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Aroldis Chapman

Albertin Aroldis (de la Cruz) Chapman (Cuban Missile)

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 4", Weight: 200 lb.

Born: February 28, 1988 in Holguin, Holguin, Cuba
Signed by the Cincinnati Reds as an amateur free agent in 2010. (All Transactions)
Debut: August 31, 2010
Team: Reds 2010-2012
2012 Contract Status: Signed thru 2014, 5 yrs/$25.25M (10-14) & 15 player option (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 1.034, Arb Eligible: 2015, Free Agent: 2017 [*],
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Standard Pitching

Year Age Tm Lg W L W-L% ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO HBP BK WP BF ERA+ WHIP H/9 HR/9 BB/9 SO/9 SO/BB Awards
2010 22 CIN NL 2 2 .500 2.03 15 0 3 0 0 0 13.1 9 4 3 0 5 0 19 0 0 2 51 206 1.050 6.1 0.0 3.4 12.8 3.80
2011 23 CIN NL 4 1 .800 3.60 54 0 13 0 0 1 50.0 24 21 20 2 41 0 71 2 0 4 207 110 1.300 4.3 0.4 7.4 12.8 1.73
2012 24 CIN NL 4 0 1.000 0.00 21 0 8 0 0 3 26.0 7 1 0 0 8 0 44 1 0 0 96 0.577 2.4 0.0 2.8 15.2 5.50
3 Yrs 10 3 .769 2.32 90 0 24 0 0 4 89.1 40 26 23 2 54 0 134 3 0 6 354 174 1.052 4.0 0.2 5.4 13.5 2.48
162 Game Avg. 8 2 .769 2.32 68 0 18 0 0 3 67 30 20 17 2 41 0 101 2 0 5 267 174 1.052 4.0 0.2 5.4 13.5 2.48

Player Value--Pitchers

WAR Explained (v2.1): 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl
Year Age Tm Lg IP G GS R RA9 RA9opp RA9def RA9role PPFp RA9avg RAA WAA gmLI WAAadj WAR RAR waaWL% 162WL% Salary Awards
2010 22 CIN NL 13.1 15 0 4 2.70 4.47 0.13 -0.33 101.7 4.07 2 0.2 1.8 0.1 0.4 3 .514 .501 $
2011 23 CIN NL 50.0 54 0 21 3.78 4.32 0.11 -0.32 101.9 3.95 1 0.1 1.2 -0.1 0.4 5 .501 .500 $3,835,772
2012 24 CIN NL 26.0 21 0 1 0.35 4.12 0.03 -0.31 104.1 3.93 10 1.1 1.7 0.4 1.7 13 .554 .507 $
3 Seasons 89.1 90 0 26 2.62 4.28 0.09 -0.32 102.5 3.96 13 1.4 1.4 0.3 2.5 21 .516 .503 $3,835,772

Postseason Pitching

Postseason Gamelog
Year Age Tm Lg Series Rslt Opp W L W-L% ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO HBP BK WP BF WHIP H/9 HR/9 BB/9 SO/9 SO/BB
2010 22 CIN NL NLDS L PHI 0 1 .000 0.00 2 0 1 0 0 0 1.2 3 3 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 11 1.800 16.2 0.0 0.0 5.4
1 NLDS 0 1 .000 0.00 2 0 1 0 0 0 1.2 3 3 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 11 1.800 16.2 0.0 0.0 5.4

Batting Against -- Pitching*

Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS BAbip TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB ROE
2010 22 CIN NL 15 51 46 4 9 1 0 0 2 2 5 19 .196 .275 .217 .492 .333 10 2 0 0 0 0 0
2011 23 CIN NL 54 207 163 21 24 4 0 2 2 4 41 71 .147 .325 .209 .534 .244 34 4 2 1 0 0 0
2012 24 CIN NL 21 96 86 1 7 0 1 0 2 0 8 44 .081 .167 .105 .271 .163 9 1 1 0 1 0 3
3 Yrs 90 354 295 26 40 5 1 2 6 6 54 134 .136 .275 .180 .454 .238 53 7 3 1 1 0 3
162 Game Avg. 68 267 223 20 30 4 1 2 5 5 41 101 .136 .275 .180 .454 .238 40 5 2 1 1 0 2
MLB Averages .256 .322 .401 .724 .296

