Kevin Jordan

Kevin Wayne Jordan

Positions: Pinch Hitter, Second Baseman and Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: October 9, 1969 in San Francisco, CA
High School: Lowell HS (San Francisco, CA)
School: University of Nebraska at Lincoln (Lincoln, NE)
Drafted by the New York Yankees in the 20th round of the 1990 amateur draft.
Signed June 8, 1990. (All Transactions)
Debut: August 8, 1995
Team: Phillies 1995-2001

Final Game: October 7, 2001
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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
1990	20	NYY-min	A-	73	305	276	47	92	13	7	4	54	19	6	23	31	.333	.393	.475	.868		131		5	0	1	0		ONE · NYPL
1991	21	NYY-min	A+	121	502	448	61	122	25	5	4	53	14	4	37	66	.272	.339	.377	.716		169	13	11	0	6	4		FTL · FLOR
1992	22	NYY-min	A+	112	474	438	67	136	29	8	8	63	6	4	27	54	.311	.351	.468	.819		205	9	3	1	5	3		PRW · CARL
1993	23	NYY-min	AA	135	567	513	87	145	33	4	16	87	8	4	41	53	.283	.344	.456	.800		234	8	9	0	4	2		ALC · EL
1994	24	PHI-min	AAA	81	353	314	44	91	22	1	12	57	0	2	29	28	.290	.348	.481	.829		151	9	3	0	7	2		SWB · IL
1995	25	PHI-min	AAA	106	453	410	61	127	29	4	5	60	3	0	28	36	.310	.361	.437	.797		179	14	8	1	6	0		SWB · IL
1995	25	PHI	NL	24	57	54	6	10	1	0	2	6	0	0	2	9	.185	.228	.315	.543	42	17	0	1	0	0	1	/45
1996	26	PHI	NL	43	142	131	15	37	10	0	3	12	2	1	5	20	.282	.309	.427	.737	93	56	3	1	3	2	0	3/45
1997	27	PHI-min	AAA	7	32	30	5	9	2	2	0	2	2	0	2	6	.300	.344	.500	.844		15	1	0	0	0	0		SWB · IL
1997	27	PHI	NL	84	183	177	19	47	8	0	6	30	0	1	3	26	.266	.273	.412	.686	77	73	5	0	0	3	0	35/4D
1998	28	PHI	NL	112	261	250	23	69	13	0	2	27	0	0	8	30	.276	.303	.352	.655	71	88	5	2	0	1	1	34/D5
1999	29	PHI	NL	120	380	347	36	99	17	3	4	51	0	0	24	34	.285	.339	.386	.726	81	134	12	6	0	3	1	543
2000	30	PHI	NL	109	358	337	30	74	16	2	5	36	0	1	17	41	.220	.257	.323	.580	46	109	11	1	0	3	0	45/3
2001	31	PHI	NL	68	127	113	9	27	5	0	1	13	0	0	14	21	.239	.323	.310	.633	68	35	1	0	0	0	2	345
2002	32	SFG-CIN-min	AAA	85	300	270	27	61	8	1	3	22	1	0	18	34	.226	.282	.296	.578		80	9	5	2	5	2		FRE,LOU · PCL,IL
2003	33	DET-min	AAA	46	172	160	10	36	7	0	2	17	1	1	8	17	.225	.269	.306	.575		49	4	2	1	1	0		TOL · IL
7 Yrs				560	1508	1409	138	363	70	5	23	175	2	3	73	181	.258	.297	.363	.660	69	512	37	11	3	12	5
162 Game Avg.				162	436	408	40	105	20	1	7	51	1	1	21	52	.258	.297	.363	.660	69	148	11	3	1	3	1

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
1995	25	PHI	NL	24	57	-5	0	1	2	0	-2	-0.2	2	-1	-0.1	.490	.499	-0.3	0.2	-3	$109,000	/45
1996	26	PHI	NL	43	142	-1	0	0	4	-2	2	0.1	4	6	0.5	.504	.501	0.1	0.2	2	$109,000	3/45
1997	27	PHI	NL	84	183	-6	-1	0	-5	-1	-13	-1.4	5	-8	-0.9	.484	.492	-0.3	-0.7	-3	$175,000	35/4D
1998	28	PHI	NL	112	261	-8	1	1	-3	-2	-12	-1.2	7	-4	-0.5	.489	.493	-0.2	-0.5	-2	$230,000	34/D5
1999	29	PHI	NL	120	380	-10	-1	-0	5	0	-6	-0.6	10	4	0.4	.495	.496	-0.1	0.6	-1	$550,000	543
2000	30	PHI	NL	109	358	-24	1	-0	-0	1	-23	-2.3	10	-14	-1.4	.479	.486	-1.3	0.0	-13	$1,000,000	45/3
2001	31	PHI	NL	68	127	-6	0	1	-2	-0	-7	-0.7	4	-4	-0.4	.489	.496	-0.2	-0.2	-2	$700,000	345
7 Seasons				560	1508	-62	0	2	2	-4	-62	-6.4	41	-21	-2.4	.489	.495	-2.3	-0.3	-22	$2,873,000

