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Mike Fontenot

Michael Eugene Fontenot

Positions: Second Baseman, Pinch Hitter and Third Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 8", Weight: 165 lb.

Born: June 9, 1980 in Slidell, LA
High School: Salmen (Slidell, LA)
School: Louisiana State University
Drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in the 1st round (19th pick) of the 2001 amateur draft.
Signed September 5, 2001. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 13, 2005
Teams (by GP): Cubs/Giants 2005-2011
2012 Contract Status: 3rd-Year Arb Eligible (Super 2), 1 yr/$1.05M (11), 1 yr/$1.05M (12) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 4.139, Arb Eligible: 2013, Free Agent: 2014 [*],
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Fine Details  · Last Updated Feb 9, 2012, 9:08AM
All-Time Rank (among Batters): #1. Babe Ruth… #2. Willie Mays… #3. Ted Williams… #4. Ty Cobb… #5. Lou Gehrig… #6. Rogers Hornsby… #7. Stan Musial… 

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
2005 25 CHC NL 7 5 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 .000 .600 .000 .600 74 0 0 1 0 0 0
2007 27 CHC NL 86 260 234 32 65 12 4 3 29 5 4 22 43 .278 .336 .402 .738 86 94 5 0 1 3 0 4/6
2008 28 CHC NL 119 284 243 42 74 22 1 9 40 2 0 34 51 .305 .395 .514 .909 130 125 1 3 3 1 2 4/6
2009 29 CHC NL 135 419 377 38 89 22 2 9 43 4 1 35 83 .236 .301 .377 .677 73 142 7 2 0 5 4 45
2010 30 TOT NL 103 261 240 24 68 13 3 1 25 1 4 15 41 .283 .331 .375 .706 89 90 3 3 1 2 0 45/6
2010 30 CHC NL 75 185 169 14 48 11 3 1 20 1 2 10 28 .284 .332 .402 .734 94 68 3 3 1 2 0 45/6
2010 30 SFG NL 28 76 71 10 20 2 0 0 5 0 2 5 13 .282 .329 .310 .639 76 22 0 0 0 0 0 4/56
2011 31 SFG NL 85 252 220 22 50 15 3 4 21 5 1 25 48 .227 .304 .377 .681 92 83 3 1 2 4 3 64/5
6 Seasons 535 1481 1316 162 346 84 13 26 158 17 10 133 266 .263 .332 .406 .738 92 534 19 10 7 15 9
162 Game Avg. 162 448 398 49 105 25 4 8 48 5 3 40 81 .263 .332 .406 .738 92 162 6 3 2 5 3
CHC (5 yrs) 422 1153 1025 130 276 67 10 22 132 12 7 103 205 .269 .338 .419 .757 93 429 16 9 5 11 6
SFG (2 yrs) 113 328 291 32 70 17 3 4 26 5 3 30 61 .241 .310 .361 .671 88 105 3 1 2 4 3

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.
Year Age Tm Lg PA Rbat Rbaser Rroe Rdp Rfield Rpos Rrep RAR WAR oRAR oWAR dWAR Salary Pos Awards
2005 25 CHC NL 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0.0 $
2007 27 CHC NL 260 -3 1 -2 0 -3 1 7 0 0.0 4 0.4 -0.4 $ 4/6
2008 28 CHC NL 284 14 1 1 2 2 1 8 29 3.0 27 2.8 0.2 $405,000 4/6
2009 29 CHC NL 419 -15 -1 2 1 -2 2 12 -1 -0.1 0 0.0 -0.1 $430,000 45
2010 30 CHC NL 185 -2 -2 0 0 -3 1 5 -2 -0.2 2 0.2 -0.4 $1,000,000 45/6
2010 30 SFG NL 76 -3 -0 0 0 -4 0 2 -5 -0.5 -0 0.0 -0.5 $ 4/56
2011 31 SFG NL 252 -2 1 -2 1 0 2 7 8 0.8 7 0.8 0.0 $1,050,000 64/5
6 Seasons 1481 -11 -1 -1 4 -11 7 41 29 3.0 40 4.2 -1.2 $2,885,000
CHC (5 yrs) 1153 -6 -1 0 3 -7 5 32 26 2.7 33 3.4 -0.7 $1,835,000
SFG (2 yrs) 328 -4 0 -2 1 -4 2 9 3 0.3 7 0.8 -0.5 $1,050,000

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
2007 27 CHC NL NLDS ARI L 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0
2008 28 CHC NL NLDS LAD L 3 6 6 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .333 .333 .333 .667 2 0 0 0 0 0
2010 30 SFG NL NLDS ATL W 3 6 6 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 .167 .167 .500 .667 3 0 0 0 0 0
2010 30 SFG NL NLCS PHI W 4 9 8 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 .250 .333 .250 .583 2 0 0 0 0 0
2010 30 SFG NL WS TEX W 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Seasons (5 Series) 13 23 22 1 5 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 5 .227 .261 .318 .579 7 0 0 0 0 0
3 NLDS 8 14 14 1 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 .214 .214 .357 .571 5 0 0 0 0 0
1 NLCS 4 9 8 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 .250 .333 .250 .583 2 0 0 0 0 0
1 WS 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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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
2007 CHC NL 27 2B 62 246 112 128 6 33 .976 -2 0 3.87 .984 4.84
2007 CHC NL 27 SS 3 4 2 0 2 0 .500 -2 -2 0.67 .975 4.43
2008 CHC NL 28 2B 82 245 101 143 1 27 .996 2 8 2.98 .982 4.80
2008 CHC NL 28 SS 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 4.40
2009 CHC NL 29 2B 70 264 112 149 3 36 .989 -2 0 3.73 .984 4.82
2009 CHC NL 29 3B 50 107 26 77 4 7 .963 1 -1 2.06 .957 2.55
2010 TOT NL 30 2B 49 38 32 348.2 187 85 96 6 21 .968 -5 -6 -18 -20 4.67 3.69 .984 43.05 4.73
2010 TOT NL 30 3B 19 10 6 94.2 28 4 22 2 2 .929 -0 -3 -1 -38 2.47 1.37 .951 50.06 2.52
2010 TOT NL 30 SS 9 7 4 61.0 28 11 16 1 2 .964 -3 -4 -53 -78 3.98 3.00 .971 0.00 4.27
2010 CHC NL 30 2B 33 29 23 251.2 130 62 64 4 16 .969 -2 -3 -10 -14 4.51 3.82 .984 43.05 4.73
2010 CHC NL 30 3B 13 7 5 68.0 22 3 17 2 1 .909 -0 -3 -9 -53 2.65 1.54 .951 50.04 2.52
2010 CHC NL 30 SS 4 4 2 32.0 16 7 9 0 2 1.000 -1 -2 -34 -75 4.50 4.00 .971 0.00 4.28
2010 SFG NL 30 2B 16 9 9 97.0 57 23 32 2 5 .965 -3 -3 -38 -37 5.10 3.44 .984 43.04 4.73
2010 SFG NL 30 3B 6 3 1 26.2 6 1 5 0 1 1.000 0 0 18 0 2.02 1.00 .952 50.12 2.52
2010 SFG NL 30 SS 5 3 2 29.0 12 4 7 1 0 .917 -2 -2 -74 -83 3.41 2.20 .971 0.00 4.26
2011 SFG NL 31 SS 37 33 21 284.0 126 38 84 4 18 .968 1 3 4 13 3.87 3.30 .971 4.41 4.40
2011 SFG NL 31 2B 23 16 12 155.2 82 32 47 3 7 .963 -1 -3 -5 -23 4.57 3.43 .985 4.76 4.75
2011 SFG NL 31 3B 8 1 1 30.0 6 0 6 0 1 1.000 -0 0 -6 0 1.80 0.75 .953 2.52 2.52
5 Seasons 2B 286 54 44 504.1 1024 442 563 19 124 .981 -8 -1 -19 -2 4.64 3.51 .984 31.23 4.80
3 Seasons 3B 77 11 7 124.2 141 30 105 6 10 .957 1 -4 6 -38 2.31 1.75 .956 38.62 2.54
4 Seasons SS 50 40 25 345.0 158 51 100 7 20 .956 -3 -3 -12 -10 3.89 3.02 .971 3.63 4.38
6 Seasons TOT 413 105 76 974.0 1323 523 768 32 154 .976 -11 -8 -13 -9 4.07 3.13 .979 22.40 4.33
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-1950 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1950 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 1950 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 1919 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1950 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1919) 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 1950 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

Fielding % as 2B s c a p y
2008 NL  .996 (1st)

                                         

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 4 (1725), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 7 (1931), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores
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  1. Brendan Harris (960)
  2. Warren Morris (957)
  3. Geronimo Pena (955)
  4. Gordon Beckham (947)
  5. Bret Barberie (947)
  6. Dib Williams (945)
  7. Benny McCoy (944)
  8. Craig Shipley (943)
  9. Fred Manrique (941)
  10. Neil Walker (941)
Similar Batters through 31 
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  1. Tony Graffanino (970)
  2. Ramon Martinez (968)
  3. Gene Baker (956)
  4. Marco Scutaro (952)
  5. Dave Berg (950)
  6. Randy Velarde (948)
  7. Bill Rigney (948)
  8. Dave Engle (945)
  9. Art Howe (943)
  10. Chris Woodward (941)
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  1. Ramon Martinez (972)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  2. Ramon Martinez (974)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  3. Tony Graffanino (970)  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
200828Chicago Cubs$405,000
200929Chicago Cubs$430,000
201030Chicago Cubs$1,000,000
201131San Francisco Giants$1,050,000
201232San Francisco Giants$1,050,000
Career to date (may be incomplete)$2,885,000Does 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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