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Brian Roberts

Brian Michael Roberts

Positions: Second Baseman and Shortstop
Bats: Both, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 9", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: October 9, 1977 in Durham, NC
High School: Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC)
Schools: University of South Carolina, University of North Carolina
Drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in the 1st round (50th pick) of the 1999 amateur draft.
Signed July 14, 1999. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 14, 2001
Team: Orioles 2001-2011
2012 Contract Status: Signed thru 2013, 4 yrs/$40M (10-13) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 9.131, Free Agent: 2014 [*], Agents: Mark Pieper [*]
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All-Time Rank (among Batters): #518. Jimmy Dykes… #519. Mickey Tettleton… #520. Jacoby Ellsbury… #521. BRIAN ROBERTS… #522. Frank White… #523. Marty Marion… #524. Earl Torgeson… 

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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
2001 23 BAL AL 75 292 273 42 69 12 3 2 17 12 3 13 36 .253 .284 .341 .624 68 93 3 0 3 3 0 64
2002 24 BAL AL 38 149 128 18 29 6 0 1 11 9 2 15 21 .227 .308 .297 .605 66 38 3 1 3 2 0 4
2003 25 BAL AL 112 512 460 65 124 22 4 5 41 23 6 46 58 .270 .337 .367 .704 88 169 9 1 4 1 1 4/6
2004 26 BAL AL 159 734 641 107 175 50 2 4 53 29 12 71 95 .273 .344 .376 .720 90 241 3 1 15 6 1 *4
2005 27 BAL AL 143 640 561 92 176 45 7 18 73 27 10 67 83 .314 .387 .515 .903 139 289 6 3 5 4 5 *4 AS,MVP-18
2006 28 BAL AL 138 629 563 85 161 34 3 10 55 36 7 55 66 .286 .347 .410 .757 97 231 16 0 6 5 4 *4
2007 29 BAL AL 156 716 621 103 180 42 5 12 57 50 7 89 99 .290 .377 .432 .808 112 268 8 0 2 4 6 *4 AS
2008 30 BAL AL 155 704 611 107 181 51 8 9 57 40 10 82 104 .296 .378 .450 .828 119 275 8 2 3 6 3 *4
2009 31 BAL AL 159 717 632 110 179 56 1 16 79 30 7 74 112 .283 .356 .451 .807 111 285 7 2 1 8 3 *4
2010 32 BAL AL 59 261 230 28 64 14 0 4 15 12 2 26 40 .278 .354 .391 .745 105 90 2 2 1 2 1 4
2011 33 BAL AL 39 178 163 18 36 7 1 3 19 6 1 12 21 .221 .273 .331 .604 66 54 4 0 2 1 0 4
11 Seasons 1233 5532 4883 775 1374 339 34 84 477 274 67 550 735 .281 .353 .416 .769 104 2033 69 12 45 42 24
162 Game Avg. 162 727 642 102 181 45 4 11 63 36 9 72 97 .281 .353 .416 .769 104 267 9 2 6 6 3

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
2001 23 BAL AL 292 -11 3 -2 0 -6 2 10 -4 -0.4 2 0.2 -0.6 $ 64
2002 24 BAL AL 149 -6 1 0 0 2 0 5 2 0.2 0 0.0 0.2 $ 4
2003 25 BAL AL 512 -8 3 -1 1 3 2 16 16 1.6 13 1.3 0.3 $ 4/6
2004 26 BAL AL 736 -6 -1 4 2 -6 2 22 16 1.6 23 2.3 -0.7 $345,000 *4
2005 27 BAL AL 640 30 0 0 2 -5 3 20 50 5.0 55 5.6 -0.6 $390,000 *4 AS,MVP-18
2006 28 BAL AL 630 -4 3 0 -2 3 2 19 21 2.2 18 1.8 0.4 $3,075,000 *4
2007 29 BAL AL 716 14 4 -2 1 4 3 22 46 4.6 42 4.2 0.4 $4,200,000 *4 AS
2008 30 BAL AL 704 20 2 2 1 -10 3 22 40 4.0 50 5.0 -1.0 $6,300,000 *4
2009 31 BAL AL 717 11 0 -1 -0 -14 3 22 21 2.0 35 3.4 -1.4 $8,000,000 *4
2010 32 BAL AL 261 2 1 -1 1 -3 1 9 10 1.0 12 1.3 -0.3 $10,000,000 4
2011 33 BAL AL 178 -8 3 -1 -0 -2 1 6 -1 -0.1 0 0.0 -0.1 $10,000,000 4
11 Seasons 5535 34 19 -1 5 -33 22 173 216 21.7 251 25.1 -3.4 $42,310,000

