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Chad Moeller

Chad Edward Moeller

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 220 lb.

Born: February 18, 1975 in Upland, CA
High School: Upland (Upland, CA)
School: University of Southern California
Drafted by the Minnesota Twins in the 7th round of the 1996 amateur draft.
Signed June 8, 1996. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 20, 2000
Teams (by GP): Brewers/Diamondbacks/Yankees/Twins/Reds/... 2000-2010
Agents: Alan Meersand [*]
Final Game: September 25, 2010 vs. BOS 0 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB
Relatives: Cousin of Chris Cron
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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
1996	21	MIN-min	Rk	17	79	59	17	21	4	0	4	13	1	2	18	9	.356	.519	.627	1.146		37	3	2	0	0	0	ELZ · APPY
1997	22	MIN-min	A	108	448	384	58	111	18	3	9	39	11	8	48	76	.289	.386	.422	.808		162	8	13	2	1	0	FWA · MIDW
1998	23	MIN-min	A+,AA	124	503	441	58	127	34	1	12	62	4	4	55	78	.288	.375	.451	.826		199	12	6	1	0	4	FTM,NBR · FLOR,EL
1999	24	MIN-min	AA	89	282	250	29	62	11	3	4	24	0	0	21	44	.248	.317	.364	.681		91	7	6	1	4	1	NBR · EL
2000	25	MIN-min	AAA	47	178	167	30	48	13	1	5	20	0	1	9	45	.287	.322	.467	.789		78	6	0	1	1	1	SLK · PCL
2000	25	MIN	AL	48	139	128	13	27	3	1	1	9	1	0	9	33	.211	.261	.273	.534	34	35	4	0	1	1	0	2
2001	26	ARI-min	AAA	78	304	274	41	75	20	0	8	36	1	4	25	54	.274	.337	.434	.771		119	8	2	1	2	1	TUC · PCL
2001	26	ARI	NL	25	63	56	8	13	0	1	1	2	0	0	6	12	.232	.306	.321	.628	58	18	2	0	1	0	1	2
2002	27	ARI-min	AAA	60	249	211	37	67	8	2	10	48	1	0	29	46	.318	.401	.517	.917		109	4	3	2	4	1	TUC · PCL
2002	27	ARI	NL	37	123	105	10	30	11	1	2	16	0	1	17	23	.286	.385	.467	.852	114	49	6	0	1	0	3	2
2003	28	ARI	NL	78	269	239	29	64	17	1	7	29	1	2	23	59	.268	.335	.435	.770	93	104	7	2	3	2	11	2
2004	29	MIL	NL	101	349	317	25	66	13	1	5	27	0	1	21	74	.208	.265	.303	.568	47	96	12	4	6	1	1	2
2005	30	MIL	NL	66	216	199	23	41	9	1	7	23	0	0	13	48	.206	.257	.367	.624	61	73	9	1	2	1	1	2
2006	31	MIL-min	AAA	41	154	132	10	29	6	0	2	18	0	2	15	28	.220	.307	.311	.618		41	4	3	1	3	1	NVL · PCL
2006	31	MIL	NL	29	104	98	9	18	3	0	2	5	0	0	4	26	.184	.231	.276	.506	29	27	3	2	0	0	0	2
2007	32	CIN-LAD-min	AAA	28	99	85	8	24	6	0	4	16	0	0	13	20	.282	.384	.494	.878		42	3	1	0	0	1	LOU,LVG · IL,PCL
2007	32	TOT	NL	37	58	56	8	9	1	0	1	2	0	0	0	18	.161	.175	.232	.408	3	13	3	1	1	0	0	2
2007	32	CIN	NL	30	49	48	6	8	1	0	1	2	0	0	0	17	.167	.167	.250	.417	4	12	2	0	1	0	0	2
2007	32	LAD	NL	7	9	8	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.125	.222	.125	.347	-7	1	1	1	0	0	0	/2
2008	33	NYY-min	AAA	23	89	81	6	19	4	0	1	7	0	0	5	22	.235	.270	.321	.591		26	2	0	0	3	0	SWB · IL
2008	33	NYY	AL	41	103	91	13	21	6	0	1	9	0	0	7	18	.231	.311	.330	.640	69	30	2	4	0	1	1	2/53
2009	34	BAL-min	AAA	35	125	118	7	24	6	0	0	10	0	1	5	22	.203	.242	.254	.496		30	5	1	1	0	0	NFK · IL
2009	34	BAL	AL	30	100	89	6	23	8	1	2	10	0	0	7	16	.258	.313	.438	.751	95	39	3	1	1	2	0	2
2010	35	NYY-min	AAA	28	96	87	8	20	6	0	1	9	0	0	6	15	.230	.302	.333	.635		29	3	3	0	0	0	SWB · IL
2010	35	NYY	AL	9	15	14	2	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	.214	.267	.429	.695	82	6	0	0	0	0	0	/2
11 Seasons				501	1539	1392	146	315	74	7	29	132	2	4	108	331	.226	.288	.352	.640	63	490	51	15	16	8	18
162 Game Avg.				162	498	450	47	102	24	2	9	43	1	1	35	107	.226	.288	.352	.640	63	158	16	5	5	3	6

