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Nelson Cruz

Nelson Ramon Cruz

Position: Rightfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 240 lb.

Born: July 1, 1980 in Monte Cristi, Monte Cristi, D.R.
High School: Monte Cristi (Monte Cristi, DO)
Signed by the New York Mets as an amateur free agent in 1998. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 17, 2005
Teams (by GP): Rangers/Brewers 2005-2012
2012 Contract Status: Signed thru 2013, 2 yrs/$16M (12-13) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 4.082, Free Agent: 2014 [*],
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All-Time Rank (among Batters): #1270. Eric Byrnes… #1271. Dick Green… #1272. Charlie Hayes… #1273. NELSON CRUZ… #1274. Eric Hinske… #1275. Elliott Maddox… #1276. Rick Ankiel…

All-Time Rank (among Batters): #1270. Eric Byrnes… #1271. Dick Green… #1272. Charlie Hayes… #1273. NELSON CRUZ… #1274. Eric Hinske… #1275. Elliott Maddox… #1276. Rick Ankiel…

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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
2001	20	OAK-min	Rk	23	93	88	11	22	3	1	3	16	6	3	4	29	.250	.283	.409	.692		36	1	0	1	0	0		ATH · ARIZ
2002	21	OAK-min	A-	63	232	214	23	59	14	0	4	25	12	1	9	58	.276	.316	.397	.713		85	2	4	4	1	0		VAN · NORW
2003	22	OAK-min	A	119	515	470	65	112	26	2	20	85	10	5	29	128	.238	.292	.430	.722		202	7	9	1	6	2		KNC · MIDW
2004	23	OAK-min	AA,A+,AAA	137	593	536	109	175	42	3	26	100	16	7	51	149	.326	.390	.562	.951		301	6	5	0	1	2		MDL,MOD,SAC · TL,CALL,PCL
2005	24	MIL-min	AA,AAA	128	532	456	78	132	32	0	27	81	19	7	61	133	.289	.385	.537	.923		245	11	12	0	3	2		HVL,NVL · SOUL,PCL
2005	24	MIL	NL	8	7	5	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.200	.429	.400	.829	120	2	0	0	0	0	0	/97
2006	25	MIL-min	AAA	104	423	371	68	112	22	1	20	73	17	6	42	100	.302	.378	.528	.907		196	6	6	0	4	2		NVL · PCL
2006	25	TEX	AL	41	138	130	15	29	3	0	6	22	1	0	7	32	.223	.261	.385	.645	64	50	1	0	0	1	0	9/87
2007	26	TEX-min	AAA	44	187	162	32	57	9	1	15	45	1	2	21	34	.352	.428	.698	1.125		113	3	2	0	2	1		OKC · PCL
2007	26	TEX	AL	96	333	307	35	72	15	2	9	34	2	4	21	87	.235	.287	.384	.671	75	118	5	2	1	1	1	97/D
2008	27	TEX-min	AAA,Rk	104	454	387	94	132	19	3	37	100	24	8	58	88	.341	.430	.693	1.122		268	10	5	0	4	4		OKC,RGS · PCL,ARIZ
2008	27	TEX	AL	31	133	115	19	38	9	1	7	26	3	1	17	28	.330	.421	.609	1.030	169	70	1	1	0	0	2	9
2009	28	TEX-min	AAA	3	11	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	5	.000	.091	.000	.091		0	0	0	0	0	0		OKC · PCL
2009	28	TEX	AL	128	515	462	75	120	21	1	33	76	20	4	49	118	.260	.332	.524	.856	117	242	9	2	0	2	6	*9/D7	AS
2010	29	TEX-min	AAA,AA	8	35	30	2	8	2	0	0	5	1	0	3	5	.267	.314	.333	.648		10	5	0	0	2	0		OKC,FRI · PCL,TL
2010	29	TEX	AL	108	445	399	60	127	31	3	22	78	17	4	38	81	.318	.374	.576	.950	146	230	12	1	1	6	5	97/D
2011	30	TEX-min	AA,AAA	6	25	22	4	7	1	0	3	5	0	0	3	1	.318	.400	.773	1.173		17	1	0	0	0	1		FRI,RRK · TL,PCL
2011	30	TEX	AL	124	513	475	64	125	28	1	29	87	9	5	33	116	.263	.312	.509	.821	112	242	8	2	0	3	1	*97/D
2012	31	TEX	AL	50	213	198	30	53	12	0	7	34	3	4	13	56	.268	.319	.434	.754	97	86	4	2	0	0	0	*9/7
8 Yrs				586	2297	2091	299	565	120	8	113	357	55	22	180	518	.270	.329	.497	.826	113	1040	40	10	2	13	15
162 Game Avg.				162	635	578	83	156	33	2	31	99	15	6	50	143	.270	.329	.497	.826	113	288	11	3	1	4	4

