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Víctor Martínez

Victor Jesus Martinez

Positions: Catcher and First Baseman
Bats: Both, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 210 lb.

Born: December 23, 1978 in Ciudad Bolivar, Bolivar, Venezuela
High School: Ciudad Bolivar (Ciudad Bolivar, VE)
Signed
by the Cleveland Indians as an amateur free agent in 1996. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 10, 2002 (Age 23)
Teams (by GP): Indians/RedSox/Tigers 2002-2013
2013 Contract Status: Signed thru 2014, 4 yrs/$50M (11-14) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2013): 9.114, Free Agent: 2015 [*], Agents: Octagon [*]
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Fine Details  · Last updated May 15, 2013 5:17PM
All-Time Rank (among batters): #508. Raul Ibanez… #509. Lance Johnson… #510. Marty McManus… #511. VICTOR MARTINEZ… #512. Steve Sax… #513. Tony Pena… #514. Donie Bush… 

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
2002 23 CLE AL 12 36 32 2 9 1 0 1 5 0 0 3 2 .281 .333 .406 .740 99 13 1 0 0 1 0 /2D
2003 24 CLE AL 49 174 159 15 46 4 0 1 16 1 1 13 21 .289 .345 .333 .678 84 53 8 1 0 1 0 2/D
2004 25 CLE AL 141 591 520 77 147 38 1 23 108 0 1 60 69 .283 .359 .492 .851 125 256 16 5 0 6 11 *2/D AS,MVP-21,SS
2005 26 CLE AL 147 622 547 73 167 33 0 20 80 0 1 63 78 .305 .378 .475 .853 130 260 16 5 0 7 9 *2/D MVP-18
2006 27 CLE AL 153 652 572 82 181 37 0 16 93 0 0 71 78 .316 .391 .465 .856 122 266 27 3 0 6 8 *23/D
2007 28 CLE AL 147 645 562 78 169 40 0 25 114 0 0 62 76 .301 .374 .505 .879 129 284 19 10 0 11 12 *23/D AS,MVP-7
2008 29 CLE AL 73 294 266 30 74 17 0 2 35 0 0 24 32 .278 .337 .365 .701 88 97 12 1 0 3 4 23/D
2009 30 TOT AL 155 672 588 88 178 33 1 23 108 1 0 75 74 .303 .381 .480 .861 127 282 17 3 0 6 3 23/D AS,MVP-21
2009 30 CLE AL 99 435 377 56 107 21 1 15 67 0 0 51 51 .284 .368 .464 .832 122 175 11 2 0 5 3 23/D
2009 30 BOS AL 56 237 211 32 71 12 0 8 41 1 0 24 23 .336 .405 .507 .912 134 107 6 1 0 1 0 23
2010 31 BOS AL 127 538 493 64 149 32 1 20 79 1 0 40 52 .302 .351 .493 .844 122 243 17 0 0 5 5 *23/D AS
2011 32 DET AL 145 595 540 76 178 40 0 12 103 1 0 46 51 .330 .380 .470 .850 131 254 20 2 0 7 6 *D2/3 MVP-16
2013 34 DET AL 36 154 140 10 31 7 0 2 18 0 0 12 19 .221 .279 .314 .594 59 44 5 0 0 2 1 *D/3
11 Yrs 1185 4973 4419 595 1329 282 3 145 759 4 3 469 552 .301 .368 .464 .832 120 2052 158 30 0 55 59
162 Game Avg. 162 680 604 81 182 39 0 20 104 1 0 64 75 .301 .368 .464 .832 120 281 22 4 0 8 8
CLE (8 yrs) 821 3449 3035 413 900 191 2 103 518 1 3 347 407 .297 .369 .463 .832 120 1404 110 27 0 40 47
DET (2 yrs) 181 749 680 86 209 47 0 14 121 1 0 58 70 .307 .359 .438 .797 116 298 25 2 0 9 7
BOS (2 yrs) 183 775 704 96 220 44 1 28 120 2 0 64 75 .313 .368 .497 .865 126 350 23 1 0 6 5

