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Edwin Encarnacion    \ehn-kahr-nah-see-OHN\

Edwin Elpidio Encarnacion (twitter: @Encadwin)

Positions: Third Baseman and First Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 230 lb.

Born: January 7, 1983 in La Romana, La Romana, Dominican Republic
High School: Manuela Toro HS (Caguas, PR)
Drafted by the Texas Rangers in the 9th round of the 2000 amateur draft.
Signed June 12, 2000. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 24, 2005 (Age 22)
Teams (by GP): Reds/BlueJays 2005-2013
2013 Contract Status: Signed thru 2015, 5 yrs/$35M (11-15) & 16 team option (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2013): 7.085, Free Agent: 2016 [*], Agents: Arn Tellem [*]
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Fine Details  · Last updated May 16, 2013 4:17AM
All-Time Rank (among batters): #1066. Kelly Gruber… #1067. Ted Sizemore… #1068. Gary Matthews… #1069. EDWIN ENCARNACION… #1070. Duff Cooley… #1071. Mike Kreevich… #1072. Orator Shafer… 

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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
2005 22 CIN NL 69 234 211 25 49 16 0 9 31 3 0 20 60 .232 .308 .436 .744 93 92 8 3 0 0 2 5
2006 23 CIN NL 117 467 406 60 112 33 1 15 72 6 3 41 78 .276 .359 .473 .831 108 192 9 13 0 3 3 *5/3
2007 24 CIN NL 139 560 502 66 145 25 1 16 76 8 1 39 86 .289 .356 .438 .794 101 220 5 14 0 1 4 *5
2008 25 CIN NL 146 582 506 75 127 29 1 26 68 1 0 61 102 .251 .340 .466 .807 108 236 13 10 0 5 1 *5
2009 26 TOT MLB 85 338 293 35 66 11 2 13 39 2 1 37 67 .225 .320 .410 .729 91 120 5 5 0 3 0 5
2009 26 CIN NL 43 165 139 10 29 6 1 5 16 1 1 24 38 .209 .333 .374 .707 87 52 3 2 0 0 0 5
2009 26 TOR AL 42 173 154 25 37 5 1 8 23 1 0 13 29 .240 .306 .442 .748 94 68 2 3 0 3 0 5
2010 27 TOR AL 96 367 332 47 81 16 0 21 51 1 0 29 60 .244 .305 .482 .787 109 160 9 2 0 4 1 5/D
2011 28 TOR AL 134 530 481 70 131 36 0 17 55 8 2 43 77 .272 .334 .453 .787 111 218 17 3 0 3 2 D53
2012 29 TOR AL 151 644 542 93 152 24 0 42 110 13 3 84 94 .280 .384 .557 .941 152 302 6 11 0 7 12 D3/75 MVP-11
2013 30 TOR AL 40 171 151 22 36 3 0 11 29 2 0 17 26 .238 .322 .477 .798 113 72 5 2 0 1 0 *3D
9 Yrs 977 3893 3424 493 899 193 5 170 531 44 10 371 650 .263 .343 .471 .814 112 1612 77 63 0 27 25
162 Game Avg. 162 646 568 82 149 32 1 28 88 7 2 62 108 .263 .343 .471 .814 112 267 13 10 0 4 4
CIN (5 yrs) 514 2008 1764 236 462 109 4 71 263 19 5 185 364 .262 .345 .449 .793 103 792 38 42 0 9 10
TOR (5 yrs) 463 1885 1660 257 437 84 1 99 268 25 5 186 286 .263 .342 .494 .836 123 820 39 21 0 18 15
AL (5 yrs) 463 1885 1660 257 437 84 1 99 268 25 5 186 286 .263 .342 .494 .836 123 820 39 21 0 18 15
NL (5 yrs) 514 2008 1764 236 462 109 4 71 263 19 5 185 364 .262 .345 .449 .793 103 792 38 42 0 9 10

