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Asdrubal Cabrera

Asdrubal Jose Cabrera

Positions: Shortstop and Second Baseman
Bats: Both, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: November 13, 1985 in Puerto la Cruz, Anzoategui, Venezuela
Signed by the Seattle Mariners as an amateur free agent in 2002. (All Transactions)
Debut: August 8, 2007
Team: Indians 2007-2012
2012 Contract Status: Signed thru 2014, 3 yrs/$21.05M (12-14) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 4.027, Free Agent: 2015 [*], Agents: Alan Nero [*]
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All-Star

Standard Batting

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
2007 21 CLE AL 45 186 159 30 45 9 2 3 22 0 0 17 29 .283 .354 .421 .775 103 67 7 2 5 3 0 4/65
2008 22 CLE AL 114 418 352 48 91 20 0 6 47 4 4 46 77 .259 .346 .366 .713 92 129 8 4 11 5 2 46/D
2009 23 CLE AL 131 581 523 81 161 42 4 6 68 17 4 44 89 .308 .361 .438 .799 114 229 13 1 10 3 1 64
2010 24 CLE AL 97 425 381 39 105 16 1 3 29 6 4 25 60 .276 .326 .346 .673 89 132 10 5 11 3 0 6/D
2011 25 CLE AL 151 667 604 87 165 32 3 25 92 17 5 44 119 .273 .332 .460 .792 120 278 10 11 4 4 5 *6 AS,MVP-20,SS
2012 26 CLE AL 41 186 161 23 48 14 0 5 20 2 2 21 17 .298 .392 .478 .871 146 77 6 4 0 0 1 *6/D
6 Yrs 579 2463 2180 308 615 133 10 48 278 46 19 197 391 .282 .346 .418 .765 109 912 54 27 41 18 9
162 Game Avg. 162 689 610 86 172 37 3 13 78 13 5 55 109 .282 .346 .418 .765 109 255 15 8 11 5 3

Player Value--Batters

WAR Explained (v2.1): 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl
Year Age Tm Lg G PA Rbat Rbaser Rdp Rfield Rpos RAA WAA Rrep RAR WAR waaWL% 162WL% oWAR dWAR oRAR Salary Pos Awards
2007 21 CLE AL 45 186 -0 1 -0 7 1 9 0.9 6 15 1.5 .519 .505 0.8 0.9 8 $ 4/65
2008 22 CLE AL 114 418 -3 -2 1 13 3 13 1.5 14 27 2.8 .511 .508 1.4 1.7 14 $393,300 46/D
2009 23 CLE AL 131 581 17 4 -0 -4 5 22 2.3 20 41 4.0 .516 .513 4.4 0.2 45 $416,700 64
2010 24 CLE AL 97 425 -5 -0 -0 -1 4 -2 -0.1 14 12 1.2 .498 .499 1.3 0.4 13 $444,600 6/D
2011 25 CLE AL 151 667 14 0 -0 3 7 24 2.6 23 46 4.6 .516 .515 4.4 1.1 43 $2,025,000 *6 AS,MVP-20,SS
2012 26 CLE AL 41 186 10 0 -1 3 2 14 1.4 6 20 2.0 .536 .509 1.8 0.5 17 $ *6/D
6 Seasons 579 2463 33 4 -1 21 22 78 8.6 84 162 16.1 .514 .508 14.1 4.9 141 $3,279,600

Advanced Batting

Year Age Tm Lg PA Outs RC RC/G AIR BAbip BA lgBA OBP lgOBP SLG lgSLG OPS lgOPS OPS+ OWn% BtRuns BtWins TotA SecA ISO PwrSpd
2007 21 CLE AL 186 129 23 4.8 108 .323 .283 .272 .354 .340 .421 .425 .775 .765 103 .473 1.1 0.1 .711 .245 .138 .0
2008 22 CLE AL 418 289 47 4.4 104 .310 .259 .266 .346 .333 .366 .417 .713 .751 92 .440 -2.1 -0.2 .656 .239 .108 4.8
2009 23 CLE AL 581 392 83 5.6 103 .360 .308 .261 .361 .329 .438 .419 .799 .749 114 .550 12.1 1.1 .757 .239 .130 8.9
2010 24 CLE AL 425 304 43 3.8 95 .318 .276 .253 .326 .320 .346 .397 .673 .717 89 .404 -4.9 -0.5 .566 .142 .071 4.0
2011 25 CLE AL 667 462 93 5.4 94 .302 .273 .252 .332 .317 .460 .400 .792 .716 120 .571 16.1 1.6 .760 .280 .187 20.2
2012 26 CLE AL 186 121 29 6.4 93 .309 .298 .246 .392 .312 .478 .399 .871 .711 146 .649 11.3 1.1 .843 .311 .180 2.9
6 Yrs 2463 1697 318 5.0 99 .322 .282 .258 .346 .324 .418 .409 .765 .733 109 .518 33.6 3.2 .710 .239 .136 47.0
162 Game Avg. 689 475 89 5.0 99 .322 .282 .258 .346 .324 .418 .409 .765 .733 109 .518 9 1 .710 .239 .136 13

