Matt Holliday

Matthew Thomas Holliday (Big Daddy)

Position: Leftfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 4", Weight: 235 lb.

Born: January 15, 1980 in Stillwater, OK
High School: Stillwater (Stillwater, OK)
Drafted by the Colorado Rockies in the 7th round of the 1998 amateur draft.
Signed July 24, 1998. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 16, 2004
Teams (by GP): Rockies/Cardinals/Athletics 2004-2011
2012 Contract Status: Signed thru 2016, 7 yrs/$120M (10-16) & 17 team option (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 8.000, Free Agent: 2017 [*], Agents: Scott Boras, previously: Jot Hartley [*]
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All-Star

Standard Fielding

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
2004	COL	NL	24	OF	115				188	177	4	7	1	.963	-9	-5				1.57	.982		2.14	RoY-5
2004	COL	NL	24	LF	115	109	83	917.0	188	177	4	7	1	.963	-9	-5	-12	-7	1.78	1.57	.980	1.85	1.84	RoY-5
2005	COL	NL	25	OF	123				248	236	5	7	2	.972	-13	7				1.96	.984		2.16
2005	COL	NL	25	LF	123	121	117	1049.2	248	236	5	7	2	.972	-13	7	-15	8	2.07	1.96	.984	1.94	1.92
2006	COL	NL	26	OF	153				291	277	8	6	2	.979	-5	-7				1.86	.984		2.20	AS,MVP-15,SS
2006	COL	NL	26	LF	153	153	144	1334.1	291	277	8	6	2	.979	-5	-7	-5	-6	1.92	1.86	.982	1.97	1.95	AS,MVP-15,SS
2006	COL	NL	26	DH	1	1																		AS,MVP-15,SS
2007	COL	NL	27	OF	157				306	296	7	3	0	.990	15	3				1.93	.984		2.29	AS,MVP-2,SS
2007	COL	NL	27	LF	157	157	139	1383.2	306	296	7	3	0	.990	15	3	13	3	1.97	1.93	.984	2.00	1.99	AS,MVP-2,SS
2007	COL	NL	27	DH	1	1																		AS,MVP-2,SS
2008	COL	NL	28	OF	139				252	240	9	3	3	.988	-1	5				1.79	.985		2.20	AS,MVP-18,SS
2008	COL	NL	28	LF	139	139	127	1229.1	252	240	9	3	3	.988	-1	5	-1	5	1.82	1.79	.983	1.90	1.89	AS,MVP-18,SS
2009	TOT	MLB	29	LF	155	154	136	1353.4	287	275	7	5	1	.983	-2	14	-2	12	1.88	1.82	.985	2.04	2.02	MVP-16
2009	TOT	MLB	29	OF	155				287	275	7	5	1	.983	-2	14				1.82	.987		2.25	MVP-16
2009	OAK	AL	29	OF	93				199	189	6	4	1	.980	-2	15				2.10	.987		2.30
2009	STL	NL	29	OF	62				88	86	1	1	0	.989	0	-1				1.40	.986		2.18
2009	OAK	AL	29	LF	93	92	85	812.2	199	189	6	4	1	.980	-2	15	-3	22	2.16	2.10	.987	2.12	2.09
2009	STL	NL	29	LF	62	62	51	540.2	88	86	1	1	0	.989	0	-1	0	-2	1.45	1.40	.982	1.93	1.91
2010	STL	NL	30	OF	155				272	261	8	3	0	.989	-0	8				1.74	.987		2.15	AS,MVP-12,SS
2010	STL	NL	30	LF	155	155	130	1341.2	272	261	8	3	0	.989	-0	8	-0	7	1.80	1.74	.985	1.82	1.80	AS,MVP-12,SS
2010	STL	NL	30	DH	1	1																		AS,MVP-12,SS
2011	STL	NL	31	LF	115	114	96	990.2	203	196	4	3	0	.985	0	2	0	2	1.82	1.74	.985	1.87	1.87	AS
2011	STL	NL	31	OF	115	114	96	990.2	203	196	4	3	0	.985	0	2	0	2	1.82	1.74	.986	2.16	2.15	AS
2011	STL	NL	31	DH	5	5																		AS
	8 Seasons			LF	1112	1102	972	9599.2	2047	1958	52	37	9	.982	-16	27	-2	3	1.88	1.81	.984	1.93	1.91
	8 Seasons			OF	1112	114	96	990.2	2047	1958	52	37	9	.982	-16	27	-19	3	1.82	1.81	.985	2.16	2.20
	8 Seasons			TOT	1112	114	96	990.2	2047	1958	52	37	9	.982	-16	54	-19	65	1.82	1.81	.985	2.16	2.20
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.

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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.
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Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzhm	Rtzrd	Rof	Rdrs	Rdrs/yr	Rpm	Rbnt	Rof	Rhr
2004	COL	NL	24	LF	-9	-12	-6	-1	-5	-3	-5	-7	-1	0	-4
2005	COL	NL	25	LF	-13	-15	-8	-6	-2	-5	7	8	7	0	0
2006	COL	NL	26	LF	-5	-5	1	2	-2	-6	-7	-6	-7	0	-3	3
2007	COL	NL	27	LF	15	13	14	11	3	1	3	3	2	0	1
2008	COL	NL	28	LF	-1	-1	-1	2	-3	0	5	5	5	0	0
2009	OAK	AL	29	LF	-2	-3	-2	-3	1	0	15	22	12	0	1	2
2009	STL	NL	29	LF	0	0	1	-3	4	-1	-1	-2	-1	0	0
2010	STL	NL	30	LF	-0	-0	0	-3	4	-1	8	7	8	0	0
2011	STL	NL	31	LF	0	0	2	-1	2	-2	2	2	2		0
	8 Seasons			LF	-16	-2	1	-1	2	-17	27	3	27	0	-5	5
	8 Seasons			TOT	-18	-21	0	-6	6	-18	54	65	27	0	-5	5

