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Miguel Montero

Miguel Angel Montero

Position: Catcher
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 215 lb.

Born: July 9, 1983 in Caracas, Distrito Federal, Venezuela
High School:
Signed by the Arizona Diamondbacks as an amateur free agent in 2001. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 6, 2006
Team: Diamondbacks 2006-2012
2012 Contract Status: Signed thru 2017, 6 yrs/$65.9M (12-17) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 5.031, Free Agent: 2018 [*], Agents: Octagon [*]
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All-Star

Standard Fielding

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
2006 ARI NL 22 C 5 4 4 40.0 40 36 4 0 0 1.000 0 0 0 0 9.00 8.00 .992 7.38 7.32 1 2 3 1 25% 28% 0
2007 ARI NL 23 C 73 57 49 510.2 376 340 30 6 5 .984 -2 -6 -5 -14 6.52 5.07 .991 7.39 7.36 5 18 35 10 22% 25% 1
2008 ARI NL 24 C 53 45 38 404.2 379 352 23 4 2 .989 -4 -9 -12 -27 8.34 7.08 .993 7.65 7.60 0 26 27 7 21% 27% 1
2009 ARI NL 25 C 111 101 94 924.2 802 733 60 9 4 .989 -8 2 -10 3 7.72 7.14 .993 7.77 7.70 4 48 67 23 26% 29% 0
2009 ARI NL 25 DH 2 2
2010 ARI NL 26 C 79 75 72 658.1 522 484 36 2 1 .996 0 1 0 2 7.11 6.58 .992 8.05 7.97 6 36 47 21 31% 29% 1
2010 ARI NL 26 DH 2 2
2011 ARI NL 27 C 134 131 125 1169.1 997 908 78 11 9 .989 10 5 10 5 7.59 7.36 .992 7.98 7.96 8 30 48 32 40% 28% 4 AS,MVP-21
2012 ARI NL 28 C 41 40 38 350.0 298 266 28 4 2 .987 7 2 24 7 7.56 7.17 .991 8.31 8.23 1 6 15 18 55% 28% 1
7 Seasons C 496 453 420 4057.2 3414 3119 259 36 23 .989 3 -5 1 -1 7.49 6.81 .992 7.86 7.79 25 166 242 112 32% 28% 8
7 Seasons TOT 496 453 420 4057.2 3414 3119 259 36 23 .989 3 -5 1 -1 7.49 6.81 .992 7.86 7.79 25 166 242 112 32% 28% 8
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-1948 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1948 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 1948 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 1918 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1948 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1918) 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 1948 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

Sabermetric Fielding

Year Tm Lg Age Pos Rtot Rtot/yr Rtz Rtzhm Rtzrd Rdp Rof Rctch Rdrs Rdrs/yr Rpm Rdp Rbnt Rof Rhr RerC RsbC RsbP
2006 ARI NL 22 C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2007 ARI NL 23 C -2 -5 -2 -6 -14 2 -3 -4
2008 ARI NL 24 C -4 -12 -4 -9 -27 -1 -2 -2
2009 ARI NL 25 C -8 -10 -8 2 3 0 -1 7 -1
2010 ARI NL 26 C 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 1 1
2011 ARI NL 27 C 10 10 10 5 5 0 0 3 3
2012 ARI NL 28 C 7 24 0 7 2 7 -1 2 2
7 Seasons C 3 1 0 3 -5 -1 0 0 8 -1
7 Seasons TOT 3 1 0 3 -5 -1 0 0 8 -1

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
2006 ARI NL 22 6 4 6 5 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
2007 ARI NL 23 84 57 84 73 0 73 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 24 0
2008 ARI NL 24 70 45 70 53 0 53 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 24 0
2009 ARI NL 25 128 103 128 111 0 111 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 20 0
2010 ARI NL 26 85 77 85 79 0 79 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 7 0
2011 ARI NL 27 140 131 140 134 0 134 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0
2012 ARI NL 28 41 40 41 41 0 41 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
7 Seasons 554 457 554 496 0 496 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 86 0
Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1918 season) and non-RetroSheet data is used for other seasons.

