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John Valentin

John William Valentin

Positions: Shortstop, Third Baseman and Second Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 170 lb.

Born: February 18, 1967 in Mineola, NY
School: Seton Hall University
Drafted by the Boston Red Sox in the 5th round of the 1988 amateur draft.
Signed June 27, 1988. (All Transactions)
Debut: July 27, 1992
Teams (by GP): RedSox/Mets 1992-2002
Agents: Jeff Moorad, previously: Dick Moss [*]
Final Game: September 29, 2002
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Fine Details  · Last Updated Feb 10, 2012, 12:22AM
All-Time Rank (among Batters): #599. Shannon Stewart… #600. Travis Hafner… #601. Andrew McCutchen… #602. JOHN VALENTIN… #603. Cecil Fielder… #604. Jim Piersall… #605. Jay Buhner… 

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
1992 25 BOS AL 58 212 185 21 51 13 0 5 25 1 0 20 17 .276 .351 .427 .778 113 79 5 2 4 1 0 6
1993 26 BOS AL 144 539 468 50 130 40 3 11 66 3 4 49 77 .278 .346 .447 .793 107 209 9 2 16 4 2 *6
1994 27 BOS AL 84 355 301 53 95 26 2 9 49 3 1 42 38 .316 .400 .505 .905 128 152 3 3 5 4 1 *6
1995 28 BOS AL 135 621 520 108 155 37 2 27 102 20 5 81 67 .298 .399 .533 .931 138 277 7 10 4 6 2 *6 MVP-9,SS
1996 29 BOS AL 131 606 527 84 156 29 3 13 59 9 10 63 59 .296 .374 .436 .811 104 230 15 7 2 7 0 *65
1997 30 BOS AL 143 644 575 95 176 47 5 18 77 7 4 58 66 .306 .372 .499 .871 124 287 21 5 1 5 5 45
1998 31 BOS AL 153 681 588 113 145 44 1 23 73 4 5 77 82 .247 .340 .442 .782 101 260 9 9 2 5 3 *5/4
1999 32 BOS AL 113 503 450 58 114 27 1 12 70 0 1 40 68 .253 .315 .398 .713 78 179 11 4 1 8 2 *5
2000 33 BOS AL 10 38 35 6 9 1 0 2 2 0 1 2 5 .257 .297 .457 .754 85 16 1 0 1 0 0 5
2001 34 BOS AL 20 70 60 8 12 2 0 1 5 0 0 9 8 .200 .314 .283 .598 59 17 4 1 0 0 0 6/5
2002 35 NYM NL 114 242 208 18 50 15 0 3 30 0 0 22 37 .240 .339 .356 .695 86 74 6 10 0 2 0 635/4
11 Seasons 1105 4511 3917 614 1093 281 17 124 558 47 31 463 524 .279 .360 .454 .814 109 1780 91 53 36 42 15
162 Game Avg. 162 661 574 90 160 41 2 18 82 7 5 68 77 .279 .360 .454 .814 109 261 13 8 5 6 2
BOS (10 yrs) 991 4269 3709 596 1043 266 17 121 528 47 31 441 487 .281 .361 .460 .821 110 1706 85 43 36 40 15
NYM (1 yr) 114 242 208 18 50 15 0 3 30 0 0 22 37 .240 .339 .356 .695 86 74 6 10 0 2 0
AL (10 yrs) 991 4269 3709 596 1043 266 17 121 528 47 31 441 487 .281 .361 .460 .821 110 1706 85 43 36 40 15
NL (1 yr) 114 242 208 18 50 15 0 3 30 0 0 22 37 .240 .339 .356 .695 86 74 6 10 0 2 0