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog
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
2007 21 CLE AL ALDS NYY W 4 21 17 3 3 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 4 .176 .222 .353 .575 6 2 0 3 0 0
2007 21 CLE AL ALCS BOS L 7 31 29 2 7 0 0 0 4 0 0 1 8 .241 .258 .241 .499 7 0 0 0 1 0
1 Yr (2 Series) 11 52 46 5 10 0 0 1 6 0 0 2 12 .217 .245 .283 .528 13 2 0 3 1 0
1 ALDS 4 21 17 3 3 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 4 .176 .222 .353 .575 6 2 0 3 0 0
1 ALCS 7 31 29 2 7 0 0 0 4 0 0 1 8 .241 .258 .241 .499 7 0 0 0 1 0

All-Star Batting

Year Tm Lg Age GS PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB
2011 CLE AL 25 as SS 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0

Ratio Batting*

Year Age Tm Lg PA HR% SO% BB% XBH% X/H% SO/BB AB/SO AB/HR AB/RBI GB/FB GO/AO IP% LD% HR/FB IF/FB
2007 21 CLE AL 186 1.6% 15.6% 9.1% 7.5% 31% 1.71 5.5 53.0 7.2 0.76 1.15 70% 19% 4.2% 4%
2008 22 CLE AL 418 1.4% 18.4% 11.0% 6.2% 29% 1.67 4.6 58.7 7.5 0.87 1.23 66% 15% 4.6% 9%
2009 23 CLE AL 581 1.0% 15.3% 7.6% 9.0% 32% 2.02 5.9 87.2 7.7 0.96 1.40 74% 20% 2.9% 6%
2010 24 CLE AL 425 0.7% 14.1% 5.9% 4.7% 19% 2.40 6.4 127.0 13.1 1.09 1.41 76% 16% 2.2% 9%
2011 25 CLE AL 667 3.8% 17.8% 6.6% 9.0% 36% 2.70 5.1 24.2 6.6 0.81 1.09 70% 16% 10.5% 11%
2012 26 CLE AL 186 2.7% 9.1% 11.3% 10.2% 40% 0.81 9.5 32.2 8.1 0.88 1.40 75% 21% 7.5% 12%
6 Yrs 2463 2.0% 15.9% 8.0% 7.8% 31% 1.98 5.6 45.4 7.8 0.90 1.27 71% 18% 5.7% 9%
MLB Averages 2.6% 18.0% 8.5% 7.8% 33% 2.11 4.9 34.6 7.9 0.80 1.07 69% 19% 7.5% 13%

Win Probability

Year Age Tm Lg BtRuns BtWins Plays WPA WPA+ WPA- aLI WPA/LI Clutch RE24 REW boLI RE24/boLI PHlev AB
2007 21 CLE AL 1.1 0.1 191 1.1 4.2 -3.1 1.06 0.1 0.9 -1.0 -0.1 0.97 -0.7 1.65 2
2008 22 CLE AL -2.1 -0.2 431 -0.3 6.5 -6.8 .98 -0.6 0.3 -6.1 -0.6 0.98 -7.0 0.37 2
2009 23 CLE AL 12.1 1.1 614 2.1 11.3 -9.1 .98 1.5 0.7 27.0 2.6 0.96 16.6 0.84 2
2010 24 CLE AL -4.9 -0.5 445 -0.4 6.9 -7.3 1.01 -0.9 0.5 -7.9 -0.8 0.95 -10.6 1.00 2
2011 25 CLE AL 15.2 1.5 702 1.5 13.2 -11.7 1.01 0.5 1.0 20.8 2.1 0.97 4.8 0
2012 26 CLE AL 11.3 1.1 196 1.7 5.0 -3.3 1.06 0.8 0.8 10.2 1.0 0.97 7.0 0
6 Yrs 32.7 3.2 2579 5.7 47.0 -41.3 1.01 1.5 4.2 43.0 4.2 0.97 10.0 0.97 8

