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Evan Longoria

Evan Michael Longoria (Longo) (twitter: @Evan3Longoria)

Position: Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 210 lb.

Born: October 7, 1985 in Downey, CA
High School: St. John Bosco HS (Bellflower, CA)
School: California State University Long Beach (Long Beach, CA)
Drafted by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in the 1st round (3rd pick) of the 2006 amateur draft.
Signed June 7, 2006. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 12, 2008
Team: Rays 2008-2012
2012 Contract Status: Signed thru 2013, 6 yrs/$17.5M (08-13) & 14-16 team option (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 3.170, Arb Eligible: 2014, Free Agent: 2015 [*], Agents: Paul Cohen [*]
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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
2006	20	TBD-min	A+,AA,A-	62	276	248	41	78	14	1	18	58	4	2	19	44	.315	.360	.597	.957		148	3	2	1	6	4		VIS,MTG,HDV · CALL,SOUL,NYPL
2007	21	TBD-min	AA,AAA	136	575	485	97	145	29	0	26	95	4	0	73	110	.299	.402	.520	.921		252	8	13	0	4	5		MTG,DHM · SOUL,IL
2008	22	TBD-min	AAA	7	30	25	2	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	5	.200	.333	.200	.533		5	1	1	0	0	1		DHM · IL
2008	22	TBR	AL	122	508	448	67	122	31	2	27	85	7	0	46	122	.272	.343	.531	.874	127	238	8	6	0	8	4	*5/D6	AS,MVP-11,RoY-1
2009	23	TBR	AL	157	671	584	100	164	44	0	33	113	9	0	72	140	.281	.364	.526	.889	133	307	27	8	0	7	11	*5/D	AS,MVP-19,GG,SS
2010	24	TBR	AL	151	661	574	96	169	46	5	22	104	15	5	72	124	.294	.372	.507	.879	143	291	15	5	0	10	12	*5	AS,MVP-6,GG
2011	25	TBD-min	AA	4	17	15	5	4	0	0	3	3	0	0	1	2	.267	.353	.867	1.220		13	0	1	0	0	0		MTG · SOUL
2011	25	TBR	AL	133	574	483	78	118	26	1	31	99	3	2	80	93	.244	.355	.495	.850	139	239	11	6	0	5	6	*5/D	MVP-10
2012	26	TBR	AL	23	97	82	15	27	7	0	4	19	2	3	15	17	.329	.433	.561	.994	183	46	2	0	0	0	3	5
5 Yrs				586	2511	2171	356	600	154	8	117	420	36	10	285	496	.276	.362	.516	.879	137	1121	63	25	0	30	36
162 Game Avg.				162	694	600	98	166	43	2	32	116	10	3	79	137	.276	.362	.516	.879	137	310	17	7	0	8	10

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
2008	22	TBR	AL	122	508	15	2	0	9	2	28	3.0	17	45	4.5	.523	.517	3.5	1.2	36	$	*5/D6	AS,MVP-11,RoY-1
2009	23	TBR	AL	157	671	26	4	-5	19	2	45	4.7	23	68	6.7	.529	.528	4.8	2.2	49	$550,000	*5/D	AS,MVP-19,GG,SS
2010	24	TBR	AL	151	661	30	3	-1	20	2	54	5.8	22	76	7.8	.537	.534	5.7	2.5	56	$950,000	*5	AS,MVP-6,GG
2011	25	TBR	AL	133	574	28	-0	-0	22	1	51	5.5	20	71	7.2	.540	.533	5.0	2.6	49	$2,000,000	*5/D	MVP-10
2012	26	TBR	AL	23	97	9	-1	-0	2	0	10	1.1	3	14	1.3	.547	.507	1.2	0.2	12	$	5
5 Seasons				586	2511	108	7	-6	72	7	188	20.0	85	273	27.5	.533	.524	20.2	8.7	201	$3,500,000

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
2008	22	TBR	AL	508	342	84	6.6	106	.309	.272	.269	.343	.337	.531	.423	.874	.760	127	.626	17.3	1.6	.889	.377	.259	11.1
2009	23	TBR	AL	671	454	108	6.3	106	.313	.281	.265	.364	.333	.526	.425	.889	.759	133	.602	29.5	2.7	.886	.384	.245	14.1
2010	24	TBR	AL	661	435	110	6.8	96	.336	.294	.254	.372	.321	.507	.399	.879	.720	143	.662	37.0	3.6	.889	.355	.213	17.8
2011	25	TBR	AL	574	383	88	6.2	92	.239	.244	.249	.355	.312	.495	.394	.850	.706	139	.629	28.6	2.8	.862	.418	.251	5.5
2012	26	TBR	AL	97	60	19	8.5	91	.377	.329	.243	.433	.309	.561	.394	.994	.703	183	.757	10.0	1.0	1.000	.402	.232	2.7
5 Yrs				2511	1674	409	6.5	100	.304	.276	.259	.362	.325	.516	.410	.879	.735	137	.636	122.4	11.7	.886	.383	.240	55.1
162 Game Avg.				694	463	113	6.5	100	.304	.276	.259	.362	.325	.516	.410	.879	.735	137	.636	34	3	.886	.383	.240	15

