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Justin Upton

Justin Irvin Upton

Position: Rightfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", 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
Team: Diamondbacks 2007-2011
2012 Contract Status: Signed thru 2015, 6 yrs/$50M (10-15) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 4.060, Free Agent: 2016 [*], Agents: Larry Reynolds [*]
Relatives: Brother of B.J. Upton
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Fine Details  · Last Updated Feb 10, 2012, 12:22AM
All-Time Rank (among Batters): #617. Bill Lange… #618. Tommy Tucker… #619. George Wright… #620. JUSTIN UPTON… #621. Bobby Avila… #622. Clete Boyer… #623. Jason Varitek… 

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
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
2009 21 ARI NL 138 588 526 84 158 30 7 26 86 20 5 55 137 .300 .366 .532 .899 129 280 10 2 1 4 3 * AS,MVP-25
2010 22 ARI NL 133 571 495 73 135 27 3 17 69 18 8 64 152 .273 .356 .442 .799 110 219 20 4 1 7 5 *
2011 23 ARI NL 159 674 592 105 171 39 5 31 88 21 9 59 126 .289 .369 .529 .898 141 313 8 19 0 4 9 *9 AS,MVP-4,SS
5 Seasons 581 2402 2109 331 584 123 24 91 296 62 26 243 573 .277 .357 .487 .845 119 1028 44 30 2 18 27
162 Game Avg. 162 670 588 92 163 34 7 25 83 17 7 68 160 .277 .357 .487 .845 119 287 12 8 1 5 8

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
2007 19 ARI NL 152 -8 1 -1 0 -3 -2 4 -9 -0.9 -6 -0.6 -0.3 $
2008 20 ARI NL 417 2 -1 1 1 -7 -5 12 3 0.3 10 1.0 -0.7 $393,000
2009 21 ARI NL 588 16 3 -2 1 22 -7 16 50 4.8 27 2.7 2.1 $412,000 * AS,MVP-25
2010 22 ARI NL 571 9 0 -1 -2 17 -6 16 32 3.2 16 1.5 1.7 $708,333 *
2011 23 ARI NL 674 34 2 1 1 -8 -8 19 41 4.1 49 5.0 -0.9 $4,458,333 *9 AS,MVP-4,SS
5 Seasons 2402 53 5 -2 1 21 -28 67 116 11.5 96 9.6 1.9 $5,971,666

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
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
2011 23 ARI NL NLDS MIL L 5 23 20 3 4 0 0 2 3 0 0 3 6 .200 .304 .500 .804 10 0 0 0 0 0
2 Seasons (3 Series) 11 42 34 5 9 1 1 2 4 1 0 6 9 .265 .405 .529 .934 18 0 2 0 0 0
2 NLDS 7 31 25 5 7 0 0 2 4 1 0 6 6 .280 .419 .520 .939 13 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

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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
2007 ARI NL 19 OF 42 71 65 1 5 0 .930 -3 2 1.57 .984 2.29
2007 ARI NL 19 RF 42 38 29 315.1 71 65 1 5 0 .930 -3 2 -11 8 1.88 1.57 .981 2.18 2.17
2008 ARI NL 20 OF 101 192 175 6 11 2 .943 -7 5 1.79 .985 2.20
2008 ARI NL 20 RF 101 100 89 860.1 192 175 6 11 2 .943 -7 5 -10 7 1.89 1.79 .982 2.12 2.11
2009 ARI NL 21 OF 136 310 294 4 12 1 .961 22 11 2.19 .986 2.18 AS,MVP-25
2009 ARI NL 21 RF 136 134 126 1180.0 310 294 4 12 1 .961 22 11 23 11 2.27 2.19 .986 2.08 2.06 AS,MVP-25
2009 ARI NL 21 DH 1 1 AS,MVP-25
2010 ARI NL 22 OF 128 270 265 1 4 0 .985 17 7 2.08 .987 2.15
2010 ARI NL 22 RF 128 128 120 1117.0 270 265 1 4 0 .985 17 7 18 8 2.14 2.08 .986 2.10 2.07
2010 ARI NL 22 DH 1 1
2011 ARI NL 23 OF 159 156 146 1366.2 357 339 5 13 2 .964 -8 3 -7 2 2.27 2.16 .986 2.16 2.15 AS,MVP-4,SS
2011 ARI NL 23 RF 159 156 146 1366.2 357 339 5 13 2 .964 -8 3 -7 3 2.27 2.16 .983 2.05 2.04 AS,MVP-4,SS
5 Seasons RF 566 556 510 4839.1 1200 1138 17 45 5 .963 21 28 5 6 2.15 2.04 .984 2.09 2.07
5 Seasons OF 566 156 146 1366.2 1200 1138 17 45 5 .963 21 28 18 6 2.27 2.04 .986 2.16 2.18
5 Seasons TOT 566 156 146 1366.2 1200 1138 17 45 5 .963 21 56 18 49 2.27 2.04 .986 2.16 2.18
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-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.
  • For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1950 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
2009 *
2011 *

