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James Loney

James Anthony Loney

Position: First Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 205 lb.

Born: May 7, 1984 in Houston, TX
High School: Elkins (Missouri City, TX)
Drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1st round (19th pick) of the 2002 amateur draft.
Signed June 11, 2002. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 4, 2006
Team: Dodgers 2006-2011
2012 Contract Status: 3rd-Year Arb Eligible, 1 yr/$4.88M (11), 1 yr/$6.38M (12) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 5.012, Free Agent: 2013 [*], Agents: CAA Sports (Joe Urbon) [*]
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Fine Details  · Last Updated Feb 10, 2012, 12:12AM
All-Time Rank (among Batters): #1474. Bill Hall… #1475. Harry Bay… #1476. Bobby Knoop… #1477. JAMES LONEY… #1478. Hobe Ferris… #1479. Charlie Irwin… #1480. Mike Gallego… 

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
2006 22 LAD NL 48 111 102 20 29 6 5 4 18 1 0 8 10 .284 .342 .559 .901 125 57 8 1 0 0 1 3/
2007 23 LAD NL 96 375 344 41 114 18 4 15 67 0 1 28 48 .331 .381 .538 .919 134 185 6 1 0 2 5 3/ RoY-6
2008 24 LAD NL 161 651 595 66 172 35 6 13 90 7 4 45 85 .289 .338 .434 .772 103 258 25 3 1 7 6 *3
2009 25 LAD NL 158 651 576 73 162 25 2 13 90 7 3 70 68 .281 .357 .399 .756 103 230 16 0 1 4 10 *3
2010 26 LAD NL 161 648 588 67 157 41 2 10 88 10 5 52 95 .267 .329 .395 .723 98 232 14 4 0 4 9 *3
2011 27 LAD NL 158 582 531 56 153 30 1 12 65 4 0 42 67 .288 .339 .416 .755 110 221 8 1 3 5 7 *3/D
6 Seasons 782 3018 2736 323 787 155 20 67 418 29 13 245 373 .288 .346 .432 .778 108 1183 77 10 5 22 38
162 Game Avg. 162 625 567 67 163 32 4 14 87 6 3 51 77 .288 .346 .432 .778 108 245 16 2 1 5 8

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
2006 22 LAD NL 111 3 1 1 -1 -0 -2 3 4 0.4 5 0.5 -0.1 $ 3/
2007 23 LAD NL 375 15 -2 -1 2 -4 -6 11 15 1.5 19 1.9 -0.4 $ 3/ RoY-6
2008 24 LAD NL 651 -1 0 -1 -4 -3 -10 19 0 -0.1 3 0.3 -0.4 $411,000 *3
2009 25 LAD NL 652 6 -2 2 -1 7 -10 18 20 2.1 14 1.4 0.7 $465,000 *3
2010 26 LAD NL 648 -0 -0 -2 -2 3 -10 18 6 0.6 3 0.3 0.3 $3,100,000 *3
2011 27 LAD NL 582 7 0 -2 0 -2 -9 16 11 1.1 13 1.4 -0.3 $4,875,000 *3/D
6 Seasons 3019 30 -3 -3 -6 -1 -47 85 56 5.6 57 5.8 -0.2 $8,851,000

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
2006 22 LAD NL NLDS NYM L 1 5 4 0 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 0 .750 .800 .750 1.550 3 1 0 0 0 0
2008 24 LAD NL NLDS CHC W 3 14 14 2 3 1 0 1 6 0 0 0 2 .214 .214 .500 .714 7 0 0 0 0 0
2008 24 LAD NL NLCS PHI L 5 19 16 0 7 2 0 0 2 0 0 3 5 .438 .526 .563 1.089 9 0 0 0 0 1
2009 25 LAD NL NLDS STL W 3 13 12 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 .250 .308 .250 .558 3 0 0 0 0 0
2009 25 LAD NL NLCS PHI L 5 19 17 3 6 0 0 2 3 0 0 2 2 .353 .421 .706 1.127 12 1 0 0 0 0
3 Seasons (5 Series) 17 70 63 5 22 3 0 3 14 0 0 7 10 .349 .414 .540 .954 34 2 0 0 0 1
3 NLDS 7 32 30 2 9 1 0 1 9 0 0 2 3 .300 .344 .433 .777 13 1 0 0 0 0
2 NLCS 10 38 33 3 13 2 0 2 5 0 0 5 7 .394 .474 .636 1.110 21 1 0 0 0 1

