9 0.9 0.1 $500,000 34/5
2004 35 ARI NL 94 -4 0 -1 -1 1 0 3 -2 -0.2 -3 -0.3 0.1 $1,000,000 /3
2005 36 WSN NL 174 -4 0 -1 0 -6 0 5 -5 -0.5 0 0.0 -0.5 $ 53/4
14 Seasons 5895 -5 8 -7 1 -35 11 187 160 16.0 195 19.4 -3.4 $25,154,998
CLE (8 yrs) 3973 35 8 -2 3 -27 12 129 157 15.9 185 18.4 -2.5 $13,454,999
NYM (3 yrs) 1140 -29 -1 1 -3 1 3 33 5 0.3 4 0.4 -0.1 $9,499,999
ARI (2 yrs) 325 0 0 -3 0 2 -1 10 8 0.8 6 0.6 0.2 $1,500,000
SDP (1 yr) 89 -3 0 0 1 -6 0 3 -4 -0.4 1 0.1 -0.5 $
WSN (1 yr) 174 -4 0 -1 0 -6 0 5 -5 -0.5 0 0.0 -0.5 $
BOS (1 yr) 194 -4 1 -2 0 0 -3 7 -1 -0.1 -1 -0.1 0.0 $700,000

Postseason Batting

Year Age Tm Lg Series Opp Rslt G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB
1995 26 CLE AL ALDS BOS W 3 15 14 2 4 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 .286 .333 .357 .690 5 0 1 0 0 0
1995 26 CLE AL ALCS SEA W 6 27 25 3 10 0 0 1 4 0 0 2 3 .400 .444 .520 .964 13 0 0 0 0 0
1995 26 CLE AL WS ATL L 6 27 26 1 5 2 0 0 4 0 0 1 1 .192 .222 .269 .491 7 1 0 0 0 0
1 Season (3 Series) 15 69 65 6 19 3 0 1 9 0 0 3 5 .292 .333 .385 .718 25 1 1 0 0 0
1 ALDS 3 15 14 2 4 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 .286 .333 .357 .690 5 0 1 0 0 0
1 ALCS 6 27 25 3 10 0 0 1 4 0 0 2 3 .400 .444 .520 .964 13 0 0 0 0 0
1 WS 6 27 26 1 5 2 0 0 4 0 0 1 1 .192 .222 .269 .491 7 1 0 0 0 0

