John Koronka

John Vincent Koronka

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 200 lb.

Born: July 3, 1980 in Clearwater, FL
High School: Groveland HS (Groveland, FL)
Drafted
by the Cincinnati Reds in the 12th round of the 1998 amateur draft.
Signed June 7, 1998. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 1, 2005
Teams (by GP): Rangers/Cubs/Marlins 2005-2009
Agents: Bob Garber [*]
Final Game: May 17, 2009
    About biographical information

49
41
30

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
2005 24 CHC NL 4 5 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 .000 .200 .000 .200 -42 0 0 0 0 0 0 /1
2006 25 TEX AL 23 6 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .000 .000 .000 .000 -100 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
2007 26 TEX AL 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .000 .000 .000 .000 -100 0 0 0 0 0 0 /1
2009 28 FLA NL 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000 -100 0 0 0 1 0 0 /1
4 Yrs 31 15 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 .000 .071 .000 .071 -79 0 1 0 1 0 0
162 Game Avg. 162 78 68 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 42 .000 .071 .000 .071 -79 0 5 0 5 0 0
TEX (2 yrs) 25 8 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 .000 .000 .000 .000 -100 0 1 0 0 0 0
CHC (1 yr) 4 5 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 .000 .200 .000 .200 -42 0 0 0 0 0 0
FLA (1 yr) 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000 -100 0 0 0 1 0 0
AL (2 yrs) 25 8 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 .000 .000 .000 .000 -100 0 1 0 0 0 0
NL (2 yrs) 6 7 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 .000 .167 .000 .167 -52 0 0 0 1 0 0

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
2005 24 CHC NL 4 5 -1 0 0 0 1 -0 -0.0 0 -0 0.0 .495 .500 0.0 0.0 -0 $ /1
2006 25 TEX AL 23 6 -2 0 -0 0 1 -1 -0.1 0 -1 -0.1 .495 .499 -0.1 0.0 -1 $329,000 1
2007 26 TEX AL 2 2 -1 0 0 0 0 -0 -0.0 0 -0 0.0 .485 .500 0.0 0.0 -0 $ /1
2009 28 FLA NL 2 2 -1 0 0 0 0 -0 -0.0 0 -0 0.0 .484 .500 0.0 0.0 -0 $ /1
4 Seasons 31 15 -4 0 -0 0 2 -2 -0.2 1 -1 -0.1 .494 .500 -0.1 0.0 -1 $329,000
TEX (2 yrs) 25 8 -2 0 -0 0 1 -1 -0.1 0 -1 -0.1 .494 .500 -0.1 0.0 -1 $329,000
CHC (1 yr) 4 5 -1 0 0 0 1 -0 -0.0 0 -0 0.0 .495 .500 0.0 0.0 -0 $
FLA (1 yr) 2 2 -1 0 0 0 0 -0 -0.0 0 -0 0.0 .484 .500 0.0 0.0 -0 $

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
2005 24 CHC NL 5 4 0 0.0 112 .000 .000 .273 .200 .344 .000 .435 .200 .779 -42 .000 -0.9 -0.1 .250 .250 .000
2006 25 TEX AL 6 7 0 0.0 112 .000 .000 .276 .000 .341 .000 .440 .000 .781 -100 .000 -1.8 -0.2 .000 .000 .000
2007 26 TEX AL 2 2 0 0.0 108 .000 .272 .000 .340 .000 .426 .000 .766 -100 .000 -0.6 -0.1 .000 .000 .000
2009 28 FLA NL 2 2 0 0.0 109 .000 .268 .000 .342 .000 .426 .000 .768 -100 .000 -0.3 -0.0 .000 .000 .000
4 Yrs 15 15 0 0.0 111 .000 .000 .274 .071 .342 .000 .435 .071 .777 -79 .000 -3.6 -0.3 .071 .077 .000
162 Game Avg. 78 78 0 0.0 111 .000 .000 .274 .071 .342 .000 .435 .071 .777 -79 .000 -3.6 -0.3 .071 .077 .000
TEX (2 yrs) 8 9 0 0.0 111 .000 .000 .275 .000 .341 .000 .436 .000 .777 -100 .000 -2.4 -0.2 .000 .000 .000
CHC (1 yr) 5 4 0 0.0 112 .000 .000 .273 .200 .344 .000 .435 .200 .779 -42 .000 -0.9 -0.1 .250 .250 .000
FLA (1 yr) 2 2 0 0.0 109 .000 .268 .000 .342 .000 .426 .000 .768 -100 .000 -0.3 -0.0 .000 .000 .000
AL (2 yrs) 8 9 0 0.0 111 .000 .000 .275 .000 .341 .000 .436 .000 .777 -100 .000 -2.4 -0.2 .000 .000 .000
NL (2 yrs) 7 6 0 0.0 111 .000 .000 .272 .167 .344 .000 .433 .167 .777 -52 .000 -1.2 -0.1 .200 .200 .000

