Robin Mark Ventura

Positions: Third Baseman and First Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: July 14, 1967 in Santa Maria, CA
High School: Righetti HS (Santa Maria, CA)
School: Oklahoma State University (Stillwater, OK)
Drafted by the Chicago White Sox in the 1st round (10th pick) of the 1988 amateur draft.
Signed October 21, 1988. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 12, 1989 (Age 22)   vs. BAL 4 AB, 1 H, 0 HR, 1 RBI, 0 SB
Teams (by GP): WhiteSox/Mets/Yankees/Dodgers 1989-2004
Agents: John Boggs [*]
Final Game: October 2, 2004 (Age 37)   vs. SFG 3 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB
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• 4/23 Baseball Musings: I-Rod Timeline: With Ivan Rodriguez retiring today, Chris Jaffe creates a timeline of his career: June 20, 1991: Rodriguez makes his big league...
• 4/9 The Writer's Journey: 2012 FPC: Chicago White Sox: The White Sox have a new manager, former third baseman Robin Ventura, and decided to make him the face of the team schedule this...
• 4/6 PaulLebowitz.com: The Much Anti**** Meeting Between Robin Ventura and Nolan Ryan: How the Robin Ventura-Nolan Ryan scrap from 19 years ago gained such cult status is understandable when you consider the ages...
• 4/4 WasWatching: Robinson Cano, Eric Chavez & Robin Ventura: Here are their career stats through age 28 - Rk Player OPS+ G PA From To Age AB R H 2B HR RBI BB SO 1 Robinson Cano 119 1053 4413...

• 3/24 The Writer's Journey: We Got To Play Baseball by Gregg Olson and Ocean Palmer (2011): We Got To Play Baseball: 60 Stories from Men Who Played the Game by Gregg Olson and Ocean Palmer Strategic Book Publishing, 2011...
• 3/17 Baseball Musings: Team Offense, Chicago White Sox: The Marcels project a big year for Dayan Viciedo, although it's a low confidence projection. Photo: Ed Wolfstein/Icon SMI...
• 3/6 Ramblings of Baseball: RomoBall Fantasy Preview – 10th Edition (91-100): Every year, a few former first rounders slip into the middle rounds for reasons other than their age or sharp and sudden decline....
• 3/6 C70 At The Bat: Bonus Pepper: Chicago White Sox: In 2009, I decided to get a feel for other teams around baseball by asking bloggers for those teams some questions about their...
• 3/6 Baseball Press: Dr. Lineup: Early Spring Training Observations: Brennan Boesch is sitting pretty in the No.2 hole for the Tigers. (Icon SMI)Although the results and statistics don't count,...

• 2/27 C70 At The Bat: Playing Pepper 2012: Chicago White Sox: In 2009, I decided to get a feel for other teams around baseball by asking bloggers for those teams some questions about their...
• 2/26 Southside Showdown: Robin Ventura is the Anti-Ozzie: As the position players started to come in Manager Robin Ventura began to field questions about some of his veterans who struggled...
• 2/21 Baseball Musings: Will Ventura Experiment?: South Side Sox notes the White Sox under Ozzie Guillen were a bit rigid in the construction of lineups. Ozzie liked to use the...
• 2/17 High Heat Stats: Gary Carter 1954-2012: The inevitable has happened, with Gary Carter’s passing today from cancer. Carter had a very large personality and had a...
• 2/17 PaulLebowitz.com: American League Fantasy Sleepers: These names jumped out at me as I’m working on my book. (See the sidebar. Available soon.) — B.J. Upton, CF—Tampa...
• 2/15 Mets360.com: An open letter to Fred Wilpon: Dear Mr. Fred Wilpon: It’s time – you need to sell the team. I know the truth often smarts, but that doesn’t make it any...
• 2/10 Baseball Musings: Changes, Chicago White Sox: Robin Ventura hopes to check the fall of the White Sox. Photo: Robin Alam/Icon SMI The Chicago White Sox finished the 2011 season...

• 1/21 WasWatching: Best Of The 1,000 Hit Club: Of all the retired players, with stats since 1901, who have at least 1,000 career hits but less than 2,000 career hits, who were...
• 1/20 Ramblings of Baseball: What To Wear XV: Texas Rangers Rangers fans haven’t been blessed with a lot of great teams until recently. The teams for many years were put...
• 1/20 PaulLebowitz.com: Crippled Central: In the past week two of the contending teams in the American League Central suffered losses of different kinds. The Tigers will...
• 1/17 Southside Showdown: Robin Ventura Can Save Gordon Beckham: Our fine editor Anders Johanson gave you the 2012 season forcast for Gordon Beckham. He alluded to Robin Ventura finding him a permanent home...
• 1/16 MetsToday.com: 2011 Analysis: Jason Bay: Last year, I almost forgot to analyze Jason Bay during my annual evaluation series — perhaps because Bay had slogged through...
• 1/12 High Heat Stats: WAAS Experiment #1: Adjusted WAAS: In a long exchange on the original WAAS post, reader Robert proposed adjusting the WAAS method to account for partial seasons.Basic...
• 1/11 The Daily Catch: Is Mike Piazza A First-Ballot Hall of Famer?: This article is courtesy of our friends at Mets Merized Online Written by: Jim Mancari With the dust settled from this year’s...
• 1/7 El Maquino: WILL THERE EVER BE ANOTHER PLAYER-MANAGER?: Teams used to do it all the time.  After all, why pay two people to do two different jobs when you can pay just one person to...

