Justin Upton
Justin Irvin Upton
All-Star Player
Bats: Right , Throws: Right
Height: 6' 3" , Weight: 205 lb.

Born: August 25, 1987 in Norfolk, VA
High School: Great Bridge (Chesapeake, VA)
Drafted by the Arizona Diamondbacks in the 1st round (1st pick) of the 2005 amateur draft.
Signed January 6, 2006. (All Transactions)
Debut: August 2, 2007
Relatives: Brother of B.J. Upton
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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
2007 19 ARI NL 43 152 140 17 31 8 3 2 11 2 0 11 37 .221 .283 .364 .647 62 51 3 1 0 0 4 9
2008 20 ARI NL 108 417 356 52 89 19 6 15 42 1 4 54 121 .250 .353 .463 .816 106 165 3 4 0 3 6 9
2009 21 ARI NL 138 588 526 84 158 30 7 26 86 20 5 55 137 .300 .366 .532 .899 126 280 10 2 1 4 3 *9/D AS,MVP-25
3 Seasons 289 1157 1022 153 278 57 16 43 139 23 9 120 295 .272 .350 .485 .836 110 496 16 7 1 7 13
162 Game Avg. 162 649 573 86 156 32 9 24 78 13 5 67 165 .272 .350 .485 .836 110 278 9 4 1 4 7

Advanced Batting

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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
2007 19 ARI NL 152 112 14 3.4 117 .287 .221 .281 .283 .351 .364 .449 .647 .800 62 .319 -9.0 -0.9 .580 .236 .143 2.0
2008 20 ARI NL 417 277 61 5.9 115 .332 .250 .276 .353 .350 .463 .441 .816 .791 106 .585 2.9 0.3 .803 .357 .213 1.9
2009 21 ARI NL 588 388 104 7.2 114 .360 .300 .276 .366 .351 .532 .438 .899 .789 126 .676 18.7 1.8 .919 .365 .232 22.6
3 Seasons 1157 777 179 6.2 115 .340 .272 .277 .350 .350 .485 .441 .836 .791 110 .607 12.6 1.2 .828 .344 .213 30.0
162 Game Avg. 649 436 100 6.2 115 .340 .272 .277 .350 .350 .485 .441 .836 .791 110 .607 7 1 .828 .344 .213 17

Postseason Batting

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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
2007 19 ARI NL NLDS CHC W 2 8 5 2 3 0 0 0 1 1 0 3 0 .600 .750 .600 1.350 3 0 0 0 0 0
2007 19 ARI NL NLCS COL L 4 11 9 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 .222 .364 .556 .919 5 0 2 0 0 0
1 Season (2 Series) 6 19 14 2 5 1 1 0 1 1 0 3 3 .357 .526 .571 1.098 8 0 2 0 0 0
1 NLDS 2 8 5 2 3 0 0 0 1 1 0 3 0 .600 .750 .600 1.350 3 0 0 0 0 0
1 NLCS 4 11 9 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 .222 .364 .556 .919 5 0 2 0 0 0

All-Star Batting

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Year Tm Lg Age GS PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB
2009 ARI NL 21 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0

Ratio Batting*

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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
2007 19 ARI NL 152 1.3% 24.3% 7.2% 8.6% 42% 3.36 3.8 70.0 12.7 0.56 0.68 66% 18% 3.8% 17%
2008 20 ARI NL 417 3.6% 29.0% 13.0% 9.6% 45% 2.24 2.9 23.7 8.5 0.56 0.69 53% 20% 11.7% 15%
2009 21 ARI NL 588 4.4% 23.3% 9.4% 10.7% 40% 2.49 3.8 20.2 6.1 0.84 1.14 62% 17% 14.2% 13%
3 Seasons 1157 3.7% 25.5% 10.4% 10.0% 42% 2.46 3.5 23.8 7.4 0.70 0.90 60% 18% 11.8% 14%
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*

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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
2007 19 ARI NL 0 0 37% 39 2 0 100% 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 6 44% 7 3 4 4 2 2 7 3 2
2008 20 ARI NL 3 0 28% 150 1 4 20% 1 4 0 0 0 0 3 1 2 10 56% 11 6 5 11 5 6 17 6 11
2009 21 ARI NL 2 0 31% 200 20 5 80% 16 3 4 2 0 0 3 1 6 15 50% 26 17 9 4 2 2 14 3 11
3 Seasons 5 0 30% 389 23 9 72% 19 7 4 2 0 0 6 2 11 31 52% 44 26 18 19 9 10 38 12 24
MLB Averages 31% 72% 39%