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
2009 NL (25, 0%)
2011 NL (4, 48%)
0.48 Career Shares (461st)

Silver Sluggers
2011 NL (OF)

Offensive WAR† s c a p y
2011 NL  5.0 (8th)

Defensive WAR† s c a p y
2009 NL  2.4 (2nd)
2010 NL  1.7 (4th)

Slugging % s c a p y
2011 NL  .529 (10th)

Games Played s c a p y
2011 NL  159 (5th)

At Bats s c a p y
2011 NL  592 (10th)

Plate Appearances s c a p y
2011 NL  674 (8th)

Runs Scored s c a p y
2011 NL  105 (3rd)

Total Bases s c a p y
2011 NL  313 (5th)

Doubles s c a p y
2011 NL  39 (2nd)

Home Runs s c a p y
2011 NL  31 (9th)

Strikeouts s c a p y
2010 NL  152 (9th)

Runs Created s c a p y
2011 NL  118 (5th)

Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y
2011 NL  34 (9th)

Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y
2011 NL  3.4 (9th)

Extra Base Hits s c a p y
2011 NL  75 (3rd)

Times On Base s c a p y
2011 NL  249 (6th)

Offensive Win % s c a p y
2011 NL  .707 (8th)

Hit By Pitch s c a p y
2011 NL  19 (1st)

Sacrifice Flies s c a p y
2010 NL  7 (10th)

Double Plays Grounded Into s c a p y
2010 NL  20 (5th)

Caught Stealing s c a p y
2011 NL  9 (10th)

Power-Speed # s c a p y
2009 NL  22.6 (10th)
2011 NL  25.0 (3rd)

Situ. Wins Added (WPA/LI)† s c a p y
2011 NL  4.2 (7th)

Base-Out Wins Added (REW)† s c a p y
2011 NL  3.4 (10th)

Total Zone Runs† s c a p y
2009 NL  22 (3rd)
2010 NL  17 (5th)

Def. Games as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
Active  566 (18th)

Putouts as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
Active  1,138 (16th)

Errors Committed as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
Active  45 (3rd)
Career  45 (67th)

Def. Games as OF s c a p y
2011 NL  159 (1st)

Errors Committed as OF s c a p y
2008 NL  11 (1st)
2009 NL  12 (1st)
2011 NL  13 (1st)
Active  45 (13th)

Total Zone Runs as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
Active  21 (15th)
Career  21 (59th)

Range Factor/9Inn as RF (s.1954)† s c a p y
2009 NL  2.27 (3rd)
2011 NL  2.27 (2nd)
Active  2.15 (7th)
Career  2.15 (42nd)

Range Factor/Game as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
2009 NL  2.19 (2nd)
2010 NL  2.08 (4th)
2011 NL  2.16 (2nd)
Active  2.04 (7th)
Career  2.04 (47th)

Fielding % as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
Active  .963 (19th)

Total Zone Runs as OF s c a p y
2009 NL  22 (3rd)
2010 NL  17 (5th)

Range Factor/9Inn as OF† s c a p y
Active  2.27 (23rd)
Career  2.27 (83rd)

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)


† Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1950-1973, 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 - 14 (1212), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 14 (982), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 15 (1089), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores
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  2. Bob Cerv (947)
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  5. Adam Jones (939)
  6. Kal Daniels (935)
  7. Kevin Mench (935)
  8. Luke Scott (932)
  9. Jay Bruce (930)
  10. Carlos Quentin (929)
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  2. Andruw Jones (947)
  3. Tony Conigliaro (944)
  4. Jose Canseco (938)
  5. Jack Clark (932)
  6. Boog Powell (917)
  7. Juan Gonzalez (914)
  8. Cesar Cedeno (911)
  9. Del Ennis (906)
  10. Jeff Francoeur (903)
Most Similar by Ages 
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  1. Ruben Sierra (973)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  2. Ruben Sierra (960)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  3. Ruben Sierra (965)  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
200820Arizona Diamondbacks$393,000
200921Arizona Diamondbacks$412,000
201022Arizona Diamondbacks$708,333
201123Arizona Diamondbacks$4,458,333
201224Arizona Diamondbacks$6,750,000
201325Arizona Diamondbacks$9,750,000
201426Arizona Diamondbacks$14,250,000
201527Arizona Diamondbacks$14,500,000
Career to date (may be incomplete)$5,971,666Does 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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