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Julio Cruz

Julio Louis Cruz

Position: Second Baseman
Bats: Both, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 9", Weight: 165 lb.

Born: December 2, 1954 in Brooklyn, NY
Signed by the California Angels as an amateur free agent in 1974. (All Transactions)
Debut: July 4, 1977
Teams (by GP): Mariners/WhiteSox 1977-1986
Agents: Brian David [*]
Final Game: August 31, 1986
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Fine Details  · Last Updated Feb 8, 2012, 5:04PM
All-Time Rank (among Batters): #1379. Darrin Fletcher… #1380. Albie Pearson… #1381. Jack McCarthy… #1382. JULIO CRUZ… #1383. Juan Encarnacion… #1384. Jim Busby… #1385. Mariano Duncan… 

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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
1977 22 SEA AL 60 230 199 25 51 3 1 1 7 15 6 24 29 .256 .336 .296 .633 76 59 2 0 7 0 1 4
1978 23 SEA AL 147 634 550 77 129 14 1 1 25 59 10 69 66 .235 .319 .269 .588 68 148 8 1 10 4 0 *4/6
1979 24 SEA AL 107 483 414 70 112 16 2 1 29 49 9 62 61 .271 .363 .326 .689 87 135 7 0 4 3 0 4
1980 25 SEA AL 119 497 422 66 88 9 3 2 16 45 7 59 49 .209 .306 .258 .564 56 109 6 1 13 2 0 *4
1981 26 SEA AL 94 401 352 57 90 12 3 2 24 43 8 39 40 .256 .332 .324 .656 87 114 4 3 4 3 0 *4/6
1982 27 SEA AL 154 617 549 83 133 22 5 8 49 46 13 57 71 .242 .316 .344 .660 80 189 6 3 6 2 1 *4/65
1983 28 TOT AL 160 580 515 71 130 19 5 3 52 57 12 49 66 .252 .318 .326 .644 76 168 12 4 5 7 1 *4 MVP-24
1983 28 SEA AL 61 206 181 24 46 10 1 2 12 33 6 20 22 .254 .332 .354 .685 87 64 3 2 1 2 1 4
1983 28 CHW AL 99 374 334 47 84 9 4 1 40 24 6 29 44 .251 .311 .311 .622 70 104 9 2 4 5 0 4
1984 29 CHW AL 143 469 415 42 92 14 4 5 43 14 6 45 58 .222 .295 .311 .605 65 129 9 0 4 5 0 *4
1985 30 CHW AL 91 270 234 28 46 2 3 0 15 8 5 32 40 .197 .297 .231 .528 45 54 6 2 1 1 0 4
1986 31 CHW AL 81 256 209 38 45 2 0 0 19 7 2 42 28 .215 .343 .225 .567 56 47 4 0 2 3 0 4
10 Seasons 1156 4437 3859 557 916 113 27 23 279 343 78 478 508 .237 .321 .299 .620 71 1152 64 14 56 30 3
162 Game Avg. 162 622 541 78 128 16 4 3 39 48 11 67 71 .237 .321 .299 .620 71 161 9 2 8 4 0
SEA (7 yrs) 742 3068 2667 402 649 86 16 17 162 290 59 330 338 .243 .327 .307 .634 76 818 36 10 45 16 3
CHW (4 yrs) 414 1369 1192 155 267 27 11 6 117 53 19 148 170 .224 .309 .280 .589 61 334 28 4 11 14 0