Baserunning & Misc. Stats*

Year Age Tm Lg ROE XI RS% SBO SB CS SB% SB2 CS2 SB3 CS3 SBH CSH PO PCS OOB BT XBT% 1stS 1stS2 1stS3 1stD 1stD3 1stDH 2ndS 2ndS3 2ndSH
2007 21 CLE AL 0 0 44% 74 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 6 64% 12 5 7 4 2 2 6 1 5
2008 22 CLE AL 4 0 31% 142 4 4 50% 4 4 0 0 0 0 3 3 7 9 51% 21 9 11 9 5 3 7 1 5
2009 23 CLE AL 11 0 38% 240 17 4 81% 15 3 2 1 0 0 2 0 8 18 45% 30 19 10 12 5 7 20 8 11
2010 24 CLE AL 3 0 27% 147 6 4 60% 5 4 1 0 0 0 2 1 9 15 48% 22 15 6 9 2 6 9 2 7
2011 25 CLE AL 3 0 32% 215 17 5 77% 14 3 3 2 0 0 4 2 7 19 44% 27 17 9 11 5 6 17 7 9
2012 26 CLE AL 1 0 27% 75 2 2 50% 0 2 2 0 0 0 1 1 2 10 50% 11 7 4 1 0 1 6 1 4
6 Yrs 22 0 33% 893 46 19 71% 38 16 8 3 0 0 14 7 35 77 48% 123 72 47 46 19 25 65 20 41

Situational Hitting*

Hits Pinch Hitting Home Runs SH GIDP PrdOut BaseRunners Advances
Year Age Tm Lg PA Ptn% H Inf Bnt AB H HR RBI PHlev All GS GSo vRH vLH Hm Rd IP Att Suc % Opp DP % Opp Suc % BR BRS BRS% <2,3B Scr % 0,2B Adv % PAu
2007 21 CLE AL 186 100% 45 3 1 2 1 0 0 1.65 3 0 2 1 2 1 2 0 5 5 100% 47 7 15% 24 9 38% 126 20 16% 10 6 60% 9 5 56% 0
2008 22 CLE AL 418 99% 91 10 4 2 1 0 0 0.37 6 0 14 4 2 5 1 0 15 11 73% 94 8 9% 48 19 40% 291 41 14% 30 15 50% 12 9 75% 0
2009 23 CLE AL 581 99% 161 16 5 2 0 0 0 0.84 6 1 12 6 0 4 2 0 13 10 77% 119 13 11% 50 22 44% 356 69 19% 29 19 66% 22 15 68% 0
2010 24 CLE AL 425 100% 105 16 6 2 1 0 0 1.00 3 0 7 3 0 2 1 0 14 11 79% 79 10 13% 50 21 42% 232 28 12% 21 9 43% 18 15 83% 0
2011 25 CLE AL 667 100% 165 13 0 0 0 0 0 25 0 13 19 6 13 12 0 5 4 80% 121 10 8% 49 12 24% 372 69 19% 35 20 57% 29 18 62% 0
2012 26 CLE AL 186 100% 48 3 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 6 4 1 2 3 0 0 0 40 6 15% 10 1 10% 115 15 13% 14 6 43% 8 6 75% 0
6 Yrs 2463 100% 615 61 16 8 3 0 0 0.97 48 1 54 37 11 27 21 0 52 41 79% 500 54 11% 231 84 36% 1492 242 16% 139 75 54% 98 68 69% 0
MLB Averages 54% 68% 11% 32% 14% 51% 56%

Pitch Summary -- Batting*

Year Age Tm Lg PA Pit Pit/PA Str Str% L/Str S/Str F/Str I/Str AS/Str I/Bll AS/Pit Con 1stS 30% 30c 30s 20% 20c 20s 31% 31c 31s L/SO PAu Pitu Stru
2007 21 CLE AL 186 706 3.80 446 63% 28% 10% 30% 31% 72% 0% 45% 86% 32% 4% 8 0 11% 20 5 8% 15 5 31% 0 0 0
2008 22 CLE AL 418 1585 3.79 995 63% 27% 14% 30% 29% 73% 1% 46% 81% 29% 6% 24 0 14% 60 22 8% 34 19 17% 0 0 0
2009 23 CLE AL 584 2257 3.86 1441 64% 26% 11% 32% 31% 74% 0% 47% 85% 28% 5% 28 0 15% 87 32 10% 56 28 22% -3 0 0
2010 24 CLE AL 426 1558 3.66 1016 65% 31% 9% 27% 33% 69% 0% 45% 87% 25% 3% 11 0 11% 48 24 7% 31 9 23% -1 0 0
2011 25 CLE AL 669 2517 3.76 1591 63% 25% 13% 31% 31% 75% 2% 47% 82% 32% 4% 28 1 16% 109 58 9% 61 39 21% -2 0 0
2012 26 CLE AL 186 696 3.74 418 60% 27% 10% 29% 34% 73% 1% 44% 86% 28% 6% 11 0 18% 33 16 7% 13 6 29% 0 0 0
6 Yrs 2469 9319 3.77 5907 63% 27% 12% 30% 31% 73% 1% 46% 84% 29% 4% 110 1 14% 357 157 9% 210 106 22% -6 0 0
MLB Averages 3.81 63% 28% 15% 27% 30% 72% 2% 45% 79% 27% 5% 15% 9% 25%