TEX (7 yrs)				578	2290	2086	298	564	119	8	113	357	55	22	178	518	.270	.329	.498	.826	113	1038	40	10	2	13	15
MIL (1 yr)				8	7	5	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.200	.429	.400	.829	120	2	0	0	0	0	0

AL (7 yrs)				578	2290	2086	298	564	119	8	113	357	55	22	178	518	.270	.329	.498	.826	113	1038	40	10	2	13	15
NL (1 yr)				8	7	5	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.200	.429	.400	.829	120	2	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	PA	Rbat	Rbaser	Rdp	Rfield	Rpos	RAA	WAA	Rrep	RAR	WAR	waaWL%	162WL%	oWAR	dWAR	oRAR	Salary	Pos	Awards
2005	24	MIL	NL	8	7	0	-0	0	0	-0	-0	-0.0	0	0	0.0	.499	.500	0.0	-0.0	0	$	/97
2006	25	TEX	AL	41	138	-5	-0	0	4	-2	-3	-0.3	5	2	0.2	.493	.498	-0.2	0.3	-2	$	9/87
2007	26	TEX	AL	96	333	-12	-2	0	1	-5	-17	-1.6	11	-6	-0.6	.482	.489	-0.7	-0.3	-7	$382,000	97/D
2008	27	TEX	AL	31	133	10	-0	0	1	-1	10	1.0	4	14	1.4	.531	.506	1.3	0.0	13	$	9
2009	28	TEX	AL	128	515	8	2	-1	0	-6	3	0.4	17	20	2.0	.502	.502	2.0	-0.5	20	$408,070	*9/D7	AS
2010	29	TEX	AL	108	445	24	2	-2	3	-5	22	2.5	15	37	3.8	.521	.514	3.5	-0.1	34	$440,000	97/D
2011	30	TEX	AL	124	513	7	-1	-0	-5	-7	-6	-0.5	17	12	1.1	.495	.496	1.7	-1.2	17	$3,650,000	*97/D
2012	31	TEX	AL	50	213	2	-2	-0	0	-2	-3	-0.4	7	4	0.3	.493	.498	0.4	-0.3	4	$	*9/7
8 Seasons				586	2297	34	-2	-2	4	-28	6	1.2	78	84	8.2	.501	.500	8.0	-2.1	80	$4,880,070

TEX (7 yrs)				578	2290	34	-2	-2	4	-28	6	1.2	77	84	8.2	.501	.501	8.0	-2.1	79	$4,880,070
MIL (1 yr)				8	7	0	-0	0	0	-0	-0	-0.0	0	0	0.0	.499	.500	0.0	-0.0	0	$

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	Series	Opp	Rslt	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	GDP	HBP	IBB
2010	29	TEX	AL	ALDS	TBR	W	5	20	20	5	8	2	3	3	1	0	0	6	.400	.400	.950	1.350	19	1	0	0
2010	29	TEX	AL	ALCS	NYY	W	6	23	20	6	7	3	2	5	0	0	3	6	.350	.435	.800	1.235	16	0	0	1
2010	29	TEX	AL	WS	SFG	L	5	20	20	2	4	2	1	3	0	0	0	5	.200	.200	.450	.650	9	0	0	0
2011	30	TEX	AL	ALDS	TBR	W	4	15	15	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.067	.067	.067	.133	1	1	0	0
2011	30	TEX	AL	ALCS	DET	W	6	25	22	7	8	2	6	13	0	1	2	4	.364	.440	1.273	1.713	28	1	1	0
2011	30	TEX	AL	WS	STL	L	7	30	25	5	5	0	2	3	0	0	5	5	.200	.333	.440	.773	11	0	0	1
2 Yrs (6 Series)							33	133	122	26	33	9	14	27	1	1	10	31	.270	.331	.689	1.019	84	3	1	2
2 ALDS							9	35	35	6	9	2	3	3	1	0	0	11	.257	.257	.571	.829	20	2	0	0
2 ALCS							12	48	42	13	15	5	8	18	0	1	5	10	.357	.438	1.048	1.485	44	1	1	1
2 WS							12	50	45	7	9	2	3	6	0	0	5	10	.200	.280	.444	.724	20	0	0	1

