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Kendrys Morales

Kendrys Morales

Positions: First Baseman and Rightfielder
Bats: Both, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 225 lb.

Born: June 20, 1983 in Fomento, Cuba
Signed by the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim as an amateur free agent in 2005. (All Transactions)
Debut: May 23, 2006
Team: Angels 2006-2012
2012 Contract Status: 2nd-Year Arb Eligible, 1 yr/$2.98M (12) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 4.057, Arb Eligible: 2013, Free Agent: 2014 [*], Agents: Scott Boras, previously: David Valdes,John DiManno [*]
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Standard Batting

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 23 LAA AL 57 215 197 21 46 10 1 5 22 1 1 17 28 .234 .293 .371 .664 71 73 11 0 0 1 1 3
2007 24 LAA AL 43 126 119 12 35 10 0 4 15 0 1 6 21 .294 .333 .479 .812 111 57 5 1 0 0 2 3D/9
2008 25 LAA AL 27 66 61 7 13 2 0 3 8 0 1 4 7 .213 .273 .393 .666 73 24 3 1 0 0 0 9/3D
2009 26 LAA AL 152 622 566 86 173 43 2 34 108 3 7 46 117 .306 .355 .569 .924 139 322 15 2 0 8 10 *3 MVP-5
2010 27 LAA AL 51 211 193 29 56 5 0 11 39 0 1 12 31 .290 .346 .487 .833 129 94 5 5 0 1 3 3
2012 29 LAA AL 41 152 143 16 42 6 0 4 17 0 0 8 30 .294 .329 .420 .749 111 60 2 0 0 1 0 *D
6 Yrs 371 1392 1279 171 365 76 3 61 209 4 11 93 234 .285 .335 .493 .828 118 630 41 9 0 11 16
162 Game Avg. 162 608 558 75 159 33 1 27 91 2 5 41 102 .285 .335 .493 .828 118 275 18 4 0 5 7

Player Value--Batters

WAR Explained (v2.1): 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
2006 23 LAA AL 57 215 -10 -0 -2 8 -3 -8 -0.7 7 -0 -0.1 .486 .495 -0.8 0.5 -8 $ 3
2007 24 LAA AL 43 126 1 -2 -0 0 -3 -4 -0.4 4 0 0.0 .491 .498 0.0 -0.3 0 $ 3D/9
2008 25 LAA AL 27 66 -1 -1 -0 -4 -1 -8 -0.8 2 -6 -0.5 .471 .495 -0.2 -0.5 -2 $ 9/3D
2009 26 LAA AL 152 622 26 -4 -2 8 -9 20 2.1 21 41 4.0 .513 .512 3.2 0.0 33 $1,100,000 *3 MVP-5
2010 27 LAA AL 51 211 7 1 0 3 -3 8 0.9 7 15 1.6 .517 .505 1.2 0.0 12 $1,200,000 3
2012 29 LAA AL 41 152 4 0 -0 0 -4 1 0.1 5 6 0.5 .502 .500 0.6 -0.4 6 $ *D
6 Seasons 371 1392 28 -6 -4 15 -23 9 1.3 47 56 5.5 .503 .501 4.0 -0.6 41 $2,300,000

Advanced Batting

Year Age Tm Lg PA Outs RC RC/G AIR BAbip BA lgBA OBP lgOBP SLG lgSLG OPS lgOPS OPS+ OWn% BtRuns BtWins TotA SecA ISO PwrSpd
2006 23 LAA AL 215 164 19 3.1 111 .248 .234 .275 .293 .340 .371 .438 .664 .778 71 .276 -9.0 -0.8 .552 .223 .137 1.7
2007 24 LAA AL 126 90 17 5.0 108 .330 .294 .272 .333 .340 .479 .425 .812 .765 111 .499 1.5 0.1 .700 .227 .185 .0
2008 25 LAA AL 66 52 5 2.6 107 .196 .213 .270 .273 .339 .393 .425 .666 .763 73 .231 -2.8 -0.3 .538 .230 .180 .0
2009 26 LAA AL 622 423 108 6.8 107 .329 .306 .266 .355 .335 .569 .427 .924 .762 139 .633 31.8 3.0 .882 .337 .263 5.5
2010 27 LAA AL 211 144 31 5.8 96 .296 .290 .256 .346 .323 .487 .400 .833 .723 129 .594 7.0 0.7 .769 .254 .197 .0
2012 29 LAA AL 152 104 20 5.2 92 .345 .294 .245 .329 .312 .420 .398 .749 .709 111 .555 2.0 0.2 .660 .182 .126 .0
6 Yrs 1392 977 200 5.5 104 .306 .285 .264 .335 .332 .493 .421 .828 .753 118 .544 30.5 2.9 .751 .274 .207 7.5
162 Game Avg. 608 427 87 5.5 104 .306 .285 .264 .335 .332 .493 .421 .828 .753 118 .544 13 1 .751 .274 .207 3

