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Jason Heyward

Jason Adenolith Heyward (The J-Hey Kid) (twitter: @JasonHeyward)

Position: Rightfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 5", Weight: 240 lb.

Born: August 9, 1989 in Ridgewood, NJ
High School: Henry County HS (McDonough, GA)
Drafted by the Atlanta Braves in the 1st round (14th pick) of the 2007 amateur draft.
Signed August 12, 2007. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 5, 2010
Team: Braves 2010-2012
2012 Contract Status: Pre-Arb Eligible, 1 yr/$565k (12) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 2.000, Arb Eligible: 2013, Free Agent: 2016 [*], Agents: Career Sports Mgmt [*]
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All-Star

Standard Batting

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
2010 20 ATL NL 142 623 520 83 144 29 5 18 72 11 6 91 128 .277 .393 .456 .849 131 237 13 10 0 2 2 *9 AS,MVP-20,RoY-2
2011 21 ATL NL 128 456 396 50 90 18 2 14 42 9 2 51 93 .227 .319 .389 .708 94 154 7 4 0 3 4 *9
2012 22 ATL NL 50 197 172 24 40 7 3 6 23 9 3 22 50 .233 .327 .413 .739 101 71 0 2 0 0 1 *9/8
3 Yrs 320 1276 1088 157 274 54 10 38 137 29 11 164 271 .252 .357 .425 .781 113 462 20 16 0 5 7
162 Game Avg. 162 646 551 79 139 27 5 19 69 15 6 83 137 .252 .357 .425 .781 113 234 10 8 0 3 4

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
2010 20 ATL NL 142 623 32 1 2 15 -6 44 4.6 17 61 6.3 .533 .529 4.7 0.9 46 $400,000 *9 AS,MVP-20,RoY-2
2011 21 ATL NL 128 456 -4 2 1 15 -5 10 1.1 13 22 2.4 .508 .507 0.6 1.2 7 $496,500 *9
2012 22 ATL NL 50 197 0 1 1 4 -2 5 0.6 6 10 1.1 .510 .503 0.6 0.3 6 $ *9/8
3 Seasons 320 1276 28 5 5 34 -13 58 6.3 35 94 9.8 .519 .513 5.9 2.4 60 $896,500

Advanced Batting

Year Age Tm Lg PA Outs RC RC/G AIR BAbip BA lgBA OBP lgOBP SLG lgSLG OPS lgOPS OPS+ OWn% BtRuns BtWins TotA SecA ISO PwrSpd
2010 20 ATL NL 623 397 98 6.6 101 .335 .277 .260 .393 .329 .456 .409 .849 .738 131 .661 26.6 2.6 .868 .363 .179 13.7
2011 21 ATL NL 456 318 52 4.4 98 .260 .227 .259 .319 .326 .389 .403 .708 .730 94 .496 -2.8 -0.3 .686 .308 .162 11.0
2012 22 ATL NL 197 135 25 5.0 100 .293 .233 .259 .327 .327 .413 .410 .739 .737 101 .540 -0.1 -0.0 .748 .343 .180 7.2
3 Yrs 1276 850 175 5.5 100 .301 .252 .259 .357 .328 .425 .407 .781 .735 113 .590 23.6 2.3 .781 .340 .173 32.9
162 Game Avg. 646 430 89 5.5 100 .301 .252 .259 .357 .328 .425 .407 .781 .735 113 .590 12 1 .781 .340 .173 17

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 20 ATL NL NLDS SFG L 4 17 16 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 .125 .176 .125 .301 2 1 0 0 0 0
1 NLDS 4 17 16 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 .125 .176 .125 .301 2 1 0 0 0 0

All-Star Batting

Year Tm Lg Age GS PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB
2010 ATL NL 20 DNP

Ratio Batting*

Year Age Tm Lg PA HR% SO% BB% XBH% X/H% SO/BB AB/SO AB/HR AB/RBI GB/FB GO/AO IP% LD% HR/FB IF/FB
2010 20 ATL NL 623 2.9% 20.6% 14.6% 8.4% 36% 1.41 4.1 28.9 7.2 1.29 1.78 60% 17% 12.2% 14%
2011 21 ATL NL 456 3.1% 20.4% 11.2% 7.5% 38% 1.82 4.3 28.3 9.4 1.19 1.52 64% 12% 13.0% 23%
2012 22 ATL NL 197 3.1% 25.4% 11.2% 8.1% 40% 2.27 3.4 28.7 7.5 0.65 0.76 59% 19% 10.0% 19%
3 Yrs 1276 3.0% 21.2% 12.9% 8.0% 37% 1.65 4.0 28.6 7.9 1.13 1.47 61% 15% 12.0% 18%
MLB Averages 2.5% 18.7% 8.3% 7.5% 33% 2.25 4.8 35.9 8.3 0.81 1.09 69% 18% 7.4% 13%

