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Alex Gordon

Alex Jonathan Gordon

Positions: Third Baseman, Leftfielder and First Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 220 lb.

Born: February 10, 1984 in Lincoln, NE
High School: Southeast (Lincoln, NE)
School: University of Nebraska
Drafted by the Kansas City Royals in the 1st round (2nd pick) of the 2005 amateur draft.
Signed September 29, 2005. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 2, 2007
Team: Royals 2007-2011
2012 Contract Status: 3rd-Year Arb Eligible (Super 2), 1 yr/$1.4M (11) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 4.092, Arb Eligible: 2012, Free Agent: 2014 [*], Agents: Casey Close, previously: Damon Thames [*]
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Fine Details  · Last Updated Feb 7, 2012, 8:06PM
All-Time Rank (among Batters): #1101. Willie Upshaw… #1102. Brett Gardner… #1103. Johnny Edwards… #1104. ALEX GORDON… #1105. Ronnie Belliard… #1106. Gary Pettis… #1107. Hank Severeid… 

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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
2007 23 KCR AL 151 600 543 60 134 36 4 15 60 14 4 41 137 .247 .314 .411 .725 90 223 12 13 1 2 4 *53/6
2008 24 KCR AL 134 571 493 72 128 35 1 16 59 9 2 66 120 .260 .351 .432 .783 109 213 8 6 1 5 5 *5
2009 25 KCR AL 49 189 164 28 38 6 0 6 22 5 0 21 43 .232 .324 .378 .703 87 62 5 2 1 1 0 5
2010 26 KCR AL 74 281 242 34 52 10 0 8 20 1 5 34 62 .215 .315 .355 .671 84 86 9 2 2 1 1 5/3
2011 27 KCR AL 151 688 611 101 185 45 4 23 87 17 8 67 139 .303 .376 .502 .879 140 307 9 7 0 3 2 *7/3 MVP-21,GG
5 Seasons 559 2329 2053 295 537 132 9 68 248 46 19 229 501 .262 .343 .434 .777 108 891 43 30 5 12 12
162 Game Avg. 162 675 595 85 156 38 3 20 72 13 6 66 145 .262 .343 .434 .777 108 258 12 9 1 3 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
2007 23 KCR AL 601 -11 0 -3 0 -0 1 21 8 0.8 8 0.8 0.0 $380,000 *53/6
2008 24 KCR AL 571 7 3 -1 0 1 2 19 31 3.1 30 3.0 0.1 $406,000 *5
2009 25 KCR AL 189 -3 1 -0 0 -4 1 7 2 0.2 6 0.6 -0.4 $457,000 5
2010 26 KCR AL 281 -5 -3 1 -2 -1 -3 10 -3 -0.3 -2 -0.3 0.0 $1,150,000 5/3
2011 27 KCR AL 690 36 -1 1 -0 9 -7 23 60 5.9 51 5.1 0.8 $1,400,000 *7/3 MVP-21,GG
5 Seasons 2332 24 0 -2 -2 5 -6 80 97 9.7 93 9.2 0.5 $3,793,000

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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
2007 KCR AL 23 3B 137 360 99 247 14 22 .961 -3 5 2.53 .957 2.60
2007 KCR AL 23 1B 32 141 132 8 1 16 .993 2 2 4.38 .995 9.27
2007 KCR AL 23 SS 1 3 2 1 0 0 1.000 0 0 3.00 .970 4.40
2008 KCR AL 24 3B 133 358 112 230 16 21 .955 1 -9 2.57 .958 2.71
2008 KCR AL 24 DH 1 1
2009 KCR AL 25 3B 49 125 21 94 10 8 .920 -4 -3 2.35 .957 2.65
2010 KCR AL 26 OF 58 142 137 2 3 1 .979 2 4 2.40 .986 2.28
2010 KCR AL 26 3B 10 17 3 10 4 0 .765 -3 -6 1.30 .956 2.61
2010 KCR AL 26 1B 1 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 1.00 .990 9.20
2010 KCR AL 26 LF 55 55 53 486.1 136 132 2 2 1 .985 4 6 10 15 2.48 2.44 .983 2.07 2.05
2010 KCR AL 26 RF 3 3 3 25.0 6 5 0 1 0 .833 -2 -2 -77 -96 1.80 1.67 .983 2.09 2.07
2010 KCR AL 26 DH 2 1
2011 KCR AL 27 LF 148 147 140 1309.0 335 312 20 3 2 .991 10 4 9 4 2.28 2.24 .982 2.13 2.11 MVP-21,GG
2011 KCR AL 27 OF 148 147 140 1309.0 335 312 20 3 2 .991 10 4 9 3 2.28 2.24 .986 2.28 2.26 MVP-21,GG
2011 KCR AL 27 1B 7 2 2 23.0 28 24 3 1 3 .964 -1 -1 -66 -52 10.57 3.86 .993 9.31 9.24 MVP-21,GG
4 Seasons 3B 329 860 235 581 44 51 .949 -9 -13 2.48 .957 2.65
2 Seasons OF 206 147 140 1309.0 477 449 22 6 3 .987 12 8 11 5 2.28 2.29 .986 2.28 2.27
2 Seasons LF 203 202 193 1795.1 471 444 22 5 3 .989 14 10 9 6 2.34 2.30 .982 2.11 2.09
3 Seasons 1B 40 2 2 23.0 170 157 11 2 19 .988 1 1 64 52 10.57 4.20 .995 9.31 9.26
1 Season RF 3 3 3 25.0 6 5 0 1 0 .833 -2 -2 -77 -96 1.80 1.67 .983 2.09 2.07
1 Season SS 1 3 2 1 0 0 1.000 0 0 3.00 .970 4.40
5 Seasons TOT 576 149 142 1332.0 1510 843 615 52 73 .966 5 4 4 3 2.43 2.53 .971 2.40 2.98
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