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
1977 22 SEA AL 230 -7 2 0 0 4 1 7 7 0.7 3 0.3 0.4 $ 4
1978 23 SEA AL 634 -22 8 -1 2 5 4 20 16 1.5 11 1.2 0.3 $ *4/6
1979 24 SEA AL 483 -8 7 -1 1 7 3 14 23 2.3 16 1.6 0.7 $ 4
1980 25 SEA AL 497 -24 4 4 4 2 3 15 8 0.8 6 0.6 0.2 $95,000 *4
1981 26 SEA AL 401 -6 8 1 1 -0 3 12 19 2.0 19 2.0 0.0 $106,000 *4/6
1982 27 SEA AL 617 -14 7 -1 1 0 5 19 18 1.8 17 1.8 0.0 $375,000 *4/65
1983 28 SEA AL 206 -3 1 -1 1 -2 2 7 5 0.4 7 0.7 -0.3 $425,000 4 MVP-24
1983 28 CHW AL 375 -11 1 -1 0 14 3 12 18 1.7 4 0.4 1.3 $ 4 MVP-24
1984 29 CHW AL 469 -21 -1 0 2 23 4 15 22 2.1 -1 -0.1 2.2 $ *4
1985 30 CHW AL 270 -14 0 -2 0 6 2 9 1 0.0 -5 -0.5 0.5 $1,242,333 4
1986 31 CHW AL 256 -9 1 -2 0 -1 2 8 -1 -0.1 0 0.0 -0.1 $600,000 4
10 Seasons 4438 -139 38 -4 12 58 32 138 136 13.2 77 8.0 5.2 $2,843,333
SEA (7 yrs) 3068 -84 37 1 10 17 21 94 96 9.5 79 8.2 1.3 $1,001,000
CHW (4 yrs) 1370 -55 1 -5 2 41 11 44 40 3.7 -2 -0.2 3.9 $1,842,333

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
1983 28 CHW AL ALCS BAL L 4 15 12 0 4 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 4 .333 .467 .333 .800 4 0 0 0 0 0
1 ALCS 4 15 12 0 4 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 4 .333 .467 .333 .800 4 0 0 0 0 0

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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 Rtot/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
1977 SEA AL 22 2B 54 290 114 171 5 29 .983 4 5.28 .978 5.38
1978 SEA AL 23 2B 141 768 286 472 10 101 .987 7 5.38 .980 5.42
1978 SEA AL 23 SS 5 20 9 10 1 3 .950 -2 3.80 .964 4.88
1979 SEA AL 24 2B 107 632 258 361 13 87 .979 7 5.79 .978 5.43
1980 SEA AL 25 2B 115 635 269 355 11 85 .983 2 5.43 .981 5.58
1980 SEA AL 25 DH 2 2
1981 SEA AL 26 2B 92 543 239 294 10 72 .982 -0 5.79 .982 5.52
1981 SEA AL 26 SS 1 5 1 3 1 0 .800 0 4.00 .968 5.00
1982 SEA AL 27 2B 151 764 320 434 10 98 .987 1 4.99 .981 5.33
1982 SEA AL 27 SS 2 2 1 1 0 0 1.000 -0 1.00 .965 4.85
1982 SEA AL 27 3B 1 4 1 3 0 0 1.000 4.00 .955 3.00
1983 TOT AL 28 2B 157 154 145 1350.2 829 344 471 14 112 .983 12 10 5.43 5.19 .981 42.63 5.32 MVP-24
1983 SEA AL 28 2B 60 58 57 507.0 309 131 173 5 41 .984 -2 -5 5.40 5.07 .981 42.63 5.32
1983 CHW AL 28 2B 97 96 88 843.2 520 213 298 9 71 .983 14 19 5.45 5.27 .981 42.63 5.32
1984 CHW AL 29 2B 141 743 273 452 18 92 .976 23 5.14 .980 5.21
1985 CHW AL 30 2B 87 385 158 220 7 59 .982 6 4.34 .982 5.24
1986 CHW AL 31 2B 78 342 132 205 5 45 .985 -1 4.32 .981 5.05
10 Seasons 2B 1123 154 145 1350.2 5931 2393 3435 103 780 .983 60 53 5.43 5.19 .980 42.63 5.35
3 Seasons SS 8 27 11 14 2 3 .926 -2 3.13 .965 4.89
1 Season 3B 1 4 1 3 0 0 1.000 4.00 .955 3.00
10 Seasons TOT 1132 154 145 1350.2 5962 2405 3452 105 783 .982 58 52 5.43 5.17 .980 42.63 5.35
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rtot/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.
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Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1983 AL (24, 0%)
0.00 Career Shares (1713th)

