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David Eckstein

David Mark Eckstein (X Factor or Just Enough)

Positions: Shortstop and Second Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 6", Weight: 170 lb.

Born: January 20, 1975 in Sanford, FL
High School: Seminole HS (Sanford, FL)
School: University of Florida (Gainesville, FL)
Drafted by the Boston Red Sox in the 19th round of the 1997 amateur draft.
Signed June 6, 1997. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 3, 2001 (Age 26)
Teams (by GP): Angels/Cardinals/Padres/BlueJays/Diamondbacks 2001-2010
Agents: Ryan Gleichowski [*]
Final Game: October 3, 2010 (Age 35)
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Fine Details  · Last updated Feb 12, 2013 11:17AM
All-Time Rank (among batters): #786. Woody English… #787. Rube Bressler… #788. Jason Heyward… #789. DAVID ECKSTEIN… #790. Don Hoak… #791. Willie Jones… #792. Gregg Jefferies… 

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
2001 26 ANA AL 153 664 582 82 166 26 2 4 41 29 4 43 60 .285 .355 .357 .712 89 208 11 21 16 2 0 *64D RoY-4
2002 27 ANA AL 152 702 608 107 178 22 6 8 63 21 13 45 44 .293 .363 .388 .752 101 236 7 27 14 8 0 *6/D MVP-11
2003 28 ANA AL 120 517 452 59 114 22 1 3 31 16 5 36 45 .252 .325 .325 .651 75 147 9 15 10 4 0 *6/D
2004 29 ANA AL 142 637 566 92 156 24 1 2 35 16 5 42 49 .276 .339 .332 .671 79 188 11 13 14 2 1 *6/D
2005 30 STL NL 158 713 630 90 185 26 7 8 61 11 8 58 44 .294 .363 .395 .758 99 249 13 13 8 4 0 *6 AS,MVP-21
2006 31 STL NL 123 552 500 68 146 18 1 2 23 7 6 31 41 .292 .350 .344 .694 80 172 7 15 3 3 0 *6 AS
2007 32 STL NL 117 484 434 58 134 23 0 3 31 10 1 24 22 .309 .356 .382 .739 93 166 9 12 7 7 0 *6
2008 33 TOT MLB 94 376 324 32 86 21 0 2 27 2 1 31 32 .265 .343 .349 .692 85 113 7 9 9 3 1 64/D
2008 33 TOR AL 76 303 260 27 72 18 0 1 23 2 1 24 27 .277 .354 .358 .711 93 93 6 8 9 2 1 6/D4
2008 33 ARI NL 18 73 64 5 14 3 0 1 4 0 0 7 5 .219 .301 .313 .614 58 20 1 1 0 1 0 4
2009 34 SDP NL 136 568 503 64 131 27 2 2 51 3 1 39 46 .260 .323 .334 .657 82 168 8 9 13 4 1 *4
2010 35 SDP NL 116 492 442 49 118 23 0 1 29 8 1 27 35 .267 .321 .326 .647 83 144 6 9 12 2 0 *4
10 Yrs 1311 5705 5041 701 1414 232 20 35 392 123 45 376 418 .280 .345 .355 .701 87 1791 88 143 106 39 3
162 Game Avg. 162 705 623 87 175 29 2 4 48 15 6 46 52 .280 .345 .355 .701 87 221 11 18 13 5 0
ANA (4 yrs) 567 2520 2208 340 614 94 10 17 170 82 27 166 198 .278 .347 .353 .700 87 779 38 76 54 16 1
STL (3 yrs) 398 1749 1564 216 465 67 8 13 115 28 15 113 107 .297 .357 .375 .732 91 587 29 40 18 14 0
SDP (2 yrs) 252 1060 945 113 249 50 2 3 80 11 2 66 81 .263 .322 .330 .652 82 312 14 18 25 6 1
ARI (1 yr) 18 73 64 5 14 3 0 1 4 0 0 7 5 .219 .301 .313 .614 58 20 1 1 0 1 0
TOR (1 yr) 76 303 260 27 72 18 0 1 23 2 1 24 27 .277 .354 .358 .711 93 93 6 8 9 2 1
NL (6 yrs) 668 2882 2573 334 728 120 10 17 199 39 17 186 193 .283 .343 .357 .700 87 919 44 59 43 21 1
AL (5 yrs) 643 2823 2468 367 686 112 10 18 193 84 28 190 225 .278 .348 .353 .701 87 872 44 84 63 18 2

