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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: Nuestra Senora la Espanaza (Nuestra Senora la Espanaza, VE)
Signed by the Arizona Diamondbacks as an amateur free agent in 2001. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 6, 2006
Team: Diamondbacks 2006-2011
2012 Contract Status: 3rd-Year Arb Eligible, 1 yr/$3.2M (11), 1 yr/$5.9M (12) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 5.031, Free Agent: 2013 [*], Agents: Octagon [*]
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All-Time Rank (among Batters): #1. Babe Ruth… #2. Willie Mays… #3. Ted Williams… #4. Ty Cobb… #5. Lou Gehrig… #6. Rogers Hornsby… #7. Stan Musial… 

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
2006 22 ARI NL 6 17 16 0 4 1 0 0 3 0 0 1 3 .250 .294 .313 .607 53 5 0 0 0 0 0 /2
2007 23 ARI NL 84 244 214 30 48 7 0 10 37 0 0 20 35 .224 .292 .397 .689 72 85 7 3 1 6 2 2
2008 24 ARI NL 70 207 184 24 47 16 1 5 18 0 0 19 49 .255 .330 .435 .765 93 80 1 2 1 1 3 2
2009 25 ARI NL 128 470 425 61 125 30 0 16 59 1 2 38 78 .294 .355 .478 .832 113 203 6 3 2 2 5 *2
2010 26 ARI NL 85 331 297 36 79 20 2 9 43 0 1 29 71 .266 .332 .438 .770 102 130 10 2 0 3 3 2
2011 27 ARI NL 140 553 493 65 139 36 1 18 86 1 1 47 97 .282 .351 .469 .820 121 231 14 8 1 4 10 *2 AS,MVP-21
6 Seasons 513 1822 1629 216 442 110 4 58 246 2 4 154 333 .271 .338 .451 .789 105 734 38 18 5 16 23
162 Game Avg. 162 575 514 68 140 35 1 18 78 1 1 49 105 .271 .338 .451 .789 105 232 12 6 2 5 7

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 Awards
2006 22 ARI NL 17 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 -0.1 -1 -0.1 0.0 $ /2
2007 23 ARI NL 244 -8 -1 2 -1 -2 4 7 1 0.1 3 0.3 -0.2 $380,000 2
2008 24 ARI NL 207 -3 -1 0 0 -4 3 6 1 0.1 5 0.5 -0.4 $400,500 2
2009 25 ARI NL 470 4 -0 1 0 -8 7 13 17 1.6 25 2.4 -0.8 $425,000 *2
2010 26 ARI NL 331 1 -2 -1 -1 0 5 9 12 1.1 12 1.1 0.0 $2,000,000 2
2011 27 ARI NL 553 15 -1 -2 -1 10 9 15 44 4.5 35 3.6 0.9 $3,200,000 *2 AS,MVP-21
6 Seasons 1822 8 -5 -0 -2 -4 27 50 74 7.3 78 7.8 -0.5 $6,405,500

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
2007 23 ARI NL NLDS CHC W 1 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .000 .333 .000 .333 0 0 0 0 0 0
2007 23 ARI NL NLCS COL L 3 5 5 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .400 .400 .400 .800 2 0 0 0 0 0
2011 27 ARI NL NLDS MIL L 5 22 20 3 6 2 0 0 2 0 0 2 6 .300 .364 .400 .764 8 0 0 0 0 1
2 Seasons (3 Series) 9 30 27 4 8 2 0 0 2 0 0 3 6 .296 .367 .370 .737 10 0 0 0 0 1
2 NLDS 6 25 22 4 6 2 0 0 2 0 0 3 6 .273 .360 .364 .724 8 0 0 0 0 1
1 NLCS 3 5 5 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .400 .400 .400 .800 2 0 0 0 0 0

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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 Awards
2006 ARI NL 22 C 5 40 36 4 0 0 1.000 0 0 8.00 .992 7.32 1 3 1 25%
2007 ARI NL 23 C 73 376 340 30 6 5 .984 -2 -7 5.07 .991 7.36 5 35 10 22%
2008 ARI NL 24 C 53 379 352 23 4 2 .989 -4 -4 7.08 .993 7.60 0 27 7 21%
2009 ARI NL 25 C 111 802 733 60 9 4 .989 -8 6 7.14 .993 7.70 4 67 23 26%
2009 ARI NL 25 DH 2 2
2010 ARI NL 26 C 79 522 484 36 2 1 .996 0 2 6.58 .992 7.97 6 47 21 31%
2010 ARI NL 26 DH 2 2
2011 ARI NL 27 C 134 131 125 1169.1 997 908 78 11 9 .989 10 6 10 6 7.59 7.36 .992 7.98 7.96 8 30 48 32 40% 4 AS,MVP-21
6 Seasons C 455 131 125 1169.1 3116 2853 231 32 21 .990 -4 3 -5 3 7.59 6.78 .992 7.98 7.75 24 30 227 94 29% 4
6 Seasons TOT 455 131 125 1169.1 3116 2853 231 32 21 .990 -4 3 -5 3 7.59 6.78 .992 7.98 7.75 24 30 227 94 29% 4
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-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.
  • CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1919 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1950 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1919) 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 1950 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

All-Star Games
2011 *

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
2011 NL (21, 0%)
0.00 Career Shares (1713th)

Doubles s c a p y
2011 NL  36 (9th)

Def. Games as C s c a p y
2011 NL  134 (3rd)

Putouts as C s c a p y
2011 NL  908 (5th)

Assists as C s c a p y
2009 NL  60 (5th)
2011 NL  78 (3rd)

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
2009 NL  9 (2nd)
2011 NL  11 (2nd)
Active  32 (22nd)

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)

Caught Stealing %† s c a p y
2011 NL  40.0 (1st)
Active  29.3 (23rd)

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

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray InkBatting - 2 (2130), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 6 (1409), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 10 (1590), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores
Similar Batters 
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  1. Geovany Soto (969)
  2. Pinky Hargrave (948)
  3. Kenji Johjima (944)
  4. Aaron Robinson (934)
  5. Bill Haselman (932)
  6. Matt Batts (932)
  7. Carlos Ruiz (931)
  8. Dick Dietz (928)
  9. Tony Eusebio (927)
  10. Ronny Paulino (927)
Similar Batters through 27 
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  1. Mike Lieberthal (971)
  2. Jody Davis (961)
  3. Sammy White (957)
  4. Earl Battey (955)
  5. Jim Pagliaroni (954)
  6. John Romano (947)
  7. Geovany Soto (946)
  8. Rick Wilkins (942)
  9. Ed Bailey (937)
  10. Harry Danning (937)
Most Similar by Ages 
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  1. Sammy White (967)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  2. Jody Davis (978)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  3. Mike Lieberthal (971)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
* - Signifies Hall of Famer

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
200723Arizona Diamondbacks$380,000
200824Arizona Diamondbacks$400,500
200925Arizona Diamondbacks$425,000
201026Arizona Diamondbacks$2,000,000
201127Arizona Diamondbacks$3,200,000
201228Arizona Diamondbacks$5,900,000
Career to date (may be incomplete)$6,405,500Does not include future salaries
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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