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Justin Morneau

Justin Ernest George Morneau (twitter: @JustinMorneau)

Position: First Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 4", Weight: 220 lb.

Born: May 15, 1981 in New Westminster, British Columbia, CAN
High School: New Westminster HS (New Westminster, BC)
Drafted by the Minnesota Twins in the 3rd round of the 1999 amateur draft.
Signed June 17, 1999. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 10, 2003
Team: Twins 2003-2012
2013 Contract Status: Signed thru 2013, 6 yrs/$80M (08-13) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2013): 8.168, Free Agent: 2014 [*], Agents: SFX, previously: Mark Pieper [*]
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Fine Details  · Last updated Dec 13, 2012 1:17AM
All-Time Rank (among batters): #501. Marty Marion… #502. Willie Kamm… #503. Prince Fielder… #504. JUSTIN MORNEAU… #505. Rick Monday… #506. Chris Chambliss… #507. Terry Pendleton… 

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
2003 22 MIN AL 40 115 106 14 24 4 0 4 16 0 0 9 30 .226 .287 .377 .664 73 40 4 0 0 0 1 D/3
2004 23 MIN AL 74 312 280 39 76 17 0 19 58 0 0 28 54 .271 .340 .536 .875 122 150 4 2 0 2 8 3D
2005 24 MIN AL 141 543 490 62 117 23 4 22 79 0 2 44 94 .239 .304 .437 .741 93 214 12 4 0 5 8 *3/D
2006 25 MIN AL 157 661 592 97 190 37 1 34 130 3 3 53 93 .321 .375 .559 .934 140 331 10 5 0 11 9 *3/D MVP-1,SS
2007 26 MIN AL 157 668 590 84 160 31 3 31 111 1 1 64 91 .271 .343 .492 .834 122 290 17 5 0 9 11 *3D AS,MVP-20
2008 27 MIN AL 163 712 623 97 187 47 4 23 129 0 1 76 85 .300 .374 .499 .873 134 311 20 3 0 10 16 *3/D AS,MVP-2,SS
2009 28 MIN AL 135 590 508 85 139 31 1 30 100 0 0 72 86 .274 .363 .516 .878 130 262 12 3 0 7 12 *3D AS
2010 29 MIN AL 81 348 296 53 102 25 1 18 56 0 0 50 62 .345 .437 .618 1.055 187 183 6 0 0 2 7 3/D AS
2011 30 MIN AL 69 288 264 19 60 16 0 4 30 0 0 19 44 .227 .285 .333 .618 70 88 8 3 0 2 1 3D
2012 31 MIN AL 134 570 505 63 135 26 2 19 77 1 0 49 102 .267 .333 .440 .773 113 222 19 6 0 10 8 3D
10 Yrs 1151 4807 4254 613 1190 257 16 204 786 5 7 464 741 .280 .351 .492 .842 123 2091 112 31 0 58 81
162 Game Avg. 162 677 599 86 167 36 2 29 111 1 1 65 104 .280 .351 .492 .842 123 294 16 4 0 8 11

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
2003 22 MIN AL 40 115 -4 1 -0 -2 -3 -8 -0.8 4 -5 -0.5 .479 .495 -0.3 -0.4 -3 $ D/3
2004 23 MIN AL 74 312 5 -1 0 -1 -5 -2 -0.1 10 9 0.9 .498 .499 0.9 -0.5 10 $ 3D
2005 24 MIN AL 141 543 -8 -1 -0 9 -8 -8 -0.8 18 10 0.9 .494 .495 0.0 0.2 1 $345,000 *3/D
2006 25 MIN AL 157 661 31 -5 0 2 -10 18 2.0 23 41 4.0 .511 .511 3.8 -0.7 39 $385,000 *3/D MVP-1,SS
2007 26 MIN AL 157 668 15 -2 0 0 -10 3 0.5 22 26 2.5 .502 .502 2.5 -0.9 26 $4,500,000 *3D AS,MVP-20
2008 27 MIN AL 163 712 28 0 -1 -2 -11 14 1.8 24 38 3.9 .509 .509 4.0 -1.1 40 $8,400,000 *3/D AS,MVP-2,SS
2009 28 MIN AL 135 590 18 1 1 2 -9 13 1.4 20 33 3.2 .509 .508 3.0 -0.6 31 $11,600,000 *3D AS
2010 29 MIN AL 81 348 34 -3 -1 8 -5 33 3.5 12 45 4.6 .542 .521 3.7 0.4 37 $15,000,000 3/D AS
2011 30 MIN AL 69 288 -12 -0 -0 -3 -5 -20 -2.1 10 -11 -1.2 .468 .486 -0.9 -0.8 -8 $15,000,000 3D
2012 31 MIN AL 134 570 7 -4 -2 0 -10 -8 -0.8 19 11 0.9 .493 .495 1.1 -1.0 11 $14,000,000 3D
10 Seasons 1151 4807 113 -13 -3 13 -76 34 4.6 162 196 19.2 .503 .502 17.8 -5.4 183 $69,230,000