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
2001 26 ANA AL 153 664 1 13 1 -3 5 18 1.9 22 40 3.9 .511 .511 4.2 0.3 43 $200,000 *64D RoY-4
2002 27 ANA AL 152 702 6 3 2 10 7 28 2.9 23 52 5.0 .518 .517 4.1 1.8 42 $280,000 *6/D MVP-11
2003 28 ANA AL 120 517 -15 2 1 3 5 -3 -0.2 17 14 1.4 .497 .498 1.1 0.9 11 $425,000 *6/D
2004 29 ANA AL 142 637 -13 4 0 -2 6 -5 -0.2 21 16 1.7 .497 .497 1.8 0.6 18 $2,150,000 *6/D
2005 30 STL NL 158 713 3 1 0 -2 7 8 0.8 20 28 2.7 .505 .505 3.0 0.5 30 $2,333,333 *6 AS,MVP-21
2006 31 STL NL 123 552 -9 -0 1 4 5 0 0.0 15 15 1.5 .500 .500 1.1 0.9 11 $3,333,333 *6 AS
2007 32 STL NL 117 484 -0 1 0 -12 5 -6 -0.6 13 7 0.7 .495 .496 1.9 -0.7 19 $4,583,333 *6
2008 33 TOR AL 76 303 -1 -2 -0 -10 2 -10 -0.9 10 -0 0.0 .486 .494 1.0 -0.7 10 $4,500,000 6/D4
2008 33 ARI NL 18 73 -4 1 0 0 0 -3 -0.4 2 -1 -0.2 .481 .498 -0.2 0.0 -1 4
2009 34 SDP NL 136 568 -9 2 2 -4 2 -8 -0.8 15 8 0.7 .494 .495 1.1 -0.1 12 $850,000 *4
2010 35 SDP NL 116 492 -9 1 1 4 2 -0 -0.1 14 13 1.2 .500 .500 0.8 0.7 9 $1,000,000 *4
10 Seasons 1311 5705 -51 27 8 -12 47 19 2.6 172 191 18.6 .501 .501 19.9 4.2 203 $19,654,999
ANA (4 yrs) 567 2520 -21 23 5 8 23 38 4.4 84 122 12.0 .507 .506 11.2 3.6 114 $3,055,000
STL (3 yrs) 398 1749 -7 2 1 -10 17 3 0.3 47 50 4.9 .501 .501 6.0 0.7 60 $10,249,999
SDP (2 yrs) 252 1060 -18 2 3 0 4 -8 -0.9 29 21 1.9 .497 .497 1.9 0.5 21 $1,850,000
ARI (1 yr) 18 73 -4 1 0 0 0 -3 -0.4 2 -1 -0.2 .481 .498 -0.2 0.0 -1
TOR (1 yr) 76 303 -1 -2 -0 -10 2 -10 -0.9 10 -0 0.0 .486 .494 1.0 -0.7 10 $4,500,000