Defensive WAR† s c a p y
1984 AL  2.2 (3rd)

Games Played s c a p y
1983 AL  160 (6th)

Runs Scored s c a p y
1981 AL  57 (10th)

Stolen Bases s c a p y
1978 AL  59 (2nd)
1979 AL  49 (3rd)
1980 AL  45 (4th)
1981 AL  43 (2nd)
1982 AL  46 (3rd)
1983 AL  57 (4th)
Career  343 (115th)

Sacrifice Hits s c a p y
1980 AL  13 (6th)

Caught Stealing s c a p y
1982 AL  13 (6th)
1983 AL  12 (5th)
Career  78 (230th)

Assists† s c a p y
1978 AL  482 (3rd)
1983 AL  471 (3rd)

Total Zone Runs† s c a p y
1984 AL  23 (3rd)

Def. Games as 2B s c a p y
1978 AL  141 (4th)
1982 AL  151 (2nd)
1983 AL  157 (3rd)
Career  1,123 (93rd)

Putouts as 2B s c a p y
1981 AL  239 (3rd)
1983 AL  344 (3rd)
Career  2,393 (98th)

Assists as 2B s c a p y
1978 AL  472 (2nd)
1982 AL  434 (5th)
1983 AL  471 (2nd)
1984 AL  452 (3rd)
Career  3,435 (75th)

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
1979 AL  13 (5th)
1981 AL  10 (2nd)
1983 AL  14 (4th)
1984 AL  18 (2nd)

Total Zone Runs as 2B s c a p y
1979 AL  7 (5th)
1983 AL  12 (1st)
1984 AL  23 (1st)
Career  60 (14th)

Range Factor/9Inn as 2B† s c a p y
1978 AL  5.74 (4th)
1979 AL  5.97 (2nd)
1980 AL  5.89 (3rd)
1981 AL  6.18 (1st)
1984 AL  5.70 (2nd)
Career  5.43 (7th)

Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y
1978 AL  5.38 (4th)
1979 AL  5.79 (1st)
1981 AL  5.79 (2nd)
1984 AL  5.14 (4th)

Fielding % as 2B s c a p y
1978 AL  .987 (2nd)
1982 AL  .987 (5th)
Career  .983 (65th)

Salary s c a p y
1985 AL  $1,242,333 (5th)

                           

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray InkBatting - 16 (1148), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 1 (2218), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 16 (994), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

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  3. Barry McCormick (918)
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  5. Ossie Vitt (915)
  6. Doug Flynn (914)
  7. Bill McClellan (912)
  8. Cub Stricker (911)
  9. Rabbit Warstler (909)
  10. Otto Knabe (907)
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  5. Otto Knabe (963)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  6. Otto Knabe (957)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  7. Otto Knabe (947)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  8. Otto Knabe (936)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  9. Cub Stricker (933)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
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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
198025Seattle Mariners$95,0001981 TSN GuidePlayer loss; demand $130K
198126Seattle Mariners$106,0001982 TSN GuidePlayer loss; asked for $160K
198227Seattle Mariners$375,0001983 TSN GuidePlayer win; offer of $200K
198328Seattle Mariners$425,0001984 TSN Guide 25; T. Timmerman databasePlayer loss; $550,000 request
198530Chicago White Sox$1,242,3333/3/86 TSN
198631Chicago White Sox$600,0001986 USA Today survey
198732Chicago White Sox$600,000Proofing correctionsReleased before season
198833Chicago White Sox$600,000Larry Grasso corrections
198934Chicago White Sox$600,000Larry Grasso corrections
Career to date (may be incomplete)$4,643,333
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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