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
2008	22	TBR	AL	ALDS	CHW	W	4	17	15	2	4	0	0	2	3	1	0	2	6	.267	.353	.667	1.020	10	0	0	0	0	0
2008	22	TBR	AL	ALCS	BOS	W	7	30	27	8	7	3	0	4	8	0	0	3	5	.259	.333	.815	1.148	22	3	0	0	0	0
2008	22	TBR	AL	WS	PHI	L	5	20	20	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	9	.050	.050	.050	.100	1	0	0	0	0	0

2010	24	TBR	AL	ALDS	TEX	L	5	21	20	2	4	2	0	1	2	0	0	1	4	.200	.238	.450	.688	9	0	0	0	0	0
2011	25	TBR	AL	ALDS	TEX	L	4	18	16	2	3	0	0	1	3	0	0	2	8	.188	.278	.375	.653	6	0	0	0	0	0
3 Yrs (5 Series)							25	106	98	14	19	5	0	8	18	1	0	8	32	.194	.255	.490	.745	48	3	0	0	0	0
3 ALDS							13	56	51	6	11	2	0	4	8	1	0	5	18	.216	.286	.490	.776	25	0	0	0	0	0
1 ALCS							7	30	27	8	7	3	0	4	8	0	0	3	5	.259	.333	.815	1.148	22	3	0	0	0	0
1 WS							5	20	20	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	9	.050	.050	.050	.100	1	0	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
2008	TBR	AL	22		4	4	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.250	.250	.500	.750	2	0	0	0	0	0
2009	TBR	AL	23		DNP
2010	TBR	AL	24	as 3B	2	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1.000	1.000	2.000	3.000	2	0	0	0	0	0
3 Yrs (2 GP)					6	5	1	2	2	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	.400	.500	.800	1.300	4	0	0	0	0	0

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
2008	22	TBR	AL	508	5.3%	24.0%	9.1%	11.8%	49%	2.65	3.7	16.6	5.3	0.61	0.77	60%	24%	15.2%	14%
2009	23	TBR	AL	671	4.9%	20.9%	10.7%	11.5%	47%	1.94	4.2	17.7	5.2	0.64	1.05	62%	21%	12.8%	7%
2010	24	TBR	AL	661	3.3%	18.8%	10.9%	11.0%	43%	1.72	4.6	26.1	5.5	0.57	0.82	66%	20%	8.5%	11%
2011	25	TBR	AL	574	5.4%	16.2%	13.9%	10.1%	49%	1.16	5.2	15.6	4.9	0.60	0.77	63%	16%	14.6%	14%
2012	26	TBR	AL	97	4.1%	17.5%	15.5%	11.3%	41%	1.13	4.8	20.5	4.3	0.76	0.95	63%	20%	11.8%	8%
5 Yrs				2511	4.7%	19.8%	11.4%	11.1%	47%	1.74	4.4	18.6	5.2	0.61	0.86	63%	20%	12.4%	11%
MLB Averages					2.6%	18.2%	8.5%	7.7%	33%	2.14	4.9	34.8	8.0	0.80	1.08	69%	19%	7.5%	13%

Win Probability

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	BtRuns	BtWins	Plays	WPA	WPA+	WPA-	aLI	WPA/LI	Clutch	RE24	REW	boLI	RE24/boLI	PHlev	AB
2008	22	TBR	AL	17.3	1.6	521	0.7	10.2	-9.5	1.03	1.5	-0.8	7.0	0.7	0.99	14.8	1.35	1
2009	23	TBR	AL	29.5	2.7	689	1.9	13.7	-11.8	.99	2.3	-0.4	25.6	2.4	0.94	27.5	1.13	2
2010	24	TBR	AL	37.0	3.6	696	3.3	14.6	-11.3	1.06	2.9	0.2	31.0	3.1	1.00	33.5		0
2011	25	TBR	AL	28.6	2.8	588	3.6	13.0	-9.4	.99	3.4	0.3	32.4	3.3	1.03	35.0	3.38	2
2012	26	TBR	AL	10.0	1.0	103	1.0	2.5	-1.5	1.04	0.7	0.3	13.5	1.3	0.97	8.8		0
5 Yrs				122.4	11.7	2597	10.6	54.1	-43.4	1.02	10.7	-0.3	109.5	10.8	0.99	119.6	2.07	5