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
2005 24 CHC NL 5 0.0% 60.0% 20.0% 0.0% 3.00 1.3 20% 0%
2006 25 TEX AL 6 0.0% 33.3% 0.0% 0.0% 3.0 5.00 67% 0%
2007 26 TEX AL 2 0.0% 100.0% 0.0% 0.0% 1.0 0%
2009 28 FLA NL 2 0.0% 50.0% 0.0% 0.0% 1.0 0% 0%
4 Yrs 15 0.0% 53.3% 6.7% 0.0% 8.00 1.6 6.00 33% 0%
MLB Averages 2.7% 17.2% 8.5% 8.0% 34% 2.01 5.2 33.0 7.7 0.79 1.07 70% 19% 7.6% 12%

Win Probability

Year Age Tm Lg BtRuns BtWins Plays WPA WPA+ WPA- aLI WPA/LI Clutch RE24 REW boLI RE24/boLI PHlev AB
2005 24 CHC NL -0.9 -0.1 5 -0.0 0.1 -0.1 1.25 -0.1 0.0 -0.4 -0.0 1.21 -0.6 0
2006 25 TEX AL -1.8 -0.2 6 -0.3 0.0 -0.3 1.44 -0.2 -0.0 -2.9 -0.3 1.05 -2.4 0
2007 26 TEX AL -0.6 -0.1 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.1 1.75 -0.0 0.0 -0.7 -0.1 1.17 -0.6 0
2009 28 FLA NL -0.3 -0.0 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.0 .73 -0.0 0.0 -0.4 -0.0 0.86 -0.4 0
4 Yrs -3.6 -0.3 15 -0.5 0.1 -0.6 1.32 -0.3 -0.0 -4.3 -0.4 1.09 -4.0 0

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
2005 24 CHC NL 0 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2006 25 TEX AL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2007 26 TEX AL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2009 28 FLA NL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Yrs 0 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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
2005 24 CHC NL 5 40% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0% 1 0 0% 5 0 0% 1 0 0% 0 0 0
2006 25 TEX AL 6 67% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0% 2 1 50% 2 1 50% 5 0 0% 1 0 0% 1 0 0% 0
2007 26 TEX AL 2 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0% 1 0 0% 2 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0
2009 28 FLA NL 2 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 100% 1 0 0% 1 0 0% 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0
4 Yrs 15 40% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 33% 5 1 20% 5 1 20% 13 0 0% 2 0 0% 1 0 0% 0
MLB Averages 54% 67% 11% 33% 15% 51% 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
2005 24 CHC NL 5 20 4.00 13 65% 23% 31% 38% 8% 77% 0% 50% 60% 20% 20% 1 0 20% 1 0 0% 0 0 33% 0 0 0
2006 25 TEX AL 6 20 3.33 17 85% 35% 12% 29% 24% 65% 0% 55% 82% 33% 0% 0 0 0% 0 0 0% 0 0 0% 0 0 0
2007 26 TEX AL 2 7 3.50 6 86% 67% 17% 17% 0% 33% 0% 29% 50% 0% 0% 0 0 0% 0 0 0% 0 0 50% 0 0 0
2009 28 FLA NL 2 8 4.00 4 50% 25% 50% 0% 25% 75% 0% 38% 33% 0% 0% 0 0 0% 0 0 0% 0 0 0% 0 0 0
4 Yrs 15 55 3.67 40 73% 35% 23% 28% 15% 65% 0% 47% 65% 20% 7% 1 0 7% 1 0 0% 0 0 25% 0 0 0
MLB Averages 3.77 63% 27% 14% 27% 31% 73% 2% 46% 80% 28% 5% 15% 9% 26%

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
2005 24 4 5 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 .000 .200 .000 .200 -42 0 0 0 0 0 0
2006 25 27 11 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 .000 .091 .000 .091 -73 0 1 0 0 0 0
2007 26 29 13 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 .000 .077 .000 .077 -78 0 1 0 0 0 0
2008 27 29 13 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 .000 .077 .000 .077 -78 0 1 0 0 0 0
2009 28 31 15 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 .000 .071 .000 .071 -79 0 1 0 1 0 0

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
2005 24 4 5 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 .000 .200 .000 .200 0 4
2006 25 23 6 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 23
2007 26 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 2
2009 28 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 2
4 Yrs 31 15 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 .000 .071 .000 .071 0 31
162 Game Avg. 162 78 68 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 42 .000 .071 .000 .071 0 31

* 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.

Other Resources & Links

Error?     Compare     Search SABR's Baseball Index     Other Links@google.com     Baseball-Almanac.com     Retrosheet     The Baseball Page     WhatIfSports: John Koronka    

Viewed 7,353 times through May 31, 2012.
Name and misspellings: John james jim jimmy John jon Vincent Koronka

Player Page Tricks and Tips

Sum any set of rows by clicking anywhere (not red or blue) on the first and last rows of your selection. We will then compute the totals for the player between and including those two seasons.
Default Setting for this feature: Turn On / Turn Off
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.

The play-by-play information both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet.