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Joe Girardi

Joseph Elliott Girardi

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 195 lb.

Born: October 14, 1964 in Peoria, IL
High School: Spalding Catholic (Peoria, IL)
School: Northwestern University
Drafted by the Chicago Cubs in the 5th round of the 1986 amateur draft.
Signed June 5, 1986. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 4, 1989
Teams (by GP): Cubs/Yankees/Rockies/Cardinals 1989-2003
Agents: Alan Nero [*]
Final Game: September 28, 2003
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All-Time Rank (among Batters): #1560. Miguel Cairo… #1561. Otto Knabe… #1562. Ivy Olson… #1563. JOE GIRARDI… #1564. Bob Allen… #1565. Ollie Brown… #1566. Doc Casey…

All-Time Rank (among Batters): #1560. Miguel Cairo… #1561. Otto Knabe… #1562. Ivy Olson… #1563. JOE GIRARDI… #1564. Bob Allen… #1565. Ollie Brown… #1566. Doc Casey…

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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
1986	21	CHC-min	A	68	255	230	36	71	13	1	3	28	6	3	17	36	.309	.360	.413	.773		95		3	2	3	1	PEO · MIDW
1987	22	CHC-min	A	99	364	364		102	9	8	8						.280	.280	.415	.695		151						WSM · CARL
1988	23	CHC-min	AA	104	393	357	44	97	14	1	7	41	7	4	29	51	.272	.330	.375	.705		134		3	2	2	2	PFD · EL
1989	24	CHC-min	AAA	32	115	110	12	27	4	2	2	11	3	1	5	19	.245	.278	.373	.651		41		0	0	0	1	IWA · AA
1989	24	CHC	NL	59	172	157	15	39	10	0	1	14	2	1	11	26	.248	.304	.331	.635	76	52	4	2	1	1	5	2
1990	25	CHC	NL	133	447	419	36	113	24	2	1	38	8	3	17	50	.270	.300	.344	.644	72	144	13	3	4	4	11	*2
1991	26	CHC-min	AAA	12	41	36	3	8	1	0	0	4	2	0	4	8	.222	.300	.250	.550		9	1	0	1	0	0	IWA · AA
1991	26	CHC	NL	21	54	47	3	9	2	0	0	6	0	0	6	6	.191	.283	.234	.517	45	11	0	0	1	0	1	2
1992	27	CHC	NL	91	291	270	19	73	3	1	1	12	0	2	19	38	.270	.320	.300	.620	76	81	8	1	0	1	3	2
1993	28	COL-min	AAA	8	31	31	6	15	1	1	1	6	1	0	0	3	.484	.484	.677	1.161		21	0	0	0	0	0	CSP · PCL
1993	28	COL	NL	86	350	310	35	90	14	5	3	31	6	6	24	41	.290	.346	.397	.743	87	123	6	3	12	1	0	2
1994	29	COL	NL	93	361	330	47	91	9	4	4	34	3	3	21	48	.276	.321	.364	.685	68	120	13	2	6	2	1	*2
1995	30	COL	NL	125	506	462	63	121	17	2	8	55	3	3	29	76	.262	.308	.359	.667	58	166	15	2	12	1	0	*2
1996	31	NYY	AL	124	471	422	55	124	22	3	2	45	13	4	30	55	.294	.346	.374	.720	82	158	11	5	11	3	1	*2
1997	32	NYY	AL	112	433	398	38	105	23	1	1	50	2	3	26	53	.264	.311	.334	.645	69	133	15	2	5	2	1	*2
1998	33	NYY	AL	78	279	254	31	70	11	4	3	31	2	4	14	38	.276	.317	.386	.703	85	98	10	2	8	1	1	2
1999	34	NYY	AL	65	229	209	23	50	16	1	2	27	3	1	10	26	.239	.271	.354	.626	60	74	16	0	8	2	0	2
2000	35	CHC	NL	106	407	363	47	101	15	1	6	40	1	0	32	61	.278	.339	.375	.714	83	136	12	3	6	3	3	2	AS
2001	36	CHC	NL	78	253	229	22	58	10	1	3	25	0	1	21	50	.253	.315	.345	.660	75	79	2	0	2	1	4	2
2002	37	CHC	NL	90	256	234	19	53	10	1	1	13	1	0	16	35	.226	.275	.291	.565	51	68	10	0	5	1	3	2
2003	38	STL-min	AAA,AA,A	24	92	84	3	24	1	0	0	6	0	1	5	8	.286	.348	.298	.645		25	4	3	0	0	0	MEM,KNX,PEO · PCL,SOUL,MIDW
2003	38	STL	NL	16	26	23	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	4	.130	.231	.130	.361	-1	3	2	0	0	0	0	2
15 Seasons				1277	4535	4127	454	1100	186	26	36	422	44	31	279	607	.267	.315	.350	.666	72	1446	137	25	81	23	34
162 Game Avg.				162	575	524	58	140	24	3	5	54	6	4	35	77	.267	.315	.350	.666	72	183	17	3	10	3	4