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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 Awards
2001 BAL AL 23 SS 51 229 84 131 14 25 .939 -6 4.22 .973 4.45
2001 BAL AL 23 2B 12 40 13 25 2 6 .950 1 3.17 .981 4.82
2001 BAL AL 23 DH 6 6
2002 BAL AL 24 2B 25 126 43 80 3 19 .976 2 4.92 .979 4.84
2002 BAL AL 24 DH 7 7
2003 BAL AL 25 2B 107 529 198 324 7 68 .987 4 13 4.88 .982 4.89
2003 BAL AL 25 SS 2 11 1 8 2 1 .818 -1 -2 4.50 .971 4.50
2003 BAL AL 25 DH 3 3
2004 BAL AL 26 2B 150 669 235 426 8 92 .988 -6 0 4.41 .982 4.91
2004 BAL AL 26 DH 5 5
2005 BAL AL 27 2B 141 659 238 413 8 93 .988 -5 16 4.62 .983 4.90 AS,MVP-18
2006 BAL AL 28 2B 137 598 214 375 9 98 .985 3 7 4.30 .986 4.85
2007 BAL AL 29 2B 154 742 278 457 7 110 .991 4 0 4.77 .985 4.92 AS
2008 BAL AL 30 2B 154 738 289 441 8 110 .989 -10 -3 4.74 .987 4.96
2009 BAL AL 31 2B 158 692 249 432 11 106 .984 -14 -4 4.31 .986 4.70
2010 BAL AL 32 2B 59 235 86 146 3 38 .987 -3 0 3.93 .984 4.75
2011 BAL AL 33 2B 39 39 34 347.0 191 65 123 3 24 .984 -2 1 -5 3 4.88 4.82 .984 4.76 4.73
11 Seasons 2B 1136 39 34 347.0 5219 1908 3242 69 764 .987 -26 30 -88 103 4.88 4.53 .984 4.76 4.86
2 Seasons SS 53 240 85 139 16 26 .933 -7 -2 4.23 .973 4.45
11 Seasons TOT 1189 39 34 347.0 5459 1993 3381 85 790 .984 -33 28 -113 96 4.88 4.52 .984 4.76 4.84
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.
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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.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1919) 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.
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Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

All-Star Games
2005 (2B)
2007 *

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
2005 AL (18, 1%)
0.01 Career Shares (1498th)

WAR Position Players† s c a p y
2005 AL  5.0 (9th)

Offensive WAR† s c a p y
2005 AL  5.6 (3rd)
2008 AL  5.0 (7th)

Batting Average s c a p y
2005 AL  .314 (5th)

On-Base% s c a p y
2005 AL  .387 (8th)
2008 AL  .378 (8th)

On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y
2005 AL  .903 (10th)

Games Played s c a p y
2004 AL  159 (5th)
2009 AL  159 (7th)

At Bats s c a p y
2004 AL  641 (5th)
2007 AL  621 (9th)
2009 AL  632 (7th)

Plate Appearances s c a p y
2004 AL  734 (3rd)
2007 AL  716 (3rd)
2008 AL  704 (9th)
2009 AL  717 (3rd)

Runs Scored s c a p y
2008 AL  107 (3rd)
2009 AL  110 (3rd)
Active  775 (47th)

Doubles s c a p y
2004 AL  50 (1st)
2005 AL  45 (2nd)
2007 AL  42 (8th)
2008 AL  51 (2nd)
2009 AL  56 (1st)
Active  339 (39th)

Triples s c a p y
2005 AL  7 (6th)
2008 AL  8 (4th)
Active  34 (42nd)

Bases on Balls s c a p y
2007 AL  89 (9th)
2008 AL  82 (8th)
Active  550 (43rd)

Stolen Bases s c a p y
2003 AL  23 (8th)
2004 AL  29 (4th)
2005 AL  27 (7th)
2006 AL  36 (6th)
2007 AL  50 (1st)
2008 AL  40 (4th)
2009 AL  30 (8th)
Active  274 (17th)
Career  274 (184th)

Singles s c a p y
Active  917 (49th)

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
2005 AL  139 (9th)