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
1992 25 BOS AL 212 4 0 0 0 -6 3 7 8 0.9 14 1.5 -0.6 $109,000 6
1993 26 BOS AL 539 4 -4 1 -1 22 8 18 48 4.8 26 2.6 2.2 $170,000 *6
1994 27 BOS AL 355 15 0 0 1 11 5 12 44 4.3 33 3.2 1.1 $370,000 *6
1995 28 BOS AL 621 33 3 1 0 23 8 19 87 8.5 64 6.3 2.2 $637,500 *6 MVP-9,SS
1996 29 BOS AL 606 9 -1 1 -3 -2 7 18 29 2.9 31 2.9 0.0 $2,672,500 *65
1997 30 BOS AL 644 17 1 1 -2 1 2 20 40 4.0 39 3.9 0.1 $3,750,000 45
1998 31 BOS AL 681 2 0 0 1 21 1 22 47 4.6 26 2.6 2.0 $5,350,000 *5/4
1999 32 BOS AL 503 -17 -2 0 -1 10 1 16 7 0.8 -3 -0.3 1.1 $6,350,000 *5
2000 33 BOS AL 38 -1 -1 0 0 -1 0 1 -2 -0.2 -1 -0.1 -0.1 $6,350,000 5
2001 34 BOS AL 70 -3 0 0 -1 0 1 2 -1 -0.1 -1 -0.1 0.0 $6,350,000 6/5
2002 35 NYM NL 242 -2 1 0 -1 -0 0 7 4 0.4 5 0.5 -0.1 $550,000 635/4
11 Seasons 4511 61 -3 4 -7 79 36 142 311 30.9 233 23.0 7.9 $32,659,000
BOS (10 yrs) 4269 63 -4 4 -6 80 36 135 307 30.5 228 22.5 8.0 $32,109,000
NYM (1 yr) 242 -2 1 0 -1 -0 0 7 4 0.4 5 0.5 -0.1 $550,000

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
1995 28 BOS AL ALDS CLE L 3 15 12 1 3 1 0 1 2 0 1 3 1 .250 .400 .583 .983 7 0 0 0 0 1
1998 31 BOS AL ALDS CLE L 4 18 15 5 7 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 .467 .556 .533 1.089 8 0 0 0 0 0
1999 32 BOS AL ALDS CLE W 5 23 22 6 7 2 0 3 12 0 0 0 4 .318 .304 .818 1.123 18 1 0 0 1 0
1999 32 BOS AL ALCS NYY L 5 25 23 3 8 2 0 1 5 0 0 2 4 .348 .400 .565 .965 13 1 0 0 0 0
3 Seasons (4 Series) 17 81 72 15 25 6 0 5 19 0 1 8 10 .347 .407 .639 1.046 46 2 0 0 1 1
3 ALDS 12 56 49 12 17 4 0 4 14 0 1 6 6 .347 .411 .673 1.084 33 1 0 0 1 1
1 ALCS 5 25 23 3 8 2 0 1 5 0 0 2 4 .348 .400 .565 .965 13 1 0 0 0 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 Rtot/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
1992 BOS AL 25 SS 58 271 79 182 10 45 .963 -6 4.50 .969 4.69
1993 BOS AL 26 SS 144 690 238 432 20 96 .971 22 4.65 .973 4.64
1994 BOS AL 27 SS 83 384 134 242 8 56 .979 11 4.53 .969 4.60
1994 BOS AL 27 DH 1 1
1995 BOS AL 28 SS 135 659 227 414 18 95 .973 23 4.75 .974 4.65 MVP-9,SS
1996 BOS AL 29 SS 118 557 194 347 16 87 .971 -3 4.58 .971 4.64
1996 BOS AL 29 3B 12 19 8 10 1 1 .947 1 1.50 .956 2.55
1996 BOS AL 29 DH 1 1
1997 BOS AL 30 2B 79 450 180 259 11 67 .976 -5 5.56 .980 4.89
1997 BOS AL 30 3B 64 191 59 121 11 15 .942 6 2.81 .953 2.65
1998 BOS AL 31 3B 153 428 121 292 15 28 .965 21 2.70 .948 2.52
1998 BOS AL 31 2B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 4.80
1999 BOS AL 32 3B 111 306 84 208 14 16 .954 10 2.63 .950 2.54
1999 BOS AL 32 DH 1 1
2000 BOS AL 33 3B 10 15 6 9 0 0 1.000 -1 1.50 .947 2.64
2001 BOS AL 34 SS 18 66 22 42 2 9 .970 1 3.56 .973 4.45
2001 BOS AL 34 3B 3 2 1 1 0 0 1.000 -0 0.67 .945 2.70
2002 NYM NL 35 SS 24 70 20 48 2 9 .971 2 2.83 .970 4.49
2002 NYM NL 35 1B 22 115 106 6 3 12 .974 0 5.09 .992 9.31
2002 NYM NL 35 3B 18 41 9 27 5 3 .878 -3 2.00 .957 2.69
2002 NYM NL 35 2B 3 7 4 3 0 2 1.000 -0 2.33 .981 4.93
2002 NYM NL 35 DH 1 1
7 Seasons SS 580 2697 914 1707 76 397 .972 50 4.52 .972 4.63
7 Seasons 3B 371 1002 288 668 46 63 .954 33 2.58 .950 2.56
3 Seasons 2B 83 457 184 262 11 69 .976 -5 5.37 .980 4.89
1 Season 1B 22 115 106 6 3 12 .974 0 5.09 .992 9.31
11 Seasons TOT 1056 4271 1492 2643 136 541 .968 79 3.92 .968 4.02
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rtot/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.
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

