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Daniel Descalso

Daniel William Descalso (twitter: @DanielDescalso)

Positions: Third Baseman, Second Baseman and Shortstop
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 190 lb.

Born: October 19, 1986 in Redwood City, CA
High School: St. Francis HS (Mountain View, CA)
School: University of California, Davis (Davis, CA)
Drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 3rd round of the 2007 amateur draft.
Signed June 15, 2007. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 18, 2010
Team: Cardinals 2010-2012
2012 Contract Status: Pre-Arb Eligible, 1 yr/$495k (12) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 1.016, Arb Eligible: 2014, Free Agent: 2017 [*],
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All-Time Rank (among Batters): #1. Babe Ruth… #2. Ted Williams… #3. Willie Mays… #4. Ty Cobb… #5. Lou Gehrig… #6. Honus Wagner… #7. Hank Aaron… 

Standard Batting

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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
2010 23 STL NL 11 37 34 6 9 2 0 0 4 1 0 2 6 .265 .324 .324 .648 78 11 0 1 0 0 0 /56
2011 24 STL NL 148 375 326 35 86 20 3 1 28 2 2 33 65 .264 .334 .353 .687 91 115 3 3 10 3 9 *546
2012 25 STL NL 40 105 91 12 21 2 3 2 7 1 1 11 24 .231 .327 .385 .712 95 35 1 2 1 0 1 45/36
3 Yrs 199 517 451 53 116 24 6 3 39 4 3 46 95 .257 .332 .357 .689 91 161 4 6 11 3 10
162 Game Avg. 162 421 367 43 94 20 5 2 32 3 2 37 77 .257 .332 .357 .689 91 131 3 5 9 2 8

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
2010 23 STL NL 11 37 0 1 0 1 0 3 0.3 1 4 0.4 .529 .502 0.3 0.1 3 $ /56
2011 24 STL NL 148 375 -2 1 1 -7 2 -5 -0.5 10 5 0.5 .496 .497 1.3 -0.4 12 $414,000 *546
2012 25 STL NL 40 105 -1 -0 1 1 0 1 0.2 3 4 0.5 .503 .501 0.3 0.2 3 $ 45/36
3 Seasons 199 517 -3 2 3 -5 3 -1 0.0 14 14 1.4 .500 .500 1.9 -0.1 19 $414,000

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
2011 24 STL NL NLDS PHI W 4 4 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 1 0 0
2011 24 STL NL NLCS MIL W 4 3 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .333 .333 .333 .667 1 0 0 0 0 0
2011 24 STL NL WS TEX W 5 4 3 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .667 .667 .667 1.333 2 0 0 1 0 0
1 Yr (3 Series) 13 11 9 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .333 .333 .333 .667 3 0 0 2 0 0
1 NLDS 4 4 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 1 0 0
1 NLCS 4 3 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .333 .333 .333 .667 1 0 0 0 0 0
1 WS 5 4 3 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .667 .667 .667 1.333 2 0 0 1 0 0

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
2010 STL NL 23 3B 9 9 4 73.0 17 2 15 0 4 1.000 1 1 12 16 2.10 1.89 .951 2.54 2.52
2010 STL NL 23 SS 1 0 0 1.0 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 0 0 360 0 9.00 1.00 .970 4.50 4.30
2011 STL NL 24 3B 117 61 53 666.0 182 51 125 6 18 .967 -5 -6 -10 -11 2.38 1.50 .954 2.53 2.53
2011 STL NL 24 2B 18 9 3 82.2 58 24 34 0 6 1.000 -1 -1 -9 -15 6.31 3.22 .985 4.76 4.75
2011 STL NL 24 SS 13 11 7 97.0 54 17 35 2 9 .963 0 0 2 0 4.82 4.00 .971 4.41 4.40
2012 STL NL 25 2B 21 16 11 139.0 75 28 46 1 13 .987 3 1 24 9 4.79 3.52 .985 4.85 4.80
2012 STL NL 25 3B 11 6 6 67.0 23 6 16 1 0 .957 1 0 27 0 2.96 2.00 .951 2.44 2.42
2012 STL NL 25 1B 3 0 0 4.2 7 6 1 0 0 1.000 0 0 72 0 13.50 2.33 .993 9.45 9.33
2012 STL NL 25 SS 2 2 1 16.0 13 3 10 0 2 1.000 0 0 14 0 7.31 6.50 .968 4.27 4.25
3 Seasons 3B 137 76 63 806.0 222 59 156 7 22 .968 -3 -5 -5 -7 2.40 1.57 .953 2.52 2.52
2 Seasons 2B 39 25 14 221.2 133 52 80 1 19 .992 2 0 12 0 5.36 3.38 .985 4.82 4.78
3 Seasons SS 16 13 8 114.0 68 20 46 2 11 .971 1 0 7 0 5.21 4.13 .970 4.39 4.38
1 Season 1B 3 0 0 4.2 7 6 1 0 0 1.000 0 0 72 0 13.50 2.33 .993 9.45 9.33
3 Seasons TOT 195 114 85 1146.1 430 137 283 10 52 .977 -0 -5 -0 -5 3.30 2.15 .967 3.18 3.23
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.
  • For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1948 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
  • For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Def. Games as 3B s c a p y
2011 NL  117 (4th)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
2011 NL  .967 (3rd)

                           

Hall Of Fame Statistics

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Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 3 (1776), Likely HOFer ≈ 100

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
201124St. Louis Cardinals$414,000
201225St. Louis Cardinals$495,000
2013 StatusPre-Arb Eligible, Earliest Arb Eligible: 2014, Earliest Free Agent: 2017
Career to date (may be incomplete)$414,000Does 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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