Win Probability

Year Age Tm Lg BtRuns BtWins Plays WPA WPA+ WPA- aLI WPA/LI Clutch RE24 REW boLI RE24/boLI PHlev AB
2010 20 ATL NL 26.6 2.6 650 4.8 14.5 -9.7 1.01 4.0 0.8 44.7 4.4 0.96 45.4 2.33 3
2011 21 ATL NL -2.2 -0.2 476 -0.2 7.7 -7.8 1.00 0.2 -0.3 1.8 0.2 1.00 1.7 0.87 6
2012 22 ATL NL -0.1 -0.0 212 0.8 3.9 -3.0 .98 0.3 0.6 7.6 0.8 1.01 5.5 1.39 2
3 Yrs 24.2 2.4 1338 5.5 26.1 -20.6 1.00 4.4 1.0 54.1 5.3 0.98 52.6 1.36 11

Baserunning & Misc. Stats*

Year Age Tm Lg ROE XI RS% SBO SB CS SB% SB2 CS2 SB3 CS3 SBH CSH PO PCS OOB BT XBT% 1stS 1stS2 1stS3 1stD 1stD3 1stDH 2ndS 2ndS3 2ndSH
2010 20 ATL NL 13 0 29% 286 11 6 65% 8 5 2 1 1 0 2 0 5 15 46% 42 27 13 11 4 7 19 6 13
2011 21 ATL NL 3 2 28% 174 9 2 82% 9 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 13 61% 22 8 14 5 3 2 11 3 7
2012 22 ATL NL 1 1 31% 65 9 3 75% 6 2 3 1 0 0 1 1 1 8 55% 12 6 6 2 2 0 8 2 6
3 Yrs 17 3 29% 525 29 11 73% 23 9 5 2 1 0 4 1 8 36 52% 76 41 33 18 9 9 38 11 26

Situational Hitting*

Hits Pinch Hitting Home Runs SH GIDP PrdOut BaseRunners Advances
Year Age Tm Lg PA Ptn% H Inf Bnt AB H HR RBI PHlev All GS GSo vRH vLH Hm Rd IP Att Suc % Opp DP % Opp Suc % BR BRS BRS% <2,3B Scr % 0,2B Adv % PAu
2010 20 ATL NL 623 68% 144 17 0 3 2 0 1 2.33 18 0 18 12 6 9 9 0 0 0 122 13 11% 64 20 31% 386 60 16% 29 12 41% 24 15 63% 0
2011 21 ATL NL 456 75% 90 11 0 6 0 0 0 0.87 14 1 12 12 2 5 9 0 0 0 85 7 8% 44 12 27% 255 30 12% 18 7 39% 16 9 56% 0
2012 22 ATL NL 197 65% 40 0 0 2 1 0 1 1.39 6 0 8 4 2 2 4 0 0 0 45 0 0% 16 2 13% 131 18 14% 10 7 70% 9 5 56% 0
3 Yrs 1276 70% 274 28 0 11 3 0 2 1.36 38 1 38 28 10 16 22 0 0 0 252 20 8% 124 34 27% 772 108 14% 57 26 46% 49 29 59% 0
MLB Averages 54% 69% 11% 32% 14% 51% 55%