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	LF	OF	DH	PH
2004	COL	NL	24	121	109	121	115	115	115	0	10
2005	COL	NL	25	125	121	125	123	123	123	0	2
2006	COL	NL	26	155	154	155	153	153	153	1	1
2007	COL	NL	27	158	158	158	157	157	157	1	0
2008	COL	NL	28	139	139	139	139	139	139	0	0
2009	OAK	AL	29	93	92	93	93	93	93	0	1
2009	STL	NL	29	63	62	63	62	62	62	0	1
2010	STL	NL	30	158	156	158	155	155	155	1	2
2011	STL	NL	31	124	119	124	115	115	115	5	5
	8 Seasons			1136	1110	1136	1112	1112	1112	8	22

Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1919 season) and non-RetroSheet data is used for other seasons.

Advanced Fielding -- LF*

				Errors					Assists					Single w/ Runner on 1st			Single w/ Runner on 2nd			Double w/ Runner on 1st			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd			Baserunning Totals
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	1B	2B	3B	Hm	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Held%	Adv	Kill	Kill%	Aother	PA	RHB%	BIP%	FBIP%	Fld	F2O%
2004	COL	NL	24	7	0	5	2	1	4	0	1	3	0	62	52	1	30	13	0	30	11	0	12	3	0	24	23	1	158	102	64.6%	56	2	1.3%	2	4178	60%	78%	40%	448	40%
2005	COL	NL	25	7	0	5	2	2	5	2	1	1	1	65	50	0	30	11	0	39	22	1	12	1	0	31	29	0	177	113	63.8%	64	1	0.6%	4	4723	56%	78%	40%	528	45%
2006	COL	NL	26	6	0	4	2	2	8	1	1	1	4	77	54	0	49	12	1	35	21	3	19	2	0	27	29	0	207	118	57.0%	86	4	1.9%	4	5854	57%	78%	40%	638	45%
2007	COL	NL	27	3	0	2	1	1	7	0	2	0	5	87	72	0	42	14	2	30	17	3	17	5	0	26	27	0	202	135	66.8%	65	5	2.5%	2	5923	59%	78%	39%	663	46%
2008	COL	NL	28	3	0	3	0	0	9	1	2	1	3	100	81	2	49	15	1	30	21	2	14	2	0	25	23	2	218	142	65.1%	70	7	3.2%	2	5355	59%	77%	38%	604	41%
2009	OAK	AL	29	4	0	3	1	0	6	1	2	1	1	40	34	1	29	10	0	25	18	0	6	1	0	17	15	0	117	78	66.7%	39	1	0.9%	5	3509	61%	76%	41%	411	47%
2009	STL	NL	29	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	26	24	0	14	4	1	8	5	0	7	0	0	9	8	0	64	41	64.1%	22	1	1.6%	0	2277	53%	77%	35%	195	45%
2010	STL	NL	30	3	0	3	0	0	8	0	3	1	2	59	46	2	39	10	1	30	20	1	12	2	0	20	19	0	160	97	60.6%	61	4	2.5%	4	5679	60%	76%	36%	562	48%
2011	STL	NL	31	3	0	2	1	2	4	0	1	1	1	55	40	1	35	13	1	14	9	0	7	2	0	18	17	0	129	81	62.8%	46	2	1.6%	2	4222	61%	78%	39%	444	45%
	8 Seasons			37	0	28	9	8	52	5	13	9	18	571	453	7	317	102	7	241	144	10	106	18	0	197	190	3	1432	907	63.3%	509	27	1.9%	25	41720	59%	77%	39%	4493	45%
	MLB Averages																														64.6%			2.3%			58%	76%	40%		46%

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1919 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 2006 * 2007 * 2008 (RF) 2010 * 2011 (LF)	Awards (yr lg award) 2007 NL NLCS MVP	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 2006 NL (15, 2%) 2007 NL (2, 75%) 2008 NL (18, 3%) 2009 NL (16, 3%) 2010 NL (12, 7%) 0.90 Career Shares (278th)	Silver Sluggers 2006 NL (OF) 2007 NL (OF) 2008 NL (OF) 2010 NL (OF) All multiple winners
Def. Games as LF (s.1954) s c a p y Active 1,112 (5th) Career 1,112 (46th)	Putouts as LF (s.1954) s c a p y Active 1,958 (6th) Career 1,958 (50th)	Assists as LF (s.1954) s c a p y Active 52 (7th) Career 52 (91st)	Errors Committed as LF (s.1954) s c a p y Active 37 (5th) Career 37 (87th)
Def. Games as OF s c a p y 2010 NL 155 (3rd) Active 1,112 (23rd)	Errors Committed as OF s c a p y 2005 NL 7 (3rd) Active 37 (18th)	Range Factor/9Inn as LF (s.1954)† s c a p y 2005 NL 2.07 (3rd) 2009 AL 2.16 (5th) 2010 NL 1.80 (4th) Active 1.88 (13th) Career 1.88 (81st)	Range Factor/Game as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 2005 NL 1.96 (2nd) 2006 NL 1.86 (4th) 2008 NL 1.79 (5th) 2009 AL 2.10 (4th) 2010 NL 1.74 (4th) Active 1.81 (9th)
Fielding % as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 2007 NL .990 (2nd) 2008 NL .988 (5th) Active .982 (10th) Career .982 (65th)	Total Zone Runs as OF s c a p y 2007 NL 15 (4th)

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