Win Probability

Year Age Tm Lg PtchR PitchW Plays WPA WPA+ WPA- aLI WPA/LI Clutch RE24 REW boLI RE24/boLI LevHi LevMd LevLo
2010 22 CIN NL 2.8 0.3 57 -0.3 1.5 -1.8 1.60 0.2 -0.4 -1.3 -0.1 1.60 2.1 10 2 3
2011 23 CIN NL 2.2 0.2 221 1.9 5.5 -3.6 1.40 0.9 0.5 6.2 0.6 1.40 9.2 21 12 19
2012 24 CIN NL 10.9 1.2 99 2.0 2.9 -0.9 1.49 1.2 0.1 13.6 1.4 1.49 13.2 10 7 4
3 Yrs 15.9 1.7 377 3.5 9.8 -6.3 1.45 2.3 0.2 18.4 1.9 1.45 24.6 41 21 26

Reliever Pitching*

Year Age Tm Lg G GR GF Wgr Lgr SVOpp SV BSv SV% SVSit Hold IR IS IS% 1stIP aLI LevHi LevMd LevLo Ahd Tie Bhd Runr Empt >3o <3o IPmult 0DR Out/GR Pit/GR
2010 22 CIN NL 15 15 3 2 2 1 0 1 0% 5 4 8 5 63% 7 1.595 10 2 3 7 5 3 4 11 2 4 2 4 2.7 15
2011 23 CIN NL 54 54 13 4 1 3 1 2 33% 16 13 18 3 17% 8 1.396 21 12 19 23 10 21 13 41 8 15 8 11 2.8 16
2012 24 CIN NL 21 21 8 4 0 4 3 1 75% 10 6 9 0 0% 8 1.486 10 7 4 13 5 3 4 17 7 1 7 3 3.7 20
3 Yrs 90 90 24 10 3 8 4 4 50% 31 23 35 8 23% 1.449 41 21 26 43 20 27 21 69 17 20 17 18 3.0 17

Ratio Pitching*

Year Age Tm Lg PA Ptn% HR% SO% BB% XBH% X/H% GB/FB GO/AO IP% LD% HR/FB IF/FB DPopp DPs DP%
2010 22 CIN NL 51 27% 0.0% 37.3% 9.8% 2.0% 11% 2.25 3.75 53% 15% 0.0% 0% 7 2 29%
2011 23 CIN NL 207 30% 1.0% 34.3% 19.8% 2.9% 25% 1.12 1.50 43% 14% 5.4% 14% 38 4 11%
2012 24 CIN NL 96 35% 0.0% 45.8% 8.3% 1.0% 14% 0.72 0.70 45% 16% 0.0% 20% 15 1 7%
3 Yrs 354 31% 0.6% 37.9% 15.3% 2.3% 20% 1.11 1.37 45% 15% 3.1% 14% 60 7 12%
MLB Averages 46% 2.5% 18.7% 8.3% 7.5% 33% 0.81 1.09 69% 18% 7.4% 13% 11%

Pitch Summary -- Pitching*

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 1st% 30% 30c 30s 02% 02c 02s 02h L/SO 3pK 4pW PAu Pitu Stru
2010 22 CIN NL 53 221 4.17 134 61% 24% 25% 31% 20% 76% 0% 46% 67% 57% 4% 2 0 26% 14 8 0 21% 3 2 -2 0 0
2011 23 CIN NL 207 885 4.28 526 59% 27% 25% 30% 18% 73% 0% 43% 65% 53% 11% 22 13 30% 62 43 3 15% 13 9 0 0 0
2012 24 CIN NL 96 425 4.43 268 63% 28% 30% 26% 16% 72% 0% 45% 58% 49% 6% 6 6 23% 22 16 2 18% 3 0 0 0 0
3 Yrs 356 1531 4.30 928 61% 27% 27% 29% 18% 73% 0% 44% 64% 52% 8% 30 19 28% 98 67 5 17% 19 11 -2 0 0
MLB Averages 3.82 63% 28% 15% 27% 30% 72% 2% 45% 79% 59% 5% 23% 24%

Baserunning & Situational Stats*

Hits Home Runs Advances Baserunning
Year Age Tm Lg PA H Inf Bnt All GS GSo vRH vLH Hm Rd <2,3B Scr SO % ROE WP PB SBO SB CS SB% SB2 CS2 SB3 CS3 SBH CSH PO PCS BT PAu
2010 22 CIN NL 51 9 3 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 5 2 1 40% 0 2 1 12 2 2 50% 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 6 0
2011 23 CIN NL 207 24 2 0 2 0 7 1 1 1 1 12 6 4 50% 0 4 0 74 2 4 33% 1 4 1 0 0 0 4 4 6 0
2012 24 CIN NL 96 7 1 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 3 1 2 33% 3 0 0 27 2 0 100% 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
3 Yrs 354 40 6 1 2 0 14 1 1 1 1 20 9 7 45% 3 6 1 113 6 6 50% 3 5 3 0 0 1 5 5 14 0
MLB Averages 52% 72%

Cumulative Pitching

Year Age W L W-L% ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO HBP BK WP BF ERA+ WHIP H/9 HR/9 BB/9 SO/9 SO/BB ERA+
2010 22 2 2 .500 2.03 15 0 3 0 0 0 13.1 9 4 3 0 5 0 19 0 0 2 51 206 1.050 6.1 0.0 3.4 12.8 3.80 206
2011 23 6 3 .667 3.27 69 0 16 0 0 1 63.1 33 25 23 2 46 0 90 2 0 6 258 123 1.247 4.7 0.3 6.5 12.8 1.96 123
2012 24 10 3 .769 2.32 90 0 24 0 0 4 89.1 40 26 23 2 54 0 134 3 0 6 354 174 1.052 4.0 0.2 5.4 13.5 2.48 174

Neutralized Pitching

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 W L W-L% ERA IP H R ER HR BB SO HBP WHIP H/9 BB/9 SO/9 SO/BB HR/9 Gact
2010 22 1 0 1.000 2.25 12.0 9 3 3 0 5 18 0 1.167 6.8 3.8 13.5 3.60 0.0 15
2011 23 2 3 .400 4.11 46.0 25 23 21 2 43 65 2 1.478 4.9 8.4 12.7 1.51 0.4 54
2012 24 2 0 1.000 0.00 26.0 8 0 0 0 9 44 1 0.654 2.8 3.1 15.2 4.89 0.0 21
3 Yrs 5 3 .625 2.57 84.0 42 26 24 2 57 127 3 1.179 4.5 13.6 2.23 0.2 90

* 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

WAR for Pitchers† s c a p y
2012 NL  1.7 (6th)

Adj. Pitching Runs s c a p y
2012 NL  11 (8th)

Adj. Pitching Wins s c a p y
2012 NL  1.2 (8th)

Base-Out Runs Saved (RE24)† s c a p y
2012 NL  13.55 (3rd)

Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y
2012 NL  2.0 (1st)

Sit. Wins Saved (WPA/LI)† s c a p y
2012 NL  1.2 (5th)

Base-Out Wins Saved (REW)† s c a p y
2012 NL  1.4 (4th)

             

† 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.

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Name and misspellings: Albertin Aroldis (de Cuban la Aroldis Cruz) Missile Chapman

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