ARI (3 yrs)				140	455	400	47	107	28	3	10	47	1	3	46	94	.268	.344	.428	.772	94	171	15	2	5	2	15
MIL (3 yrs)				196	669	614	57	125	25	2	14	55	0	1	38	148	.204	.257	.319	.576	49	196	24	7	8	2	2
NYY (2 yrs)				50	118	105	15	24	9	0	1	9	0	0	8	22	.229	.305	.343	.648	71	36	2	4	0	1	1
MIN (1 yr)				48	139	128	13	27	3	1	1	9	1	0	9	33	.211	.261	.273	.534	34	35	4	0	1	1	0
LAD (1 yr)				7	9	8	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.125	.222	.125	.347	-7	1	1	1	0	0	0
CIN (1 yr)				30	49	48	6	8	1	0	1	2	0	0	0	17	.167	.167	.250	.417	4	12	2	0	1	0	0
BAL (1 yr)				30	100	89	6	23	8	1	2	10	0	0	7	16	.258	.313	.438	.751	95	39	3	1	1	2	0

NL (7 yrs)				373	1182	1070	112	241	54	5	25	104	1	4	84	260	.225	.287	.355	.642	64	380	42	10	14	4	17
AL (4 yrs)				128	357	322	34	74	20	2	4	28	1	0	24	71	.230	.290	.342	.632	62	110	9	5	2	4	1

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
2000	25	MIN	AL	139	-13	-1	0	-1	-3	3	5	-10	-0.9	-7	-0.7	-0.2	$200,000	2
2001	26	ARI	NL	63	-3	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0	$	2
2002	27	ARI	NL	123	3	-1	0	-1	0	2	4	7	0.7	7	0.7	0.0	$215,000	2
2003	28	ARI	NL	269	-6	1	0	0	-3	4	8	4	0.4	7	0.7	-0.3	$300,000	2
2004	29	MIL	NL	349	-26	-3	-1	-1	-4	6	10	-19	-2.0	-15	-1.5	-0.5	$370,000	2
2005	30	MIL	NL	216	-12	-1	-1	-2	-6	4	6	-12	-1.3	-6	-0.6	-0.7	$700,000	2
2006	31	MIL	NL	104	-11	0	0	0	-1	2	3	-7	-0.7	-6	-0.6	-0.1	$700,000	2
2007	32	CIN	NL	49	-7	0	1	0	-2	1	1	-6	-0.6	-4	-0.4	-0.2	$700,000	2
2007	32	LAD	NL	9	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	-1	-0.1	-1	-0.1	0.0	$	/2
2008	33	NYY	AL	103	-4	0	0	0	2	2	4	4	0.4	2	0.2	0.2	$	2/53
2009	34	BAL	AL	100	-1	-0	0	-0	-3	2	3	0	0.0	4	0.3	-0.3	$800,000	2
2010	35	NYY	AL	15	-0	0	-0	0	-1	0	0	-0	0.0	1	0.1	-0.1	$	/2
11 Seasons				1539	-81	-5	-1	-5	-21	27	46	-40	-4.1	-19	-1.9	-2.2	$3,985,000

ARI (3 yrs)				455	-6	0	0	-1	-3	7	14	11	1.1	14	1.4	-0.3	$515,000
MIL (3 yrs)				669	-49	-4	-2	-3	-11	12	19	-38	-4.0	-27	-2.7	-1.3	$1,770,000
NYY (2 yrs)				118	-4	0	-0	0	1	2	4	4	0.4	3	0.3	0.1	$
MIN (1 yr)				139	-13	-1	0	-1	-3	3	5	-10	-0.9	-7	-0.7	-0.2	$200,000
LAD (1 yr)				9	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	-1	-0.1	-1	-0.1	0.0	$
CIN (1 yr)				49	-7	0	1	0	-2	1	1	-6	-0.6	-4	-0.4	-0.2	$700,000
BAL (1 yr)				100	-1	-0	0	-0	-3	2	3	0	0.0	4	0.3	-0.3	$800,000

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
2002	27	ARI	NL	NLDS	STL	L	3	5	5	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.400	.400	.400	.800	2	0	0	0	0	0
1 NLDS							3	5	5	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.400	.400	.400	.800	2	0	0	0	0	0