• 12/24 Bleeding Yankee Blue: WHY ROBIN VENTURA DID A WONDERFUL THING: Former New York Yankee and current White Sox Manager Robin Ventura did something that was incredibly kind and I have 10 times...
• 12/22 PaulLebowitz.com: Are the White Sox Rebuilding or Not?: White Sox GM Kenny Williams uttered the unutterable word after the club’s disappointing 2011 season ended and manager Ozzie...
• 12/15 High Heat Stats: Brian Jordan: The Gold Gloves' biggest snub?: Since 1961, here are the outfield leaders in WAR Runs-Fielding:RkPlayerRfieldFromToAgeGPosTm1Andruw Jones2431996201119-342102*89/D73ATL-LAD-TEX-CHW-NYY2Barry...
• 12/12 B-R Blog: B-R: HoF Candidate – Edgardo Alfonzo: Edgardo Alfonzo Edgardo Antonio Alfonzo Positions: Third Baseman and Second Baseman Bats: Right, Throws: Right Height: 5' 11",...
• 12/9 WasWatching: Baseball’s All-Time Best All-Around Players?: These are the only players in baseball history to have both 120+ WAR Fielding Runs and 120+ WAR Batting runs in their career:...
• 12/6 High Heat Stats: The 3 players with at least 8 superior offensive and defensive seasons: Since 1901, there are 25 players who have at least 8 seasons with 40+ Rbat, or Batting Runs. These are the cream of the crop offensive...

• 11/21 Fire Brand of the American League: More Concerns from the Front Office: I’m not one to go the route of Dan Shaughnessy and label the Front Office in chaos, but one has to be concerned about what...
• 11/14 Classic Minnesota Twins: Classic Twins Game of the Week: Dave Winfield's 3,000th Hit Game: Sept. 16, 1993:                 Winfield squares up pitch  from Dennis Eckersley  for his...
• 11/14 C70 At The Bat: In Mo We Trust: The person probably at the bottom of most lists when this managerial search started was at the top of the only list that mattered....
• 11/9 High Heat Stats: Hot Corner gets Cold Shoulder from HOF: The Hall of Fame voters have been harder on third basemen than on most other positions, whether measured by Games, Wins Above...

• 10/14 NY Baseball Digest: Top 5 Managers in Baseball, Mega-Contracts, Breaking Points: The playoffs have brought about much debate about managers and their impact. Every night you hear complaints on Twitter about...
• 10/13 PaulLebowitz.com: David Ortiz Is Yapping His Way Out Of Boston: The days of players like Gary Sheffield and David Wells cutting side deals with George Steinbrenner around the desires of the...
• 10/11 Baseball Analytics: Cruzin' for a Brusin': Nelson Cruz of the Texas Rangers hit two home runs and a double Monday night, tying the game with his first home run and winning...
• 10/11 60ft6in.com: Boom Stick and Robin: MLB history has been intertwined with the present in the last 24 hours. Nelson Cruz hit a titanic walk-off grand slam yesterday in...
• 10/11 PaulLebowitz.com: Paul Konerko As Player-Manager Could Not Have Worked: Before hiring Robin Ventura, White Sox GM Kenny Williams said he considered Paul Konerko as player-manager—Chicago Tribune...
• 10/6 i70baseball.com: Tony LaRussa Rumor Killer: White Sox Hire ManagerMany rumors have pointed to Tony LaRussa joining the White Sox next season....
• 10/6 Bronx Baseball Daily: Former Yankee Robin Ventura Named White Sox Manager: The White Sox announced that they have replace Ozzie Guillen today as they hired former Yankee, and White Sox, Robin Ventura. “I...
• 10/6 PaulLebowitz.com: White Sox Hire….Robin Ventura?!?: Baseball’s James Bond Villain, White Sox GM Kenny Williams, has seen his evil schemes in recent years turn out…well, like...
• 10/6 NY Baseball Digest: Ventura Hiring Another Example of New Wave of Managers: One of the memes surrounding “Moneyball” is the field manager isn’t important. All he is there to do is carry...
• 10/6 Baseball Musings: Robin Flies to Chicago: The White Sox named Robin Ventura their new manager: “I wanted someone who met very specific criteria centered around his leadership...
• 10/6 B-R Blog: White Sox name Robin Ventura managerThe Chicago White Sox have named Robin Ventura manager.... ...huh?!?!...

• 9/19 Bleeding Yankee Blue: EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: TODD ZEILE: I'm a Yankee fan. I love the team, I love the YES Network gang, Kimberly Jones, Jack Curry, Ken Singleton and the like, and...