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 Awards
2002 23 CLE AL 12 36 -0 0 -0 -1 0 -1 -0.1 1 0 0.0 .492 .499 0.1 -0.1 1 /2D
2003 24 CLE AL 49 174 -1 -1 -1 -1 2 -2 -0.2 7 4 0.4 .495 .499 0.5 0.1 5 2/D
2004 25 CLE AL 141 591 19 -1 -2 -8 8 16 1.6 22 38 3.7 .511 .509 4.4 0.1 46 $304,500 *2/D AS,MVP-21,SS
2005 26 CLE AL 147 622 24 -3 -2 0 9 29 2.9 23 52 5.2 .520 .518 5.2 0.9 52 $372,100 *2/D MVP-18
2006 27 CLE AL 153 652 20 -3 -2 -17 7 4 0.5 24 28 2.8 .503 .503 4.5 -0.9 45 $1,000,000 *23/D
2007 28 CLE AL 147 645 20 -1 -2 -2 6 21 2.1 23 44 4.3 .514 .512 4.5 0.4 46 $3,200,000 *23/D AS,MVP-7
2008 29 CLE AL 73 294 -4 0 -2 -2 3 -6 -0.5 11 5 0.6 .492 .496 0.8 0.1 7 $4,450,000 23/D
2009 30 CLE AL 99 435 12 0 0 -6 0 7 0.7 16 22 2.2 .507 .504 2.8 -0.5 28 $5,900,000 23/D AS,MVP-21
2009 30 BOS AL 56 237 12 0 -0 -8 1 4 0.5 9 13 1.3 .508 .503 2.1 -0.7 21 23 AS,MVP-21
2010 31 BOS AL 127 538 15 -1 -1 -4 6 14 1.6 20 34 3.6 .512 .509 4.0 0.3 38 $7,700,000 *23/D AS
2011 32 DET AL 145 595 25 -3 -2 -1 -9 10 1.1 22 32 3.2 .507 .506 3.4 -1.1 33 $12,000,000 *D2/3 MVP-16
2013 34 DET AL 36 154 -9 -0 -1 0 -3 -14 -1.4 5 -8 -0.9 .459 .491 -0.9 -0.3 -8 $13,000,000 *D/3
11 Seasons 1185 4973 132 -14 -15 -50 29 82 8.9 184 266 26.5 .507 .504 31.3 -1.6 316 $47,926,600
CLE (8 yrs) 821 3449 90 -9 -11 -37 35 67 7.1 128 194 19.3 .508 .505 22.7 0.2 231 $15,226,600
DET (2 yrs) 181 749 15 -4 -2 -1 -13 -4 -0.3 28 24 2.4 .497 .499 2.5 -1.4 25 $25,000,000
BOS (2 yrs) 183 775 27 -1 -1 -12 7 19 2.1 29 48 4.9 .510 .506 6.1 -0.4 60 $7,700,000

Postseason Batting

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
2007 28 CLE AL ALDS NYY W 4 19 17 2 6 1 0 1 4 0 0 1 3 .353 .421 .588 1.009 10 0 1 0 0 1
2007 28 CLE AL ALCS BOS L 7 30 27 4 8 1 0 1 3 0 0 3 5 .296 .367 .444 .811 12 0 0 0 0 2
2009 30 BOS AL ALDS LAA L 3 12 11 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 2 .182 .250 .182 .432 2 0 0 0 0 0
2011 32 DET AL ALDS NYY W 5 20 18 1 4 0 0 1 3 0 0 2 5 .222 .300 .389 .689 7 0 0 0 0 0
2011 32 DET AL ALCS TEX L 6 26 22 3 6 0 1 1 2 0 0 3 1 .273 .385 .500 .885 11 2 1 0 0 0
3 Yrs (5 Series) 25 107 95 10 26 2 1 4 14 0 0 10 16 .274 .355 .442 .797 42 2 2 0 0 3
3 ALDS 12 51 46 3 12 1 0 2 9 0 0 4 10 .261 .333 .413 .746 19 0 1 0 0 1
2 ALCS 13 56 49 7 14 1 1 2 5 0 0 6 6 .286 .375 .469 .844 23 2 1 0 0 2