CHC (7 yrs)				578	1880	1719	161	446	74	6	13	148	12	7	122	266	.259	.310	.332	.642	72	571	49	9	19	11	30
NYY (4 yrs)				379	1412	1283	147	349	72	9	8	153	20	12	80	172	.272	.317	.361	.678	75	463	52	9	32	8	3
COL (3 yrs)				304	1217	1102	145	302	40	11	15	120	12	12	74	165	.274	.323	.371	.694	69	409	34	7	30	4	1
STL (1 yr)				16	26	23	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	4	.130	.231	.130	.361	-1	3	2	0	0	0	0

NL (11 yrs)				898	3123	2844	307	751	114	17	28	269	24	19	199	435	.264	.314	.346	.660	70	983	85	16	49	15	31
AL (4 yrs)				379	1412	1283	147	349	72	9	8	153	20	12	80	172	.272	.317	.361	.678	75	463	52	9	32	8	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
1989	24	CHC	NL	172	-5	2	-1	-1	2	3	5	5	0.5	3	0.3	0.2	$68,000	2
1990	25	CHC	NL	447	-16	0	3	0	5	8	13	13	1.2	8	0.9	0.3	$115,000	*2
1991	26	CHC	NL	54	-3	0	1	0	-1	1	2	0	-0.1	1	0.1	-0.2	$225,000	2
1992	27	CHC	NL	291	-9	-1	0	0	-1	5	8	2	0.1	3	0.3	-0.2	$300,000	2
1993	28	COL	NL	350	-3	-2	3	-1	-3	5	10	9	0.9	12	1.2	-0.3	$670,000	2
1994	29	COL	NL	361	-14	0	6	-1	1	6	10	8	0.8	7	0.7	0.1	$1,000,000	*2
1995	30	COL	NL	506	-27	1	0	-1	-1	8	14	-6	-0.6	-5	-0.5	-0.1	$1,850,000	*2
1996	31	NYY	AL	471	-11	-1	-1	1	-6	7	16	5	0.6	11	1.1	-0.5	$2,325,000	*2
1997	32	NYY	AL	433	-17	-3	-2	-1	0	7	15	-1	0.0	-1	-0.1	0.1	$2,250,000	*2
1998	33	NYY	AL	279	-5	0	-1	0	0	5	10	9	0.9	9	0.9	0.0	$2,850,000	2
1999	34	NYY	AL	229	-15	1	-1	-3	-2	4	8	-8	-0.7	-6	-0.6	-0.1	$3,400,000	2
2000	35	CHC	NL	407	-10	0	0	-1	6	6	11	12	1.3	6	0.6	0.7	$2,000,000	2	AS
2001	36	CHC	NL	253	-8	0	1	1	5	4	7	10	1.0	5	0.5	0.5	$2,000,000	2
2002	37	CHC	NL	256	-18	-1	0	0	0	5	7	-7	-0.8	-7	-0.7	-0.1	$1,500,000	2
2003	38	STL	NL	26	-3	0	0	0	-1	0	1	-3	-0.3	-2	-0.2	-0.1	$725,000	2
15 Seasons				4535	-164	-4	8	-7	4	74	137	48	4.8	44	4.5	0.3	$21,278,000

CHC (7 yrs)				1880	-69	0	4	-1	16	32	53	35	3.2	19	2.0	1.2	$6,208,000
NYY (4 yrs)				1412	-48	-3	-5	-3	-8	23	49	5	0.8	13	1.3	-0.5	$10,825,000
COL (3 yrs)				1217	-44	-1	9	-3	-3	19	34	11	1.1	14	1.4	-0.3	$3,520,000
STL (1 yr)				26	-3	0	0	0	-1	0	1	-3	-0.3	-2	-0.2	-0.1	$725,000

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
1989	24	CHC	NL	NLCS	SFG	L	4	12	10	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.100	.182	.100	.282	1	1	0	1	0	0