Cumulative Batting

Year Age G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB
2007 21 45 186 159 30 45 9 2 3 22 0 0 17 29 .283 .354 .421 .775 103 67 7 2 5 3 0
2008 22 159 604 511 78 136 29 2 9 69 4 4 63 106 .266 .349 .384 .732 95 196 15 6 16 8 2
2009 23 290 1185 1034 159 297 71 6 15 137 21 8 107 195 .287 .355 .411 .766 105 425 28 7 26 11 3
2010 24 387 1610 1415 198 402 87 7 18 166 27 12 132 255 .284 .347 .394 .741 101 557 38 12 37 14 3
2011 25 538 2277 2019 285 567 119 10 43 258 44 17 176 374 .281 .343 .414 .756 106 835 48 23 41 18 8
2012 26 579 2463 2180 308 615 133 10 48 278 46 19 197 391 .282 .346 .418 .765 109 912 54 27 41 18 9

Neutralized Batting

Change to: Default / 750 Runs / 1968 Dodgers / 2000 Rockies or

All seasons are converted to 162-game seasons &
average team scoring of 716 total runs (4.42 R/G) How this works
Year Age G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS RC Gact
2007 21 45 183 157 28 43 9 2 3 21 0 16 29 .274 .343 .414 .757 22 45
2008 22 114 420 353 49 92 20 0 6 48 4 47 77 .261 .350 .368 .718 45 114
2009 23 131 585 526 83 164 43 4 6 70 17 45 89 .312 .365 .443 .808 85 131
2010 24 97 435 389 44 113 17 1 3 33 6 27 60 .290 .342 .362 .704 48 97
2011 25 151 682 615 97 176 34 3 27 103 18 47 119 .286 .347 .483 .830 100 151
2012 26 41 190 164 25 51 15 0 5 22 2 22 17 .311 .405 .494 .899 32 41
6 Yrs 579 2495 2204 326 639 138 10 50 297 47 204 391 .290 .355 .430 .785 332 579
162 Game Avg. 162 698 617 91 179 39 3 14 83 13 57 109 .290 .355 .430 .785 93 579

* 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
2011 (SS)

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
2011 AL (20, 1%)
0.01 Career Shares (1497th)

Silver Sluggers
2011 AL (SS)

WAR Position Players† s c a p y
2012 AL  2.0 (10th)

Offensive WAR† s c a p y
2012 AL  1.8 (8th)

On-Base% s c a p y
2012 AL  .392 (9th)

Doubles s c a p y
2012 AL  14 (9th)

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
2012 AL  146 (10th)

Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y
2012 AL  11 (10th)

Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y
2012 AL  1.1 (10th)

Hit By Pitch s c a p y
2011 AL  11 (8th)
2012 AL  4 (10th)

Sacrifice Hits s c a p y
2008 AL  11 (2nd)
2009 AL  10 (8th)
2010 AL  11 (7th)

Power-Speed # s c a p y
2011 AL  20.2 (7th)

AB per SO s c a p y
2012 AL  9.5 (4th)

Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y
2012 AL  1.7 (6th)

Youngest s c a p y
2007 AL  born 1985-11-13 (6th)


† Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1948-1973, 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 - 2 (2155), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 6 (1387), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 10 (1593), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores
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  2. Yunel Escobar (946)
  3. Alex Cintron (942)
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  5. Erick Aybar (937)
  6. Tadahito Iguchi (932)
  7. Ryan Doumit (921)
  8. Kazuo Matsui (918)
  9. D'Angelo Jimenez (917)
  10. Tim Naehring (917)
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  1. Eric McNair (971)
  2. Rafael Furcal (946)
  3. Juan Uribe (945)
  4. Jhonny Peralta (944)
  5. Lonny Frey (940)
  6. Angel Berroa (934)
  7. Red Kress (933)
  8. Frankie Crosetti (930)
  9. Tony Fernandez (928)
  10. Tony Cuccinello (926)
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  2. Eric McNair (969)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  3. Rafael Furcal (961)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  4. Eric McNair (971)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
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