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
1995	25	PHI	NL	57	44	4	2.4	106	.186	.185	.270	.228	.339	.315	.419	.543	.758	42	.223	-4.8	-0.5	.455	.167	.130	.0
1996	26	PHI	NL	142	103	17	4.4	106	.309	.282	.269	.309	.338	.427	.420	.737	.758	93	.460	-1.3	-0.1	.643	.191	.145	2.4
1997	27	PHI	NL	183	139	18	3.5	108	.277	.266	.270	.273	.342	.412	.424	.686	.767	77	.350	-6.7	-0.6	.551	.158	.147	.0
1998	28	PHI	NL	261	187	26	3.7	109	.306	.276	.271	.303	.342	.352	.428	.655	.770	71	.381	-11.2	-1.1	.527	.108	.076	.0
1999	29	PHI	NL	380	263	44	4.5	119	.304	.285	.280	.339	.356	.386	.451	.726	.808	81	.423	-10.8	-1.0	.631	.170	.101	.0
2000	30	PHI	NL	358	278	26	2.5	116	.235	.220	.273	.257	.351	.323	.447	.580	.797	46	.200	-29.4	-2.7	.458	.151	.104	.0
2001	31	PHI	NL	127	87	12	3.7	109	.286	.239	.265	.323	.336	.310	.434	.633	.770	68	.362	-5.2	-0.5	.563	.195	.071	.0
7 Yrs				1508	1101	147	3.6	113	.279	.258	.273	.297	.347	.363	.437	.660	.784	69	.344	-69.5	-6.5	.548	.157	.106	3.7
162 Game Avg.				436	319	43	3.6	113	.279	.258	.273	.297	.347	.363	.437	.660	.784	69	.344	-69.5	-6.5	.548	.157	.106	1

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
1995	25	PHI	NL	57	3.5%	15.8%	3.5%	5.3%	30%	4.50	6.0	27.0	9.0	0.67	0.89	75%	22%	8.3%	11%
1996	26	PHI	NL	142	2.1%	14.1%	3.5%	9.2%	35%	4.00	6.6	43.7	10.9	0.72	1.08	77%	25%	6.5%	29%
1997	27	PHI	NL	183	3.3%	14.2%	1.6%	7.7%	30%	8.67	6.8	29.5	5.9	0.74	1.00	81%	32%	8.6%	20%
1998	28	PHI	NL	261	0.8%	11.5%	3.1%	5.8%	22%	3.75	8.3	125.0	9.3	0.81	0.84	84%	21%	2.1%	21%
1999	29	PHI	NL	380	1.1%	9.0%	6.3%	6.3%	24%	1.42	10.2	86.8	6.8	0.90	1.17	82%	22%	2.9%	17%
2000	30	PHI	NL	358	1.4%	11.5%	4.8%	6.4%	31%	2.41	8.2	67.4	9.4	0.90	1.27	82%	22%	3.8%	15%
2001	31	PHI	NL	127	0.8%	16.5%	11.0%	4.7%	22%	1.50	5.4	113.0	8.7	1.33	1.79	72%	22%	3.4%	26%
7 Yrs				1508	1.5%	12.0%	4.8%	6.5%	27%	2.48	7.8	61.3	8.1	0.86	1.12	81%	23%	4.3%	19%
MLB Averages					2.8%	16.7%	9.0%	7.9%	33%	1.85	5.3	31.6	7.4	0.79	1.09	70%	22%	8.4%	15%