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
2005 22 CIN NL 69 234 -1 -1 -1 4 1 2 0.2 7 9 0.9 .503 .501 0.5 0.5 5 5
2006 23 CIN NL 117 467 6 1 -0 -13 2 -4 -0.5 15 11 0.9 .497 .498 2.2 -1.1 24 $332,500 *5/3
2007 24 CIN NL 139 560 5 1 1 -11 2 -2 -0.2 17 16 1.4 .499 .499 2.5 -0.9 27 $407,500 *5
2008 25 CIN NL 146 582 8 -2 -2 -17 3 -10 -1.1 18 8 0.6 .493 .494 2.3 -1.5 25 $450,000 *5
2009 26 CIN NL 43 165 -2 -2 -0 -8 1 -11 -1.2 5 -6 -0.7 .473 .493 0.2 -0.8 2 $2,425,000 5
2009 26 TOR AL 42 173 -2 0 0 1 1 1 0.1 6 7 0.7 .501 .500 0.6 0.2 6 5
2010 27 TOR AL 96 367 4 1 -1 -3 2 3 0.4 14 17 1.7 .503 .502 2.0 -0.1 20 $5,175,000 5/D
2011 28 TOR AL 134 530 6 1 -2 -7 -7 -10 -1.0 20 10 1.0 .492 .494 1.7 -1.5 17 $2,500,000 D53
2012 29 TOR AL 151 644 38 2 0 -4 -12 24 2.5 24 48 4.9 .517 .516 5.4 -1.7 52 $3,500,000 D3/75 MVP-11
2013 30 TOR AL 40 171 3 1 -0 -2 -3 -2 -0.1 6 5 0.5 .496 .499 0.7 -0.4 7 $8,000,000 *3D
9 Seasons 977 3893 67 1 -5 -60 -11 -8 -0.8 133 125 12.0 .499 .500 18.1 -7.4 185 $22,790,000
CIN (5 yrs) 514 2008 17 -3 -2 -45 8 -25 -2.8 63 38 3.2 .495 .497 7.7 -3.8 83 $3,615,000
TOR (5 yrs) 463 1885 50 4 -3 -15 -20 17 2.0 70 87 8.8 .504 .502 10.4 -3.5 102 $19,175,000

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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 CIN NL 22 3B 56 55 51 478.0 180 54 116 10 10 .944 -2 4 -4 10 3.20 3.04 .958 2.77 2.74
2006 CIN NL 23 3B 111 109 84 931.1 296 74 197 25 17 .916 -12 -13 -16 -17 2.62 2.44 .954 2.70 2.68
2006 CIN NL 23 1B 2 1 1 9.0 9 9 0 0 1 1.000 -0 0 -53 0 9.00 4.50 .994 9.40 9.35
2007 CIN NL 24 3B 137 134 116 1168.0 340 112 212 16 21 .953 -22 -11 -23 -11 2.50 2.36 .954 2.68 2.67
2008 CIN NL 25 3B 143 141 133 1237.0 330 91 216 23 23 .930 -14 -17 -13 -16 2.23 2.15 .956 2.60 2.58
2009 TOT MLB 26 3B 85 84 81 726.1 209 52 146 11 14 .947 -7 -7 -12 -11 2.45 2.33 .957 2.63 2.60
2009 CIN NL 26 3B 43 42 41 362.1 98 25 69 4 8 .959 -6 -8 -19 -26 2.33 2.19 .957 2.57 2.55
2009 TOR AL 26 3B 42 42 40 364.0 111 27 77 7 6 .937 -2 1 -5 4 2.57 2.48 .957 2.68 2.65
2010 TOR AL 27 3B 95 95 88 841.2 263 71 174 18 16 .932 -2 -3 -3 -4 2.62 2.58 .956 2.64 2.61
2010 TOR AL 27 DH 1 1
2011 TOR AL 28 DH 70 70
2011 TOR AL 28 3B 36 30 20 274.2 74 23 43 8 2 .892 -2 -4 -8 -17 2.16 1.83 .954 2.62 2.60
2011 TOR AL 28 1B 25 22 15 190.0 205 192 9 4 16 .980 -2 -3 -11 -18 9.52 8.04 .993 9.30 9.24
2012 TOR AL 29 DH 82 82 MVP-11
2012 TOR AL 29 1B 68 66 63 583.1 637 602 32 3 61 .995 -2 -1 -4 -2 9.78 9.32 .994 9.27 9.22 MVP-11
2012 TOR AL 29 LF 3 2 1 17.0 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 -3 -2 -198 -141 1.59 1.00 .983 1.96 1.93 MVP-11
2012 TOR AL 29 OF 3 2 1 17.0 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 -3 -2 -198 -141 1.59 1.00 .987 2.17 2.17 MVP-11
2012 TOR AL 29 3B 1 1 1 8.0 3 2 0 1 0 .667 -1 -1 -142 -150 2.25 2.00 .953 2.59 2.60 MVP-11
2013 TOR AL 30 1B 30 30 29 267.1 253 235 18 0 21 1.000 -3 -2 -15 -9 8.52 8.43 .995 8.81 8.76
2013 TOR AL 30 DH 10 10
8 Seasons 3B 664 649 574 5665.0 1695 479 1104 112 103 .934 -62 -51 -13 -10 2.51 2.38 .955 2.66 2.64
4 Seasons 1B 125 119 108 1049.2 1104 1038 59 7 99 .994 -7 -6 -8 -6 9.41 8.78 .994 9.16 9.12
1 Season OF 3 2 1 17.0 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 -3 -2 -198 -141 1.59 1.00 .987 2.17 2.17
1 Season LF 3 2 1 17.0 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 -3 -2 -198 -141 1.59 1.00 .983 1.96 1.93
9 Seasons TOT 792 770 683 6731.2 2802 1520 1163 119 202 .958 -72 -59 -13 -9 3.59 3.39 .971 3.67 3.66
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