Standard Fielding

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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	Rdrs	Rtot/yr	Rdrs/yr	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	Awards
2005	MIL	NL	24	OF	8	1	1	18.0	4	4	0	0	0	1.000	1	0	40	0	2.00	0.50	.985	2.20	2.16
2005	MIL	NL	24	RF	6	1	1	16.0	4	4	0	0	0	1.000	1	0	45	0	2.25	0.67	.980	2.08	2.08
2005	MIL	NL	24	LF	2	0	0	2.0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0.00	0.00		1.80	1.90
2006	TEX	AL	25	OF	39	35	31	313.1	73	69	4	0	1	1.000	-3	4	-10	15	2.10	1.87	.986	2.30	2.27
2006	TEX	AL	25	RF	38	35	31	307.1	73	69	4	0	1	1.000	-3	4	-11	16	2.14	1.92	.984	2.20	2.17
2006	TEX	AL	25	CF	2	0	0	3.0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0.00	0.00		2.70	2.60
2006	TEX	AL	25	LF	1	0	0	3.0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0.00	0.00		2.10	2.00
2007	TEX	AL	26	OF	94	79	71	722.1	178	167	6	5	1	.972	-2	1	-3	1	2.16	1.84	.987	2.30	2.28
2007	TEX	AL	26	RF	82	65	62	604.1	158	148	5	5	1	.968	-4	0	-7	0	2.28	1.87	.985	2.08	2.06
2007	TEX	AL	26	LF	16	14	9	118.0	20	19	1	0	0	1.000	2	1	17	10	1.53	1.25	.985	2.11	2.09
2007	TEX	AL	26	DH	1	0
2008	TEX	AL	27	OF	31	31	31	274.0	75	72	1	2	1	.973	0	1	0	4	2.40	2.35	.986	2.31	2.28
2008	TEX	AL	27	RF	31	31	31	274.0	75	72	1	2	1	.973	0	1	0	4	2.40	2.35	.985	2.15	2.13
2009	TEX	AL	28	OF	122	119	117	1052.2	316	301	11	4	2	.987	19	0	22	0	2.67	2.56	.987	2.33	2.30	AS
2009	TEX	AL	28	RF	120	117	115	1035.2	308	294	11	3	2	.990	20	0	24	0	2.65	2.54	.982	2.13	2.10	AS
2009	TEX	AL	28	DH	5	4																		AS
2009	TEX	AL	28	LF	2	2	2	17.0	8	7	0	1	0	.875	-1	0	-85	0	3.71	3.50	.988	2.12	2.10	AS
2010	TEX	AL	29	OF	101	101	88	888.0	258	250	3	5	1	.981	6	3	7	4	2.56	2.50	.986	2.30	2.28
2010	TEX	AL	29	RF	94	91	81	799.1	236	228	3	5	1	.979	2	3	4	5	2.60	2.46	.984	2.10	2.08
2010	TEX	AL	29	LF	14	10	7	88.2	22	22	0	0	0	1.000	3	0	41	0	2.23	1.57	.983	2.07	2.05
2010	TEX	AL	29	DH	3	2
2011	TEX	AL	30	OF	115	114	94	998.2	256	244	6	6	1	.977	3	-5	4	-6	2.25	2.17	.986	2.28	2.26
2011	TEX	AL	30	RF	109	98	88	863.2	225	215	5	5	1	.978	4	-6	5	-8	2.29	2.02	.986	2.09	2.07
2011	TEX	AL	30	LF	18	16	6	135.0	31	29	1	1	0	.968	-2	1	-14	9	2.00	1.67	.982	2.13	2.11
2011	TEX	AL	30	DH	8	8
2012	TEX	AL	31	OF	50	50	46	448.0	108	101	6	1	1	.991	4	0	12	0	2.15	2.14	.988	2.15	2.14
2012	TEX	AL	31	RF	50	50	46	445.0	108	101	6	1	1	.991	4	0	12	0	2.16	2.14	.989	1.96	1.96
2012	TEX	AL	31	LF	2	0	0	3.0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0.00	0.00		1.80	1.95
	8 Seasons			OF	560	530	479	4715.0	1268	1208	37	23	8	.982	28	4	7	1	2.38	2.22	.987	2.29	2.27
	8 Seasons			RF	530	488	455	4345.1	1187	1131	35	21	8	.982	25	2	7	0	2.42	2.20	.984	2.10	2.08
	7 Seasons			LF	55	42	24	366.2	81	77	2	2	0	.975	2	2	6	6	1.94	1.44	.984	2.11	2.07
	1 Season			CF	2	0	0	3.0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0.00	0.00		2.70	2.60
	8 Seasons			TOT	560	530	479	4715.0	1268	1208	37	23	8	.982	28	8	7	2	2.38	2.22	.987	2.29	2.27
Lg				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

