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Pablo Sandoval

Pablo E. Sandoval (Kung Fu Panda, Fat Ichiro, Round Mound of Pound or Little Money)

Positions: Third Baseman and First Baseman
Bats: Both, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 240 lb.

Born: August 11, 1986 in Puerto Cabello, Carabobo, Venezuela
High School: Cento Estudio (Carabobo, VE)
Signed by the San Francisco Giants as an amateur free agent in 2003. (All Transactions)
Debut: August 14, 2008
Team: Giants 2008-2012
2013 Contract Status: Signed, 3 yrs/$17.15M (12-14) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2013): 4.047, Free Agent: 2015 [*],
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Fine Details  · Last updated Dec 13, 2012 1:17PM
All-Time Rank (among batters): #644. Vic Power… #645. Kevin McReynolds… #646. Larry Hisle… #647. PABLO SANDOVAL… #648. Johnny Logan… #649. Jose Valentin… #650. Henry Larkin… 

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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 21 SFG NL 41 154 145 24 50 10 1 3 24 0 0 4 14 .345 .357 .490 .847 118 71 6 1 0 4 1 352
2009 22 SFG NL 153 633 572 79 189 44 5 25 90 5 5 52 83 .330 .387 .556 .943 144 318 10 4 0 5 13 *53/2D MVP-7
2010 23 SFG NL 152 616 563 61 151 34 3 13 63 3 2 47 81 .268 .323 .409 .732 99 230 26 1 0 5 12 *53
2011 24 SFG NL 117 466 426 55 134 26 3 23 70 2 4 32 63 .315 .357 .552 .909 155 235 12 0 1 7 9 5/3D AS,MVP-17
2012 25 SFG NL 108 442 396 59 112 25 2 12 63 1 1 38 59 .283 .342 .447 .789 124 177 13 1 0 7 4 5/3D AS
5 Yrs 571 2311 2102 278 636 139 14 76 310 11 12 173 300 .303 .353 .490 .844 129 1031 67 7 1 28 39
162 Game Avg. 162 656 596 79 180 39 4 22 88 3 3 49 85 .303 .353 .490 .844 129 293 19 2 0 8 11

Player Value--Batters

WAR Explained (v2.1): 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl
Year Age Tm Lg G PA Rbat Rbaser Rdp Rfield Rpos RAA WAA Rrep RAR WAR waaWL% 162WL% oWAR dWAR oRAR Salary Pos Awards
2008 21 SFG NL 41 154 4 -1 -0 3 -0 6 0.6 4 10 1.0 .514 .504 0.7 0.3 7 $ 352
2009 22 SFG NL 153 633 36 -1 1 -12 -0 24 2.4 17 41 4.1 .516 .515 5.3 -1.2 53 $401,750 *53/2D MVP-7
2010 23 SFG NL 152 616 0 -1 -3 0 1 -3 -0.3 17 14 1.3 .498 .498 1.4 0.1 14 $465,000 *53
2011 24 SFG NL 117 466 27 -0 -0 15 1 43 4.7 13 55 5.9 .540 .529 4.2 1.8 40 $500,000 5/3D AS,MVP-17
2012 25 SFG NL 108 442 12 -0 -1 -4 1 7 0.8 12 19 2.0 .507 .505 2.4 -0.3 23 $3,200,000 5/3D AS
5 Seasons 571 2311 80 -4 -4 2 3 76 8.2 63 140 14.3 .514 .510 14.0 0.7 137 $4,566,750

