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Starling Marte

Starling Javier Marte

Position: Leftfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: October 9, 1988 in Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional, Dominican Republic
Signed by the Pittsburgh Pirates as an amateur free agent in 2007. (All Transactions)
Debut: July 26, 2012 (Age 23) vs. HOU 4 AB, 2 H, 1 HR, 1 RBI, 0 SB
Team: Pirates 2012-2013
2013 Contract Status: Pre-Arb Eligible, 1 yr/$500k (13) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2013): 0.070, Arb Eligible: 2016, Free Agent: 2019 [*],
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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
2007	18	PIT-min	FRk	45	156	132	27	29	4	1	1	11	16	2	10	29	.220	.307	.288	.595		38	6	7	6	1	0		PIR · DOSL
2008	19	PIT-min	FRk	65	293	257	53	76	10	2	9	44	20	8	16	53	.296	.367	.455	.822		117	2	14	4	2	0		PIR · DOSL
2009	20	PIT-min	A,Rk,A+	57	256	230	42	71	9	5	3	35	24	7	12	56	.309	.371	.430	.802		99	2	12	0	2	0		CHL,BRD,LBG · SALL,GULF,CARL
2010	21	PIT-min	A+,Rk	68	281	248	47	79	19	5	2	38	26	9	13	65	.319	.387	.460	.847		114	5	16	2	2	0		BDT,BRD · FLOR,GULF
2011	22	PIT-min	AA	129	572	536	91	178	38	8	12	50	24	12	22	100	.332	.370	.500	.870		268	9	11	1	2	3		ATO · EL
2012	23	PIT-min	AAA,A-	100	436	393	64	111	21	13	12	62	21	12	28	94	.282	.343	.494	.837		194	3	10	2	3	5		INA,SCS · IL,NYPL
2012	23	PIT	NL	47	182	167	18	43	3	6	5	17	12	5	8	50	.257	.300	.437	.737	104	73	5	3	2	2	0	7/8
2013	24	PIT	NL	47	210	188	35	58	9	3	5	17	11	5	10	46	.309	.375	.468	.843	141	88	3	10	2	0	0	*7/8
2 Yrs				94	392	355	53	101	12	9	10	34	23	10	18	96	.285	.340	.454	.794	123	161	8	13	4	2	0
162 Game Avg.				162	676	612	91	174	21	16	17	59	40	17	31	165	.285	.340	.454	.794	123	277	14	22	7	3	0

Player Value--Batters

WAR Explained (v2.2): 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
2012	23	PIT	NL	47	182	2	-1	-1	6	-2	5	0.6	6	11	1.1	.511	.503	0.4	0.5	5		7/8
2013	24	PIT	NL	47	210	11	-0	-0	8	-2	17	1.8	6	24	2.5	.541	.512	1.6	0.6	16	$500,000	*7/8
2 Seasons				94	392	13	-1	-1	14	-3	22	2.4	12	34	3.6	.526	.508	2.0	1.1	20	$500,000

Standard Fielding

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Adv Fielding w/ run summary

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	Fld%	Rtot	Rdrs	Rtot/yr	Rdrs/yr	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG
2012	PIT	NL	23	OF	45	39	35	351.0	72	66	3	3	.958	3	6	12	20	1.77	1.53	.987	2.11	2.09
2012	PIT	NL	23	LF	43	38	34	338.0	69	63	3	3	.957	3	6	11	21	1.76	1.53	.987	1.83	1.81
2012	PIT	NL	23	CF	4	1	1	13.0	3	3	0	0	1.000	0	0	33	0	2.08	0.75	.990	2.49	2.45
2013	PIT	NL	24	OF	47	46	41	411.1	72	69	1	2	.972	3	8	9	23	1.53	1.49	.985	2.15	2.13
2013	PIT	NL	24	LF	45	44	39	381.2	68	65	1	2	.971	3	8	11	25	1.56	1.47	.980	1.88	1.86
2013	PIT	NL	24	CF	6	2	2	29.2	4	4	0	0	1.000	-0	0	-12	0	1.21	0.67	.988	2.43	2.42
	2 Seasons			OF	92	85	76	762.1	144	135	4	5	.965	7	14	10	22	1.64	1.51	.986	2.13	2.11
	2 Seasons			LF	88	82	73	719.2	137	128	4	5	.964	6	14	11	23	1.65	1.50	.984	1.86	1.84
	2 Seasons			CF	10	3	3	42.2	7	7	0	0	1.000	0	0	2	0	1.48	0.70	.989	2.45	2.43
	2 Seasons			TOT	92	85	76	762.1	144	135	4	5	.965	7	14	10	22	1.64	1.51	.986	2.13	2.11

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-1945 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
From 1945 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 1945 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 1916 on.
Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1945 to 1973 and complete from then on.
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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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Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Wins Above Replacement† s c a p y 2013 NL 2.5 (10th)	WAR Position Players† s c a p y 2013 NL 2.5 (5th)	Defensive WAR† s c a p y 2013 NL 0.7 (10th)	Games Played s c a p y 2013 NL 47 (5th)
At Bats s c a p y 2013 NL 188 (5th)	Plate Appearances s c a p y 2013 NL 210 (5th)	Runs Scored s c a p y 2013 NL 35 (5th)	Hits s c a p y 2013 NL 58 (3rd)
Triples s c a p y 2013 NL 3 (4th)	Stolen Bases s c a p y 2013 NL 11 (5th)	Singles s c a p y 2013 NL 41 (6th)	Runs Created s c a p y 2013 NL 33 (10th)
Times On Base s c a p y 2013 NL 78 (5th)	Hit By Pitch s c a p y 2013 NL 10 (2nd)	Caught Stealing s c a p y 2013 NL 5 (3rd)	Power-Speed # s c a p y 2013 NL 6.9 (9th)
Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y 2013 NL 1.5 (9th)	Def. Games as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 2013 NL 45 (1st)	Errors Committed as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 2012 NL 3 (5th) 2013 NL 2 (3rd)	Def. Games as OF s c a p y 2013 NL 47 (2nd)
Total Zone Runs as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 2013 NL 3 (5th)

† Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1945-1973, 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 - 11 (1368), Average HOFer ≈ 144
JAWS	Left Field (412th), 1.7 career WAR/1.7 7yr-peak WAR/1.7 JAWS Average HOF LF (out of 19) = 64.9 career WAR/41.2 7yr-peak WAR/53.1 JAWS

Transactions

January 4, 2007: Signed by the Pittsburgh Pirates as an amateur free agent.

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Salaries

Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses

Year	Age	Team	Salary
2013	24	Pittsburgh Pirates	$500,000
2013 Status		Pre-Arb Eligible, Earliest Arb Eligible: 2016, Earliest Free Agent: 2019
Career to date (may be incomplete)			$500,000

Primary salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
Additional 1915-1969 salaries researched via Baseball Hall of Fame contract archives by Dr. Michael Haupert of UW-LaCrosse.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.
Salaries converted to alternate years using Consumer Price Index (CPI) data courtesty of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Board.

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