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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
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Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

All-Star Games 2009	Awards (yr lg award) 2011 AL ALCS MVP	Home Runs s c a p y 2009 AL 33 (8th)	Runs Batted In s c a p y 2012 AL 34 (8th)
Strikeouts s c a p y 2012 AL 56 (5th)	Caught Stealing s c a p y 2012 AL 4 (1st)	SB % s c a p y 2009 AL 83.33 (10th)	Power-Speed # s c a p y 2009 AL 24.9 (2nd) 2010 AL 19.2 (6th)
AB per HR s c a p y 2009 AL 14.0 (3rd) 2011 AL 16.4 (8th)	Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y 2010 AL 4.2 (4th)	Situ. Wins Added (WPA/LI)† s c a p y 2010 AL 3.6 (8th)	Total Zone Runs† s c a p y 2009 AL 19 (5th)
Def. Games as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 2012 AL 50 (2nd) Active 530 (17th)	Putouts as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 2009 AL 294 (3rd) 2012 AL 101 (3rd) Active 1,131 (17th)	Assists as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 2009 AL 11 (2nd) 2012 AL 6 (1st) Active 35 (17th)	Errors Committed as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 2007 AL 5 (4th) 2010 AL 5 (4th) 2011 AL 5 (2nd) 2012 AL 1 (1st) Active 21 (11th)
Def. Games as OF s c a p y 2012 AL 50 (3rd)	Assists as OF s c a p y 2009 AL 11 (4th) 2012 AL 6 (1st)	Errors Committed as OF s c a p y 2011 AL 6 (5th)	Total Zone Runs as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 2009 AL 20 (2nd) Active 25 (10th) Career 25 (47th)
Range Factor/9Inn as RF (s.1954)† s c a p y 2007 AL 2.28 (3rd) 2009 AL 2.65 (1st) 2010 AL 2.60 (1st) 2011 AL 2.29 (1st) 2012 AL 2.16 (3rd) Active 2.42 (1st) Career 2.42 (3rd)	Range Factor/Game as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 2009 AL 2.54 (1st) 2010 AL 2.46 (1st) 2012 AL 2.14 (3rd) Active 2.20 (2nd) Career 2.20 (12th)	Fielding % as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 2009 AL .990 (3rd) 2012 AL .991 (5th) Active .982 (14th) Career .982 (63rd)	Total Zone Runs as OF s c a p y 2009 AL 19 (3rd)
Range Factor/Game as OF s c a p y Active 2.22 (24th)

† 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	Batting - 8 (1535), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame Monitor	Batting - 10 (1203), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame Standards	Batting - 14 (1173), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

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Ryan Ludwick (967) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

Transactions

February 17, 1998: Signed by the New York Mets as an amateur free agent.
August 30, 2000: Traded by the New York Mets to the Oakland Athletics for Jorge Velandia.
December 16, 2004: Traded by the Oakland Athletics with Justin Lehr to the Milwaukee Brewers for Keith Ginter.
July 28, 2006: Traded by the Milwaukee Brewers with Carlos Lee to the Texas Rangers for Julian Cordero (minors), Francisco Cordero, Kevin Mench and Laynce Nix.

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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
2007	26	Texas Rangers	$382,000

2009	28	Texas Rangers	$408,070
2010	29	Texas Rangers	$440,000
2011	30	Texas Rangers	$3,650,000

2012	31	Texas Rangers	$5,000,000
2013	32	Texas Rangers	$10,500,000
		Earliest Free Agent: 2014
Career to date (may be incomplete)			$4,880,070	Does not include future salaries

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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HIGHLIGHTING: Adding a range or series of player's career seasons or career game numbers (like '#1972:batting_standard', '#1970-1980-sum:batting_standard', or '#1998,1999,2001,2002,sum:pitching_standard') onto the end of a player page url causes the seasons to the highlighted and summed. After changing address bar, reload the page to see highlighting. This will work even in links e-mailed to others. Note that for tables with multiple pages the first table is the default. If you want to create a sum for a table other than the first one, select the rows and after the summation window appears click on "permanent link" link.

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Total Zone Rating and Wins above Replacement calculations provided by Sean Smith of BaseballProjection.com.

Full-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of 24-7 Baseball.

Player head shots courtesy of David Davis. Many thanks to him. We have only selected seasons (players who debuted before 1960) for which we believe the image has reverted into the public domain. We will quickly remove any images for which that can be shown to not be the case.Please let us know if you are aware of any such images on this site.

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