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
2004 23 MIN AL ALDS NYY L 4 17 17 1 4 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 3 .235 .235 .353 .588 6 0 0 0 0 0
2006 25 MIN AL ALDS OAK L 3 12 12 3 5 1 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 .417 .417 1.000 1.417 12 0 0 0 0 0
2 Yrs (2 Series) 7 29 29 4 9 3 0 2 4 0 0 0 3 .310 .310 .621 .931 18 0 0 0 0 0
2 ALDS 7 29 29 4 9 3 0 2 4 0 0 0 3 .310 .310 .621 .931 18 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 Awards
2003 MIN AL 22 DH 23 20
2003 MIN AL 22 1B 7 2 2 34.2 34 29 4 1 1 .971 -1 -2 -21 -69 8.57 4.71 .993 9.55 9.46
2004 MIN AL 23 1B 61 61 56 538.1 567 523 41 3 54 .995 -2 -1 -4 -2 9.43 9.25 .994 9.31 9.25
2004 MIN AL 23 DH 11 11
2005 MIN AL 24 1B 138 128 123 1166.1 1290 1191 91 8 123 .994 10 9 10 9 9.89 9.29 .994 9.60 9.49
2005 MIN AL 24 DH 1 0
2006 MIN AL 25 1B 153 152 149 1346.1 1416 1297 111 8 113 .994 -4 2 -3 2 9.41 9.20 .994 9.54 9.40 MVP-1,SS
2006 MIN AL 25 DH 4 4 MVP-1,SS
2007 MIN AL 26 1B 143 143 138 1259.1 1296 1189 102 5 122 .996 1 0 1 0 9.23 9.03 .995 9.37 9.27 AS,MVP-20
2007 MIN AL 26 DH 14 14 AS,MVP-20
2008 MIN AL 27 1B 155 155 143 1363.2 1409 1316 89 4 149 .997 -3 -2 -2 -2 9.27 9.06 .994 9.26 9.18 AS,MVP-2,SS
2008 MIN AL 27 DH 8 8 AS,MVP-2,SS
2009 MIN AL 28 1B 123 123 113 1071.2 1045 952 90 3 88 .997 -1 2 -1 2 8.75 8.47 .994 9.13 9.02 AS
2009 MIN AL 28 DH 12 12 AS
2010 MIN AL 29 1B 77 77 75 688.1 734 674 59 1 64 .999 12 8 20 14 9.58 9.52 .994 9.32 9.23 AS
2010 MIN AL 29 DH 2 2 AS
2011 MIN AL 30 1B 56 55 49 479.1 485 440 44 1 52 .998 -3 -3 -8 -8 9.09 8.64 .993 9.30 9.24
2011 MIN AL 30 DH 13 13
2012 MIN AL 31 1B 99 99 94 879.2 957 879 72 6 105 .994 -4 0 -5 0 9.73 9.61 .994 9.27 9.22
2012 MIN AL 31 DH 34 34
10 Seasons 1B 1012 995 942 8827.2 9233 8490 703 40 871 .996 6 13 1 1 9.37 9.08 .994 9.36 9.27
10 Seasons TOT 1012 995 942 8827.2 9233 8490 703 40 871 .996 6 13 1 1 9.37 9.08 .994 9.36 9.27
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 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-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

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

All-Star Games
2007 *
2008 *
2009 *
2010

Awards (yr lg award)
2006 AL MVP

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
2006 AL (1, 82%)
2007 AL (20, 1%)
2008 AL (2, 66%)
1 MVP
1.49 Career Shares (149th)

Silver Sluggers
2006 AL (1B)
2008 AL (1B)
All multiple winners

Batting Average s c a p y
2006 AL  .321 (7th)

Slugging % s c a p y
2006 AL  .559 (6th)
Active  .492 (33rd)
Career  .492 (130th)

On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y
2006 AL  .934 (8th)
Active  .842 (39th)
Career  .842 (201st)

Games Played s c a p y
2006 AL  157 (10th)
2008 AL  163 (1st)

Plate Appearances s c a p y
2008 AL  712 (5th)

Hits s c a p y
2006 AL  190 (7th)
2008 AL  187 (5th)

Total Bases s c a p y
2006 AL  331 (5th)
2008 AL  311 (7th)

Doubles s c a p y
2008 AL  47 (5th)

Home Runs s c a p y
2007 AL  31 (5th)
Active  204 (40th)

Runs Batted In s c a p y
2006 AL  130 (2nd)
2007 AL  111 (9th)
2008 AL  129 (2nd)
Active  786 (38th)

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
2006 AL  140 (8th)
2008 AL  134 (9th)
Active  123 (33rd)

Runs Created s c a p y
2006 AL  125 (8th)
2008 AL  114 (8th)

Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y
2006 AL  36 (8th)
2008 AL  33 (6th)
2010 AL  38 (6th)
Active  147 (37th)

Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y
2006 AL  3.3 (8th)
2008 AL  3.1 (6th)
2010 AL  3.6 (6th)
Active  13.7 (37th)