Runs Created s c a p y
2005 AL  117 (10th)
2008 AL  113 (10th)

Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y
2005 AL  34 (9th)

Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y
2005 AL  3.2 (9th)

Extra Base Hits s c a p y
2005 AL  70 (10th)
2009 AL  73 (6th)

Times On Base s c a p y
2007 AL  269 (7th)
2008 AL  265 (6th)

Offensive Win % s c a p y
2005 AL  .692 (8th)

Sacrifice Hits s c a p y
2004 AL  15 (3rd)

Sacrifice Flies s c a p y
2009 AL  8 (6th)

Caught Stealing s c a p y
2004 AL  12 (5th)
2005 AL  10 (5th)
2008 AL  10 (6th)
Active  67 (21st)

Power-Speed # s c a p y
2005 AL  21.6 (5th)
2009 AL  20.9 (6th)
Active  128.6 (39th)

AB per SO s c a p y
Active  6.6 (46th)

Outs Made s c a p y
2004 AL  502 (1st)
2007 AL  462 (10th)
2009 AL  476 (8th)

Assists† s c a p y
2007 AL  457 (4th)
2009 AL  432 (4th)
Active  3,381 (20th)

Def. Games as 2B s c a p y
2004 AL  150 (2nd)
2005 AL  141 (2nd)
2006 AL  137 (4th)
2007 AL  154 (3rd)
2008 AL  154 (3rd)
2009 AL  158 (2nd)
Active  1,136 (4th)
Career  1,136 (89th)

Putouts as 2B s c a p y
2005 AL  238 (5th)
2008 AL  289 (4th)
2009 AL  249 (5th)
Active  1,908 (9th)

Assists as 2B s c a p y
2004 AL  426 (3rd)
2005 AL  413 (2nd)
2006 AL  375 (5th)
2007 AL  457 (4th)
2008 AL  441 (4th)
2009 AL  432 (4th)
Active  3,242 (3rd)
Career  3,242 (82nd)

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
2006 AL  9 (4th)
2009 AL  11 (4th)
Active  69 (10th)

Range Factor/9Inn as 2B† s c a p y
Active  4.88 (9th)
Career  4.88 (29th)

Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y
Active  4.53 (15th)

Fielding % as 2B s c a p y
2003 AL  .987 (5th)
2004 AL  .988 (4th)
2007 AL  .991 (4th)
Active  .987 (10th)
Career  .987 (19th)

                                         

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Black InkBatting - 6 (342), Average HOFer ≈ 27
Gray InkBatting - 45 (556), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 34 (568), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 25 (505), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores
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  1. Orlando Hudson (923)
  2. Bobby Avila (918)
  3. Ronnie Belliard (912)
  4. Bill Doran (903)
  5. Todd Walker (899)
  6. Carlos Guillen (898)
  7. Mariano Duncan (895)
  8. Red Kress (892)
  9. Gil McDougald (890)
  10. Julio Lugo (890)
Similar Batters through 33 
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  1. Orlando Hudson (923)
  2. Ronnie Belliard (917)
  3. Jimmy Dykes (906)
  4. Bill Doran (900)
  5. Todd Walker (898)
  6. Adam Kennedy (896)
  7. Lonny Frey (894)
  8. Red Kress (893)
  9. Mark Grudzielanek (892)
  10. Billy Werber (892)
Most Similar by Ages 
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  1. Nelson Liriano (987)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  2. Brent Gates (965)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  3. Adam Kennedy (971)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  4. Adam Kennedy (963)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  5. Adam Kennedy (947)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  6. Fred Dunlap (928)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  7. Placido Polanco (902)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  8. Jimmy Dykes (915)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  9. Orlando Hudson (923)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

Transactions

  • June 2, 1999: Drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in the 1st round (50th pick) of the 1999 amateur draft. Player signed July 14, 1999.
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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
200426Baltimore Orioles$345,0004/7/04 AP
200527Baltimore Orioles$390,000
200628Baltimore Orioles$3,075,000
200729Baltimore Orioles$4,200,000
200830Baltimore Orioles$6,300,000
200931Baltimore Orioles$8,000,000
201032Baltimore Orioles$10,000,000
201133Baltimore Orioles$10,000,000
201234Baltimore Orioles$10,000,000
201335Baltimore Orioles$10,000,000
Career to date (may be incomplete)$42,310,000Does 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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