Ryan Braun

Ryan Joseph Braun (Hebrew Hammer)

Positions: Leftfielder and Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 200 lb.

Born: November 17, 1983 in Mission Hills, CA
High School: Granada Hills HS (Granada Hills, CA)
School: University of Miami (Coral Gables, FL)
Drafted by the Milwaukee Brewers in the 1st round (5th pick) of the 2005 amateur draft.
Signed June 18, 2005. (All Transactions)
Debut: May 25, 2007
Team: Brewers 2007-2012
2012 Contract Status: Signed thru 2020, 8 yrs/$45M (08-15), 5 yrs/$105M (16-20) & 21 mutual option (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 4.129, Free Agent: 2021 [*], Agents: CAA Sports (Nez Balelo), previously: Paragon/Joe Longo [*]
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All-Star

Standard Fielding

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
2007	MIL	NL	23	3B	112	112	89	945.1	248	61	161	26	12	.895	-35	-32	-45	-41	2.11	1.98	.954	2.68	2.67	MVP-24,RoY-1
2008	MIL	NL	24	LF	149	148	138	1310.1	284	275	9	0	0	1.000	-16	7	-15	6	1.95	1.91	.983	1.90	1.89	AS,MVP-3,SS
2008	MIL	NL	24	OF	149	148	138	1310.1	284	275	9	0	0	1.000	-16	7	-15	6	1.95	1.91	.985	2.21	2.20	AS,MVP-3,SS
2008	MIL	NL	24	DH	1	1																		AS,MVP-3,SS
2009	MIL	NL	25	LF	158	156	148	1364.0	314	304	8	2	2	.994	-6	-4	-5	-4	2.06	1.97	.982	1.93	1.91	AS,MVP-11,SS
2009	MIL	NL	25	OF	158	156	148	1364.0	314	304	8	2	2	.994	-6	-4	-5	-3	2.06	1.97	.986	2.20	2.18	AS,MVP-11,SS
2010	MIL	NL	26	LF	153	153	143	1326.0	288	279	6	3	1	.990	1	9	1	8	1.93	1.86	.985	1.82	1.80	AS,MVP-15,SS
2010	MIL	NL	26	OF	153	153	143	1326.0	288	279	6	3	1	.990	1	9	1	8	1.93	1.86	.987	2.17	2.15	AS,MVP-15,SS
2010	MIL	NL	26	DH	1	1																		AS,MVP-15,SS
2011	MIL	NL	27	LF	147	146	125	1250.0	268	259	8	1	2	.996	3	3	3	3	1.92	1.82	.985	1.87	1.87	AS,MVP-1,SS
2011	MIL	NL	27	OF	147	146	125	1250.0	268	259	8	1	2	.996	3	3	3	2	1.92	1.82	.986	2.16	2.15	AS,MVP-1,SS
2011	MIL	NL	27	DH	1	1																		AS,MVP-1,SS
2012	MIL	NL	28	LF	47	47	41	408.1	106	100	3	3	0	.972	-1	4	-3	12	2.27	2.19	.983	1.83	1.81
2012	MIL	NL	28	OF	47	47	41	408.1	106	100	3	3	0	.972	-1	4	-3	11	2.27	2.19	.983	2.10	2.07
	5 Seasons			LF	654	650	595	5658.2	1260	1217	34	9	5	.993	-19	19	-4	4	1.99	1.91	.984	1.88	1.86
	5 Seasons			OF	654	650	595	5658.2	1260	1217	34	9	5	.993	-19	19	-4	4	1.99	1.91	.986	2.18	2.16
	1 Season			3B	112	112	89	945.1	248	61	161	26	12	.895	-35	-32	-45	-40	2.11	1.98	.954	2.68	2.67
	6 Seasons			TOT	766	762	684	6604.0	1508	1278	195	35	17	.977	-54	6	-10	1	2.01	1.92	.981	2.25	2.24

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-1948 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
From 1948 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 1948 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 1918 on.
Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1948 to 1973 and complete from then on.
Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1918) 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 1948 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

Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzhm	Rtzrd	Rdp	Rof	Rdrs	Rdrs/yr	Rpm	Rbnt	Rof
2007	MIL	NL	23	3B	-35	-45	-34	-19	-15	-1		-32	-41	-31	-1
2008	MIL	NL	24	LF	-16	-15	-17	-13	-4		1	7	6	4		1
2009	MIL	NL	25	LF	-6	-5	-2	3	-5		-4	-4	-4	-5		-2
2010	MIL	NL	26	LF	1	1	4	8	-4		-3	9	8	11		-4
2011	MIL	NL	27	LF	3	3	5	4	1		-2	3	3	8		-6
2012	MIL	NL	28	LF	-1	-3	-1	1	-2		0	4	12	2		1
	5 Seasons			LF	-19	-4	-11	3	-14		-8	19	4	20		-10
	1 Season			3B	-35	-45	-34	-19	-15	-1		-32	-40	-31	-1
	6 Seasons			TOT	-54	-10	-45	-16	-29	-1	-8	6	1	-11	-1	-10

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	3B	LF	OF	DH	PH	PR
2007	MIL	NL	23	113	112	113	112	112	0	0	0	1	0
2008	MIL	NL	24	151	149	151	149	0	149	149	1	2	0
2009	MIL	NL	25	158	156	158	158	0	158	158	0	2	0
2010	MIL	NL	26	157	154	157	153	0	153	153	1	2	1
2011	MIL	NL	27	150	147	150	147	0	147	147	1	3	0
2012	MIL	NL	28	47	47	47	47	0	47	47	0	0	0
	6 Seasons			776	765	776	766	112	654	654	3	10	1

Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1918 season) and non-RetroSheet data is used for other seasons.