Baserunning & Misc. Stats*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	ROE	RS%	SBO	SB	CS	SB%	SB2	CS2	SB3	CSH	PO	PCS	OOB	BT	XBT%	1^stS	1^stS2	1^stS3	1^stD	1^stD3	1^stDH	2^ndS	2^ndS3	2^ndSH
2008	22	TBR	AL	4	27%	171	7	0	100%	6	0	1	0	2	0	2	12	48%	21	14	7	2	0	2	19	7	11
2009	23	TBR	AL	6	32%	245	9	0	100%	9	0	0	0	1	0	4	15	38%	34	23	11	14	11	3	15	5	10
2010	24	TBR	AL	4	33%	252	15	5	75%	13	5	2	0	4	2	2	17	56%	21	15	6	10	5	5	21	3	18
2011	25	TBR	AL	8	27%	222	3	2	60%	3	2	0	0	0	0	5	14	36%	29	23	6	7	4	3	17	7	10
2012	26	TBR	AL	1	29%	38	2	3	40%	2	2	0	1	1	1	0	3	67%	3	1	2	1	0	1	5	2	3
5 Yrs				23	30%	928	36	10	78%	33	9	3	1	8	3	13	61	45%	108	76	32	34	20	14	77	24	52

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
2008	22	TBR	AL	508	27%	122	12	0	1	1	0	1	1.35	27	1	24	19	8	18	9	0	0	0		93	8	9%	56	12	21%	359	58	16%	41	20	49%	21	6	29%	0
2009	23	TBR	AL	671	29%	164	11	1	2	0	0	0	1.13	33	1	16	24	9	16	17	0	0	0		136	27	20%	73	23	32%	456	84	18%	64	26	41%	41	23	56%	0
2010	24	TBR	AL	661	31%	169	16	1	0	0	0	0		22	0	15	17	5	10	12	0	0	0		125	15	12%	62	24	39%	466	87	19%	54	31	57%	38	15	39%	0
2011	25	TBR	AL	574	26%	118	13	0	2	2	0	1	3.38	31	0	7	21	10	14	17	1	0	0		113	11	10%	53	19	36%	392	69	18%	40	20	50%	34	21	62%	0
2012	26	TBR	AL	97	32%	27	3	0	0	0	0	0		4	0	4	2	2	2	2	0	0	0		21	2	10%	8	0	0%	64	15	23%	4	3	75%	6	4	67%	0
5 Yrs				2511	29%	600	55	2	5	3	0	2	2.07	117	2	66	83	34	60	57	1	0	0		488	63	13%	252	78	31%	1737	313	18%	203	100	49%	140	69	49%	0
MLB Averages					55%																			68%			11%			32%			14%			51%			56%

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
2008	22	TBR	AL	509	2012	3.95	1256	62%	26%	18%	29%	27%	74%	1%	46%	75%	28%	5%	26	3	14%	69	28	9%	45	28	24%	-1	0	0
2009	23	TBR	AL	673	2655	3.95	1599	60%	28%	18%	26%	28%	72%	4%	43%	75%	23%	7%	49	6	19%	126	52	8%	53	27	21%	-2	0	0
2010	24	TBR	AL	662	2564	3.87	1520	59%	28%	16%	25%	30%	72%	4%	43%	77%	22%	8%	50	5	18%	121	51	10%	67	35	24%	-1	0	0
2011	25	TBR	AL	578	2228	3.85	1292	58%	29%	15%	25%	31%	71%	2%	41%	78%	23%	8%	45	5	17%	101	36	12%	68	32	26%	-4	0	0
2012	26	TBR	AL	97	380	3.92	219	58%	29%	16%	26%	30%	71%	6%	41%	78%	21%	9%	9	0	19%	18	7	8%	8	6	24%	0	0	0
5 Yrs				2519	9839	3.91	5886	60%	28%	17%	26%	29%	72%	3%	43%	76%	23%	7%	179	19	17%	435	174	10%	241	128	24%	-8	0	0
MLB Averages						3.81		63%	28%	15%	27%	30%	72%	2%	45%	79%	27%	5%			15%			9%			25%