Pitch Summary -- Batting*

Year Age Tm Lg PA Pit Pit/PA Str Str% L/Str S/Str F/Str I/Str AS/Str I/Bll AS/Pit Con 1stS 30% 30c 30s 20% 20c 20s 31% 31c 31s L/SO PAu Pitu Stru
2010 20 ATL NL 626 2587 4.13 1487 57% 33% 15% 26% 26% 67% 1% 39% 78% 20% 6% 38 2 19% 120 51 15% 92 43 37% -3 0 0
2011 21 ATL NL 458 1794 3.92 1079 60% 27% 18% 27% 28% 73% 2% 44% 75% 25% 8% 35 1 18% 84 37 10% 44 29 22% -2 0 2
2012 22 ATL NL 198 807 4.08 484 60% 23% 23% 29% 25% 77% 1% 46% 70% 26% 8% 15 5 18% 36 17 11% 22 13 12% -1 0 1
3 Yrs 1282 5188 4.05 3050 59% 29% 17% 26% 27% 71% 1% 42% 76% 23% 7% 88 8 19% 240 105 12% 158 85 27% -6 0 3
MLB Averages 3.82 63% 28% 15% 27% 30% 72% 2% 45% 79% 26% 5% 14% 9% 24%

Cumulative Batting

Year Age G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB
2010 20 142 623 520 83 144 29 5 18 72 11 6 91 128 .277 .393 .456 .849 131 237 13 10 0 2 2
2011 21 270 1079 916 133 234 47 7 32 114 20 8 142 221 .255 .362 .427 .789 115 391 20 14 0 5 6
2012 22 320 1276 1088 157 274 54 10 38 137 29 11 164 271 .252 .357 .425 .781 113 462 20 16 0 5 7

Neutralized Batting

Change to: Default / 750 Runs / 1968 Dodgers / 2000 Rockies or

All seasons are converted to 162-game seasons &
average team scoring of 716 total runs (4.42 R/G) How this works
Year Age G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS RC Gact
2010 20 142 630 524 87 148 30 5 18 75 11 94 128 .282 .400 .462 .862 95 142
2011 21 128 460 400 54 94 19 2 15 45 9 53 93 .235 .328 .405 .733 52 128
2012 22 50 198 173 25 41 7 3 6 24 9 23 50 .237 .333 .416 .750 24 50
3 Yrs 320 1288 1097 166 283 56 10 39 144 29 170 271 .258 .364 .434 .798 171 320
162 Game Avg. 162 652 555 84 143 28 5 20 73 15 86 137 .258 .364 .434 .798 87 320

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1918 to 1973 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary) for some players prior to 1974 and even complete seasons may not match the official totals due to errors in both the official totals and the play-by-play accounts. Pre-1954 seasons have a substantial numbers of games missing play-by-play accounts and should be viewed as essentially incomplete.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

All-Star Games
2010

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
2010 NL (20, 2%)
0.02 Career Shares (1361st)

Wins Above Replacement† s c a p y
2010 NL  6.3 (7th)

WAR Position Players† s c a p y
2010 NL  6.3 (4th)

Offensive WAR† s c a p y
2010 NL  4.7 (9th)

On-Base% s c a p y
2010 NL  .393 (4th)

Bases on Balls s c a p y
2010 NL  91 (4th)

Strikeouts s c a p y
2012 NL  50 (10th)

Hit By Pitch s c a p y
2010 NL  10 (6th)

Power-Speed # s c a p y
2012 NL  7.2 (9th)

Base-Out Runs Added (RE24)† s c a p y
2010 NL  44.67 (5th)

Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y
2010 NL  4.8 (3rd)

Situ. Wins Added (WPA/LI)† s c a p y
2010 NL  4.0 (6th)

Base-Out Wins Added (REW)† s c a p y
2010 NL  4.4 (4th)

Youngest s c a p y
2010 NL  born 1989-08-09 (6th)

             

† Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1948-1973, 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 - 2 (2155), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 3 (1776), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 9 (1690), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores
Similar Batters 
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  1. Billy Conigliaro (975)
  2. Harry Bright (973)
  3. Butch Nieman (972)
  4. Elijah Dukes (972)
  5. Roy Foster (970)
  6. Joe Lefebvre (967)
  7. Aaron Guiel (967)
  8. Brennan Boesch (967)
  9. Travis Snider (967)
  10. Allie Clark (967)
Similar Batters through 21 
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  1. Boog Powell (971)
  2. Juan Gonzalez (957)
  3. Dick Kokos (955)
  4. Ruben Sierra (946)
  5. Jose Canseco (944)
  6. Joe Kelley (941) *
  7. Curt Flood (938)
  8. Clint Hurdle (937)
  9. Sammy Sosa (936)
  10. Buddy Bell (935)
* - Signifies Hall of Famer
Most Similar by Ages 
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  1. Sam Crawford (968) * 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  2. Boog Powell (971)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
* - Signifies Hall of Famer

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