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Josh Hamilton

Joshua Holt Hamilton

Position: Outfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 4", Weight: 240 lb.

Born: May 21, 1981 in Raleigh, NC
High School: Athens Drive (Raleigh, NC)
Drafted by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in the 1st round (1st pick) of the 1999 amateur draft.
Signed June 3, 1999. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 2, 2007
Teams (by GP): Rangers/Reds 2007-2011
2012 Contract Status: 3rd-Year Arb Eligible, 2 yrs/$24M (11-12) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 5.000, Free Agent: 2013 [*], Agents: Michael Moye, previously: Casey Close,Matt Sosnick,Paul Cobbe [*]
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Fine Details  · Last Updated Feb 9, 2012, 12:08AM
All-Time Rank (among Batters): #278. George Kell… #279. Herman Long… #280. Ken Williams… #281. JOSH HAMILTON… #282. Bid McPhee… #283. Andres Galarraga… #284. Ken Singleton… 

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
2007 26 CIN NL 90 337 298 52 87 17 2 19 47 3 3 33 65 .292 .368 .554 .922 131 165 6 4 0 2 4
2008 27 TEX AL 156 704 624 98 190 35 5 32 130 9 1 64 126 .304 .371 .530 .901 135 331 8 7 0 9 9 * AS,MVP-7,SS
2009 28 TEX AL 89 365 336 43 90 19 2 10 54 8 3 24 79 .268 .315 .426 .741 90 143 5 1 0 4 2 AS
2010 29 TEX AL 133 571 518 95 186 40 3 32 100 8 1 43 95 .359 .411 .633 1.044 171 328 11 5 1 4 5 * AS,MVP-1,SS
2011 30 TEX AL 121 538 487 80 145 31 5 25 94 8 1 39 93 .298 .346 .536 .882 128 261 8 2 0 10 13 *78/D AS,MVP-22
5 Seasons 589 2515 2263 368 698 142 17 118 425 36 9 203 458 .308 .366 .543 .909 134 1228 38 19 1 29 33
162 Game Avg. 162 692 622 101 192 39 5 32 117 10 2 56 126 .308 .366 .543 .909 134 338 10 5 0 8 9
TEX (4 yrs) 499 2178 1965 316 611 125 15 99 378 33 6 170 393 .311 .366 .541 .907 135 1063 32 15 1 27 29
CIN (1 yr) 90 337 298 52 87 17 2 19 47 3 3 33 65 .292 .368 .554 .922 131 165 6 4 0 2 4
AL (4 yrs) 499 2178 1965 316 611 125 15 99 378 33 6 170 393 .311 .366 .541 .907 135 1063 32 15 1 27 29
NL (1 yr) 90 337 298 52 87 17 2 19 47 3 3 33 65 .292 .368 .554 .922 131 165 6 4 0 2 4

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 26 CIN NL 337 11 1 0 0 5 0 10 27 2.7 22 2.2 0.5 $380,000
2008 27 TEX AL 704 31 2 0 3 -3 -1 22 54 5.4 57 5.7 -0.3 $396,830 * AS,MVP-7,SS
2009 28 TEX AL 365 -5 0 -1 2 8 -1 13 16 1.5 7 0.7 0.8 $555,000 AS
2010 29 TEX AL 571 54 4 0 3 -2 -5 19 73 7.0 75 7.2 -0.2 $3,250,000 * AS,MVP-1,SS
2011 30 TEX AL 538 19 0 1 2 2 -4 18 38 3.6 36 3.4 0.2 $8,750,000 *78/D AS,MVP-22
5 Seasons 2515 110 7 0 9 11 -12 82 208 20.2 198 19.2 1.0 $13,331,830
TEX (4 yrs) 2178 99 6 0 9 5 -12 72 181 17.5 176 17.0 0.5 $12,951,830
CIN (1 yr) 337 11 1 0 0 5 0 10 27 2.7 22 2.2 0.5 $380,000