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
2011 AL (21, 1%)
0.01 Career Shares (1498th)

Gold Gloves
2011 AL (LF)

WAR Position Players† s c a p y
2011 AL  5.9 (7th)

Offensive WAR† s c a p y
2011 AL  5.1 (10th)

Batting Average s c a p y
2011 AL  .303 (10th)

Runs Scored s c a p y
2011 AL  101 (10th)

Hits s c a p y
2011 AL  185 (8th)

Total Bases s c a p y
2011 AL  307 (8th)

Doubles s c a p y
2011 AL  45 (6th)

Strikeouts s c a p y
2007 AL  137 (8th)
2011 AL  139 (8th)

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
2011 AL  140 (8th)

Runs Created s c a p y
2011 AL  118 (7th)

Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y
2011 AL  36 (8th)

Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y
2011 AL  3.5 (8th)

Extra Base Hits s c a p y
2011 AL  72 (6th)

Times On Base s c a p y
2011 AL  259 (7th)

Offensive Win % s c a p y
2011 AL  .687 (8th)

Hit By Pitch s c a p y
2007 AL  13 (8th)

Power-Speed # s c a p y
2011 AL  19.6 (8th)

Base-Out Runs Added (RE24)† s c a p y
2011 AL  36.90 (9th)

Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y
2011 AL  3.7 (6th)

Situ. Wins Added (WPA/LI)† s c a p y
2011 AL  3.6 (8th)

Base-Out Wins Added (REW)† s c a p y
2011 AL  3.6 (8th)

Def. Games as 3B s c a p y
2008 AL  133 (2nd)

Putouts as 3B s c a p y
2007 AL  99 (4th)
2008 AL  112 (1st)

Assists as 3B s c a p y
2008 AL  230 (4th)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
2007 AL  14 (4th)
2008 AL  16 (2nd)

Assists as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
Active  22 (16th)

Assists as OF s c a p y
2011 AL  20 (1st)

Range Factor/9Inn as 3B† s c a p y
2007 AL  2.74 (5th)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
2007 AL  2.53 (5th)

Total Zone Runs as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
Active  14 (16th)
Career  14 (93rd)

Range Factor/9Inn as LF (s.1954)† s c a p y
2011 AL  2.28 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
2011 AL  2.24 (1st)

Fielding % as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
2011 AL  .991 (1st)

             

† Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1950-1973, 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 (·)

Gray InkBatting - 12 (1289), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 10 (1152), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 10 (1590), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores
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  1. Ryan Church (960)
  2. Jody Gerut (958)
  3. Jeremy Hermida (955)
  4. Junior Felix (952)
  5. Buster Adams (949)
  6. Herbert Perry (947)
  7. Johnny Rizzo (946)
  8. Adam Jones (946)
  9. Rocco Baldelli (945)
  10. Rob Mackowiak (943)
Similar Batters through 27 
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  1. Eric Hinske (976)
  2. Larry Hisle (965)
  3. Milton Bradley (962)
  4. Ray Lankford (962)
  5. Nate McLouth (961)
  6. Dave Henderson (960)
  7. Bernie Carbo (957)
  8. Gabe Kapler (957)
  9. Mike Davis (957)
  10. Jeremy Hermida (955)
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  1. Bill Sudakis (966)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  2. Joe Foy (969)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  3. Howard Johnson (966)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  4. Darnell Coles (977)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  5. Eric Hinske (976)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

Transactions

  • June 7, 2005: Drafted by the Kansas City Royals in the 1st round (2nd pick) of the 2005 amateur draft. Player signed September 29, 2005.
The transaction information used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. We attempt to update transactions throughout the season.

Salaries

Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses
Year Age Team Salary Sources Notes
200723Kansas City Royals$380,000
200824Kansas City Royals$406,000
200925Kansas City Royals$457,000
201026Kansas City Royals$1,150,000
201127Kansas City Royals$1,400,000
2012 Statusnot updated,
Career to date (may be incomplete)$3,793,000
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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