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Ian Desmond

Ian M. Desmond (twitter: @IanDesmond20)

Position: Shortstop
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 210 lb.

Born: September 20, 1985 in Sarasota, FL
High School: Sarasota HS (Sarasota, FL)
Drafted by the Montreal Expos in the 3rd round of the 2004 amateur draft.
Signed June 16, 2004. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 10, 2009 (Age 23)
Team: Nationals 2009-2013
2013 Contract Status: 1st-Year Arb Eligible, 1 yr/$3.8M (13) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2013): 3.027, Arb Eligible: 2014, Free Agent: 2016 [*], Agents: Sports One Athlete Management [*]
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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
2009 23 WSN NL 21 89 82 9 23 7 2 4 12 1 0 5 14 .280 .318 .561 .879 128 46 2 0 1 1 0 6/49
2010 24 WSN NL 154 574 525 59 141 27 4 10 65 17 5 28 109 .269 .308 .392 .700 89 206 9 5 9 7 3 *6/9
2011 25 WSN NL 154 639 584 65 148 27 5 8 49 25 10 35 139 .253 .298 .358 .656 80 209 9 4 11 5 2 *6
2012 26 WSN NL 130 547 513 72 150 33 2 25 73 21 6 30 113 .292 .335 .511 .845 127 262 17 3 0 1 1 *6 AS,MVP-16,SS
2013 27 WSN NL 39 158 150 19 44 13 2 6 17 4 1 6 37 .293 .316 .527 .843 128 79 2 0 0 2 0 *6
5 Yrs 498 2007 1854 224 506 107 15 53 216 68 22 104 412 .273 .313 .433 .746 101 802 39 12 21 16 6
162 Game Avg. 162 653 603 73 165 35 5 17 70 22 7 34 134 .273 .313 .433 .746 101 261 13 4 7 5 2

Player Value--Batters

WAR Explained (v2.2): 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
2009 23 WSN NL 21 89 2 0 1 -6 1 -2 -0.2 3 1 0.1 .491 .499 0.7 -0.5 7 $400,000 6/49
2010 24 WSN NL 154 574 -7 2 0 -7 7 -5 -0.6 18 13 1.1 .496 .497 1.8 -0.1 20 $400,000 *6/9
2011 25 WSN NL 154 639 -13 3 2 -3 8 -4 -0.5 20 16 1.5 .497 .497 1.8 0.5 19 $441,500 *6
2012 26 WSN NL 130 547 18 -0 -2 -6 7 16 1.7 17 33 3.4 .513 .511 3.9 0.1 39 $512,500 *6 AS,MVP-16,SS
2013 27 WSN NL 39 158 5 1 -0 -2 2 5 0.5 5 10 1.0 .515 .504 1.3 -0.1 12 $3,800,000 *6
5 Seasons 498 2007 5 5 1 -24 24 10 0.9 63 73 7.1 .502 .501 9.4 -0.1 97 $5,554,000

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
2012 26 WSN NL NLDS STL L 5 19 19 2 7 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 .368 .368 .421 .789 8 0 0 0 0 0
1 NLDS 5 19 19 2 7 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 .368 .368 .421 .789 8 0 0 0 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
2009 WSN NL 23 SS 17 14 14 136.1 84 37 43 4 14 .952 -1 -3 -7 -27 5.28 4.71 .974 4.38 4.34
2009 WSN NL 23 2B 5 5 3 39.2 26 12 12 2 2 .923 -2 -3 -76 -91 5.45 4.80 .984 4.86 4.82
2009 WSN NL 23 OF 1 1 0 7.0 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 0 0 3.86 3.00 .987 2.19 2.20
2009 WSN NL 23 RF 1 1 0 7.0 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 0 0 3.86 3.00 .987 2.06 2.10
2010 WSN NL 24 SS 149 136 126 1208.0 637 221 382 34 87 .947 -9 -7 -9 -7 4.49 4.05 .971 4.31 4.27
2010 WSN NL 24 OF 1 0 0 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 2.70 2.20
2010 WSN NL 24 RF 1 0 0 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 2.70 2.10
2011 WSN NL 25 SS 152 146 143 1317.2 686 226 437 23 85 .966 -5 -3 -4 -3 4.53 4.36 .971 4.41 4.40
2012 WSN NL 26 SS 128 126 124 1139.1 492 171 306 15 65 .970 2 -6 2 -6 3.77 3.73 .970 4.26 4.21 AS,MVP-16,SS
2013 WSN NL 27 SS 39 39 39 345.0 165 45 113 7 24 .958 -3 -2 -9 -7 4.12 4.05 .978 4.38 4.35
5 Seasons SS 485 461 446 4146.1 2064 700 1281 83 275 .960 -15 -21 -4 -6 4.30 4.08 .971 4.34 4.30
1 Season 2B 5 5 3 39.2 26 12 12 2 2 .923 -2 -3 -76 -90 5.45 4.80 .984 4.86 4.82
2 Seasons RF 2 1 0 7.1 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 0 0 3.68 1.50 .987 2.09 2.10
2 Seasons OF 2 1 0 7.1 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 0 0 3.68 1.50 .987 2.21 2.20
5 Seasons TOT 492 467 449 4193.1 2093 715 1293 85 277 .959 -18 -24 -5 -6 4.31 4.08 .972 4.34 4.30
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-1945 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1945 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 1945 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 1916 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1945 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1916) 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 1945 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