Advanced Fielding -- C*

Pitching Stats Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA ERA RAvg Fld F2O% XI FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag SO Tot 1B 2B 3B K23 Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 263 n23 GB bFld bF2O%
2006 ARI NL 22 174 4.73 4.73 2 100% 0 1 36 0 0 1 35 4 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 100%
2007 ARI NL 23 2289 4.81 5.32 20 95% 2 0 340 9 2 6 323 30 9 3 0 7 6 0 3 3 0 5 2 2 5 7 100%
2008 ARI NL 24 1750 4.56 5.05 19 79% 0 0 352 5 0 4 343 23 10 0 0 6 4 0 2 2 1 2 0 0 0 8 63%
2009 ARI NL 25 3958 4.10 4.53 36 89% 0 0 733 20 5 10 697 60 10 1 0 27 9 1 0 8 1 4 1 0 1 14 71%
2010 ARI NL 26 2839 4.32 4.62 36 94% 0 0 484 20 1 7 456 36 12 0 0 7 2 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 12 92%
2011 ARI NL 27 4903 3.60 3.89 60 92% 1 2 908 31 3 9 865 78 24 1 0 20 11 0 1 10 0 9 1 2 3 24 88%
2012 ARI NL 28 1467 3.68 3.99 17 82% 0 0 266 5 3 2 256 28 9 1 0 5 4 1 0 3 2 2 1 1 2 10 80%
7 Seasons 17380 4.10 4.47 190 90% 3 3 3119 90 14 39 2975 259 75 6 0 73 36 3 7 26 5 23 5 5 11 77 83%
MLB Averages 4.25 4.62 92% 85%

Advanced Fielding -- C Baserunning*

Year Tm Lg Age PB WP SBO SB CS CSctch CS% SB2 CS2 SB3 CS3 SBH CSH PO PCS RBA RK SBlev CSlev
2006 ARI NL 22 1 2 57 3 1 1 25% 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 1 0.96 0.75
2007 ARI NL 23 5 18 875 35 10 9 22% 31 10 4 0 0 0 1 1 70 13 1.01 1.14
2008 ARI NL 24 0 26 611 27 7 6 21% 24 5 3 2 0 0 1 1 67 8 1.12 1.37
2009 ARI NL 25 4 48 1418 67 23 17 26% 55 19 11 2 1 2 0 0 147 27 1.26 1.02
2010 ARI NL 26 6 36 1076 47 21 16 31% 42 18 5 1 0 2 1 0 110 26 1.16 1.33
2011 ARI NL 27 8 30 1741 48 32 26 40% 38 27 10 3 0 2 4 2 128 39 1.81 1.17
2012 ARI NL 28 1 6 523 15 18 12 55% 13 16 1 2 1 0 1 1 37 19 1.44 1.15
7 Seasons 25 166 6301 242 112 87 32% 206 96 34 10 2 6 8 5 565 133 1.31 1.17
MLB Averages 27% 1.28 1.23

* 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
2011 *

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
2011 NL (21, 0%)
0.00 Career Shares (1712th)

Def. Games as C s c a p y
2011 NL  134 (3rd)
2012 NL  41 (3rd)
Active  496 (24th)

Putouts as C s c a p y
2011 NL  908 (5th)
Active  3,119 (23rd)

Assists as C s c a p y
2009 NL  60 (5th)
2011 NL  78 (3rd)
2012 NL  28 (3rd)
Active  259 (23rd)

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
2009 NL  9 (2nd)
2011 NL  11 (2nd)
2012 NL  4 (3rd)
Active  36 (15th)

Passed Balls s c a p y
2011 NL  8 (2nd)

Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y
2009 NL  67 (5th)

Caught Stealing as C s c a p y
2009 NL  23 (4th)
2011 NL  32 (2nd)
2012 NL  18 (2nd)
Active  112 (24th)

Caught Stealing %† s c a p y
2011 NL  40.0 (1st)
2012 NL  54.5 (1st)
Active  31.6 (11th)

Total Zone Runs as C s c a p y
2011 NL  10 (1st)
2012 NL  7 (1st)

             

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