Advanced Fielding -- LF*

				Errors					Assists					Single w/ Runner on 1st			Single w/ Runner on 2nd			Double w/ Runner on 1st			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd			Baserunning Totals
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	1B	2B	3B	Hm	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Held%	Adv	Kill	Kill%	Aother	PA	RHB%	BIP%	FBIP%	Fld	F2O%
2008	MIL	NL	24	0	0	0	0	0	9	0	4	1	4	68	53	0	42	17	2	26	13	2	14	2	0	27	27	0	177	112	63.3%	61	4	2.3%	5	5579	58%	76%	39%	602	47%
2009	MIL	NL	25	2	0	0	2	0	8	0	1	1	4	91	74	0	42	15	2	37	18	1	12	4	0	22	18	1	204	129	63.2%	71	4	2.0%	4	6046	56%	75%	40%	687	45%
2010	MIL	NL	26	3	0	1	2	0	6	1	4	0	1	96	83	0	50	16	1	30	15	0	16	0	0	25	23	0	217	137	63.1%	79	1	0.5%	5	5806	66%	73%	39%	652	44%
2011	MIL	NL	27	1	0	1	0	0	8	1	4	2	0	61	52	0	30	5	0	25	11	0	12	3	0	25	24	1	153	95	62.1%	57	1	0.7%	7	5202	62%	75%	38%	560	47%
2012	MIL	NL	28	3	0	1	2	0	3	0	1	0	2	23	16	0	18	6	1	11	9	1	4	1	0	11	11	0	67	43	64.2%	22	2	3.0%	1	1785	55%	74%	39%	213	48%
	5 Seasons			9	0	3	6	0	34	2	14	4	11	339	278	0	182	59	6	129	66	4	58	10	0	110	103	2	818	516	63.1%	290	12	1.5%	22	24418	60%	75%	39%	2714	46%
	MLB Averages																														63.7%			2.2%			57%	76%	39%		46%

Advanced Fielding -- 3B*

											Putouts				Assists					Errors					Double Plays
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	PA	RHB%	BIP%	GBIP%	Fld	F2O%	FC	Tot	Cgt	Frc	Tag	Tot	1B	2B	Hm	Rly	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	543	53	GB	LD	LDs	LDf	bFld	bF2O%
2007	MIL	NL	23	4179	60%	75%	29%	273	78%	0	61	54	3	4	161	117	40	0	2	26	0	10	16	21	12	12	0	12	0	0	0	19	53%
	1 Season			4179	60%	75%	29%	273	78%	0	61	54	3	4	161	117	40	0	2	26	0	10	16	21	12	12	0	12	0	0	0	19	53%
	MLB Averages				57%	76%	31%		87%																								65%

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1918 to 1973 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary) for some players prior to 1974 and even complete seasons may not match the official totals due to errors in both the official totals and the play-by-play accounts. Pre-1954 seasons have a substantial numbers of games missing play-by-play accounts and should be viewed as essentially incomplete.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

All-Star Games 2008 (LF) 2009 (RF) 2010 (LF) 2011	Awards (yr lg award) 2007 NL Rookie of the Year 2011 NL MVP	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 2007 NL (24, 0%) 2008 NL (3, 31%) 2009 NL (11, 10%) 2010 NL (15, 4%) 2011 NL (1, 87%) 1 MVP 1.32 Career Shares (169th)	Silver Sluggers 2008 NL (OF) 2009 NL (OF) 2010 NL (OF) 2011 NL (OF) All multiple winners
Errors Committed† s c a p y 2007 NL 26 (1st)	Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y 2007 NL 26 (1st)	Def. Games as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 2008 NL 149 (2nd) 2009 NL 158 (1st) 2010 NL 153 (2nd) 2011 NL 147 (1st) 2012 NL 47 (2nd) Active 654 (10th)	Putouts as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 2008 NL 275 (1st) 2009 NL 304 (1st) 2010 NL 279 (1st) 2011 NL 259 (2nd) 2012 NL 100 (1st) Active 1,217 (9th)
Assists as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 2008 NL 9 (4th) 2009 NL 8 (3rd) 2010 NL 6 (4th) 2011 NL 8 (4th) 2012 NL 3 (3rd) Active 34 (12th)	Errors Committed as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 2010 NL 3 (4th) 2012 NL 3 (1st) Active 9 (24th)	Def. Games as OF s c a p y 2009 NL 158 (1st) 2010 NL 153 (5th)	Errors Committed as OF s c a p y 2012 NL 3 (4th)
Range Factor/9Inn as LF (s.1954)† s c a p y 2008 NL 1.95 (4th) 2009 NL 2.06 (2nd) 2010 NL 1.93 (3rd) 2011 NL 1.92 (3rd) 2012 NL 2.27 (3rd) Active 1.99 (6th) Career 1.99 (66th)	Range Factor/Game as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 2008 NL 1.91 (2nd) 2009 NL 1.97 (1st) 2010 NL 1.86 (2nd) 2011 NL 1.82 (3rd) 2012 NL 2.19 (1st) Active 1.91 (4th) Career 1.91 (95th)	Fielding % as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 2008 NL 1.000 (1st) 2009 NL .994 (2nd) 2011 NL .996 (1st) Active .993 (1st) Career .993 (2nd)	Fielding % as OF s c a p y 2008 NL 1.000 (1st) 2011 NL .996 (4th) Active .993 (6th) Career .993 (13th)

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