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 PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO Awards
2002 CLE AL 23 C 9 7 6 69.0 58 55 2 1 0 .983 -1 -17 7.43 6.33 .993 6.97 6.89 1 1 11 2 15% 32% 0
2002 CLE AL 23 DH 1 0
2003 CLE AL 24 C 40 40 35 342.0 255 231 23 1 2 .996 0 -1 0 -4 6.68 6.35 .991 6.79 6.72 3 10 20 9 31% 30% 0
2003 CLE AL 24 DH 5 3
2004 CLE AL 25 C 132 124 115 1108.0 932 865 61 6 11 .994 -3 -8 -3 -8 7.52 7.02 .992 7.12 7.07 9 35 89 30 25% 32% 1 AS,MVP-21,SS
2004 CLE AL 25 DH 8 7 AS,MVP-21,SS
2005 CLE AL 26 C 142 139 131 1233.0 967 904 58 5 6 .995 1 0 1 0 7.02 6.77 .992 6.79 6.72 3 23 96 29 23% 30% 2 MVP-18
2005 CLE AL 26 DH 2 2 MVP-18
2006 CLE AL 27 C 133 127 118 1110.0 806 753 45 8 7 .990 -8 -16 -9 -17 6.47 6.00 .992 7.09 6.99 4 34 100 22 18% 30% 0
2006 CLE AL 27 1B 22 19 17 166.1 154 149 5 0 15 1.000 -2 -1 -12 -7 8.33 7.00 .994 9.54 9.40
2006 CLE AL 27 DH 3 3
2007 CLE AL 28 C 121 118 104 1042.2 836 779 53 4 8 .995 7 -2 8 -2 7.18 6.88 .991 7.28 7.20 6 27 70 33 32% 27% 1 AS,MVP-7
2007 CLE AL 28 1B 30 24 21 221.0 201 187 13 1 18 .995 0 0 1 0 8.14 6.67 .995 9.37 9.27 AS,MVP-7
2007 CLE AL 28 DH 3 3 AS,MVP-7
2008 CLE AL 29 C 55 54 43 447.1 347 328 16 3 1 .991 3 0 8 0 6.92 6.25 .991 7.26 7.19 2 10 22 13 37% 27% 0
2008 CLE AL 29 1B 10 9 8 82.0 87 82 4 1 9 .989 -1 -2 -16 -28 9.44 8.60 .994 9.26 9.18
2008 CLE AL 29 DH 5 5
2009 TOT AL 30 C 85 82 69 687.0 526 500 22 4 3 .992 -5 -12 -9 -20 6.84 6.14 .992 7.48 7.39 4 21 56 9 14% 26% 0 AS,MVP-21
2009 TOT AL 30 1B 70 66 56 575.0 531 508 20 3 55 .994 -1 -2 -3 -4 8.26 7.54 .994 9.13 9.02 AS,MVP-21
2009 CLE AL 30 C 52 51 44 430.0 299 285 14 0 2 1.000 -3 -8 -8 -22 6.26 5.75 .992 7.48 7.39 3 14 39 7 15% 26% 0
2009 CLE AL 30 1B 47 44 38 385.2 368 348 17 3 41 .992 2 2 5 7 8.52 7.77 .994 9.13 9.02
2009 CLE AL 30 DH 3 3 AS,MVP-21
2009 BOS AL 30 C 33 31 25 257.0 227 215 8 4 1 .982 -2 -4 -9 -18 7.81 6.76 .992 7.48 7.39 1 7 17 2 11% 26% 0
2009 BOS AL 30 1B 23 22 18 189.1 163 160 3 0 14 1.000 -3 -4 -18 -25 7.75 7.09 .994 9.13 9.02
2010 BOS AL 31 C 110 106 86 904.0 828 778 44 6 2 .993 -6 -8 -8 -10 8.18 7.47 .990 7.44 7.37 4 37 99 27 21% 26% 2 AS
2010 BOS AL 31 1B 14 12 8 106.0 111 95 14 2 10 .982 -2 4 -20 46 9.25 7.79 .994 9.32 9.23 AS
2010 BOS AL 31 DH 4 4 AS
2011 DET AL 32 DH 112 112 MVP-16
2011 DET AL 32 C 26 26 23 219.0 160 141 17 2 3 .988 -2 -2 -11 -11 6.49 6.08 .992 7.61 7.57 0 10 29 8 22% 28% 1 MVP-16
2011 DET AL 32 1B 6 6 6 52.0 48 38 10 0 4 1.000 0 1 7 25 8.31 8.00 .993 9.29 9.23 MVP-16
2013 DET AL 34 DH 33 33
2013 DET AL 34 1B 1 1 1 9.0 8 7 1 0 0 1.000 0 0 39 0 8.00 8.00 .995 8.80 8.80
10 Seasons C 853 823 730 7162.0 5715 5334 341 40 43 .993 -14 -48 -2 -8 7.13 6.65 .991 7.16 7.09 36 208 592 182 24% 29% 7
7 Seasons 1B 153 137 117 1211.1 1140 1066 67 7 111 .994 -5 0 -5 0 8.42 7.41 .994 9.26 9.16
11 Seasons TOT 1006 960 847 8373.1 6855 6400 408 47 154 .993 -19 -47 -3 -5 7.32 6.77 .992 7.47 7.41 36 208 592 182 24% 29% 7
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rdrs Rtot/yr Rdrs/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO Awards
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-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.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1916) 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 1945 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

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
2004 AL (21, 1%)
2005 AL (18, 1%)
2007 AL (7, 26%)
2009 AL (21, 1%)
2011 AL (16, 2%)
0.31 Career Shares (602nd)

Silver Sluggers
2004 AL (C)

WAR Position Playerss c a p y
2005 AL  5.2 (9th)
Active  26.6 (45th)

Offensive WARs c a p y
Active  31.3 (33rd)

Batting Average s c a p y
2005 AL  .305 (7th)
2010 AL  .302 (10th)
2011 AL  .330 (4th)
Active  .301 (13th)
Career  .301 (196th)

On-Base% s c a p y
2006 AL  .391 (10th)
2011 AL  .380 (9th)
Active  .368 (24th)

Slugging % s c a p y
2007 AL  .505 (10th)

