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David Freese

David Richard Freese (twitter: @dfreese23)

Position: Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 220 lb.

Born: April 28, 1983 in Corpus Christi, TX
High School: Lafayette HS (Wildwood, MO)
Schools: University of South Alabama (Mobile, AL), St. Louis Community College, Meramec Campus (Kirkwood, MO)
Drafted by the San Diego Padres in the 9th round of the 2006 amateur draft.
Signed June 12, 2006. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 6, 2009 (Age 25)
Team: Cardinals 2009-2012
2013 Contract Status: 1st-Year Arb Eligible, 1 yr/$3.15M (13) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2013): 3.028, Arb Eligible: 2014, Free Agent: 2016 [*], Agents: CAA Sports (Nez Balelo) [*]
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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 26 STL NL 17 34 31 3 10 2 0 1 7 0 0 2 7 .323 .353 .484 .837 121 15 1 0 0 1 0 /532
2010 27 STL NL 70 270 240 28 71 12 1 4 36 1 1 21 59 .296 .361 .404 .765 109 97 7 4 4 1 0 5/3
2011 28 STL NL 97 363 333 41 99 16 1 10 55 1 0 24 75 .297 .350 .441 .791 118 147 18 4 0 2 0 5/3
2012 29 STL NL 144 567 501 70 147 25 1 20 79 3 3 57 122 .293 .372 .467 .839 129 234 19 7 0 2 2 *5 AS
4 Yrs 328 1234 1105 142 327 55 3 35 177 5 4 104 263 .296 .363 .446 .809 121 493 45 15 4 6 2
162 Game Avg. 162 609 546 70 162 27 1 17 87 2 2 51 130 .296 .363 .446 .809 121 243 22 7 2 3 1

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
2009 26 STL NL 17 34 1 -0 -0 -1 -0 -1 -0.1 1 0 0.0 .495 .499 0.1 -0.1 1 $400,000 /532
2010 27 STL NL 70 270 3 0 -0 -5 1 -1 -0.1 7 6 0.6 .498 .499 1.1 -0.4 11 $400,000 5/3
2011 28 STL NL 97 363 8 -0 -2 -1 1 5 0.6 10 15 1.6 .506 .503 1.7 0.0 16 $416,000 5/3
2012 29 STL NL 144 567 20 -3 -2 2 2 18 2.0 16 34 3.6 .513 .512 3.2 0.5 32 $508,000 *5 AS
4 Seasons 328 1234 32 -4 -5 -5 3 21 2.4 34 55 5.8 .507 .503 6.1 -0.0 60 $1,724,000

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
2011 28 STL NL NLDS PHI W 5 18 18 1 5 2 0 1 5 0 0 0 9 .278 .278 .556 .833 10 0 0 0 0 0
2011 28 STL NL NLCS MIL W 6 25 22 7 12 3 0 3 9 0 0 2 2 .545 .600 1.091 1.691 24 2 1 0 0 0
2011 28 STL NL WS TEX W 7 28 23 4 8 3 1 1 7 0 0 5 3 .348 .464 .696 1.160 16 1 0 0 0 1
2012 29 STL NL NLWC ATL W 1 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 1 0
2012 29 STL NL NLDS WSN W 5 22 19 3 8 3 0 0 1 0 1 3 5 .421 .500 .579 1.079 11 0 0 0 0 1
2012 29 STL NL NLCS SFG L 7 27 26 2 5 2 0 1 2 0 0 1 7 .192 .222 .385 .607 10 1 0 0 0 0
2 Yrs (6 Series) 31 123 110 17 38 13 1 6 25 0 1 11 27 .345 .407 .645 1.052 71 4 1 0 1 2
1 NLWC 1 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 1 0
2 NLDS 10 40 37 4 13 5 0 1 6 0 1 3 14 .351 .400 .568 .968 21 0 0 0 0 1
2 NLCS 13 52 48 9 17 5 0 4 11 0 0 3 9 .354 .404 .708 1.112 34 3 1 0 0 0
1 WS 7 28 23 4 8 3 1 1 7 0 0 5 3 .348 .464 .696 1.160 16 1 0 0 0 1