Standard Fielding

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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 Awards
1990 CLE AL 21 3B 50 142 33 101 8 9 .944 0 2.68 .944 2.73
1990 CLE AL 21 SS 48 69 24 41 4 10 .942 0 1.35 .973 4.69
1990 CLE AL 21 2B 8 49 22 22 5 8 .898 -2 5.50 .984 5.18
1991 CLE AL 22 3B 89 251 54 183 14 14 .944 -3 2.66 .955 2.79
1991 CLE AL 22 2B 75 413 163 238 12 59 .971 2 5.35 .981 5.18
1991 CLE AL 22 SS 2 1 0 0 1 0 .000 -1 0.00 .970 4.65
1992 CLE AL 23 2B 160 894 400 475 19 138 .979 6 5.47 .983 5.23 AS,MVP-11
1992 CLE AL 23 DH 1 1 AS,MVP-11
1993 CLE AL 24 2B 150 809 347 445 17 108 .979 1 5.28 .981 5.11 AS,MVP-10,SS
1993 CLE AL 24 DH 4 4 AS,MVP-10,SS
1994 CLE AL 25 2B 102 555 205 335 15 70 .973 -4 5.29 .981 5.06 SS
1994 CLE AL 25 DH 1 1 SS
1995 CLE AL 26 2B 134 694 231 444 19 99 .973 -8 5.04 .981 5.06 AS
1995 CLE AL 26 DH 1 1 AS
1996 TOT MLB 27 2B 101 520 194 311 15 64 .971 -17 5.00 .980 5.02
1996 CLE AL 27 2B 100 514 191 308 15 63 .971 -16 4.99 .980 5.02
1996 NYM NL 27 1B 16 104 98 5 1 8 .990 2 6.44 .992 9.56
1996 NYM NL 27 3B 6 9 2 4 3 0 .667 -2 1.00 .948 2.68
1996 NYM NL 27 2B 1 6 3 3 0 1 1.000 -1 6.00 .982 5.10
1997 NYM NL 28 2B 131 629 244 371 14 88 .978 3 4.69 .980 5.03
1998 NYM NL 29 2B 144 638 289 340 9 97 .986 -1 4.37 .982 5.06
1999 TOT MLB 30 3B 28 45 13 29 3 3 .933 -3 1.50 .951 2.60
1999 TOT MLB 30 2B 19 50 21 29 0 10 1.000 -4 2.63 .981 5.02
1999 CLE AL 30 3B 15 28 8 19 1 1 .964 -1 1.80 .950 2.54
1999 SDP NL 30 2B 13 36 16 20 0 7 1.000 -3 2.77 .981 5.01
1999 SDP NL 30 3B 13 17 5 10 2 2 .882 -2 1.15 .953 2.66
1999 CLE AL 30 2B 6 14 5 9 0 3 1.000 -0 2.33 .981 5.05
1999 SDP NL 30 1B 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 9.15
2002 BOS AL 33 2B 17 58 25 32 1 4 .983 0 3.35 .979 4.84
2002 BOS AL 33 3B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.60
2002 BOS AL 33 DH 27 27
2003 ARI NL 34 1B 19 133 123 8 2 12 .985 1 -1 6.89 .993 9.51
2003 ARI NL 34 2B 15 62 21 40 1 11 .984 -1 0 4.07 .983 5.07
2003 ARI NL 34 3B 5 13 6 7 0 0 1.000 1 0 2.60 .955 2.72
2003 ARI NL 34 DH 6 6
2004 ARI NL 35 1B 6 36 32 4 0 2 1.000 1 1 6.00 .993 9.43
2004 ARI NL 35 DH 2 2
2005 WSN NL 36 3B 20 25 7 16 2 1 .920 -3 -2 1.15 .958 2.74
2005 WSN NL 36 1B 11 68 65 2 1 2 .985 -2 -1 6.09 .993 9.52
2005 WSN NL 36 2B 7 37 15 19 3 3 .919 -0 2 4.86 .981 4.91
2005 WSN NL 36 DH 1 1
13 Seasons 2B 1063 5408 2177 3101 130 759 .976 -26 2 4.97 .981 5.09
7 Seasons 3B 199 485 115 340 30 27 .938 -9 -2 2.29 .951 2.74
5 Seasons 1B 54 341 318 19 4 24 .988 1 -1 6.24 .993 9.51
2 Seasons SS 50 70 24 41 5 10 .929 -1 1.30 .973 4.69
14 Seasons TOT 1366 6304 2634 3501 169 820 .973 -35 -1 4.49 .980 4.91
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rdrs Rtot/yr Rdrs/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.
View Complete Notes on Fielding Data
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.
  • For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1950 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
  • For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Hall of Fame
2011 BBWAA ()

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1992 AL (11, 8%)
1993 AL (10, 13%)
0.21 Career Shares (727th)

Silver Sluggers
1993 AL (2B)
1994 AL (2B)
All multiple winners

Batting Average s c a p y
1992 AL  .312 (6th)
1993 AL  .321 (5th)
1995 AL  .314 (9th)

Games Played s c a p y
1991 AL  158 (10th)
1992 AL  161 (2nd)

At Bats s c a p y
1992 AL  657 (2nd)
1993 AL  624 (5th)
1994 AL  442 (8th)
1995 AL  557 (8th)

Plate Appearances s c a p y
1992 AL  716 (4th)

Runs Scored s c a p y
1994 AL  81 (10th)

Hits s c a p y
1992 AL  205 (2nd)
1993 AL  200 (2nd)
1994 AL  139 (7th)
1995 AL  175 (5th)

Total Bases s c a p y
1992 AL  299 (7th)
1993 AL  303 (8th)
1994 AL  232 (9th)

Doubles s c a p y
1994 AL  32 (5th)

Triples s c a p y
1993 AL  6 (9th)

Runs Batted In s c a p y
1992 AL  105 (10th)
1993 AL  114 (6th)