1995	30	COL	NL	NLDS	ATL	L	4	16	16	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.125	.125	.125	.250	2	2	0	0	0	0
1996	31	NYY	AL	ALDS	TEX	W	4	13	9	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	1	.222	.462	.222	.684	2	0	0	0	0	0
1996	31	NYY	AL	ALCS	BAL	W	4	13	12	1	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	3	.250	.308	.417	.724	5	1	0	0	0	0
1996	31	NYY	AL	WS	ATL	W	4	12	10	1	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	2	.200	.273	.400	.673	4	0	0	1	0	0
1997	32	NYY	AL	ALDS	CLE	L	5	17	15	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.133	.188	.133	.321	2	3	0	1	0	0
1998	33	NYY	AL	ALDS	TEX	W	2	7	7	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.429	.429	.429	.857	3	0	0	0	0	0
1998	33	NYY	AL	ALCS	CLE	W	3	9	8	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.250	.333	.250	.583	2	0	0	0	0	0
1998	33	NYY	AL	WS	SDP	W	2	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
1999	34	NYY	AL	ALDS	TEX	W	2	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
1999	34	NYY	AL	ALCS	BOS	W	3	8	8	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.250	.250	.250	.500	2	0	0	0	0	0
1999	34	NYY	AL	WS	ATL	W	2	8	7	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.286	.286	.286	.571	2	0	0	1	0	0
6 Seasons (12 Series)							39	127	114	9	21	0	2	0	1	0	0	9	20	.184	.244	.219	.463	25	7	0	4	0	0
4 ALDS							13	43	37	3	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	6	.189	.286	.189	.475	7	3	0	1	0	0
1 NLDS							4	16	16	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.125	.125	.125	.250	2	2	0	0	0	0
1 NLCS							4	12	10	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.100	.182	.100	.282	1	1	0	1	0	0
3 ALCS							10	30	28	3	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	5	.250	.300	.321	.621	9	1	0	0	0	0
3 WS							8	26	23	2	4	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	5	.174	.208	.261	.469	6	0	0	2	0	0

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Adv Fielding w/ run summary

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rtot	Rdrs	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRFG	PB	SB	CS	CS%	Awards
1989	CHC	NL	24	C	59	367	332	28	7	1	.981	2		6.10	.986	6.68	5	36	22	38%
1990	CHC	NL	25	C	133	725	653	61	11	5	.985	5		5.37	.987	6.61	16	80	47	37%
1991	CHC	NL	26	C	21	109	95	11	3	1	.972	-1		5.05	.988	6.75	1	14	6	30%
1992	CHC	NL	27	C	86	424	369	51	4	6	.991	-1		4.88	.991	6.67	8	46	32	41%
1993	COL	NL	28	C	84	530	478	46	6	7	.989	-3		6.24	.989	6.69	2	64	29	31%
1994	COL	NL	29	C	93	610	549	56	5	8	.992	1		6.51	.991	7.05	3	61	32	34%
1995	COL	NL	30	C	122	801	730	61	10	7	.988	-1		6.48	.989	7.37	5	88	33	27%
1996	NYY	AL	31	C	120	852	803	46	3	8	.996	-6		7.08	.990	6.87	10	90	30	25%
1997	NYY	AL	32	C	111	889	830	54	5	11	.994	0		7.96	.991	7.09	11	71	37	34%
1998	NYY	AL	33	C	78	582	541	38	3	5	.995	0		7.42	.990	7.05	5	54	19	26%
1999	NYY	AL	34	C	65	494	452	34	8	5	.984	-2		7.48	.991	6.87	1	56	19	25%
2000	CHC	NL	35	C	103	754	706	43	5	5	.993	6		7.27	.990	7.38	3	63	38	38%	AS
2001	CHC	NL	36	C	71	537	504	33	0	2	1.000	5		7.56	.992	7.65	6	27	20	43%
2002	CHC	NL	37	C	88	603	554	43	6	6	.990	0		6.78	.991	7.47	6	45	20	31%
2003	STL	NL	38	C	13	24	23	0	1	0	.958	-1	-1	1.77	.992	7.26	0	3	0	0%
	15 Seasons			C	1247	8301	7619	605	77	77	.991	4	-1	6.60	.990	7.03	82	798	384	32%
	15 Seasons			TOT	1247	8301	7619	605	77	77	.991	4	-1	6.60	.990	7.03	82	798	384	32%

