Joey Votto

Joseph Daniel Votto (Votto-matic)

Position: First Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 220 lb.

Born: September 10, 1983 in Toronto, Ontario, CAN
High School: Richview Collegiate Institute (Toronto, ON)
Drafted
by the Cincinnati Reds in the 2nd round of the 2002 amateur draft.
Signed June 5, 2002. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 4, 2007
Team: Reds 2007-2011
2012 Contract Status: Signed thru 2013, 3 yrs/$38M (11-13) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 4.027, Free Agent: 2014 [*],
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Standard Batting

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 23 CIN NL 24 89 84 11 27 7 0 4 17 1 0 5 15 .321 .360 .548 .907 127 46 0 0 0 0 1 3/
2008 24 CIN NL 151 589 526 69 156 32 3 24 84 7 5 59 102 .297 .368 .506 .874 125 266 7 2 0 2 9 *3 RoY-2
2009 25 CIN NL 131 544 469 82 151 38 1 25 84 4 1 70 106 .322 .414 .567 .981 156 266 8 4 0 1 10 *3 MVP-22
2010 26 CIN NL 150 648 547 106 177 36 2 37 113 16 5 91 125 .324 .424 .600 1.024 171 328 11 7 0 3 8 *3 AS,MVP-1
2011 27 CIN NL 161 719 599 101 185 40 3 29 103 8 6 110 129 .309 .416 .531 .947 156 318 20 4 0 6 15 *3 AS,MVP-6,GG
5 Seasons 617 2589 2225 369 696 153 9 119 401 36 17 335 477 .313 .405 .550 .955 151 1224 46 17 0 12 43
162 Game Avg. 162 680 584 97 183 40 2 31 105 9 4 88 125 .313 .405 .550 .955 151 321 12 4 0 3 11

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 23 CIN NL 89 2 -2 0 0 -4 -1 3 -2 -0.2 2 0.2 -0.4 $ 3/
2008 24 CIN NL 589 15 -3 0 1 8 -9 17 30 3.0 21 2.2 0.8 $390,000 *3 RoY-2
2009 25 CIN NL 544 37 1 1 -0 -2 -8 15 43 4.2 45 4.5 -0.3 $437,500 *3 MVP-22
2010 26 CIN NL 648 61 -2 -1 1 -7 -10 18 60 5.9 66 6.6 -0.7 $525,000 *3 AS,MVP-1
2011 27 CIN NL 719 52 -3 2 -2 7 -11 19 64 6.5 57 5.8 0.7 $7,410,655 *3 AS,MVP-6,GG
5 Seasons 2589 167 -9 2 -1 2 -38 72 194 19.4 192 19.3 0.1 $8,763,155

Advanced Batting

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 23 CIN NL 89 57 17 8.0 115 .354 .321 .278 .360 .348 .548 .444 .907 .791 127 .698 3.1 0.3 .912 .298 .226 1.6
2008 24 CIN NL 589 384 99 6.9 110 .328 .297 .270 .368 .342 .506 .430 .874 .772 125 .652 19.2 1.8 .861 .325 .209 10.8
2009 25 CIN NL 544 328 113 9.2 107 .372 .322 .266 .414 .339 .567 .422 .981 .761 156 .768 40.6 3.9 1.049 .401 .245 6.9
2010 26 CIN NL 648 389 144 9.9 104 .361 .324 .264 .424 .335 .600 .416 1.024 .751 171 .804 58.4 5.6 1.132 .463 .276 22.3
2011 27 CIN NL 719 446 133 8.0 101 .349 .309 .263 .416 .330 .531 .409 .947 .739 156 .747 52.0 5.1 .986 .409 .222 12.5
5 Seasons 2589 1604 506 8.5 105 .352 .313 .266 .405 .336 .550 .420 .955 .756 151 .747 173.3 16.7 1.002 .396 .237 55.3
162 Game Avg. 680 421 133 8.5 105 .352 .313 .266 .405 .336 .550 .420 .955 .756 151 .747 46 4 1.002 .396 .237 15

Postseason Batting

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 26 CIN NL NLDS PHI L 3 11 10 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 .100 .091 .100 .191 1 1 0 0 1 0
1 NLDS 3 11 10 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 .100 .091 .100 .191 1 1 0 0 1 0

All-Star Batting

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
2010 CIN NL 26 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0
2011 CIN NL 27 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Seasons (2 Appearances) 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0

Ratio Batting*

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 23 CIN NL 89 4.5% 16.9% 5.6% 12.4% 41% 3.00 5.6 21.0 4.9 0.38 0.45 73% 33% 8.3% 4%
2008 24 CIN NL 589 4.1% 17.3% 10.0% 10.0% 38% 1.73 5.2 21.9 6.3 0.78 1.15 68% 24% 10.6% 5%
2009 25 CIN NL 544 4.6% 19.5% 12.9% 11.8% 42% 1.51 4.4 18.8 5.6 0.64 1.08 62% 25% 11.8% 5%
2010 26 CIN NL 648 5.7% 19.3% 14.0% 11.6% 42% 1.37 4.4 14.8 4.8 0.81 1.47 60% 22% 16.3% 3%
2011 27 CIN NL 719 4.0% 17.9% 15.3% 10.0% 39% 1.17 4.6 20.7 5.8 0.69 1.14 62% 26% 10.8% 5%
5 Seasons 2589 4.6% 18.4% 12.9% 10.9% 40% 1.42 4.7 18.7 5.5 0.71 1.16 63% 25% 12.1% 4%
MLB Averages 2.6% 17.9% 8.6% 7.8% 33% 2.10 5.0 34.6 7.9 0.80 1.07 69% 19% 7.5% 13%

