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Danny Espinosa

Daniel Richard Espinosa (twitter: @DannyEspinosa18)

Positions: Second Baseman and Shortstop
Bats: Both, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 205 lb.

Born: April 25, 1987 in Santa Ana, CA
High School: Mater Dei HS (Santa Ana, CA)
School: California State University Long Beach (Long Beach, CA)
Drafted by the Washington Nationals in the 3rd round of the 2008 amateur draft.
Signed August 14, 2008. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 1, 2010 (Age 23)
Team: Nationals 2010-2013
2013 Contract Status: Pre-Arb Eligible, 1 yr/$526k (13) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2013): 2.033, Arb Eligible: 2014, Free Agent: 2017 [*],
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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
2010 23 WSN NL 28 112 103 16 22 4 1 6 15 0 2 9 30 .214 .277 .447 .723 92 46 0 0 0 0 1 4/6
2011 24 WSN NL 158 658 573 72 135 29 5 21 66 17 6 57 166 .236 .323 .414 .737 102 237 6 19 5 4 4 *4 RoY-6
2012 25 WSN NL 160 658 594 82 147 37 2 17 56 20 6 46 189 .247 .315 .402 .717 94 239 11 13 3 2 4 *46
2013 26 WSN NL 32 122 116 10 21 9 0 3 12 1 0 3 28 .181 .213 .336 .549 49 39 1 2 0 1 0 *4
4 Yrs 378 1550 1386 180 325 79 8 47 149 38 14 115 413 .234 .307 .405 .712 94 561 18 34 8 7 9
162 Game Avg. 162 664 594 77 139 34 3 20 64 16 6 49 177 .234 .307 .405 .712 94 240 8 15 3 3 4

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
2010 23 WSN NL 28 112 -2 -0 1 5 1 4 0.4 3 7 0.7 .515 .503 0.2 0.6 2 4/6
2011 24 WSN NL 158 658 -1 -1 1 5 4 7 0.7 21 27 2.8 .505 .505 2.1 1.0 22 $415,000 *4 RoY-6
2012 25 WSN NL 160 658 -8 0 1 7 5 5 0.6 21 26 2.6 .504 .504 1.7 1.3 19 $506,000 *46
2013 26 WSN NL 32 122 -7 0 0 1 1 -5 -0.6 4 -1 -0.2 .484 .497 -0.2 0.2 -2 $526,250 *4
4 Seasons 378 1550 -18 -1 2 18 10 11 1.2 48 60 5.9 .503 .502 3.7 3.1 42 $1,447,250

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 25 WSN NL NLDS STL L 5 19 15 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 7 .067 .176 .067 .243 1 0 0 2 0 0
1 NLDS 5 19 15 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 7 .067 .176 .067 .243 1 0 0 2 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 WSN NL 23 2B 25 23 23 211.1 131 57 74 0 20 1.000 -0 5 -2 28 5.58 5.24 .984 4.78 4.73
2010 WSN NL 23 SS 2 2 2 18.0 12 2 9 1 1 .917 1 0 67 0 5.50 5.50 .971 4.30 4.25
2011 WSN NL 24 2B 158 155 150 1393.0 783 305 464 14 101 .982 4 5 4 4 4.97 4.87 .985 4.76 4.75 RoY-6
2012 WSN NL 25 2B 126 119 111 1069.2 527 192 329 6 67 .989 10 3 12 3 4.38 4.13 .984 4.77 4.72
2012 WSN NL 25 SS 36 34 31 309.0 160 43 110 7 23 .956 6 4 25 16 4.46 4.25 .970 4.26 4.21
2013 WSN NL 26 2B 32 32 30 276.0 164 73 89 2 23 .988 5 1 20 4 5.28 5.06 .983 4.72 4.68
4 Seasons 2B 341 329 314 2950.0 1605 627 956 22 211 .986 19 14 8 5 4.83 4.64 .984 4.76 4.73
2 Seasons SS 38 36 33 327.0 172 45 119 8 24 .953 7 4 27 14 4.51 4.32 .970 4.26 4.21
4 Seasons TOT 379 365 347 3277.0 1777 672 1075 30 235 .983 27 18 10 6 4.80 4.61 .983 4.71 4.68
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

Games Played s c a p y
2011 NL  158 (9th)
2012 NL  160 (3rd)

Strikeouts s c a p y
2011 NL  166 (3rd)
2012 NL  189 (1st)

Hit By Pitch s c a p y
2011 NL  19 (1st)
2012 NL  13 (4th)

Power-Speed # s c a p y
2011 NL  18.8 (10th)

Outs Made s c a p y
2011 NL  459 (8th)
2012 NL  469 (7th)

Assists† s c a p y
2011 NL  464 (2nd)
2012 NL  439 (4th)

Total Zone Runs† s c a p y
2012 NL  17 (5th)

Def. Games as 2B s c a p y
2011 NL  158 (3rd)

Putouts as 2B s c a p y
2011 NL  305 (3rd)
2013 NL  73 (1st)

Assists as 2B s c a p y
2011 NL  464 (2nd)
2013 NL  89 (5th)

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
2011 NL  14 (3rd)

Double Plays Turned as 2B s c a p y
2011 NL  101 (2nd)
2013 NL  23 (3rd)

Total Zone Runs as 2B s c a p y
2011 NL  4 (5th)
2012 NL  10 (3rd)
2013 NL  5 (1st)
Active  19 (13th)
Career  19 (74th)

Range Factor/9Inn as 2B† s c a p y
2011 NL  4.97 (4th)
2013 NL  5.28 (2nd)

Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y
2011 NL  4.87 (3rd)
2013 NL  5.06 (1st)

Fielding % as 2B s c a p y
2011 NL  .982 (5th)
2012 NL  .989 (5th)
2013 NL  .988 (4th)

Total Zone Runs as SS s c a p y
2012 NL  6 (5th)

                                         

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray InkBatting - 2 (2175), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 2 (2170), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 5 (2224), Average HOFer ≈ 50
JAWS Second Base (249th), 6.1 career WAR/6.1 7yr-peak WAR/6.1 JAWS
Average HOF 2B (out of 19) = 69.5 career WAR/44.5 7yr-peak WAR/57.0 JAWS

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores
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  1. Jed Lowrie (965)
  2. Gary Alexander (957)
  3. Floyd Rayford (955)
  4. Luis Aguayo (947)
  5. Earl Averill (947)
  6. Geronimo Pena (942)
  7. Frank Menechino (939)
  8. Frank Parkinson (934)
  9. Carlos Santana (932)
  10. Lou Stringer (932)
Similar Batters through 25 
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  1. Dale Sveum (953)
  2. Bernie Allen (948)
  3. Frank Bolling (948)
  4. Dave Nilsson (947)
  5. Dick Green (946)
  6. Jose Castillo (946)
  7. Rickie Weeks (944)
  8. Todd Zeile (944)
  9. Jeff Blauser (944)
  10. Tony Bernazard (941)
Most Similar by Ages 
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  1. Scott Spiezio (954)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  2. Dale Sveum (953)  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
201124Washington Nationals$415,000
201225Washington Nationals$506,000contracts
201326Washington Nationals$526,250
2013 StatusPre-Arb Eligible, Earliest Arb Eligible: 2014, Earliest Free Agent: 2017
Career to date (may be incomplete)$1,447,250
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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