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	SF	IBB
2008	22	122	508	448	67	122	31	2	27	85	7	0	46	122	.272	.343	.531	.874	127	238	8	6	8	4
2009	23	279	1179	1032	167	286	75	2	60	198	16	0	118	262	.277	.355	.528	.883	130	545	35	14	15	15
2010	24	430	1840	1606	263	455	121	7	82	302	31	5	190	386	.283	.361	.521	.881	135	836	50	19	25	27
2011	25	563	2414	2089	341	573	147	8	113	401	34	7	270	479	.274	.360	.515	.874	136	1075	61	25	30	33
2012	26	586	2511	2171	356	600	154	8	117	420	36	10	285	496	.276	.362	.516	.879	137	1121	63	25	30	36

Neutralized Batting

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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
2008	22	122	505	446	65	120	30	2	27	83	7	45	122	.269	.339	.527	.866	79	122
2009	23	157	671	584	100	164	44	0	33	113	9	72	140	.281	.364	.526	.889	110	157
2010	24	151	678	586	107	181	49	5	24	116	16	77	124	.309	.388	.532	.920	121	151
2011	25	133	593	494	90	129	28	1	34	114	3	87	93	.261	.376	.528	.904	97	133
2012	26	23	102	85	17	30	8	0	4	22	2	17	17	.353	.461	.588	1.049	23	23
5 Yrs		586	2549	2195	379	624	159	8	122	448	37	298	496	.284	.372	.531	.903	430	586
162 Game Avg.		162	705	607	105	173	44	2	34	124	10	82	137	.284	.372	.531	.903	119	586

* 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 2008 * 2009 2010 (3B)	Awards (yr lg award) 2008 AL Rookie of the Year	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 2008 AL (11, 10%) 2009 AL (19, 2%) 2010 AL (6, 26%) 2011 AL (10, 7%) 0.45 Career Shares (472nd)	Gold Gloves 2009 AL (3B) 2010 AL (3B) All multiple winners
Silver Sluggers 2009 AL (3B)	Wins Above Replacement† s c a p y 2009 AL 6.7 (5th) 2010 AL 7.8 (2nd) 2011 AL 7.2 (7th)	WAR Position Players† s c a p y 2009 AL 6.7 (4th) 2010 AL 7.8 (2nd) 2011 AL 7.2 (6th) Active 27.5 (39th)	Offensive WAR† s c a p y 2009 AL 4.8 (9th) 2010 AL 5.7 (6th)
Defensive WAR† s c a p y 2009 AL 2.2 (5th) 2010 AL 2.5 (3rd) 2011 AL 2.6 (4th) Active 8.7 (24th)	Slugging % s c a p y 2008 AL .531 (8th)	On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y 2010 AL .879 (10th)	Runs Scored s c a p y 2010 AL 96 (10th)
Total Bases s c a p y 2009 AL 307 (7th) 2010 AL 291 (10th)	Doubles s c a p y 2009 AL 44 (7th) 2010 AL 46 (2nd)	Triples s c a p y 2010 AL 5 (9th)	Home Runs s c a p y 2009 AL 33 (8th) 2011 AL 31 (8th)
Runs Batted In s c a p y 2009 AL 113 (4th) 2010 AL 104 (9th)	Bases on Balls s c a p y 2011 AL 80 (8th)	Strikeouts s c a p y 2009 AL 140 (10th)	Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y 2010 AL 143 (7th) 2011 AL 139 (9th)
Runs Created s c a p y 2010 AL 110 (8th)	Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y 2009 AL 30 (9th) 2010 AL 37 (7th) Active 122 (41st)	Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y 2009 AL 2.7 (9th) 2010 AL 3.6 (7th) Active 11.7 (40th)	Extra Base Hits s c a p y 2009 AL 77 (4th) 2010 AL 73 (6th)
Sacrifice Flies s c a p y 2009 AL 7 (9th) 2010 AL 10 (4th)	Intentional Bases on Balls s c a p y 2009 AL 11 (5th) 2010 AL 12 (6th) 2012 AL 3 (9th)	Double Plays Grounded Into s c a p y 2009 AL 27 (1st)	Caught Stealing s c a p y 2012 AL 3 (8th)
Power-Speed # s c a p y 2010 AL 17.8 (7th)	AB per HR s c a p y 2008 AL 16.6 (7th) 2011 AL 15.6 (7th)	Base-Out Runs Added (RE24)† s c a p y 2012 AL 13.53 (7th)	Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y 2011 AL 3.6 (7th) Active 10.6 (48th)
Situ. Wins Added (WPA/LI)† s c a p y 2011 AL 3.4 (10th)	Base-Out Wins Added (REW)† s c a p y 2011 AL 3.3 (10th) 2012 AL 1.3 (8th)

† 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 Ink	Batting - 29 (809), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame Monitor	Batting - 30 (607), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame Standards	Batting - 18 (841), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores

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