Singles s c a p y
1991 AL  130 (8th)
1992 AL  152 (1st)
1993 AL  145 (3rd)
1995 AL  130 (3rd)

Runs Created s c a p y
1992 AL  105 (10th)

Extra Base Hits s c a p y
1994 AL  53 (8th)

Times On Base s c a p y
1992 AL  253 (10th)

Hit By Pitch s c a p y
1992 AL  13 (4th)
Career  73 (191st)

Sacrifice Flies s c a p y
1992 AL  9 (9th)
1993 AL  13 (2nd)
1994 AL  8 (4th)
Career  66 (163rd)

Double Plays Grounded Into s c a p y
1998 NL  21 (6th)
Career  158 (228th)

Power-Speed # s c a p y
1993 AL  17.5 (10th)

AB per SO s c a p y
1994 AL  9.8 (10th)
1995 AL  18.0 (2nd)
1998 NL  9.3 (10th)

Outs Made s c a p y
1992 AL  480 (8th)

Win Probability Added (WPA)s c a p y
1992 AL  4.2 (4th)

Assistss c a p y
1992 AL  475 (3rd)
1993 AL  445 (4th)
1994 AL  335 (4th)
1995 AL  444 (1st)

Errors Committeds c a p y
1991 AL  27 (1st)
1995 AL  19 (3rd)

Def. Games as 2B s c a p y
1992 AL  160 (1st)
1993 AL  150 (2nd)
1994 AL  102 (4th)
1995 AL  134 (2nd)

Putouts as 2B s c a p y
1992 AL  400 (1st)
1993 AL  347 (1st)
1994 AL  205 (2nd)

Assists as 2B s c a p y
1992 AL  475 (1st)
1993 AL  445 (1st)
1994 AL  335 (2nd)
1995 AL  444 (1st)
Career  3,101 (99th)

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
1992 AL  19 (2nd)
1993 AL  17 (2nd)
1994 AL  15 (1st)
1995 AL  19 (2nd)
1996 AL  15 (2nd)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
1991 AL  14 (5th)

Total Zone Runs as 2B s c a p y
1992 AL  6 (5th)

Range Factor/9Inn as 2Bs c a p y
1992 AL  5.49 (4th)
1993 AL  5.47 (2nd)
1994 AL  5.45 (2nd)
1995 AL  5.21 (5th)

Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y
1992 AL  5.47 (1st)
1993 AL  5.28 (1st)
1994 AL  5.29 (2nd)
1995 AL  5.04 (3rd)
1996 AL  4.99 (5th)

Range Factor/9Inn as 3Bs c a p y
1991 AL  3.05 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
1991 AL  2.66 (5th)

                                         

Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1950-1973, the data is incomplete, though for most seasons only less than 20 games per season total are missing. Please see our page on data coverage for a full view of the data used to create these leaderboards.

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray InkBatting - 44 (573), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 44 (431), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 19 (803), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Transactions

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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
199021Cleveland Indians$100,000USA Today
199122Cleveland Indians$205,0001994 Joint Exhibit 1Includes $40,000 earned bonus
199223Cleveland Indians$525,0001994 Joint Exhibit 1Includes $25,000 earned bonus
199324Cleveland Indians$1,383,3331996 Joint Exhibit 1Incl. $83,333 signing bonus, $100K earned bonus
199425Cleveland Indians$2,358,3331996 Joint Exhibit 1Incl. $83,333 signing bonus, $75K earned bonus
199526Cleveland Indians$3,633,3331996 Joint Exhibit 1Incl. $83,333 signing bonus, $50K earned bonus
199627Cleveland Indians$4,750,0001996 Joint Exhibit 1Incl. $83,333 signing bonus
199728New York Mets$4,750,0001997 Joint Exhibit 1Includes $83,333 signing bonus
199829New York Mets$4,749,9994/3/98 USA Today
199930Cleveland Indians$500,00011/19/99 USA Today
200233Boston Red Sox$700,0004/3/02 AP
200334Arizona Diamondbacks$500,0004/3/03 AP
200435Arizona Diamondbacks$1,000,0004/7/04 AP
Career to date (may be incomplete)$25,154,998
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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