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
2010 29 TEX AL ALDS TBR W 5 20 18 1 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 6 .111 .200 .111 .311 2 0 0 0 0 0
2010 29 TEX AL ALCS NYY W 6 28 20 6 7 1 0 4 7 3 0 8 4 .350 .536 1.000 1.536 20 1 0 0 0 5
2010 29 TEX AL WS SFG L 5 21 20 2 2 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 3 .100 .143 .250 .393 5 1 0 0 0 0
2011 30 TEX AL ALDS TBR W 4 16 15 1 4 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 .267 .313 .333 .646 5 0 0 0 0 1
2011 30 TEX AL ALCS DET W 6 29 26 4 8 4 0 0 5 0 0 1 4 .308 .310 .462 .772 12 0 0 0 2 1
2011 30 TEX AL WS STL L 7 31 29 4 7 2 0 1 6 0 0 1 4 .241 .258 .414 .672 12 1 0 0 1 0
2 Seasons (6 Series) 33 145 128 18 30 8 0 6 22 4 1 14 21 .234 .303 .438 .741 56 3 0 0 3 7
2 ALDS 9 36 33 2 6 1 0 0 3 1 0 3 6 .182 .250 .212 .462 7 0 0 0 0 1
2 ALCS 12 57 46 10 15 5 0 4 12 3 0 9 8 .326 .421 .696 1.117 32 1 0 0 2 6
2 WS 12 52 49 6 9 2 0 2 7 0 1 2 7 .184 .212 .347 .558 17 2 0 0 1 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
2007 CIN NL 26 OF 84 211 200 7 4 2 .981 5 2 2.46 .984 2.29
2007 CIN NL 26 CF 71 64 54 555.2 178 168 6 4 2 .978 3 1 7 2 2.82 2.45 .987 2.71 2.70
2007 CIN NL 26 RF 10 9 9 81.0 28 27 1 0 0 1.000 3 2 44 30 3.11 2.80 .981 2.18 2.17
2007 CIN NL 26 LF 9 2 2 27.0 5 5 0 0 0 1.000 -1 -1 -44 -44 1.67 0.56 .984 2.00 1.99
2008 TEX AL 27 OF 141 358 345 7 6 5 .983 -3 -3 2.50 .986 2.28 AS,MVP-7,SS
2008 TEX AL 27 CF 111 107 91 912.0 276 268 3 5 3 .982 -1 -5 -1 -7 2.67 2.44 .989 2.71 2.69 AS,MVP-7,SS
2008 TEX AL 27 RF 34 33 28 289.0 82 77 4 1 2 .988 -2 2 -8 8 2.52 2.38 .985 2.15 2.13 AS,MVP-7,SS
2008 TEX AL 27 DH 15 15 AS,MVP-7,SS
2009 TEX AL 28 OF 79 190 185 4 1 1 .995 8 8 2.39 .987 2.30 AS
2009 TEX AL 28 CF 56 55 50 472.2 134 132 2 0 1 1.000 7 9 18 23 2.55 2.39 .992 2.73 2.70 AS
2009 TEX AL 28 RF 24 24 23 210.0 56 53 2 1 0 .982 1 -1 7 -6 2.36 2.29 .982 2.13 2.10 AS
2009 TEX AL 28 DH 6 6 AS
2010 TEX AL 29 OF 119 267 254 9 4 2 .985 -2 7 2.21 .986 2.28 AS,MVP-1,SS
2010 TEX AL 29 LF 92 87 72 772.2 190 179 7 4 1 .979 -4 3 -6 5 2.17 2.02 .983 2.07 2.05 AS,MVP-1,SS
2010 TEX AL 29 CF 40 29 24 262.0 77 75 2 0 1 1.000 2 4 8 18 2.65 1.93 .990 2.73 2.71 AS,MVP-1,SS
2010 TEX AL 29 DH 13 13 AS,MVP-1,SS
2011 TEX AL 30 OF 112 111 91 968.0 234 224 5 5 1 .979 2 3 2 3 2.13 2.04 .986 2.28 2.26 AS,MVP-22
2011 TEX AL 30 LF 85 81 67 709.0 161 153 4 4 1 .975 4 4 7 7 1.99 1.85 .982 2.13 2.11 AS,MVP-22
2011 TEX AL 30 CF 35 30 24 259.0 73 71 1 1 0 .986 -3 -1 -12 -5 2.50 2.06 .990 2.61 2.59 AS,MVP-22
2011 TEX AL 30 DH 9 9 AS,MVP-22
5 Seasons OF 535 111 91 968.0 1260 1208 32 20 11 .984 10 17 13 4 2.13 2.32 .986 2.28 2.28
5 Seasons CF 313 285 243 2461.1 738 714 14 10 7 .986 9 8 4 3 2.66 2.33 .989 2.71 2.69
3 Seasons LF 186 170 141 1508.2 356 337 11 8 2 .978 -1 6 -0 4 2.08 1.87 .983 2.10 2.07
3 Seasons RF 68 66 60 580.0 166 157 7 2 2 .988 2 3 5 6 2.54 2.41 .983 2.15 2.12
5 Seasons TOT 535 111 91 968.0 1260 1208 32 20 11 .984 10 34 13 42 2.13 2.32 .986 2.28 2.28
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

All-Star Games
2008 (CF)
2009 (CF)
2010 (CF)
2011 (LF)

Awards (yr lg award)
2010 AL ALCS MVP
2010 ML Major League Player of the Year
2010 AL MVP