Extra Base Hits s c a p y
2006 AL  72 (8th)
2008 AL  74 (6th)

Times On Base s c a p y
2008 AL  266 (5th)

Offensive Win % s c a p y
2006 AL  .677 (9th)
Active  .594 (48th)

Sacrifice Flies s c a p y
2006 AL  11 (1st)
2007 AL  9 (4th)
2008 AL  10 (2nd)
2009 AL  7 (9th)
2012 AL  10 (2nd)
Active  58 (26th)
Career  58 (228th)

Intentional Bases on Balls s c a p y
2007 AL  11 (8th)
2008 AL  16 (1st)
2009 AL  12 (4th)
Active  81 (21st)
Career  81 (176th)

Double Plays Grounded Into s c a p y
2008 AL  20 (10th)

AB per HR s c a p y
2007 AL  19.0 (8th)
2009 AL  16.9 (10th)
Active  20.9 (35th)
Career  20.9 (144th)

Base-Out Runs Added (RE24)† s c a p y
2006 AL  44.02 (8th)
2008 AL  44.03 (3rd)
Active  154.90 (41st)

Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y
2006 AL  4.6 (5th)
2008 AL  3.8 (6th)
Active  11.8 (46th)

Situ. Wins Added (WPA/LI)† s c a p y
2006 AL  3.3 (10th)
2010 AL  3.9 (6th)
Active  13.3 (42nd)

Base-Out Wins Added (REW)† s c a p y
2006 AL  4.0 (8th)
2008 AL  4.2 (2nd)
2010 AL  3.1 (10th)
Active  14.6 (42nd)

Putouts† s c a p y
2005 AL  1,191 (4th)
2006 AL  1,297 (3rd)
2007 AL  1,189 (1st)
2008 AL  1,316 (1st)
Active  8,490 (16th)

Def. Games as 1B s c a p y
2005 AL  138 (5th)
2006 AL  153 (2nd)
2007 AL  143 (2nd)
2008 AL  155 (2nd)
Active  1,012 (13th)

Putouts as 1B s c a p y
2005 AL  1,191 (4th)
2006 AL  1,297 (3rd)
2007 AL  1,189 (1st)
2008 AL  1,316 (1st)
Active  8,490 (13th)

Assists as 1B s c a p y
2005 AL  91 (3rd)
2006 AL  111 (1st)
2007 AL  102 (2nd)
2008 AL  89 (4th)
2009 AL  90 (4th)
Active  703 (10th)

Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y
2005 AL  8 (2nd)
2006 AL  8 (3rd)
2007 AL  5 (5th)
Active  40 (17th)

Total Zone Runs as 1B s c a p y
2005 AL  10 (2nd)
2010 AL  12 (1st)
Active  6 (22nd)

Range Factor/9Inn as 1B† s c a p y
2005 AL  9.89 (4th)
2012 AL  9.73 (4th)
Active  9.37 (10th)
Career  9.37 (83rd)

Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y
2006 AL  9.20 (4th)
2012 AL  9.61 (1st)
Active  9.08 (6th)

Fielding % as 1B s c a p y
2008 AL  .997 (3rd)
2009 AL  .997 (2nd)
Active  .996 (5th)
Career  .996 (9th)

                           

† 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 (·)

Black InkBatting - 1 (743), Average HOFer ≈ 27
Gray InkBatting - 33 (731), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 46 (422), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 18 (875), Average HOFer ≈ 50
JAWS First Base (110th), 19.2 career WAR/20.0 7yr-peak WAR/19.6 JAWS
Average HOF 1B (out of 18) = 62.3 career WAR/40.7 7yr-peak WAR/51.5 JAWS

Similarity Scores

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  2. Adrian Gonzalez (942)
  3. Travis Hafner (940)
  4. Hideki Matsui (922)
  5. Alvin Davis (917)
  6. Prince Fielder (915)
  7. Tony Clark (914)
  8. Jason Bay (910)
  9. Dick Stuart (908)
  10. Kevin Mitchell (908)
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  3. Lee May (941)
  4. Danny Tartabull (925)
  5. Aubrey Huff (923)
  6. Geoff Jenkins (921)
  7. Alvin Davis (917)
  8. Jermaine Dye (914)
  9. Vic Wertz (914)
  10. Willie Horton (913)
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  1. Dick Gernert (974)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  2. Adrian Gonzalez (963)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  3. Adrian Gonzalez (970)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  4. Adrian Gonzalez (971)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  5. Adrian Gonzalez (971)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  6. Adrian Gonzalez (948)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  7. Tino Martinez (971)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  8. Tino Martinez (974)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
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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
200524Minnesota Twins$345,000
200625Minnesota Twins$385,000
200726Minnesota Twins$4,500,000
200827Minnesota Twins$8,400,000
200928Minnesota Twins$11,600,000
201029Minnesota Twins$15,000,000
201130Minnesota Twins$15,000,000
201231Minnesota Twins$14,000,000contracts
201332Minnesota Twins$14,000,000
Earliest Free Agent: 2014
Career to date (may be incomplete)$69,230,000Does 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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