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1995 AL (9, 15%)
0.15 Career Shares (809th)

Silver Sluggers
1995 AL (SS)

Wins Above Replacement† s c a p y
1995 AL  8.5 (1st)

WAR Position Players† s c a p y
1994 AL  4.3 (8th)
1995 AL  8.5 (1st)

Offensive WAR† s c a p y
1995 AL  6.3 (5th)

Defensive WAR† s c a p y
1993 AL  2.2 (1st)
1994 AL  1.1 (7th)
1995 AL  2.2 (2nd)
1998 AL  2.0 (3rd)
Career  7.9 (119th)

Runs Scored s c a p y
1995 AL  108 (6th)
1998 AL  113 (7th)

Total Bases s c a p y
1995 AL  277 (9th)

Doubles s c a p y
1993 AL  40 (3rd)
1995 AL  37 (4th)
1997 AL  47 (1st)
1998 AL  44 (4th)

Runs Created s c a p y
1995 AL  119 (7th)

Extra Base Hits s c a p y
1995 AL  66 (9th)
1997 AL  70 (8th)

Times On Base s c a p y
1995 AL  246 (9th)

Offensive Win % s c a p y
1995 AL  .696 (7th)

Hit By Pitch s c a p y
1995 AL  10 (6th)
2002 NL  10 (10th)

Sacrifice Hits s c a p y
1993 AL  16 (2nd)

Sacrifice Flies s c a p y
1999 AL  8 (10th)

Double Plays Grounded Into s c a p y
1997 AL  21 (4th)

Caught Stealing s c a p y
1996 AL  10 (5th)

Power-Speed # s c a p y
1995 AL  23.0 (2nd)

AB per SO s c a p y
1997 AL  8.7 (7th)

Base-Out Runs Added (RE24)† s c a p y
1995 AL  39.83 (6th)

Situ. Wins Added (WPA/LI)† s c a p y
1995 AL  3.2 (10th)

Base-Out Wins Added (REW)† s c a p y
1995 AL  3.6 (6th)

Assists† s c a p y
1995 AL  414 (4th)

Errors Committed† s c a p y
1993 AL  20 (5th)
1997 AL  22 (3rd)

Total Zone Runs† s c a p y
1993 AL  22 (1st)
1995 AL  23 (1st)
1998 AL  21 (3rd)
Career  79 (74th)