Situational Hitting*

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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
2007 19 ARI NL 152 29% 31 3 2 2 1 0 0 0.65 2 0 5 1 1 2 0 0 2 0 0% 33 3 9% 13 2 15% 91 9 10% 13 4 31% 9 2 22% 0
2008 20 ARI NL 417 29% 89 11 3 8 2 0 0 0.74 15 0 12 10 5 12 3 0 0 0 55 3 5% 32 7 22% 247 27 11% 23 9 39% 27 6 22% 0
2009 21 ARI NL 588 23% 158 25 2 1 1 0 0 1.03 26 1 10 14 12 14 12 0 4 1 25% 136 10 7% 51 16 31% 376 62 16% 35 18 51% 40 14 35% 0
3 Seasons 1157 26% 278 39 7 11 4 0 0 0.75 43 1 27 25 18 28 15 0 6 1 17% 224 16 7% 96 25 26% 714 98 14% 71 31 44% 76 22 29% 0
MLB Averages 55% 72% 11% 32% 14% 51% 43%

Pitch Summary -- Batting*

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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
2007 19 ARI NL 152 601 3.95 379 63% 25% 20% 28% 27% 75% 6% 47% 73% 32% 5% 7 0 13% 19 11 6% 9 6 35% 0 0 0
2008 20 ARI NL 417 1743 4.18 1046 60% 27% 24% 26% 23% 73% 3% 44% 67% 30% 6% 27 4 15% 64 26 10% 41 28 31% 0 0 0
2009 21 ARI NL 588 2378 4.04 1427 60% 25% 21% 26% 28% 75% 1% 45% 72% 28% 4% 23 6 16% 94 57 9% 54 35 26% 0 0 0
3 Seasons 1157 4722 4.08 2852 60% 26% 22% 26% 26% 74% 2% 45% 70% 29% 5% 57 10 15% 177 94 9% 104 69 29% 0 0 0
MLB Averages 3.83 62% 28% 15% 27% 30% 72% 2% 45% 80% 26% 5% 15% 9% 25%

Cumulative Batting

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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
2007 19 43 152 140 17 31 8 3 2 11 2 0 11 37 .221 .283 .364 .647 62 51 3 1 0 0 4
2008 20 151 569 496 69 120 27 9 17 53 3 4 65 158 .242 .334 .435 .769 94 216 6 5 0 3 10
2009 21 289 1157 1022 153 278 57 16 43 139 23 9 120 295 .272 .350 .485 .836 110 496 16 7 1 7 13

Neutralized Batting

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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
2007 19 43 149 138 16 29 7 3 2 10 2 10 37 .210 .268 .348 .616 13 43
2008 20 108 414 354 47 87 19 6 15 38 1 53 121 .246 .348 .460 .808 55 108
2009 21 138 576 518 76 150 28 7 25 77 19 52 137 .290 .354 .515 .870 94 138
3 Seasons 289 1139 1010 139 266 54 16 42 125 22 115 295 .263 .341 .473 .814 162 289
162 Game Avg. 162 638 566 78 149 30 9 24 70 12 64 165 .263 .341 .473 .814 91 289

* 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.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank, Glossary

All-Star Games
2009 *

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
2009 NL (25, 0%)
0.00 Career Shares (1684th)

Power-Speed # s c a p y
2009 NL  22.6 (10th)

Youngest s c a p y
2007 NL  born 1987-08-25 (1st)
2008 NL  born 1987-08-25 (2nd)
2009 NL  born 1987-08-25 (6th)

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 6 (1448), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 13 (1307), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores
Similar Batters 
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  1. David Murphy (965)
  2. Mark Quinn (961)
  3. Nelson Cruz (959)
  4. Benny Agbayani (957)
  5. Armando Rios (957)
  6. Ryan Spilborghs (949)
  7. Bill Howerton (949)
  8. Jon Nunnally (949)
  9. Shin-Soo Choo (949)
  10. Rick Ankiel (946)
Similar Batters through 21 
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  1. Ruben Sierra (972)
  2. Miguel Cabrera (964)
  3. Andruw Jones (951)
  4. Hank Aaron (949) *
  5. Dick Kokos (945)
  6. Sam Crawford (936) *
  7. Juan Gonzalez (935)
  8. Ron Santo (927)
  9. Willie Mays (925) *
  10. Vada Pinson (925)
* - Signifies Hall of Famer
Most Similar by Ages 
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  1. Ruben Sierra (972)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
* - Signifies Hall of Famer

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