• 8/28 Mets360.com: Why the Mets should move David Wright to LF: Since the middle of 2004, David Wright has been a fixture at third base for the Mets. Since then, he’s made the All-Star team...
• 8/5 WSJ Daily Fix: The Company Craig Counsell Keeps: The Count: The good news for Counsell, one hitless at bat shy of the record streak, is that other players bounced back from such...
• 8/3 NY Baseball Digest: 2012 Mets Infield: Best Infield Ever?: Back in 1999, John Olerud, Edgardo Alfonzo, Rey Ordonez, and Robin Ventura donned the cover of Sports Illustrated as “The...

• 6/17 Baseball Musings: Ventura Returns: Robin Ventura returns to the White Sox in a front office capacity, and South Side Sox chatted with him about his return and his...
• 6/17 B-R Blog: 100+ Career “Runs” From Fielding: Nothing fancy about this list - it's those with 100+ career "Fielding Runs" aka Rfield. Rk Player Rfield From To Age G PA AB R...

• 5/24 The Captain's Blog: Are the Mets Cursed? Examining Free Agency in Flushing: The last three years haven’t been very kind to Mets’ owner Fred Wilpon, so what’s one more bad day? In a recent profile...
• 5/20 MLBTradeRumors: Baseball Blogs Weigh In: Bautista, Vargas, Loney: On this date in 1999, Robin Ventura became the first player in baseball history to hit a grand slam in both games of a double...
• 5/10 B-R Blog: Bad Batter Starts To A Season: How many players, since 1919, had 14+ games within his team's first 25 games of the season where he had 3+ PA in the contest with...

• 3/30 B-R Blog: On Base 4+ Times In Game 1 – Three Times Or More: Since 1919, how many batters have reached base 4+ times in his team's first game of the season, three times or more in his career?...
• 3/29 B-R Blog: Home run winning percentage: After Steve's post a few days ago about most homers coming in a loss, it got me wondering what the team's winning percentage looks...
• 3/22 The Captain's Blog: Interborough Transfer: Yanks Decide Against Taking a Look at Perez; Mets’ Avoid Thumb of Murphy’s Law: Lately, the Mets have suffered from baseball’s version of Murphy’s Law. Just when it looks like the team has hit rock bottom,...
• 3/18 B-R Blog: Seasons With 100+ Games Played & RBI > Half TB: Just goofing around, I decided to run a query of "For single seasons, From 1901 to 2010, requiring RBI>.5*TB and At least...
• 3/18 B-R Blog: Bloops: The Hall of (Peak-Weighted) WAR: Here's a cool link from Adam Darowski: Hall of wWAR: The Hall of Fame Re-Po**** by Peak-Weighted WAR It is exactly what it sounds...

• 2/28 B-R Blog: Batter Games With RE24 = 6+ Since 1973: Since 1973, here are the games where a batter's RE24 for the contest was 6 or better. The list - Rk Player Date Tm Opp Rslt PA...
• 2/21 Braves Journal: Scotts Linebrink and Proctor: Two ragarmed righthanders in their thirties. Linebrink was a second-round pick of the Giants way back in ’97 who flopped...
• 2/20 Mets360.com: Comparing Jason Bay and other Mets free agent hitters: When the Mets signed Jason Bay, he was going to be the slugger in the middle of the lineup who essentially replaced Carlos Delgado...
• 2/14 NY Baseball Digest: Ventura Was Mastermind Behind Bobby V Fake Mustache: Another great video, this time by Shannon Shark of Mets Police. Watch Bobby Valentine discussed the June 9th, 1999 game against...

• 1/25 B-R Blog: Highest career WAR with more fielding runs than batting runs: (Thanks to reader Andy P. for emailing in this idea.) Think of the best defensive players of all time. Now, among them, who was...
• 1/11 Subjective Baseball: All-Time Team: New York Mets (position players): Here's a fun (and easy) one: the best player by position for my favorite team!  I'll try to do this for every team over the...
• 1/4 Pitchers Hit Eighth: Is Cooperstown Worthy?: It’s a double-edged sword of a question that needs asking.  Is Cooperstown really worthy?  Is it worthy of all the respect...

• 11/24 B-R Blog: Yankees WAR Leaders Since 1996: How many players have posted 5+ WAR for the Yankees since 1996? Here's the list of batters - Rk Player WAR/pos From To Age G PA...

• 10/31 MLBTradeRumors: Ranking Mets GMs All-Time: Well, it's official. Sandy Alderson is the 12th General Manager of the New York Mets, bringing joy to the corners of the globe...
• 10/21 PaulLebowitz.com: PANIC!!!!!: If that wasn't panic, it was a pretty good facsimile: Amid the Phillies consistent excellence over the past four years...

• 6/27 NY Baseball Digest: Vote: NYBD Strat-O-Matic Mets All Star 3B: David Wright Year Age G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ 2007 24 160 711 604 113 196 42 1 30 107 34 5 94...

• 5/19 B-R Blog: WAR Data: Best Position Players Not In the Hall of Fame: Here's a post concept that's sure to be a lightning rod for discussion: who are the best position players not to be inducted into...
• 5/12 B-R Blog: Sabermetric Fielding: Adam Everett’s Legendary 2006: (Note: All of the data in this post was obtained from the new Baseball-Reference Fielding Stats.) Sometimes a player has a season...