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
1997 AL  11 (4th)

Def. Games as 3B s c a p y
1998 AL  153 (3rd)

Putouts as 3B s c a p y
1998 AL  121 (1st)

Assists as 3B s c a p y
1998 AL  292 (2nd)

Def. Games as SS s c a p y
1993 AL  144 (5th)
1995 AL  135 (3rd)

Putouts as SS s c a p y
1993 AL  238 (4th)
1995 AL  227 (2nd)

Assists as SS s c a p y
1993 AL  432 (4th)
1995 AL  414 (1st)

Errors Committed as SS s c a p y
1993 AL  20 (2nd)
1995 AL  18 (1st)

Total Zone Runs as 3B s c a p y
1998 AL  21 (2nd)
1999 AL  10 (1st)
Career  33 (41st)

Range Factor/9Inn as 3B† s c a p y
1998 AL  2.81 (4th)
1999 AL  2.76 (2nd)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
1998 AL  2.70 (2nd)
1999 AL  2.63 (2nd)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
1998 AL  .965 (4th)
1999 AL  .954 (5th)

Total Zone Runs as SS s c a p y
1993 AL  22 (1st)
1994 AL  11 (3rd)
1995 AL  23 (1st)
Career  50 (30th)

Range Factor/9Inn as SS† s c a p y
1993 AL  4.93 (2nd)

Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y
1993 AL  4.65 (3rd)
1995 AL  4.75 (4th)
1996 AL  4.58 (5th)

Fielding % as SS s c a p y
1994 AL  .979 (5th)
Career  .972 (56th)

                           

† 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 (·)

Black InkBatting - 2 (598), Average HOFer ≈ 27
Gray InkBatting - 14 (1212), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 20 (819), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 25 (482), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

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  1. Brandon Phillips (934)
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  3. Todd Walker (913)
  4. Carlos Guillen (910)
  5. Orlando Hudson (910)
  6. Mike Lansing (906)
  7. Robinson Cano (902)
  8. Mark Ellis (902)
  9. Odell Hale (898)
  10. Randy Velarde (892)
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  1. Ray Boone (957)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  2. Ryan Doumit (960)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  3. Ryan Doumit (922)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  4. Al Dark (925)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  5. Carlos Guillen (919)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  6. Todd Walker (918)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  7. Todd Walker (923)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  8. Carlos Guillen (910)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  9. Elston Howard (914)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  10. Carlos Guillen (910)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
* - Signifies Hall of Famer

Transactions

  • June 1, 1988: Drafted by the Boston Red Sox in the 5th round of the 1988 amateur draft. Player signed June 27, 1988.
  • November 5, 2001: Granted Free Agency.
  • January 30, 2002: Signed as a Free Agent with the New York Mets.
The transaction information used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. We attempt to update transactions throughout the season.

Salaries

Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses
Year Age Team Salary Sources Notes
199225Boston Red Sox$109,0001994 Joint Exhibit 1
199326Boston Red Sox$170,0001996 Joint Exhibit 1Includes $35,000 earned bonus
199427Boston Red Sox$370,0001996 Joint Exhibit 1
199528Boston Red Sox$637,5001996 Joint Exhibit 1Includes $25,000 earned bonus
199629Boston Red Sox$2,672,5001997 Joint Exhibit 1
199730Boston Red Sox$3,750,0001997 AP survey
199831Boston Red Sox$5,350,0002001 Joint Exhibit 1
199932Boston Red Sox$6,350,0002001 Joint Exhibit 1
200033Boston Red Sox$6,350,0002001 Joint Exhibit 1
200134Boston Red Sox$6,350,000*
200235New York Mets$550,0004/3/02 AP
Career to date (may be incomplete)$32,659,000
Disputed Salaries
*2001 - $6,950,000 - 2001 Joint Exhibit 1 - Includes $600,000 buyout
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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