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%	PO
2000	MIN	AL	25	C	48				285	266	13	6	0	.979	-3					5.81	.991		6.85	0		13	5	28%
2001	ARI	NL	26	C	25				118	111	7	0	0	1.000	0					4.72	.992		7.65	1		11	5	31%
2002	ARI	NL	27	C	35				318	310	7	1	0	.997	0					9.06	.991		7.47	1		18	8	31%
2003	ARI	NL	28	C	76				534	490	37	7	3	.987	-3	0				6.93	.992		7.26	3		40	14	26%
2004	MIL	NL	29	C	100				765	718	46	1	4	.999	-4	-1				7.64	.993		7.40	4		52	17	25%
2005	MIL	NL	30	C	65				489	454	32	3	6	.994	-6	-3				7.48	.992		7.16	4		34	10	23%
2006	MIL	NL	31	C	29				208	192	15	1	0	.995	-1	0				7.14	.992		7.32	0		22	6	21%
2007	TOT	NL	32	C	24	11	6	115.2	103	97	6	0	0	1.000	-2	-1	-21	-10	8.01	4.29	.991	100.02	7.36	0	4	11	1	8%	0
2007	CIN	NL	32	C	17	9	4	86.2	77	72	5	0	0	1.000	-2	-1	-28	-14	8.00	4.53	.991	100.02	7.36	0	4	11	1	8%	0
2007	LAD	NL	32	C	7	2	2	29.0	26	25	1	0	0	1.000	0	0	0	0	8.07	3.71	.991	99.99	7.36	0	0	0	0		0
2008	NYY	AL	33	C	33				177	159	15	3	2	.983	2	-1				5.27	.991		7.19	0		15	9	38%
2008	NYY	AL	33	3B	3				0	0	0	0	0		0	0				0.00			2.70
2008	NYY	AL	33	1B	2				4	4	0	0	1	1.000	0	0				2.00	.995		9.20
2009	BAL	AL	34	C	30				200	194	6	0	0	1.000	-3	-4				6.67	.992		7.39	3		25	2	7%
2010	NYY	AL	35	C	9				39	33	6	0	0	1.000	-1	-1				4.33	.990		7.37	2		5	1	17%
	11 Seasons			C	474	11	6	115.2	3236	3024	190	22	15	.993	-21	-11	-218	-114	8.01	6.78	.992	100.02	7.28	18	4	246	78	24%	0
	1 Season			3B	3				0	0	0	0	0		0	0				0.00			2.70
	1 Season			1B	2				4	4	0	0	1	1.000	0	0				2.00	.995		9.20
	11 Seasons			TOT	479	11	6	115.2	3240	3028	190	22	16	.993	-21	-11	-218	-114	8.01	6.72	.992	100.02	7.26	18	4	246	78	24%	0

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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-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.
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Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Range Factor/9Inn as C† s c a p y 2004 NL 8.31 (3rd)	Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y 2004 NL 7.64 (3rd)	Fielding % as C s c a p y 2004 NL .999 (2nd)

Range Factor/9Inn as C† s c a p y
2004 NL 8.31 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y
2004 NL 7.64 (3rd)

Fielding % as C s c a p y
2004 NL .999 (2nd)

Hall Of Fame Statistics

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Hall of Fame Standards

Batting - 2 (2719), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores

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Transactions

June 3, 1993: Drafted by the New York Yankees in the 25th round of the 1993 amateur draft, but did not sign.
June 4, 1996: Drafted by the Minnesota Twins in the 7th round of the 1996 amateur draft. Player signed June 8, 1996.
March 28, 2001: Traded by the Minnesota Twins to the Arizona Diamondbacks for Hanley Frias.
December 1, 2003: Traded by the Arizona Diamondbacks with Chris Capuano, Craig Counsell, Lyle Overbay, Jorge De La Rosa and Junior Spivey to the Milwaukee Brewers for a player to be named later, Shane Nance and Richie Sexson. The Milwaukee Brewers sent Noochie Varner (minors) (December 15, 2003) to the Arizona Diamondbacks to complete the trade.
October 2, 2006: Granted Free Agency.
November 27, 2006: Signed as a Free Agent with the Cincinnati Reds.
August 11, 2007: Purchased by the Los Angeles Dodgers from the Cincinnati Reds.
October 29, 2007: Granted Free Agency.
November 28, 2007: Signed as a Free Agent with the Washington Nationals.
March 10, 2008: Released by the Washington Nationals.
March 12, 2008: Signed as a Free Agent with the New York Yankees.
October 30, 2008: Granted Free Agency.
December 18, 2008: Signed as a Free Agent with the Baltimore Orioles.
November 5, 2009: Granted Free Agency.
December 3, 2009: Signed as a Free Agent with the Baltimore Orioles.
April 1, 2010: Released by the Baltimore Orioles.
April 3, 2010: Signed as a Free Agent with the New York Yankees.
November 1, 2010: Granted Free Agency.
January 19, 2011: Signed as a Free Agent with the Colorado Rockies.
March 11, 2011: Released by the Colorado Rockies.

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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
2000	25	Minnesota Twins	$200,000	2001 Joint Exhibit 1

2002	27	Arizona Diamondbacks	$215,000	4/3/02 AP
2003	28	Arizona Diamondbacks	$300,000	4/3/03 AP
2004	29	Milwaukee Brewers	$370,000	4/7/04 AP
2005	30	Milwaukee Brewers	$700,000
2006	31	Milwaukee Brewers	$700,000
2007	32	Cincinnati Reds	$700,000

2009	34	Baltimore Orioles	$800,000

Career to date (may be incomplete)			$3,985,000

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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