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 24 LAA AL ALDS BOS L 3 9 9 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .111 .111 .111 .222 1 0 0 0 0 0
2008 25 LAA AL ALDS BOS L 4 4 4 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .500 .500 .750 1.250 3 0 0 0 0 0
2009 26 LAA AL ALDS BOS W 3 12 10 1 2 0 0 1 3 0 0 1 0 .200 .250 .500 .750 5 0 0 0 1 0
2009 26 LAA AL ALCS NYY L 6 26 24 1 4 0 0 1 4 0 0 1 6 .167 .231 .292 .522 7 1 1 0 0 0
3 Yrs (4 Series) 16 51 47 3 9 1 0 2 7 0 0 2 8 .191 .235 .340 .576 16 1 1 0 1 0
3 ALDS 10 25 23 2 5 1 0 1 3 0 0 1 2 .217 .240 .391 .631 9 0 0 0 1 0
1 ALCS 6 26 24 1 4 0 0 1 4 0 0 1 6 .167 .231 .292 .522 7 1 1 0 0 0

Ratio Batting*

Year Age Tm Lg PA HR% SO% BB% XBH% X/H% SO/BB AB/SO AB/HR AB/RBI GB/FB GO/AO IP% LD% HR/FB IF/FB
2006 23 LAA AL 215 2.3% 13.0% 7.9% 7.4% 35% 1.65 7.0 39.4 9.0 1.05 1.43 77% 18% 6.7% 10%
2007 24 LAA AL 126 3.2% 16.7% 4.8% 11.1% 40% 3.50 5.7 29.8 7.9 0.85 1.06 75% 14% 9.1% 17%
2008 25 LAA AL 66 4.6% 10.6% 6.1% 7.6% 39% 1.75 8.7 20.3 7.6 0.69 0.95 77% 17% 11.1% 16%
2009 26 LAA AL 622 5.5% 18.8% 7.4% 12.7% 46% 2.54 4.8 16.6 5.2 0.74 1.02 68% 16% 14.1% 8%
2010 27 LAA AL 211 5.2% 14.7% 5.7% 7.6% 29% 2.58 6.2 17.5 4.9 0.92 1.56 72% 20% 13.9% 7%
2012 29 LAA AL 152 2.6% 19.7% 5.3% 6.6% 24% 3.75 4.8 35.8 8.4 1.00 1.47 72% 15% 7.8% 11%
6 Yrs 1392 4.4% 16.8% 6.7% 10.1% 38% 2.52 5.5 21.0 6.1 0.84 1.20 71% 17% 11.8% 10%
MLB Averages 2.6% 17.8% 8.5% 7.8% 34% 2.09 5.0 34.0 7.8 0.80 1.07 69% 19% 7.6% 13%

Win Probability

Year Age Tm Lg BtRuns BtWins Plays WPA WPA+ WPA- aLI WPA/LI Clutch RE24 REW boLI RE24/boLI PHlev AB
2006 23 LAA AL -9.0 -0.8 219 -1.6 2.7 -4.3 .93 -0.8 -0.9 -11.4 -1.1 0.92 -11.5 1.44 5
2007 24 LAA AL 1.5 0.1 129 0.3 2.5 -2.2 .94 -0.2 0.5 -0.1 -0.0 0.95 1.9 1.41 7
2008 25 LAA AL -2.9 -0.3 68 -0.5 0.8 -1.3 .93 -0.2 -0.4 -5.7 -0.5 0.98 -2.7 0.98 8
2009 26 LAA AL 31.8 3.0 638 2.8 13.0 -10.2 1.00 2.8 -0.0 31.6 2.9 0.96 29.5 1.08 8
2010 27 LAA AL 7.0 0.7 217 1.7 4.8 -3.0 .97 1.0 0.8 15.9 1.6 0.99 11.8 0
2012 29 LAA AL 2.0 0.2 154 -0.1 2.2 -2.3 .87 -0.3 0.2 2.8 0.3 0.87 -0.5 2.31 5
6 Yrs 30.4 2.9 1425 2.6 26.0 -23.4 .96 2.4 0.4 33.2 3.2 0.95 28.5 1.37 33