On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y
Active  .832 (38th)
Career  .832 (237th)

Hits s c a p y
Active  1,329 (39th)

Total Bases s c a p y
Active  2,052 (46th)

Doubles s c a p y
Active  282 (37th)

Runs Batted In s c a p y
2004 AL  108 (10th)
2007 AL  114 (7th)
2009 AL  108 (5th)
2011 AL  103 (10th)
Active  759 (31st)

Bases on Balls s c a p y
Active  469 (44th)

Singles s c a p y
Active  899 (36th)

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
Active  120 (35th)

Runs Created s c a p y
Active  740 (48th)

Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y
Active  145 (32nd)

Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y
Active  13.6 (32nd)

Times On Base s c a p y
Active  1,828 (43rd)

Offensive Win % s c a p y
Active  .585 (48th)

Sacrifice Flies s c a p y
2007 AL  11 (1st)
Active  55 (17th)

Intentional Bases on Balls s c a p y
2004 AL  11 (7th)
2005 AL  9 (7th)
2007 AL  12 (5th)
Active  59 (27th)

Double Plays Grounded Into s c a p y
2006 AL  27 (2nd)
2011 AL  20 (6th)
Active  158 (16th)
Career  158 (232nd)

AB per SO s c a p y
2010 AL  9.5 (7th)
2011 AL  10.6 (3rd)
Active  8.0 (15th)

Base-Out Runs Added (RE24)s c a p y
2011 AL  44.53 (5th)
Active  165.38 (31st)

Win Probability Added (WPA)s c a p y
2005 AL  3.4 (9th)
2009 AL  3.3 (8th)
2011 AL  3.3 (9th)
Active  13.4 (33rd)

Situ. Wins Added (WPA/LI)s c a p y
Active  11.3 (47th)

Base-Out Wins Added (REW)s c a p y
2011 AL  4.3 (5th)
Active  15.6 (31st)

Putoutss c a p y
Active  6,400 (22nd)

Def. Games as C s c a p y
2004 AL  132 (2nd)
2005 AL  142 (2nd)
2006 AL  133 (5th)
Active  853 (10th)

Putouts as C s c a p y
2004 AL  865 (2nd)
2005 AL  904 (2nd)
2010 AL  778 (3rd)
Active  5,334 (10th)
Career  5,334 (94th)

Assists as C s c a p y
2004 AL  61 (1st)
2005 AL  58 (3rd)
2007 AL  53 (5th)
Active  341 (13th)

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
2006 AL  8 (4th)
Active  40 (12th)

Double Plays Turned as C s c a p y
2004 AL  11 (2nd)
2005 AL  6 (2nd)
2006 AL  7 (3rd)
2007 AL  8 (4th)
Active  43 (13th)

Passed Balls s c a p y
2004 AL  9 (4th)
Active  36 (19th)

Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y
2004 AL  89 (1st)
2005 AL  96 (2nd)
2006 AL  100 (1st)
2007 AL  70 (4th)
2010 AL  99 (2nd)
Active  592 (4th)

Caught Stealing as C s c a p y
2004 AL  30 (2nd)
2005 AL  29 (5th)
2007 AL  33 (3rd)
2010 AL  27 (4th)
Active  182 (10th)

Caught Stealing %s c a p y
2008 AL  37.1 (4th)

Total Zone Runs as C s c a p y
2007 AL  7 (5th)

Range Factor/9Inn as Cs c a p y
2010 AL  8.18 (1st)
Active  7.13 (22nd)
Career  7.13 (59th)

Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y
2004 AL  7.02 (3rd)
2005 AL  6.77 (4th)
2010 AL  7.47 (1st)
Active  6.65 (20th)
Career  6.65 (45th)

Fielding % as C s c a p y
2005 AL  .995 (5th)
2007 AL  .995 (4th)
Active  .993 (11th)
Career  .993 (27th)

             

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 InkBatting - 31 (776), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 53 (374), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 36 (199), Average HOFer ≈ 50
JAWS Catcher (37th), 27.2 career WAR/25.1 7yr-peak WAR/26.1 JAWS
Average HOF C (out of 13) = 52.4 career WAR/33.7 7yr-peak WAR/43.0 JAWS

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/Other Sources
200425Cleveland Indians$304,5004/7/04 AP
200526Cleveland Indians$372,100
200627Cleveland Indians$1,000,000
200728Cleveland Indians$3,200,000
200829Cleveland Indians$4,450,000
200930Cleveland Indians$5,900,000
201031Boston Red Sox$7,700,000
201132Detroit Tigers$12,000,000
201233Detroit Tigers$13,000,000contracts
201334Detroit Tigers$13,000,000
201435Detroit Tigers$12,000,000
Earliest Free Agent: 2015
Career to date (may be incomplete)$60,926,600Does not include future salaries
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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