Win Probability

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	BtRuns	BtWins	Plays	WPA	WPA+	WPA-	aLI	WPA/LI	Clutch	RE24	REW	boLI	RE24/boLI	PHlev	AB
1995	25	PHI	NL	-4.9	-0.5	58	-0.2	0.9	-1.0	.89	-0.2	0.0	-2.2	-0.2	0.87	-2.1	1.12	10
1996	26	PHI	NL	-1.5	-0.1	147	-0.4	2.5	-2.9	1.10	-0.3	-0.0	-6.7	-0.6	0.96	-4.4	1.33	5
1997	27	PHI	NL	-6.7	-0.6	187	-0.3	3.7	-4.1	1.18	-0.4	0.1	-4.5	-0.4	1.10	-4.5	1.56	45
1998	28	PHI	NL	-11.2	-1.1	265	-0.1	5.3	-5.4	1.22	-0.2	0.1	-2.5	-0.2	0.98	-4.8	1.89	54
1999	29	PHI	NL	-11.3	-1.0	386	-0.2	6.4	-6.6	1.02	-0.7	0.5	-6.2	-0.6	0.99	-11.1	1.30	25
2000	30	PHI	NL	-29.4	-2.7	362	-2.6	5.5	-8.0	1.09	-1.9	-0.4	-25.5	-2.4	0.97	-21.9	2.00	24
2001	31	PHI	NL	-5.4	-0.5	128	-0.5	1.8	-2.3	1.05	-0.6	0.1	-3.9	-0.4	0.97	-6.6	1.27	38
7 Yrs				-70.4	-6.6	1533	-4.3	26.1	-30.4	1.10	-4.3	0.3	-51.3	-4.8	0.99	-55.4	1.59	201

Baserunning & Misc. Stats*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	ROE	RS%	SBO	SB	CS	SB%	SB2	CS2	CSH	PO	OOB	BT	XBT%	1^stS	1^stS2	1^stS3	1^stD	1^stD3	1^stDH	2^ndS	2^ndS3	2^ndSH
1995	25	PHI	NL	0	36%	17	0	0		0	0	0	1	0	1	29%	4	4	0	0	0	0	3	0	2
1996	26	PHI	NL	2	30%	53	2	1	67%	2	1	0	0	1	1	70%	1	0	1	2	1	1	7	1	5
1997	27	PHI	NL	2	30%	61	0	1	0%	0	0	1	0	2	5	32%	6	5	1	6	4	2	7	1	3
1998	28	PHI	NL	5	27%	101	0	0		0	0	0	0	4	7	40%	16	12	4	1	0	1	8	3	5
1999	29	PHI	NL	3	26%	143	0	0		0	0	0	2	1	8	31%	30	24	6	5	4	1	14	6	8
2000	30	PHI	NL	9	29%	117	0	1	0%	0	1	0	0	2	6	48%	12	8	4	3	2	1	10	2	7
2001	31	PHI	NL	0	20%	48	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	2	30%	6	5	1	2	2	0	2	0	2
7 Yrs				21	27%	540	2	3	40%	2	2	1	3	10	30	38%	75	58	17	19	13	6	51	13	32

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
1995	25	PHI	NL	57	61%	10	0	0	10	1	1	2	1.12	2	0	1	0	2	1	1	0	0	0		9	0	0%	4	2	50%	30	4	13%	4	1	25%	1	1	100%	0
1996	26	PHI	NL	142	17%	37	2	0	5	0	0	0	1.33	3	0	5	2	1	2	1	0	3	3	100%	31	3	10%	12	5	42%	94	10	11%	6	4	67%	1	0	0%	0
1997	27	PHI	NL	183	44%	47	4	0	45	13	2	10	1.56	6	0	13	2	4	4	2	0	0	0		49	5	10%	28	7	25%	161	25	16%	17	10	59%	11	6	55%	0
1998	28	PHI	NL	261	32%	69	24	0	54	15	2	7	1.89	2	0	4	2	0	1	1	0	0	0		55	5	9%	21	6	29%	191	29	15%	12	5	42%	11	5	45%	0
1999	29	PHI	NL	380	35%	99	6	0	25	5	0	2	1.30	4	0	9	2	2	2	2	0	0	0		86	12	14%	46	15	33%	287	49	17%	26	14	54%	18	11	61%	0
2000	30	PHI	NL	358	33%	74	6	0	24	4	0	2	2.00	5	0	16	4	1	2	3	1	0	0		61	11	18%	35	12	34%	263	35	13%	21	11	52%	13	7	54%	0
2001	31	PHI	NL	127	41%	27	5	0	38	7	1	2	1.27	1	1	6	1	0	1	0	0	0	0		17	1	6%	9	5	56%	90	12	13%	7	5	71%	6	3	50%	0
7 Yrs				1508	35%	363	47	0	201	45	6	25	1.59	23	1	54	13	10	13	10	1	3	3	100%	308	37	12%	155	52	34%	1116	164	15%	93	50	54%	61	33	54%	0
MLB Averages					54%																			74%			10%			34%			15%			53%			57%