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
2012 AL (11, 8%)
0.08 Career Shares (982nd)

Offensive WAR† s c a p y
2012 AL  5.4 (8th)

On-Base% s c a p y
2012 AL  .384 (5th)

Slugging % s c a p y
2012 AL  .557 (5th)
Active  .471 (45th)
Career  .471 (241st)

On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y
2012 AL  .941 (3rd)

Games Played s c a p y
2013 AL  40 (1st)

Home Runs s c a p y
2012 AL  42 (4th)
2013 AL  11 (1st)
Active  170 (42nd)

Runs Batted In s c a p y
2012 AL  110 (3rd)
2013 AL  29 (6th)

Bases on Balls s c a p y
2012 AL  84 (7th)

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
2012 AL  152 (3rd)

Runs Created s c a p y
2012 AL  123 (5th)

Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y
2012 AL  42 (5th)

Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y
2012 AL  4.0 (5th)

Extra Base Hits s c a p y
2012 AL  66 (10th)

Offensive Win % s c a p y
2012 AL  .740 (3rd)

Hit By Pitch s c a p y
2006 NL  13 (10th)
2007 NL  14 (4th)
2012 AL  11 (7th)
Active  63 (36th)

Sacrifice Flies s c a p y
2012 AL  7 (8th)

Intentional Bases on Balls s c a p y
2012 AL  12 (6th)

Power-Speed # s c a p y
2012 AL  19.9 (7th)

AB per HR s c a p y
2012 AL  12.9 (1st)
2013 AL  13.7 (4th)
Active  20.1 (25th)
Career  20.1 (129th)

Base-Out Runs Added (RE24)† s c a p y
2012 AL  56.93 (1st)

Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y
2012 AL  4.8 (4th)

Situ. Wins Added (WPA/LI)† s c a p y
2012 AL  4.8 (3rd)

Base-Out Wins Added (REW)† s c a p y
2012 AL  5.4 (1st)

Errors Committed† s c a p y
2006 NL  25 (5th)
2008 NL  23 (2nd)
Active  119 (24th)

Def. Games as 3B s c a p y
Active  664 (10th)

Putouts as 3B s c a p y
2007 NL  112 (2nd)
2008 NL  91 (5th)
Active  479 (9th)

Assists as 3B s c a p y
Active  1,104 (11th)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
2006 NL  25 (1st)
2008 NL  23 (2nd)
2010 AL  18 (3rd)
Active  112 (8th)

Double Plays Turned as 3B s c a p y
2008 NL  23 (5th)
Active  103 (12th)

Fielding % as 1B s c a p y
2013 AL  1.000 (1st)

Range Factor/9Inn as 3B† s c a p y
Active  2.51 (10th)
Career  2.51 (98th)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
Active  2.38 (9th)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
Active  .934 (13th)

                           

† 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 (·)

Black InkBatting - 5 (386), Average HOFer ≈ 27
Gray InkBatting - 22 (966), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 12 (1078), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 12 (1400), Average HOFer ≈ 50
JAWS Third Base (176th), 11.3 career WAR/11.5 7yr-peak WAR/11.4 JAWS
Average HOF 3B (out of 13) = 67.4 career WAR/42.6 7yr-peak WAR/55.0 JAWS

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores
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  1. Hank Blalock (958)
  2. Tony Conigliaro (953)
  3. Josh Willingham (952)
  4. Ryan Ludwick (948)
  5. Jayson Werth (940)
  6. Don Demeter (940)
  7. Henry Rodriguez (938)
  8. Jose Bautista (936)
  9. Richard Hidalgo (935)
  10. Jim Lemon (934)
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  1. Hank Blalock (958)
  2. Ron Gant (952)
  3. Torii Hunter (949)
  4. Tony Conigliaro (948)
  5. Richard Hidalgo (947)
  6. Jermaine Dye (946)
  7. Frank Thomas (946)
  8. Wally Post (946)
  9. Jim Ray Hart (944)
  10. Preston Wilson (943)
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  2. Tom Tresh (963)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  3. Willie Jones (972)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  4. Bill Melton (961)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  5. Fernando Tatis (974)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  6. Bill Melton (948)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  7. Hank Blalock (958)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

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
200623Cincinnati Reds$332,500
200724Cincinnati Reds$407,500
200825Cincinnati Reds$450,000
200926Cincinnati Reds$2,425,000
201027Toronto Blue Jays$5,175,000
201128Toronto Blue Jays$2,500,000
201229Toronto Blue Jays$3,500,000contracts
201330Toronto Blue Jays$8,000,000
201431Toronto Blue Jays$9,000,000
201532Toronto Blue Jays$10,000,000
201633Toronto Blue Jays*$10,000,000$10M Team Option, $2M Buyout
Earliest Free Agent: 2016
Career to date (may be incomplete)$22,790,000Does not include future salaries
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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