All-Star Games
2012

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
2012 NL (16, 3%)
0.03 Career Shares (1270th)

Silver Sluggers
2012 NL (SS)

Games Played s c a p y
2013 NL  39 (3rd)

At Bats s c a p y
2013 NL  150 (10th)

Total Bases s c a p y
2013 NL  79 (6th)

Doubles s c a p y
2013 NL  13 (2nd)

Triples s c a p y
2013 NL  2 (7th)

Extra Base Hits s c a p y
2013 NL  21 (1st)

Sacrifice Hits s c a p y
2011 NL  11 (7th)

Sacrifice Flies s c a p y
2010 NL  7 (10th)

Double Plays Grounded Into s c a p y
2012 NL  17 (9th)

Caught Stealing s c a p y
2011 NL  10 (4th)

SB % s c a p y
Career  75.56 (147th)

Power-Speed # s c a p y
2012 NL  22.8 (6th)

Outs Made s c a p y
2011 NL  471 (5th)

Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y
2012 NL  4.2 (7th)

Errors Committed† s c a p y
2010 NL  34 (1st)
2011 NL  23 (2nd)
2013 NL  7 (1st)

Def. Games as SS s c a p y
2010 NL  149 (1st)
2011 NL  152 (2nd)
2013 NL  39 (1st)

Putouts as SS s c a p y
2010 NL  221 (1st)
2011 NL  226 (3rd)

Assists as SS s c a p y
2010 NL  382 (4th)
2011 NL  437 (2nd)

Errors Committed as SS s c a p y
2010 NL  34 (1st)
2011 NL  23 (2nd)
2013 NL  7 (1st)
Active  83 (16th)

Double Plays Turned as SS s c a p y
2010 NL  87 (3rd)
2011 NL  85 (2nd)
2013 NL  24 (4th)

Range Factor/9Inn as SS† s c a p y
2010 NL  4.49 (4th)

Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y
2011 NL  4.36 (5th)

                                         

† Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1945-1973, 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 InkBatting - 5 (1801), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 5 (1555), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 7 (1947), Average HOFer ≈ 50
JAWS Shortstop (241st), 5.8 career WAR/5.8 7yr-peak WAR/5.8 JAWS
Average HOF SS (out of 21) = 66.6 career WAR/42.7 7yr-peak WAR/54.7 JAWS

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores
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  5. Neil Walker (934)
  6. Tadahito Iguchi (931)
  7. Dib Williams (927)
  8. Joe Boley (923)
  9. Alcides Escobar (922)
  10. Todd Greene (920)
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  4. Miguel Tejada (946)
  5. Neifi Perez (945)
  6. Jeff Blauser (944)
  7. Yuniesky Betancourt (942)
  8. Brandon Phillips (938)
  9. Gus Triandos (936)
  10. Gene Alley (934)
Most Similar by Ages 
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  2. Orlando Cabrera (973)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  3. Orlando Cabrera (966)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

Transactions

  • June 7, 2004: Drafted by the Montreal Expos in the 3rd round of the 2004 amateur draft. Player signed June 16, 2004.
The transaction information used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. We attempt to update transactions throughout the season.

Salaries

 Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses
Year Age Team Salary Sources Notes/Other Sources
200923Washington Nationals$400,000
201024Washington Nationals$400,000
201125Washington Nationals$441,500
201226Washington Nationals$512,500contracts
201327Washington Nationals$3,800,000
2013 Status1st-Year Arb Eligible, Earliest Arb Eligible: 2014, Earliest Free Agent: 2016
Career to date (may be incomplete)$5,554,000
Primary salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
Additional 1915-1969 salaries researched via Baseball Hall of Fame contract archives by Dr. Michael Haupert of UW-LaCrosse.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.
Salaries converted to alternate years using Consumer Price Index (CPI) data courtesty of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Board.

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