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
2002 27 ANA AL ALDS NYY W 4 20 18 2 5 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 .278 .316 .278 .594 5 0 1 1 0 0
2002 27 ANA AL ALCS MIN W 5 22 21 1 6 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 .286 .318 .286 .604 6 0 1 0 0 0
2002 27 ANA AL WS SFG W 7 33 29 6 9 0 0 0 3 1 0 3 2 .310 .364 .310 .674 9 0 0 0 1 0
2004 29 ANA AL ALDS BOS L 3 12 12 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .333 .333 .333 .667 4 0 0 0 0 0
2005 30 STL NL NLDS SDP W 3 15 13 3 5 0 0 1 4 0 0 1 1 .385 .429 .615 1.044 8 0 0 1 0 0
2005 30 STL NL NLCS HOU L 6 26 20 5 4 0 0 0 2 1 1 3 2 .200 .346 .200 .546 4 0 2 0 1 0
2006 31 STL NL NLDS SDP W 4 17 15 1 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 .133 .188 .133 .321 2 1 1 1 0 0
2006 31 STL NL NLCS NYM W 7 32 26 3 6 1 0 1 1 3 0 4 0 .231 .375 .385 .760 10 0 2 0 0 0
2006 31 STL NL WS DET W 5 23 22 3 8 3 0 0 4 0 0 1 1 .364 .391 .500 .891 11 1 0 0 0 0
4 Yrs (9 Series) 44 200 176 26 49 4 0 2 18 7 1 12 9 .278 .345 .335 .680 59 2 7 3 2 0
2 ALDS 7 32 30 4 9 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 .300 .323 .300 .623 9 0 1 1 0 0
2 NLDS 7 32 28 4 7 0 0 1 5 1 0 1 1 .250 .300 .357 .657 10 1 1 2 0 0
1 ALCS 5 22 21 1 6 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 .286 .318 .286 .604 6 0 1 0 0 0
2 NLCS 13 58 46 8 10 1 0 1 3 4 1 7 2 .217 .362 .304 .666 14 0 4 0 1 0
2 WS 12 56 51 9 17 3 0 0 7 1 0 4 3 .333 .375 .392 .767 20 1 0 0 1 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
2001 ANA AL 26 SS 126 118 111 1051.1 525 178 332 15 66 .971 -4 -4 4.37 4.05 .973 4.49 4.45 RoY-4
2001 ANA AL 26 2B 14 14 11 116.0 58 21 34 3 9 .948 0 4 4.27 3.93 .981 4.86 4.82 RoY-4
2001 ANA AL 26 DH 14 14 RoY-4
2002 ANA AL 27 SS 147 146 132 1276.1 616 205 397 14 91 .977 10 9 4.24 4.10 .975 4.56 4.51 MVP-11
2002 ANA AL 27 DH 3 3 MVP-11
2003 ANA AL 28 SS 116 114 103 985.0 494 193 293 8 67 .984 2 3 3 4 4.44 4.19 .971 4.54 4.49
2003 ANA AL 28 DH 3 3
2004 ANA AL 29 SS 138 136 121 1191.2 513 198 309 6 75 .988 0 -2 0 -2 3.83 3.67 .972 4.56 4.53
2004 ANA AL 29 DH 1 1
2005 STL NL 30 SS 156 154 137 1340.2 775 243 517 15 123 .981 13 -2 12 -2 5.10 4.87 .976 4.51 4.45 AS,MVP-21
2006 STL NL 31 SS 120 119 106 1029.0 547 178 363 6 87 .989 9 4 10 5 4.73 4.51 .972 4.41 4.38 AS
2007 STL NL 32 SS 114 112 95 943.2 494 164 310 20 59 .960 -6 -12 -7 -15 4.52 4.16 .975 4.44 4.42
2008 TOT MLB 33 2B 24 23 18 197.0 116 37 79 0 18 1.000 3 0 16 0 5.30 4.83 .983 4.87 4.84
2008 TOR AL 33 SS 57 56 47 484.1 224 69 146 9 33 .960 -2 -10 -4 -25 4.00 3.77 .971 4.39 4.35
2008 TOR AL 33 DH 9 9
2008 TOR AL 33 2B 6 5 4 45.0 21 7 14 0 4 1.000 2 0 40 0 4.20 3.50 .987 5.00 4.97
2008 ARI NL 33 2B 18 18 14 152.0 95 30 65 0 14 1.000 1 0 9 0 5.62 5.28 .982 4.83 4.80
2009 SDP NL 34 2B 131 124 115 1093.1 556 228 326 2 79 .996 -8 -4 -9 -4 4.56 4.23 .984 4.86 4.82
2010 SDP NL 35 2B 113 107 103 967.1 475 191 284 0 71 1.000 5 4 6 5 4.42 4.20 .984 4.78 4.73
8 Seasons SS 974 955 852 8302.0 4188 1428 2667 93 601 .978 23 -19 3 -3 4.44 4.20 .973 4.50 4.46
4 Seasons 2B 282 268 247 2373.2 1205 477 723 5 177 .996 -0 0 -0 0 4.55 4.26 .984 4.83 4.79
10 Seasons TOT 1256 1223 1099 10675.2 5393 1905 3390 98 778 .982 23 -19 3 -2 4.46 4.22 .976 4.57 4.53
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
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
2005 (SS)
2006 *

Awards (yr lg award)
2006 AL Babe Ruth Award
2006 ML WS MVP

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
2002 AL (11, 6%)
2005 NL (21, 3%)
0.09 Career Shares (951st)

WAR Position Players† s c a p y
2002 AL  5.0 (9th)

Defensive WAR† s c a p y
2002 AL  1.8 (5th)

At Bats s c a p y
2005 NL  630 (4th)

Plate Appearances s c a p y
2002 AL  702 (7th)
2005 NL  713 (5th)

Hits s c a p y
2005 NL  185 (6th)

Triples s c a p y
2002 AL  6 (6th)
2005 NL  7 (7th)