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
2008 AL (7, 28%)
2010 AL (1, 91%)
2011 AL (22, 0%)
1 MVP
1.20 Career Shares (197th)

Silver Sluggers
2008 AL (OF)
2010 AL (OF)
All multiple winners

Wins Above Replacement† s c a p y
2008 AL  5.4 (8th)
2010 AL  7.0 (3rd)

WAR Position Players† s c a p y
2008 AL  5.4 (4th)
2010 AL  7.0 (3rd)

Offensive WAR† s c a p y
2008 AL  5.7 (3rd)
2010 AL  7.2 (2nd)

Batting Average s c a p y
2010 AL  .359 (1st)

On-Base% s c a p y
2010 AL  .411 (2nd)

Slugging % s c a p y
2008 AL  .530 (9th)
2010 AL  .633 (1st)
2011 AL  .536 (8th)

On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y
2008 AL  .901 (6th)
2010 AL  1.044 (1st)

At Bats s c a p y
2008 AL  624 (10th)

Plate Appearances s c a p y
2008 AL  704 (9th)

Hits s c a p y
2008 AL  190 (4th)
2010 AL  186 (6th)

Total Bases s c a p y
2008 AL  331 (1st)
2010 AL  328 (4th)

Home Runs s c a p y
2008 AL  32 (8th)
2010 AL  32 (5th)

Runs Batted In s c a p y
2008 AL  130 (1st)

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
2008 AL  134 (7th)
2010 AL  173 (2nd)

Runs Created s c a p y
2008 AL  128 (2nd)
2010 AL  134 (3rd)

Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y
2008 AL  31 (10th)
2010 AL  53 (3rd)
Active  110 (49th)

Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y
2008 AL  2.9 (10th)
2010 AL  5.1 (3rd)
Active  10.4 (49th)

Extra Base Hits s c a p y
2008 AL  72 (8th)
2010 AL  75 (5th)

Times On Base s c a p y
2008 AL  261 (7th)

Offensive Win % s c a p y
2008 AL  .684 (6th)
2010 AL  .808 (1st)

Sacrifice Flies s c a p y
2008 AL  9 (3rd)
2011 AL  10 (3rd)

Intentional Bases on Balls s c a p y
2008 AL  9 (10th)
2011 AL  13 (6th)

AB per HR s c a p y
2010 AL  16.2 (4th)

Base-Out Runs Added (RE24)† s c a p y
2008 AL  42.27 (5th)
2010 AL  57.68 (2nd)
Active  145.61 (46th)

Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y
2008 AL  3.6 (8th)
2010 AL  6.3 (2nd)
2011 AL  4.8 (4th)
Active  15.6 (38th)
Career  15.6 (234th)

Situ. Wins Added (WPA/LI)† s c a p y
2008 AL  3.6 (4th)
2010 AL  5.3 (3rd)
2011 AL  3.4 (9th)
Active  13.1 (45th)

Base-Out Wins Added (REW)† s c a p y
2008 AL  3.9 (4th)
2010 AL  5.3 (2nd)
Active  13.4 (46th)

Range Factor/9Inn as LF (s.1954)† s c a p y
2010 AL  2.17 (5th)
2011 AL  1.99 (5th)

Range Factor/Game as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
2010 AL  2.02 (5th)

Range Factor/Game as OF s c a p y
Active  2.32 (17th)

                           

† 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 (·)

Black InkBatting - 11 (216), Average HOFer ≈ 27
Gray InkBatting - 32 (746), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 58 (340), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 26 (436), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores
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  1. Joey Votto (941)
  2. Hunter Pence (916)
  3. Earl Webb (904)
  4. Matt Kemp (899)
  5. Kal Daniels (897)
  6. Monte Irvin (897) *
  7. Ryan Braun (893)
  8. Corey Hart (891)
  9. Justin Upton (891)
  10. Evan Longoria (891)
* - Signifies Hall of Famer
Similar Batters through 30 
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  1. Bob Johnson (951)
  2. Rico Carty (929)
  3. Brad Hawpe (926)
  4. Earl Averill (921) *
  5. Johnny Frederick (921)
  6. Brian Giles (917)
  7. Trot Nixon (914)
  8. Jeromy Burnitz (912)
  9. Pedro Guerrero (910)
  10. Gus Zernial (907)
* - Signifies Hall of Famer
Most Similar by Ages 
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  1. Bing Miller (948)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  2. Gus Zernial (964)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  3. Bob Johnson (946)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  4. Bob Johnson (951)  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
200726Cincinnati Reds$380,000
200827Texas Rangers$396,830
200928Texas Rangers$555,000
201029Texas Rangers$3,250,000
201130Texas Rangers$8,750,000
201231Texas Rangers$13,750,000
Career to date (may be incomplete)$13,331,830Does 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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