Cliff Pennington
Clifton Randoulph Pennington
Bats: Both , Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11" , Weight: 185 lb.

Born: June 15, 1984 in Corpus Christi, TX
High School: Mary Carroll (Corpus Christi, TX)
Drafted by the Oakland Athletics in the 1st round (21st pick) of the 2005 amateur draft.
Signed June 17, 2005. (All Transactions)
Debut: August 12, 2008
    About biographical information

Standard Batting

Glossary · Click headers to sort · SHARE  · CSV · PRE · LINK · Click rows to sum (Clear)
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
2008 24 OAK AL 36 117 99 14 24 5 0 0 9 4 1 13 18 .242 .339 .293 .632 74 29 1 2 2 1 0 46/5
2009 25 OAK AL 60 229 208 27 58 11 3 4 21 7 5 19 46 .279 .342 .418 .760 101 87 5 1 1 0 0 6
2 Seasons 96 346 307 41 82 16 3 4 30 11 6 32 64 .267 .341 .378 .719 92 116 6 3 3 1 0
162 Game Avg. 162 584 518 69 138 27 5 7 51 19 10 54 108 .267 .341 .378 .719 92 196 10 5 5 2 0

Advanced Batting

Glossary · Click headers to sort · SHARE  · CSV · PRE · LINK · Click rows to sum (Clear)
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
2008 24 OAK AL 117 80 12 4.0 101 .293 .242 .262 .339 .329 .293 .412 .632 .741 74 .404 -2.8 -0.3 .610 .212 .051 .0
2009 25 OAK AL 229 161 29 4.8 106 .342 .279 .265 .342 .334 .418 .425 .760 .759 101 .476 0.0 0.0 .681 .240 .139 5.1
2 Seasons 346 241 41 4.5 104 .325 .267 .264 .341 .332 .378 .421 .719 .753 92 .453 -2.8 -0.3 .658 .231 .111 5.9
162 Game Avg. 584 407 69 4.5 104 .325 .267 .264 .341 .332 .378 .421 .719 .753 92 .453 -2.8 -0.3 .658 .231 .111 10

Ratio Batting*

Glossary · Click headers to sort · SHARE  · CSV · PRE · LINK · Click rows to sum (Clear)
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
2008 24 OAK AL 117 0.0% 15.4% 11.1% 4.3% 21% 1.38 5.5 11.0 0.56 0.69 70% 23% 0.0% 12%
2009 25 OAK AL 229 1.8% 20.1% 8.3% 7.9% 31% 2.42 4.5 52.0 9.9 0.74 1.04 69% 17% 5.2% 14%
2 Seasons 346 1.2% 18.5% 9.3% 6.7% 28% 2.00 4.8 76.8 10.2 0.68 0.90 69% 19% 3.3% 13%
MLB Averages 2.7% 18.0% 8.9% 7.9% 34% 2.02 4.9 32.9 7.8 0.78 1.06 69% 19% 7.8% 13%

Baserunning & Misc. Stats*

Glossary · Click headers to sort · SHARE  · CSV · PRE · LINK · Click rows to sum (Clear)
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
2008 24 OAK AL 1 0 36% 57 4 1 80% 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 53% 7 5 2 3 2 1 5 0 5
2009 25 OAK AL 1 0 31% 73 7 5 58% 7 4 0 0 0 1 1 1 4 7 53% 7 2 4 2 1 1 10 5 5
2 Seasons 2 0 33% 130 11 6 65% 11 5 0 0 0 1 1 1 5 9 53% 14 7 6 5 3 2 15 5 10
MLB Averages 31% 72% 39%

Situational Hitting*

Glossary · Click headers to sort · SHARE  · CSV · PRE · LINK · Click rows to sum (Clear)
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
2008 24 OAK AL 117 100% 24 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 100% 24 1 4% 14 8 57% 70 12 17% 8 6 75% 8 5 63% 0
2009 25 OAK AL 229 100% 58 8 3 0 0 0 0 4 0 9 3 1 3 1 0 2 1 50% 39 5 13% 19 4 21% 156 18 12% 14 5 36% 13 5 38% 0
2 Seasons 346 100% 82 10 4 0 0 0 0 4 0 13 3 1 3 1 0 4 3 75% 63 6 10% 33 12 36% 226 30 13% 22 11 50% 21 10 48% 0
MLB Averages 55% 72% 11% 32% 14% 51% 43%

Pitch Summary -- Batting*

Glossary · Click headers to sort · SHARE  · CSV · PRE · LINK · Click rows to sum (Clear)
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
2008 24 OAK AL 117 471 4.03 294 62% 27% 11% 33% 29% 73% 0% 45% 85% 20% 3% 4 0 14% 16 7 8% 9 3 39% 0 0 0
2009 25 OAK AL 229 916 4.00 580 63% 25% 15% 32% 28% 75% 0% 47% 80% 28% 5% 11 0 14% 33 12 10% 22 13 17% 0 0 0
2 Seasons 346 1387 4.01 874 63% 26% 14% 32% 28% 74% 0% 47% 82% 25% 4% 15 0 14% 49 19 9% 31 16 23% 0 0 0
MLB Averages 3.83 62% 28% 15% 27% 30% 72% 2% 45% 80% 26% 5% 15% 9% 25%

Cumulative Batting

Glossary · Click headers to sort · SHARE  · CSV · PRE · LINK
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
2008 24 36 117 99 14 24 5 0 0 9 4 1 13 18 .242 .339 .293 .632 74 29 1 2 2 1 0
2009 25 96 346 307 41 82 16 3 4 30 11 6 32 64 .267 .341 .378 .719 92 116 6 3 3 1 0

Neutralized Batting

SHARE  · CSV · PRE · LINK · Click rows to sum (Clear) ·

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
2008 24 36 120 102 15 27 6 0 0 9 4 15 18 .265 .367 .324 .690 12 36
2009 25 60 229 209 28 59 11 3 4 22 7 19 46 .282 .345 .421 .766 30 60
2 Seasons 96 349 311 43 86 17 3 4 31 11 34 64 .277 .352 .389 .742 42 96
162 Game Avg. 162 589 525 73 145 29 5 7 52 19 57 108 .277 .352 .389 .742 71 96

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1954 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.

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 6 (2322), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Other Resources & Links

Error?     Compare     Search SABR's Baseball Index     Other Links@google.com     Baseball-Almanac.com     Retrosheet     The Baseball Page     WhatIfSports: Cliff Pennington    

Viewed 5,502 times through December 17, 2009.
Name and misspellings: Clifton Cliff Randoulph Pennington

Player Page Tricks and Tips

Sum any set of rows by clicking anywhere (not red or blue) on the first and last rows of your selection. We will then compute the totals for the player between and including those two seasons.
Default Setting for this feature: Turn On / Turn Off
Summation of season totals only works for the initial case when the table is in year order. On a sorted table the results may get a bit goofy.

HIGHLIGHTING: Adding a range or series of player's career seasons (like '#1972', '#1970-1980-sum', or '#1998,1999,2001,2002,sum') onto the end of a player page url causes the seasons to the highlighted and summed. After changing address bar, reload the page to see highlighting. This will work even in links e-mailed to others. Note that for tables with multiple pages the first table is the default. If you want to create a sum for a table other than the first one, select the rows and after the summation window appears click on "permanent link" link.

The play-by-play information both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet.