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Alexei Ramírez

Alexei Fernando (Rodriguez) Ramirez (Cuban Missile)

Positions: Shortstop and Second Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: September 22, 1981 in Pinar del Rio, Pinar del Rio, Cuba
Signed by the Chicago White Sox as an amateur free agent in 2008. (All Transactions)
Debut: March 31, 2008
Team: WhiteSox 2008-2011
2012 Contract Status: Signed thru 2015, 4 yrs/$6.4M (08-11), 4 yrs/$32.5M (12-15) & 16 team option (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 4.000, Free Agent: 2016 [*], Agents: Jaime Torres [*]
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All-Time Rank (among Batters): #1056. Orlando Merced… #1057. Jorge Orta… #1058. John Stearns… #1059. ALEXEI RAMIREZ… #1060. Eddie Bressoud… #1061. Carlos Quentin… #1062. Johnny Bassler…

All-Time Rank (among Batters): #1056. Orlando Merced… #1057. Jorge Orta… #1058. John Stearns… #1059. ALEXEI RAMIREZ… #1060. Eddie Bressoud… #1061. Carlos Quentin… #1062. Johnny Bassler…

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
2008	26	CHW	AL	136	509	480	65	139	22	2	21	77	13	9	18	61	.290	.317	.475	.792	103	228	14	3	4	4	3	*46/5	RoY-2
2009	27	CHW	AL	148	606	542	71	150	14	1	15	68	14	5	49	66	.277	.333	.389	.723	86	211	15	1	6	8	3	*6
2010	28	CHW	AL	156	626	585	83	165	29	2	18	70	13	8	27	82	.282	.313	.431	.744	99	252	12	2	7	5	2	*6	SS
2011	29	CHW	AL	158	684	614	81	165	31	2	15	70	7	5	51	84	.269	.328	.399	.727	97	245	19	6	8	5	1	*6/D
4 Seasons				598	2425	2221	300	619	96	7	69	285	47	27	145	293	.279	.323	.421	.745	96	936	60	12	25	22	9
162 Game Avg.				162	657	602	81	168	26	2	19	77	13	7	39	79	.279	.323	.421	.745	96	254	16	3	7	6	2

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	Awards
2008	26	CHW	AL	509	0	-3	4	0	-2	3	18	20	2.0	22	2.2	-0.2	$1,111,666	*46/5	RoY-2
2009	27	CHW	AL	606	-9	1	1	1	-4	7	21	18	1.7	22	2.1	-0.4	$1,225,000	*6
2010	28	CHW	AL	626	-4	1	1	1	9	8	21	37	3.7	28	2.8	0.9	$1,225,000	*6	SS
2011	29	CHW	AL	684	-3	3	-2	-2	7	8	23	33	3.3	26	2.6	0.7	$2,750,000	*6/D
4 Seasons				2425	-16	2	4	0	10	25	83	108	10.7	98	9.7	1.0	$6,311,666

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
2008	26	CHW	AL	ALDS	TBR	L	4	15	12	1	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	1	.250	.267	.250	.517	3	0	0	0	2	0
1 ALDS							4	15	12	1	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	1	.250	.267	.250	.517	3	0	0	0	2	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
2008	CHW	AL	26	2B	121				575	237	327	11	71	.981	0	-6				4.66	.987		4.96	RoY-2
2008	CHW	AL	26	SS	16				24	8	15	1	4	.958	-1	-2				1.44	.971		4.35	RoY-2
2008	CHW	AL	26	OF	11				18	16	1	1	0	.944	-1	-2				1.55	.986		2.28	RoY-2
2008	CHW	AL	26	3B	1				1	0	1	0	0	1.000	0	0				1.00	.960		2.70	RoY-2
2008	CHW	AL	26	CF	11	6	6	63.0	18	16	1	1	0	.944	-1	-2	-21	-38	2.43	1.55	.989	2.71	2.69	RoY-2
2009	CHW	AL	27	SS	148				650	220	410	20	94	.969	-4	2				4.26	.972		4.31
2010	CHW	AL	28	SS	156				768	249	499	20	109	.974	9	16				4.79	.973		4.36	SS
2011	CHW	AL	29	SS	155	154	150	1382.0	690	217	457	16	99	.977	7	7	6	6	4.39	4.35	.972	4.36	4.33
2011	CHW	AL	29	DH	1	1
	4 Seasons			SS	475	154	150	1382.0	2132	694	1381	57	306	.973	11	23	9	19	4.39	4.37	.972	4.36	4.33
	1 Season			2B	121				575	237	327	11	71	.981	0	-6				4.66	.987		4.96
	1 Season			OF	11				18	16	1	1	0	.944	-1	-2		-38		1.55	.986		2.28
	1 Season			CF	11	6	6	63.0	18	16	1	1	0	.944	-1	-2	-21	-38	2.43	1.55	.989	2.71	2.69
	1 Season			3B	1				1	0	1	0	0	1.000	0	0				1.00	.960		2.70
	4 Seasons			TOT	608	154	150	1382.0	2726	947	1710	69	377	.975	10	13	9	11	4.39	4.37	.976	4.36	4.42

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.
CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1919 on.
Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1950 to 1973 and complete from then on.
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Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Silver Sluggers 2010 AL (SS)	Games Played s c a p y 2011 AL 158 (10th)	Sacrifice Flies s c a p y 2009 AL 8 (6th)	Double Plays Grounded Into s c a p y 2011 AL 19 (8th)
Caught Stealing s c a p y 2008 AL 9 (7th)	Power-Speed # s c a p y 2008 AL 16.1 (9th)	AB per SO s c a p y 2008 AL 7.9 (10th)	Outs Made s c a p y 2011 AL 486 (5th)
Assists† s c a p y 2010 AL 499 (1st) 2011 AL 457 (2nd)	Errors Committed† s c a p y 2009 AL 20 (3rd) 2010 AL 20 (5th)	Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y 2008 AL 11 (5th)	Def. Games as SS s c a p y 2009 AL 148 (3rd) 2010 AL 156 (1st) 2011 AL 155 (2nd)
Putouts as SS s c a p y 2009 AL 220 (4th) 2010 AL 249 (2nd) 2011 AL 217 (5th)	Assists as SS s c a p y 2009 AL 410 (3rd) 2010 AL 499 (1st) 2011 AL 457 (2nd)	Errors Committed as SS s c a p y 2009 AL 20 (3rd) 2010 AL 20 (3rd) 2011 AL 16 (3rd)	Total Zone Runs as SS s c a p y 2010 AL 9 (4th) Active 11 (24th)
Range Factor/9Inn as SS† s c a p y 2010 AL 4.89 (2nd)	Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y 2010 AL 4.79 (1st)

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray Ink	Batting - 1 (2367), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame Monitor	Batting - 1 (2218), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame Standards	Batting - 8 (1799), Average HOFer ≈ 50

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Explanation of Similarity Scores

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Transactions

January 18, 2008: Signed by the Chicago White Sox as an amateur free agent.

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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
2008	26	Chicago White Sox	$1,111,666
2009	27	Chicago White Sox	$1,225,000
2010	28	Chicago White Sox	$1,225,000
2011	29	Chicago White Sox	$2,750,000

2012	30	Chicago White Sox	$5,000,000
2013	31	Chicago White Sox	$7,000,000
2014	32	Chicago White Sox	$9,500,000
2015	33	Chicago White Sox	$10,000,000
2016	34	Chicago White Sox	*$10,000,000	$10M Team Option, $1M Buyout

Career to date (may be incomplete)			$6,311,666	Does 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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