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Cliff Pennington

Clifton Randolph Pennington

Positions: Shortstop and Second Baseman
Bats: Both, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 215 lb.

Born: June 15, 1984 in Corpus Christi, TX
High School: Mary Carroll (Corpus Christi, TX)
School: Texas A&M University
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
Team: Athletics 2008-2011
2012 Contract Status: Pre-Arb Eligible, 1 yr/$420k (11) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 2.114, Arb Eligible: 2013, Free Agent: 2016 [*], Agents: Matt Sosnick, Paul Cobbe [*]
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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…

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…

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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
2005	21	OAK-min	A	69	334	290	49	80	15	0	3	29	25	6	39	47	.276	.364	.359	.723		104	4	2	2	1	0	KNC · MIDW
2006	22	OAK-min	A+,Rk	55	234	205	39	49	10	1	2	27	7	1	28	37	.239	.333	.327	.660		67	5	1	0	0	0	STK,ATH · CALL,ARIZ
2007	23	OAK-min	A+,AA	138	647	557	91	141	30	5	8	57	17	4	81	89	.253	.346	.368	.714		205	7	1	2	6	2	STK,MDL · CALL,TL
2008	24	OAK-min	AAA,AA	115	538	440	89	123	16	5	2	34	31	6	93	70	.280	.404	.352	.757		155	9	0	4	1	2	SAC,MDL · PCL,TL
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-min	AAA	99	417	360	48	95	22	3	3	40	27	4	45	54	.264	.345	.367	.712		132	2	2	6	4	1	SAC · PCL
2009	25	OAK	AL	60	229	208	27	58	11	3	4	21	7	5	19	46	.279	.342	.418	.760	100	87	5	1	1	0	0	6
2010	26	OAK	AL	156	576	508	64	127	26	8	6	46	29	5	50	96	.250	.319	.368	.687	89	187	7	3	12	3	0	*6
2011	27	OAK	AL	148	570	515	57	136	26	2	8	58	14	9	42	104	.264	.319	.369	.687	90	190	5	1	8	4	1	*6/D
4 Seasons				400	1492	1330	162	345	68	13	18	134	54	20	124	264	.259	.324	.371	.695	90	493	18	7	23	8	1
162 Game Avg.				162	604	539	66	140	28	5	7	54	22	8	50	107	.259	.324	.371	.695	90	200	7	3	9	3	0

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
2008	24	OAK	AL	117	-3	1	0	0	-7	1	4	-4	-0.4	3	0.3	-0.7	$	46/5
2009	25	OAK	AL	229	2	-1	-1	-1	-7	3	8	4	0.4	11	1.0	-0.6	$	6
2010	26	OAK	AL	576	-9	5	3	0	14	7	20	40	3.9	26	2.6	1.3	$405,000	*6
2011	27	OAK	AL	570	-7	-3	-1	1	-3	7	19	14	1.4	17	1.7	-0.3	$420,000	*6/D
4 Seasons				1492	-17	2	2	1	-3	18	51	54	5.3	56	5.6	-0.3	$825,000

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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
2008	OAK	AL	24	2B	16				77	33	44	0	17	1.000	-2	-3				4.81	.987		4.96
2008	OAK	AL	24	SS	10				30	10	16	4	5	.867	-4	-5				2.60	.971		4.35
2008	OAK	AL	24	3B	9				20	8	11	1	2	.950	-1	-2				2.11	.958		2.71
2009	OAK	AL	25	SS	60				279	90	181	8	41	.971	-7	-10				4.52	.972		4.31
2010	OAK	AL	26	SS	156				739	218	496	25	100	.966	14	9				4.58	.973		4.36
2011	OAK	AL	27	SS	147	143	134	1273.1	612	216	374	22	90	.964	-3	-7	-2	-7	4.17	4.01	.972	4.36	4.33
2011	OAK	AL	27	DH	1	0
	4 Seasons			SS	373	143	134	1273.1	1660	534	1067	59	236	.964	0	-13	0	-12	4.17	4.29	.972	4.36	4.34
	1 Season			2B	16				77	33	44	0	17	1.000	-2	-3				4.81	.987		4.96
	1 Season			3B	9				20	8	11	1	2	.950	-1	-2				2.11	.958		2.71
	4 Seasons			TOT	398	143	134	1273.1	1757	575	1122	60	255	.966	-3	-18	-2	-16	4.17	4.26	.973	4.36	4.33

Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.

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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.
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Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Defensive WAR† s c a p y 2010 AL 1.3 (7th)	Triples s c a p y 2010 AL 8 (4th)	Sacrifice Hits s c a p y 2010 AL 12 (4th)	Assists† s c a p y 2010 AL 496 (2nd)
Errors Committed† s c a p y 2010 AL 25 (1st) 2011 AL 22 (3rd)	Def. Games as SS s c a p y 2010 AL 156 (1st) 2011 AL 147 (4th)	Putouts as SS s c a p y 2010 AL 218 (4th)	Assists as SS s c a p y 2010 AL 496 (2nd)
Errors Committed as SS s c a p y 2010 AL 25 (1st) 2011 AL 22 (2nd)	Total Zone Runs as SS s c a p y 2010 AL 14 (1st)	Range Factor/9Inn as SS† s c a p y 2010 AL 4.93 (1st)	Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y 2010 AL 4.58 (2nd)

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray Ink	Batting - 1 (2367), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame Standards	Batting - 4 (2356), Average HOFer ≈ 50

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Pat Meares (972) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
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Transactions

June 7, 2005: Drafted by the Oakland Athletics in the 1st round (21st pick) of the 2005 amateur draft. Player signed June 17, 2005.

The transaction information used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. We attempt to update transactions throughout the season.

Salaries

Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses

Year	Age	Team	Salary
2010	26	Oakland Athletics	$405,000
2011	27	Oakland Athletics	$420,000
2012 Status		not updated,
Career to date (may be incomplete)			$825,000

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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Name and misspellings: Clifton Cliff Randolph Randoulph Pennington

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