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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
2013 Contract Status: Signed (player option), 5 yrs/$25.25M (10-14) & 15 player option (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2013): 2.034, Arb Eligible: 2015, Free Agent: 2017 [*],
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Standard Pitching

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB	Awards
2010	22	CIN-min	AAA	9	6	.600	3.57	39	13	12	1	8	95.2	77	46	38	7	52	125	5	0	14	412		1.348	7.2	0.7	4.9	11.8	2.40	LOU · IL
2010	22	CIN	NL	2	2	.500	2.03	15	0	3	0	0	13.1	9	4	3	0	5	19	0	0	2	51	206	1.050	6.1	0.0	3.4	12.8	3.80
2011	23	CIN-min	AA,AAA	1	2	.333	8.31	9	3	1	0	0	13.0	14	12	12	1	8	20	0	1	4	60		1.692	9.7	0.7	5.5	13.8	2.50	CAR,LOU · SOUL,IL
2011	23	CIN	NL	4	1	.800	3.60	54	0	13	0	1	50.0	24	21	20	2	41	71	2	0	4	207	110	1.300	4.3	0.4	7.4	12.8	1.73
2012	24	CIN	NL	5	5	.500	1.51	68	0	52	0	38	71.2	35	13	12	4	23	122	4	0	4	276	282	0.809	4.4	0.5	2.9	15.3	5.30	AS,CYA-8,MVP-12
3 Yrs				11	8	.579	2.33	137	0	68	0	39	135.0	68	38	35	6	69	212	6	0	10	534	177	1.015	4.5	0.4	4.6	14.1	3.07
162 Game Avg.				5	4	.579	2.33	68	0	34	0	19	67	34	19	17	3	34	105	3	0	5	265	177	1.015	4.5	0.4	4.6	14.1	3.07

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	R	RA9	RA9opp	RA9def	RA9role	PPFp	RA9avg	RAA	WAA	gmLI	WAAadj	WAR	RAR	waaWL%	162WL%	Salary	Awards
2010	22	CIN	NL	13.1	15	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	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	71.2	68	13	1.63	4.30	0.03	-0.32	108.0	4.26	20	2.2	1.9	0.8	3.6	27	.532	.514	$2,000,000	AS,CYA-8,MVP-12
3 Seasons				135.0	137	38	2.53	4.32	0.07	-0.32	105.1	4.13	23	2.5	1.6	0.8	4.4	36	.518	.505	$5,835,772

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

2012	24	CIN	NL	NLDS	L	SFG	0	0		3.00	3	0	2	0	0	0	3.0	2	1	1	0	2	0	3	0	0	2	13	1.333	6.0	0.0	6.0	9.0	1.50
2 Yrs (2 Series)							0	1	.000	1.93	5	0	3	0	0	0	4.2	5	4	1	0	2	0	4	1	0	2	24	1.500	9.6	0.0	3.9	7.7	2.00
2 NLDS							0	1	.000	1.93	5	0	3	0	0	0	4.2	5	4	1	0	2	0	4	1	0	2	24	1.500	9.6	0.0	3.9	7.7	2.00

Standard Batting

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	Pos	Awards
2010	22	CIN-min	AAA	39	11	10	1	4	1	1	1	5	.400	.455	.500	.955	5		LOU · IL
2010	22	CIN	NL	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	1
2011	23	CIN-min	AA,AAA	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0		CAR,LOU · SOUL,IL
2011	23	CIN	NL	54	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	1
2012	24	CIN	NL	68	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	1	AS,CYA-8,MVP-12
3 Yrs				137	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0
162 Game Avg.				162	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0

Player Value--Batters

WAR Explained (v2.1): 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	waaWL%	162WL%	dWAR	Salary	Pos	Awards
2010	22	CIN	NL	15	.500	.500	0.0	$	1
2011	23	CIN	NL	54	.500	.500	0.0	$3,835,772	1
2012	24	CIN	NL	68	.500	.500	0.0	$2,000,000	1	AS,CYA-8,MVP-12
3 Seasons				137	.500	.500	0.1	$5,835,772

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	Series	Opp	Rslt	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
2010	22	CIN	NL	NLDS	PHI	L	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

2012	24	CIN	NL	NLDS	SFG	L	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2 Yrs (2 Series)							5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2 NLDS							5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Standard Fielding

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Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rdrs	Rdrs/yr	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	SB	CS	CS%	lgCS%	PO	Awards
2010	CIN	NL	22	P	15	13.1	3	2	1	0	0	1.000	0	0	2.02	0.20	.953	1.76	1.72	2	2	50%	29%	1
2011	CIN	NL	23	P	54	50.0	15	3	8	4	1	.733	2	8	1.98	0.20	.955	1.80	1.79	2	4	67%	28%	4
2012	CIN	NL	24	P	68	71.2	6	2	3	1	0	.833	1	3	0.63	0.07	.950	1.77	1.75	5	1	17%	26%	0	AS,CYA-8,MVP-12
	3 Seasons			P	137	135.0	24	7	12	5	1	.792	3	4	1.27	0.14	.953	1.78	1.76	9	7	44%	28%	5
	3 Seasons			TOT	137	135.0	24	7	12	5	1	.792	3	26	1.27	0.14	.953	1.78	1.76	9	7	44%	28%	5

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-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.
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Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

All-Star Games 2012 *	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 2012 NL (12, 4%) 0.04 Career Shares (1193rd)	Cy Young (yr lg (rk, shr)) 2012 NL (8, 0%) 0.00 Career Shares (338th)	Saves s c a p y 2012 NL 38 (3rd)
Games Finished s c a p y 2012 NL 52 (7th)	Adj. Pitching Runs s c a p y 2012 NL 20 (10th)	Base-Out Runs Saved (RE24)† s c a p y 2012 NL 22.98 (10th)	Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y 2012 NL 2.9 (6th)
Sit. Wins Saved (WPA/LI)† s c a p y 2012 NL 2.4 (8th)	Errors Committed as P s c a p y 2011 NL 4 (3rd)

† 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 Ink	Pitching - 3 (2128), Average HOFer ≈ 185
Hall of Fame Monitor	Pitching - 11 (928), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
JAWS	Relief Pitcher (564th), 4.4 career WAR/4.4 7yr-peak WAR/4.4 JAWS Average HOF RP (out of 5) = 37.9 career WAR/26.7 7yr-peak WAR/32.3 JAWS

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Transactions

January 11, 2010: Signed by the Cincinnati Reds as an amateur free agent.

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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
2011	23	Cincinnati Reds	$3,835,772
2012	24	Cincinnati Reds	$2,000,000	contracts

2013	25	Cincinnati Reds	$2,000,000
2014	26	Cincinnati Reds	$3,000,000
2015	27	Cincinnati Reds	*$5,000,000	$5M Player Option
		Earliest Arb Eligible: 2015, Earliest Free Agent: 2017
Career to date (may be incomplete)			$5,835,772	Does not include future salaries

Salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
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Name and misspellings: Albertin Aroldis (de Cuban la Aroldis Cruz) Missile Chapman

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