Singles s c a p y
2001 AL  134 (3rd)
2002 AL  142 (4th)
2004 AL  129 (4th)
2005 NL  144 (3rd)
2006 NL  125 (8th)

Times On Base s c a p y
2005 NL  256 (10th)

Hit By Pitch s c a p y
2001 AL  21 (1st)
2002 AL  27 (1st)
2003 AL  15 (6th)
2004 AL  13 (6th)
2005 NL  13 (7th)
2006 NL  15 (4th)
2007 NL  12 (10th)
2010 NL  9 (8th)
Career  143 (24th)

Sacrifice Hits s c a p y
2001 AL  16 (1st)
2002 AL  14 (1st)
2003 AL  10 (4th)
2004 AL  14 (4th)
2008 AL  9 (5th)
2009 NL  13 (8th)
2010 NL  12 (6th)

Sacrifice Flies s c a p y
2002 AL  8 (9th)

Caught Stealing s c a p y
2002 AL  13 (2nd)

SB % s c a p y
2001 AL  87.88 (4th)
Career  73.21 (225th)

AB per SO s c a p y
2001 AL  9.7 (2nd)
2002 AL  13.8 (2nd)
2003 AL  10.0 (6th)
2004 AL  11.6 (1st)
2005 NL  14.3 (2nd)
2006 NL  12.2 (4th)
2007 NL  19.7 (3rd)**
2009 NL  10.9 (4th)
2010 NL  12.6 (4th)**

Outs Made s c a p y
2002 AL  472 (8th)
2005 NL  478 (4th)

Assists† s c a p y
2005 NL  517 (2nd)

Def. Games as SS s c a p y
2005 NL  156 (4th)

Putouts as SS s c a p y
2005 NL  243 (3rd)

Assists as SS s c a p y
2005 NL  517 (2nd)

Errors Committed as SS s c a p y
2001 AL  15 (5th)
2005 NL  15 (5th)
2007 NL  20 (2nd)

Double Plays Turned as SS s c a p y
2005 NL  123 (2nd)

Total Zone Runs as 2B s c a p y
2010 NL  5 (2nd)

Fielding % as 2B s c a p y
2009 NL  .996 (1st)
2010 NL  1.000 (1st)

Total Zone Runs as SS s c a p y
2002 AL  10 (3rd)
2005 NL  13 (4th)
2006 NL  9 (4th)
Career  24 (66th)

Range Factor/9Inn as SS† s c a p y
2005 NL  5.10 (2nd)
2006 NL  4.73 (5th)
2007 NL  4.52 (5th)

Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y
2005 NL  4.87 (3rd)
2006 NL  4.51 (5th)

Fielding % as SS s c a p y
2003 AL  .984 (2nd)
2004 AL  .988 (1st)
2006 NL  .989 (3rd)
Career  .978 (15th)

                           
A ** by the stat's value indicates the player had fewer than the required number of at bats or plate appearances for the BA, OBP, SLG or OPS title that year. In order to rank the player, the necessary number of hitless at bats were added to the player's season total. The value printed here is their actual value and not the value used to rank them, therefore some numbers may appear out of order. Requirements to qualify for rate stats.

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray InkBatting - 6 (1699), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 28 (652), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 21 (687), Average HOFer ≈ 50
JAWS Shortstop (104th), 18.6 career WAR/17.4 7yr-peak WAR/18.0 JAWS
Average HOF SS (out of 21) = 63.1 career WAR/41.0 7yr-peak WAR/52.1 JAWS

Similarity Scores

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  3. Jason Bartlett (975)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  4. Phil Rizzuto (960) * 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  5. Jason Bartlett (959)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  6. Phil Rizzuto (953) * 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  7. Phil Rizzuto (961) * 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  8. Phil Rizzuto (943) * 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  9. Rick Burleson (959)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  10. Rick Burleson (954)  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/Other Sources
200126Anaheim Angels$200,0004/6/01 USA Today
200227Anaheim Angels$280,0004/3/02 AP
200328Anaheim Angels$425,0004/3/03 AP
200429Anaheim Angels$2,150,0004/7/04 AP
200530St. Louis Cardinals$2,333,333
200631St. Louis Cardinals$3,333,333
200732St. Louis Cardinals$4,583,333
200833Toronto Blue Jays$4,500,000
200934San Diego Padres$850,000
201035San Diego Padres$1,000,000
Career to date (may be incomplete)$19,654,999
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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