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

All-Star Games 2000	Awards (yr lg award) 2006 NL Mgr of the year	Sacrifice Hits s c a p y 1993 NL 12 (9th) 1995 NL 12 (5th) 1996 AL 11 (9th)	Double Plays Grounded Into s c a p y 1994 NL 13 (7th) 1995 NL 15 (9th)
Def. Games as C s c a p y 1990 NL 133 (2nd) 1995 NL 122 (1st) Career 1,247 (60th)	Putouts as C s c a p y 1990 NL 653 (4th) 1994 NL 549 (4th) 1995 NL 730 (2nd) 1996 AL 803 (3rd) 1997 AL 830 (2nd) Career 7,619 (31st)	Assists as C s c a p y 1990 NL 61 (2nd) 1994 NL 56 (3rd) 1995 NL 61 (3rd) 1996 AL 46 (4th) 1997 AL 54 (4th)	Errors Committed as C s c a p y 1990 NL 11 (3rd) 1994 NL 5 (3rd) 1995 NL 10 (2nd) 1999 AL 8 (3rd)
Passed Balls s c a p y 1990 NL 16 (1st) 1992 NL 8 (5th) 1996 AL 10 (2nd) 1997 AL 11 (3rd)	Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y 1994 NL 61 (4th) 1995 NL 88 (1st) 1996 AL 90 (3rd) Career 798 (58th)	Caught Stealing as C s c a p y 1990 NL 47 (1st) 1994 NL 32 (2nd) 1995 NL 33 (5th) 1997 AL 37 (4th) 2000 NL 38 (3rd)	Caught Stealing %† s c a p y 1990 NL 37.0 (4th) 1992 NL 41.0 (3rd) 2001 NL 42.6 (4th)
Total Zone Runs as C s c a p y 1990 NL 5 (3rd) 2000 NL 6 (4th) 2001 NL 5 (5th)	Range Factor/9Inn as C† s c a p y 1996 AL 7.85 (1st) 1997 AL 8.12 (2nd) 2000 NL 7.72 (4th) 2002 NL 8.73 (2nd)	Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y 1996 AL 7.08 (1st) 1997 AL 7.96 (1st) 2000 NL 7.27 (3rd) Career 6.60 (42nd)	Fielding % as C s c a p y 1996 AL .996 (2nd) Career .991 (67th)

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Hall of Fame Monitor	Batting - 24 (713), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame Standards	Batting - 23 (577), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores

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* - Signifies Hall of Famer

Transactions

June 2, 1986: Drafted by the Chicago Cubs in the 5th round of the 1986 amateur draft. Player signed June 5, 1986.
November 17, 1992: Drafted by the Colorado Rockies from the Chicago Cubs as the 19th pick in the 1992 expansion draft.
November 20, 1995: Traded by the Colorado Rockies to the New York Yankees for Mike DeJean.
November 5, 1996: Granted Free Agency.
December 3, 1996: Signed as a Free Agent with the New York Yankees.
November 5, 1999: Granted Free Agency.
December 15, 1999: Signed as a Free Agent with the Chicago Cubs.
October 28, 2002: Granted Free Agency.
December 18, 2002: Signed as a Free Agent with the St. Louis Cardinals.
October 26, 2003: Granted Free Agency.
February 4, 2004: Signed as a Free Agent with the New York Yankees.

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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
1989	24	Chicago Cubs	$68,000	1989 USA Today survey
1990	25	Chicago Cubs	$115,000	USA Today
1991	26	Chicago Cubs	$225,000	USA Today survey
1992	27	Chicago Cubs	$300,000	4/2/92 USA Today
1993	28	Colorado Rockies	$670,000	USA Today
1994	29	Colorado Rockies	$1,000,000	1996 Joint Exhibit 1
1995	30	Colorado Rockies	$1,850,000	1996 Joint Exhibit 1	Includes $100,000 earned bonus
1996	31	New York Yankees	$2,325,000	1997 Joint Exhibit 1	Includes $75,000 earned bonus
1997	32	New York Yankees	$2,250,000	1997 AP survey
1998	33	New York Yankees	$2,850,000	4/3/98 USA Today
1999	34	New York Yankees	$3,400,000	4/6/99 USA Today
2000	35	Chicago Cubs	$2,000,000	4/5/00 AP
2001	36	Chicago Cubs	$2,000,000	4/6/01 USA Today
2002	37	Chicago Cubs	$1,500,000	4/3/02 AP
2003	38	St. Louis Cardinals	$725,000	4/3/03 AP

Career to date (may be incomplete)			$21,278,000

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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Sum any set of rows by clicking anywhere (not red or blue) on the first and last rows of your selection. We will then compute the totals for the player between and including those two seasons.
Default Setting for this feature: Turn On / Turn Off
Summation of season totals only works for the initial case when the table is in year order. On a sorted table the results may get a bit goofy.

HIGHLIGHTING: Adding a range or series of player's career seasons or career game numbers (like '#1972:batting_standard', '#1970-1980-sum:batting_standard', or '#1998,1999,2001,2002,sum:pitching_standard') onto the end of a player page url causes the seasons to the highlighted and summed. After changing address bar, reload the page to see highlighting. This will work even in links e-mailed to others. Note that for tables with multiple pages the first table is the default. If you want to create a sum for a table other than the first one, select the rows and after the summation window appears click on "permanent link" link.

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Total Zone Rating and Wins above Replacement calculations provided by Sean Smith of BaseballProjection.com.

Full-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of 24-7 Baseball.

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