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
1995	25	PHI	NL	57	186	3.26	121	65%	26%	12%	25%	37%	74%	3%	48%	83%	12%	7%	4	0	18%	10	3	7%	4	3	33%	0	0	0
1996	26	PHI	NL	106	398	3.75	268	68%	22%	11%	35%	32%	78%	0%	52%	86%	18%	2%	2	0	11%	12	9	1%	1	0	13%	36	1	0
1997	27	PHI	NL	173	637	3.68	438	69%	23%	9%	35%	33%	77%	0%	53%	88%	18%	3%	5	0	10%	17	12	5%	8	8	24%	10	0	1
1998	28	PHI	NL	263	937	3.56	622	66%	24%	11%	30%	36%	76%	1%	51%	86%	21%	3%	8	0	17%	44	28	8%	22	20	20%	-2	0	0
1999	29	PHI	NL	382	1402	3.67	899	64%	26%	8%	30%	35%	74%	1%	47%	89%	16%	3%	13	0	13%	50	26	7%	28	19	24%	-2	0	0
2000	30	PHI	NL	358	1300	3.63	844	65%	27%	11%	27%	35%	73%	0%	48%	85%	14%	5%	19	0	15%	54	24	8%	28	21	12%	0	0	0
2001	31	PHI	NL	127	481	3.79	303	63%	30%	12%	28%	30%	70%	4%	44%	83%	19%	9%	11	0	14%	18	3	9%	12	7	24%	0	0	0
7 Yrs				1466	5341	3.64	3495	65%	25%	10%	30%	34%	75%	1%	49%	86%	17%	4%	62	0	14%	205	105	7%	103	78	20%	42	1	1
MLB Averages						3.72		62%	26%	15%	27%	32%	74%	2%	45%	80%	30%	5%			16%			9%			28%

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
1995	25	24	57	54	6	10	1	0	2	6	0	0	2	9	.185	.228	.315	.543	42	17	0	1	0	0	1
1996	26	67	199	185	21	47	11	0	5	18	2	1	7	29	.254	.286	.395	.680	78	73	3	2	3	2	1
1997	27	151	382	362	40	94	19	0	11	48	2	2	10	55	.260	.280	.403	.683	78	146	8	2	3	5	1
1998	28	263	643	612	63	163	32	0	13	75	2	2	18	85	.266	.289	.382	.671	75	234	13	4	3	6	2
1999	29	383	1023	959	99	262	49	3	17	126	2	2	42	119	.273	.308	.384	.692	77	368	25	10	3	9	3
2000	30	492	1381	1296	129	336	65	5	22	162	2	3	59	160	.259	.295	.368	.663	69	477	36	11	3	12	3
2001	31	560	1508	1409	138	363	70	5	23	175	2	3	73	181	.258	.297	.363	.660	69	512	37	11	3	12	5

Neutralized Batting

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Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	RC	Gact
1995	25	27	65	62	7	12	1	0	2	7	0	2	10	.194	.231	.306	.537	4	24
1996	26	43	140	129	14	35	9	0	3	11	2	5	20	.271	.299	.411	.710	16	43
1997	27	84	181	175	18	45	8	0	6	28	0	3	26	.257	.265	.406	.671	19	84
1998	28	112	259	248	22	67	13	0	2	26	0	8	30	.270	.297	.347	.644	25	112
1999	29	120	368	338	31	90	15	3	4	44	0	22	34	.266	.318	.364	.682	38	120
2000	30	109	352	332	27	69	15	2	5	32	0	16	41	.208	.244	.310	.555	25	109
2001	31	68	127	113	9	27	5	0	1	13	0	14	21	.239	.323	.310	.633	11	68
7 Yrs		563	1492	1397	128	345	66	5	23	161	2	70	182	.247	.285	.351	.636	138	560
162 Game Avg.		162	429	402	37	99	19	1	7	46	1	20	52	.247	.285	.351	.636	40	560

* 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.

Hall Of Fame Statistics

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Hall of Fame Standards

Batting - 2 (2725), Average HOFer ≈ 50

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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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