Baserunning & Misc. Stats*

Year Age Tm Lg ROE XI RS% SBO SB CS SB% SB2 CS2 SB3 CS3 SBH CSH PO PCS OOB BT XBT% 1stS 1stS2 1stS3 1stD 1stD3 1stDH 2ndS 2ndS3 2ndSH
2006 23 LAA AL 0 0 28% 77 1 1 50% 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 6 33% 9 6 3 5 4 1 7 2 3
2007 24 LAA AL 1 0 21% 47 0 1 0% 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 9% 5 5 0 2 1 0 4 3 1
2008 25 LAA AL 2 0 27% 23 0 1 0% 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 17% 2 2 0 3 3 0 1 0 1
2009 26 LAA AL 3 0 28% 219 3 7 30% 2 5 0 2 1 0 1 1 8 13 33% 43 33 9 10 8 2 17 5 12
2010 27 LAA AL 2 0 29% 102 0 1 0% 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 10 50% 12 9 3 3 1 2 5 0 5
2012 29 LAA AL 4 0 26% 41 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 4 42% 8 4 4 2 2 0 2 1 1
6 Yrs 12 0 27% 509 4 11 27% 3 7 0 3 1 1 3 1 15 36 34% 79 59 19 25 19 5 36 11 23

Situational Hitting*

Hits Pinch Hitting Home Runs SH GIDP PrdOut BaseRunners Advances
Year Age Tm Lg PA Ptn% H Inf Bnt AB H HR RBI PHlev All GS GSo vRH vLH Hm Rd IP Att Suc % Opp DP % Opp Suc % BR BRS BRS% <2,3B Scr % 0,2B Adv % PAu
2006 23 LAA AL 215 100% 46 2 0 5 1 0 0 1.44 5 0 3 4 1 1 4 0 0 0 39 11 28% 15 4 27% 118 18 15% 7 4 57% 4 2 50% 0
2007 24 LAA AL 126 100% 35 3 0 7 1 0 1 1.41 4 0 3 4 0 2 2 0 0 0 30 5 17% 17 2 12% 85 12 14% 8 3 38% 12 5 42% 0
2008 25 LAA AL 66 100% 13 1 0 8 1 0 0 0.98 3 0 4 2 1 0 3 0 0 0 12 3 25% 10 2 20% 47 5 11% 6 2 33% 2 1 50% 0
2009 26 LAA AL 622 100% 173 8 0 8 1 1 1 1.08 34 0 20 30 4 21 13 0 0 0 111 15 14% 55 22 40% 404 77 19% 35 24 69% 28 18 64% 0
2010 27 LAA AL 211 100% 56 4 0 0 0 0 0 11 1 5 9 2 7 4 0 0 0 38 5 13% 21 8 38% 136 31 23% 8 7 88% 10 7 70% 0
2012 29 LAA AL 152 100% 42 3 0 5 1 0 1 2.31 4 0 3 4 0 2 2 0 0 0 20 2 10% 5 1 20% 83 14 17% 7 6 86% 4 1 25% 0
6 Yrs 1392 100% 365 21 0 33 5 1 3 1.37 61 1 38 53 8 33 28 0 0 0 250 41 16% 123 39 32% 873 157 18% 71 46 65% 60 34 57% 0
MLB Averages 54% 68% 11% 32% 15% 51% 56%