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
2010 23 SFG NL NLDS ATL W 2 7 6 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 .167 .286 .167 .452 1 1 0 0 0 1
2010 23 SFG NL NLCS PHI W 3 9 8 0 2 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 .250 .333 .375 .708 3 1 0 0 0 0
2010 23 SFG NL WS TEX W 1 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 1 0 0 0 0
2012 25 SFG NL NLDS CIN W 5 22 21 2 7 2 0 1 3 0 0 0 2 .333 .318 .571 .890 12 0 0 0 1 0
2012 25 SFG NL NLCS STL W 7 31 29 4 9 2 0 2 6 0 0 2 4 .310 .355 .586 .941 17 1 0 0 0 0
2012 25 SFG NL WS DET W 4 17 16 3 8 1 0 3 4 0 0 1 2 .500 .529 1.125 1.654 18 1 0 0 0 1
2 Yrs (6 Series) 22 89 83 9 27 6 0 6 15 0 0 5 11 .325 .360 .614 .974 51 5 0 0 1 2
2 NLDS 7 29 27 2 8 2 0 1 3 0 0 1 4 .296 .310 .481 .792 13 1 0 0 1 1
2 NLCS 10 40 37 4 11 3 0 2 8 0 0 3 4 .297 .350 .541 .891 20 2 0 0 0 0
2 WS 5 20 19 3 8 1 0 3 4 0 0 1 3 .421 .450 .947 1.397 18 2 0 0 0 1

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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 PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO Awards
2008 SFG NL 21 1B 17 13 11 121.0 113 100 12 1 7 .991 2 3 25 30 8.33 6.59 .992 9.34 9.28
2008 SFG NL 21 3B 12 12 5 85.0 17 3 14 0 0 1.000 0 1 6 14 1.80 1.42 .956 2.60 2.58
2008 SFG NL 21 C 11 9 9 86.1 82 76 6 0 1 1.000 -1 -1 -14 -14 8.55 7.45 .993 7.65 7.60 2 5 7 3 30% 27% 0
2009 SFG NL 22 3B 120 120 103 1028.0 276 70 195 11 13 .960 -3 -11 -3 -13 2.32 2.21 .957 2.57 2.55 MVP-7
2009 SFG NL 22 1B 26 24 22 207.0 194 181 10 3 10 .985 -2 -1 -14 -6 8.30 7.35 .993 9.29 9.21 MVP-7
2009 SFG NL 22 C 3 3 2 27.0 23 21 2 0 0 1.000 0 0 0 0 7.67 7.67 .993 7.77 7.70 0 1 1 1 50% 29% 0 MVP-7
2009 SFG NL 22 DH 2 2 MVP-7
2010 SFG NL 23 3B 143 136 128 1224.2 334 93 228 13 23 .961 -4 1 -4 1 2.36 2.24 .951 2.54 2.52
2010 SFG NL 23 1B 11 10 7 86.0 79 79 0 0 6 1.000 -3 -1 -38 -14 8.27 7.18 .993 9.23 9.13
2011 SFG NL 24 3B 106 102 90 904.2 295 71 214 10 16 .966 16 15 21 20 2.84 2.69 .954 2.53 2.53 AS,MVP-17
2011 SFG NL 24 1B 6 6 4 51.2 60 54 6 0 3 1.000 -2 0 -35 0 10.45 10.00 .994 9.34 9.32 AS,MVP-17
2011 SFG NL 24 DH 1 1 AS,MVP-17
2012 SFG NL 25 3B 102 101 68 842.0 283 63 207 13 13 .954 -1 -5 -2 -7 2.89 2.65 .952 2.45 2.42 AS
2012 SFG NL 25 1B 3 2 0 12.0 11 10 1 0 1 1.000 -0 1 -26 100 8.25 3.67 .992 9.30 9.17 AS
2012 SFG NL 25 DH 2 2 AS
5 Seasons 3B 483 471 394 4084.1 1205 300 858 47 65 .961 8 1 2 0 2.55 2.40 .953 2.53 2.51
5 Seasons 1B 63 55 44 477.2 457 424 29 4 27 .991 -4 2 -11 5 8.54 7.19 .993 9.30 9.22
2 Seasons C 14 12 11 113.1 105 97 8 0 1 1.000 -1 -1 -11 -10 8.34 7.50 .993 7.68 7.62 2 6 8 4 33% 27% 0
5 Seasons TOT 560 538 449 4675.1 1767 821 895 51 93 .971 3 2 1 0 3.30 3.06 .966 3.34 3.39 2 6 8 4 33% 27% 0
Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.
View Complete Notes on Fielding Data
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-1948 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1948 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 1948 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 1918 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1948 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1918) 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.
  • For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1948 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
  • For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

All-Star Games
2011 *
2012 (3B)