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
2006 LAD NL 22 1B 39 228 212 15 1 17 .996 1 4 5.82 .994 9.36
2006 LAD NL 22 OF 2 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0 0.00 2.20
2006 LAD NL 22 RF 2 0 0 6.0 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0 -300 0 0.00 0.00 2.10 2.10
2007 LAD NL 23 1B 93 795 725 61 9 87 .989 -4 3 8.45 .993 9.17 RoY-6
2007 LAD NL 23 OF 1 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -1 0.00 2.30 RoY-6
2007 LAD NL 23 RF 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -1 -120 -1200 0.00 0.00 1.80 2.20 RoY-6
2008 LAD NL 24 1B 158 1498 1364 121 13 123 .991 -3 1 9.40 .992 9.28
2009 LAD NL 25 1B 155 1361 1269 85 7 110 .995 7 3 8.74 .993 9.21
2010 LAD NL 26 1B 160 1368 1286 78 4 103 .997 3 0 8.53 .993 9.13
2011 LAD NL 27 1B 150 134 125 1203.2 1208 1129 74 5 90 .996 -2 4 -2 4 9.00 8.02 .994 9.33 9.31
2011 LAD NL 27 DH 1 0
6 Seasons 1B 755 134 125 1203.2 6458 5985 434 39 530 .994 1 15 1 14 9.00 8.50 .993 9.33 9.23
2 Seasons OF 3 0 0 0 0 0 -2 -1 -171 0.00 2.23
2 Seasons RF 3 0 0 7.0 0 0 0 0 0 -2 -1 -274 -171 0.00 0.00 2.06 2.13
6 Seasons TOT 758 134 125 1203.2 6458 5985 434 39 530 .994 -1 13 -1 12 9.00 8.47 .993 9.33 9.20
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

Batting Average s c a p y
Active  .288 (36th)

Games Played s c a p y
2008 NL  161 (3rd)
2010 NL  161 (2nd)
2011 NL  158 (9th)

Doubles s c a p y
2010 NL  41 (5th)

Singles s c a p y
2008 NL  118 (8th)
2009 NL  122 (9th)

Double Plays Grounded Into s c a p y
2008 NL  25 (3rd)

AB per SO s c a p y
2009 NL  8.5 (10th)
Active  7.3 (35th)

Putouts† s c a p y
2008 NL  1,364 (3rd)
2010 NL  1,286 (3rd)
Active  5,985 (24th)

Def. Games as 1B s c a p y
2008 NL  158 (3rd)
2009 NL  155 (5th)
2010 NL  160 (1st)
Active  755 (15th)

Putouts as 1B s c a p y
2008 NL  1,364 (3rd)
2010 NL  1,286 (3rd)
Active  5,985 (16th)

Assists as 1B s c a p y
2008 NL  121 (5th)
Active  434 (18th)

Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y
2008 NL  13 (3rd)
Active  39 (17th)

Range Factor/9Inn as 1B† s c a p y
2008 NL  9.81 (4th)
Active  8.99 (18th)
Career  8.99 (50th)

Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y
Active  8.50 (19th)

Fielding % as 1B s c a p y
2010 NL  .997 (3rd)
2011 NL  .996 (4th)
Active  .994 (14th)
Career  .994 (46th)

                           

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray InkBatting - 5 (1764), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 2 (2144), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 12 (1389), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

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  6. Mike Ivie (938)
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  8. Rico Brogna (930)
  9. Casey Kotchman (929)
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  6. Sean Casey (936)
  7. Joe Rudi (935)
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  9. Alvin Davis (932)
  10. Tito Francona (932)
* - Signifies Hall of Famer
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  3. Ted Kluszewski (974)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  4. Ted Kluszewski (962)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
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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
200824Los Angeles Dodgers$411,000
200925Los Angeles Dodgers$465,000
201026Los Angeles Dodgers$3,100,000
201127Los Angeles Dodgers$4,875,000
201228Los Angeles Dodgers$6,375,000
Career to date (may be incomplete)$8,851,000Does 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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