Pitch Summary -- Batting*

Year Age Tm Lg PA Pit Pit/PA Str Str% L/Str S/Str F/Str I/Str AS/Str I/Bll AS/Pit Con 1stS 30% 30c 30s 20% 20c 20s 31% 31c 31s L/SO PAu Pitu Stru
2006 23 LAA AL 215 783 3.64 513 66% 24% 13% 29% 33% 76% 1% 50% 83% 29% 4% 9 0 13% 29 13 8% 17 9 29% 0 0 0
2007 24 LAA AL 126 458 3.63 296 65% 25% 18% 24% 33% 75% 5% 48% 76% 13% 6% 7 0 19% 24 12 6% 7 6 0% 0 0 0
2008 25 LAA AL 66 229 3.47 141 62% 23% 12% 27% 38% 77% 0% 48% 84% 12% 6% 4 0 17% 11 5 6% 4 3 14% 0 0 0
2009 26 LAA AL 623 2499 4.01 1564 63% 28% 16% 26% 29% 72% 3% 45% 78% 14% 7% 41 0 18% 110 58 11% 67 50 14% -1 0 0
2010 27 LAA AL 214 805 3.76 510 63% 30% 15% 23% 32% 70% 3% 44% 79% 14% 6% 12 4 14% 31 13 7% 14 9 16% -3 0 0
2012 29 LAA AL 152 610 4.01 399 65% 20% 18% 34% 29% 80% 0% 52% 78% 24% 6% 9 1 14% 22 9 8% 12 9 7% 0 0 0
6 Yrs 1396 5384 3.86 3423 64% 27% 16% 27% 31% 73% 3% 47% 79% 17% 6% 82 5 16% 227 110 9% 121 86 14% -4 0 0
MLB Averages 3.80 63% 28% 15% 27% 30% 72% 2% 45% 80% 27% 5% 15% 9% 25%

Cumulative Batting

Year Age G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB
2006 23 57 215 197 21 46 10 1 5 22 1 1 17 28 .234 .293 .371 .664 71 73 11 0 0 1 1
2007 24 100 341 316 33 81 20 1 9 37 1 2 23 49 .256 .308 .411 .719 86 130 16 1 0 1 3
2008 25 127 407 377 40 94 22 1 12 45 1 3 27 56 .249 .302 .408 .711 84 154 19 2 0 1 3
2009 26 279 1029 943 126 267 65 3 46 153 4 10 73 173 .283 .334 .505 .839 117 476 34 4 0 9 13
2010 27 330 1240 1136 155 323 70 3 57 192 4 11 85 204 .284 .336 .502 .838 119 570 39 9 0 10 16
2011 28 330 1240 1136 155 323 70 3 57 192 4 11 85 204 .284 .336 .502 .838 119 570 39 9 0 10 16
2012 29 371 1392 1279 171 365 76 3 61 209 4 11 93 234 .285 .335 .493 .828 118 630 41 9 0 11 16

Neutralized Batting

Change to: Default / 750 Runs / 1968 Dodgers / 2000 Rockies or

All seasons are converted to 162-game seasons &
average team scoring of 716 total runs (4.42 R/G) How this works
Year Age G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS RC Gact
2006 23 57 212 195 20 44 10 1 5 20 1 16 28 .226 .283 .364 .647 20 57
2007 24 43 125 118 12 34 10 0 4 14 0 6 21 .288 .328 .475 .803 18 43
2008 25 27 66 61 7 13 2 0 3 8 0 4 7 .213 .273 .393 .666 6 27
2009 26 152 621 565 85 172 43 2 34 107 3 46 117 .304 .354 .568 .922 114 152
2010 27 51 215 196 32 59 5 0 12 43 0 13 31 .301 .358 .510 .868 34 51
2012 29 41 156 146 18 45 6 0 4 19 0 9 30 .308 .346 .432 .778 22 41
6 Yrs 371 1395 1281 174 367 76 3 62 211 4 94 234 .286 .337 .496 .833 214 371
162 Game Avg. 162 609 559 76 160 33 1 27 92 2 41 102 .286 .337 .496 .833 93 371

* 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

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
2009 AL (5, 43%)
0.43 Career Shares (489th)

Slugging % s c a p y
2009 AL  .569 (2nd)

On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y
2009 AL  .924 (8th)

Total Bases s c a p y
2009 AL  322 (6th)

Doubles s c a p y
2009 AL  43 (8th)

Home Runs s c a p y
2009 AL  34 (6th)

Runs Batted In s c a p y
2009 AL  108 (5th)

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
2009 AL  139 (7th)

Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y
2009 AL  32 (8th)

Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y
2009 AL  3.0 (8th)

Extra Base Hits s c a p y
2009 AL  79 (3rd)

Sacrifice Flies s c a p y
2009 AL  8 (6th)

Intentional Bases on Balls s c a p y
2009 AL  10 (7th)

AB per HR s c a p y
2009 AL  16.6 (8th)

Base-Out Runs Added (RE24)† s c a p y
2009 AL  31.63 (8th)

Situ. Wins Added (WPA/LI)† s c a p y
2009 AL  2.8 (10th)

Base-Out Wins Added (REW)† s c a p y
2009 AL  2.9 (8th)

                                         

† Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1948-1973, 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 - 13 (1263), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 8 (1246), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 14 (1173), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

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