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 PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO Awards
2009 STL NL 26 3B 7 5 2 41.1 11 6 5 0 1 1.000 0 -1 9 -29 2.40 1.57 .957 2.57 2.54
2009 STL NL 26 1B 3 0 0 4.0 7 7 0 0 1 1.000 0 0 60 0 15.75 2.33 .993 9.22 9.20
2009 STL NL 26 C 1 0 0 1.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 9.00 1.00 .990 8.10 7.70 0 0 1 0 0% 29% 0
2010 STL NL 27 3B 66 64 59 557.0 179 31 139 9 22 .950 4 -5 9 -11 2.75 2.58 .951 2.54 2.52
2010 STL NL 27 1B 1 0 0 3.0 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 80 0 9.00 3.00 .993 9.30 9.10
2011 STL NL 28 3B 88 87 39 674.0 204 33 159 12 23 .941 1 -1 2 -2 2.56 2.18 .954 2.53 2.53
2011 STL NL 28 1B 5 1 0 14.0 8 8 0 0 2 1.000 -0 0 -34 0 5.14 1.60 .994 9.32 9.32
2012 STL NL 29 3B 134 132 111 1153.2 354 77 259 18 29 .949 9 2 9 2 2.62 2.51 .952 2.45 2.42 AS
4 Seasons 3B 295 288 211 2426.0 748 147 562 39 75 .948 14 -5 7 -2 2.63 2.40 .952 2.50 2.48
3 Seasons 1B 9 1 0 21.0 18 18 0 0 3 1.000 0 0 0 0 7.71 2.00 .993 9.30 9.26
1 Season C 1 0 0 1.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 9.00 1.00 .990 8.10 7.70 0 0 1 0 0% 29% 0
4 Seasons TOT 305 289 211 2448.0 767 166 562 39 78 .949 14 -5 7 -2 2.68 2.39 .953 2.56 2.70 0 0 1 0 0% 29% 0
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 *

Awards (yr lg award)
2011 NL Babe Ruth Award
2011 NL NLCS MVP
2011 ML WS MVP

Double Plays Grounded Into s c a p y
2011 NL  18 (9th)
2012 NL  19 (2nd)

Errors Committed† s c a p y
2012 NL  18 (5th)

Putouts as 3B s c a p y
2012 NL  77 (3rd)

Assists as 3B s c a p y
2012 NL  259 (5th)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
2012 NL  18 (4th)

Double Plays Turned as 3B s c a p y
2011 NL  23 (1st)
2012 NL  29 (1st)
Active  75 (24th)

Total Zone Runs as 3B s c a p y
2010 NL  4 (5th)
2012 NL  9 (2nd)
Active  14 (15th)
Career  14 (83rd)

Range Factor/9Inn as 3B† s c a p y
2012 NL  2.62 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
2012 NL  2.51 (3rd)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
2012 NL  .949 (5th)

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 6 (1427), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 16 (1002), Average HOFer ≈ 50
JAWS Third Base (235th), 5.8 career WAR/5.8 7yr-peak WAR/5.8 JAWS
Average HOF 3B (out of 12) = 64.9 career WAR/41.8 7yr-peak WAR/53.4 JAWS

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores
Similar Batters 
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  1. Chris Johnson (957)
  2. Tex McDonald (957)
  3. Len Koenecke (937)
  4. Luis Gonzalez (928)
  5. Gene Green (927)
  6. Benny Agbayani (925)
  7. Brett Lawrie (925)
  8. Matt Murton (924)
  9. Dutch Zwilling (924)
  10. Armando Rios (922)
Similar Batters through 29 
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  1. Sean Berry (962)
  2. Elston Howard (953)
  3. Jeff Baker (952)
  4. Keith Moreland (942)
  5. Russ Wrightstone (942)
  6. Jackie Robinson (940) *
  7. Jay Payton (931)
  8. Gene Green (930)
  9. Ryan Spilborghs (929)
  10. Pedro Feliz (928)
* - Signifies Hall of Famer
Most Similar by Ages 
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  1. Spider Jorgensen (956)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  2. Sean Berry (962)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
* - Signifies Hall of Famer

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
200926St. Louis Cardinals$400,000
201027St. Louis Cardinals$400,000
201128St. Louis Cardinals$416,000
201229St. Louis Cardinals$508,000contracts
201330St. Louis Cardinals$3,150,000
Earliest Arb Eligible: 2014, Earliest Free Agent: 2016
Career to date (may be incomplete)$1,724,000Does 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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