Awards (yr lg award)
2012 ML WS MVP

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
2009 NL (7, 20%)
2011 NL (17, 2%)
0.22 Career Shares (718th)

Wins Above Replacement† s c a p y
2011 NL  5.9 (8th)

WAR Position Players† s c a p y
2011 NL  5.9 (4th)

Offensive WAR† s c a p y
2009 NL  5.3 (6th)

Defensive WAR† s c a p y
2011 NL  1.8 (5th)

Batting Average s c a p y
2009 NL  .330 (2nd)

Slugging % s c a p y
2009 NL  .556 (6th)

On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y
2009 NL  .943 (7th)

Hits s c a p y
2009 NL  189 (4th)

Total Bases s c a p y
2009 NL  318 (6th)

Doubles s c a p y
2009 NL  44 (3rd)

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
2009 NL  144 (9th)

Runs Created s c a p y
2009 NL  121 (10th)

Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y
2009 NL  36 (9th)

Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y
2009 NL  3.5 (9th)

Extra Base Hits s c a p y
2009 NL  74 (7th)

Offensive Win % s c a p y
2009 NL  .719 (8th)

Sacrifice Flies s c a p y
2011 NL  7 (9th)
2012 NL  7 (8th)

Intentional Bases on Balls s c a p y
2009 NL  13 (9th)
2010 NL  12 (5th)

Double Plays Grounded Into s c a p y
2010 NL  26 (1st)

Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y
2009 NL  4.2 (8th)

Situ. Wins Added (WPA/LI)† s c a p y
2009 NL  3.6 (10th)

Def. Games as 3B s c a p y
2010 NL  143 (4th)
Active  483 (20th)

Putouts as 3B s c a p y
2010 NL  93 (3rd)
2011 NL  71 (5th)
Active  300 (21st)

Assists as 3B s c a p y
2011 NL  214 (4th)
Active  858 (19th)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
2012 NL  13 (5th)

Total Zone Runs as 3B s c a p y
2011 NL  16 (1st)

Range Factor/9Inn as 3B† s c a p y
2011 NL  2.84 (2nd)
2012 NL  2.89 (1st)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
2011 NL  2.69 (3rd)
2012 NL  2.65 (1st)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
2010 NL  .961 (5th)
2011 NL  .966 (4th)


† Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1948-1973, the data is incomplete, though for most seasons only less than 20 games per season total are missing. Please see our page on data coverage for a full view of the data used to create these leaderboards.

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray InkBatting - 12 (1303), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 26 (675), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 20 (733), Average HOFer ≈ 50
JAWS Third Base (130th), 14.3 career WAR/14.3 7yr-peak WAR/14.3 JAWS
Average HOF 3B (out of 12) = 64.9 career WAR/41.8 7yr-peak WAR/53.4 JAWS

Similarity Scores

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  1. Andrew McCutchen (929)
  2. Earl Webb (925)
  3. Carlos Gonzalez (912)
  4. Wilson Betemit (910)
  5. Martin Prado (908)
  6. David Murphy (907)
  7. Sean Berry (905)
  8. Reggie Jefferson (904)
  9. Mike Morse (902)
  10. Smead Jolley (902)
Similar Batters through 25 
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  1. Richie Hebner (947)
  2. Chipper Jones (944)
  3. Vernon Wells (939)
  4. Andrew McCutchen (929)
  5. Ellis Burks (927)
  6. Ellis Valentine (926)
  7. Enos Slaughter (923) *
  8. Jim Tabor (920)
  9. Jim Ray Hart (919)
  10. Sam Chapman (918)
* - Signifies Hall of Famer
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  1. Dick Allen (960)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  2. Jim Ray Hart (960)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  3. Jim Ray Hart (948)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  4. Richie Hebner (947)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
* - Signifies Hall of Famer

Transactions

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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
200922San Francisco Giants$401,750
201023San Francisco Giants$465,000
201124San Francisco Giants$500,000
201225San Francisco Giants$3,200,000contracts
201326San Francisco Giants$5,700,000
201427San Francisco Giants$8,250,000
Earliest Free Agent: 2015
Career to date (may be incomplete)$4,566,750Does 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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