Win Probability

Year Age Tm Lg BtRuns BtWins Plays WPA WPA+ WPA- aLI WPA/LI Clutch RE24 REW boLI RE24/boLI PHlev AB
2007 23 CIN NL 3.1 0.3 91 0.2 1.7 -1.5 .90 0.5 -0.3 3.2 0.3 0.94 5.0 0.59 3
2008 24 CIN NL 19.2 1.8 606 2.1 11.4 -9.3 .97 2.5 -0.4 32.5 3.0 0.94 27.7 0.94 9
2009 25 CIN NL 40.7 3.9 556 6.1 13.3 -7.1 .95 5.0 1.5 50.2 4.7 0.90 52.4 0.94 0
2010 26 CIN NL 60.7 5.8 678 7.0 16.5 -9.5 1.01 6.6 0.3 68.1 6.5 0.94 70.8 3.02 1
2011 27 CIN NL 52.0 5.1 744 7.1 18.1 -11.0 1.06 5.4 1.3 63.4 6.2 0.99 57.2 1.58 1
5 Seasons 175.6 17.0 2675 22.4 60.8 -38.4 1.00 20.0 2.5 217.3 20.7 0.94 213.2 1.06 14

Baserunning & Misc. Stats*

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 23 CIN NL 1 0 25% 41 1 0 100% 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 38% 3 3 0 0 0 0 5 0 3
2008 24 CIN NL 5 0 23% 246 7 5 58% 7 5 0 0 0 0 2 0 6 4 42% 24 18 6 10 6 3 16 3 12
2009 25 CIN NL 5 0 29% 220 4 1 80% 4 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 7 15 49% 35 19 16 9 7 2 19 5 13
2010 26 CIN NL 4 0 29% 273 16 5 76% 16 5 0 0 0 0 3 0 10 18 46% 45 30 13 13 7 6 25 5 19
2011 27 CIN NL 9 0 27% 273 8 6 57% 7 5 1 1 0 0 4 1 8 26 32% 46 32 14 13 10 2 16 8 8
5 Seasons 24 0 27% 1053 36 17 68% 35 15 1 1 0 1 11 2 33 63 42% 153 102 49 45 30 13 81 21 55

Situational Hitting*

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 23 CIN NL 89 70% 27 3 0 3 0 0 0 0.59 4 0 2 4 0 4 0 0 0 0 19 0 0% 10 2 20% 61 13 21% 6 2 33% 6 2 33% 0
2008 24 CIN NL 589 67% 156 9 1 9 3 1 3 0.94 24 0 17 16 8 14 10 0 0 0 112 7 6% 48 16 33% 342 61 18% 26 18 69% 27 14 52% 0
2009 25 CIN NL 544 71% 151 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.94 25 0 6 18 7 14 11 0 0 0 84 8 10% 35 16 46% 321 61 19% 25 15 60% 33 17 52% 0
2010 26 CIN NL 648 64% 177 8 0 1 0 0 0 3.02 37 1 12 29 8 18 19 0 0 0 142 11 8% 51 20 39% 391 77 20% 34 16 47% 33 21 64% 0
2011 27 CIN NL 719 72% 185 6 0 1 0 0 0 1.58 29 0 11 22 7 13 16 0 0 0 150 20 13% 48 15 31% 418 81 19% 43 23 53% 27 17 63% 0
5 Seasons 2589 69% 696 31 1 14 3 1 3 1.06 119 1 48 89 30 63 56 0 0 0 507 46 9% 192 69 36% 1533 293 19% 134 74 55% 126 71 56% 0
MLB Averages 54% 69% 11% 32% 15% 51% 56%

Pitch Summary -- Batting*

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 23 CIN NL 89 339 3.81 211 62% 20% 21% 27% 33% 80% 3% 50% 74% 33% 7% 6 1 13% 12 2 10% 9 8 7% 0 0 0
2008 24 CIN NL 589 2176 3.69 1313 60% 21% 18% 28% 32% 79% 4% 47% 77% 38% 5% 29 2 16% 92 51 10% 59 31 24% 0 0 0
2009 25 CIN NL 544 2224 4.09 1293 58% 21% 20% 31% 28% 79% 4% 46% 75% 38% 7% 37 5 18% 99 49 12% 63 30 26% 0 0 0
2010 26 CIN NL 648 2541 3.92 1529 60% 22% 19% 32% 28% 78% 2% 47% 76% 39% 7% 45 8 15% 100 43 12% 78 42 23% 0 0 0
2011 27 CIN NL 721 2888 4.01 1664 58% 27% 16% 28% 29% 73% 4% 42% 77% 31% 8% 60 10 19% 134 47 15% 108 50 17% -2 0 0
5 Seasons 2591 10168 3.92 6010 59% 23% 18% 29% 29% 77% 4% 46% 76% 36% 7% 177 26 17% 437 192 12% 317 161 22% -2 0 0
MLB Averages 3.81 63% 28% 15% 27% 30% 72% 2% 45% 80% 27% 5% 15% 9% 25%

Cumulative Batting

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 23 24 89 84 11 27 7 0 4 17 1 0 5 15 .321 .360 .548 .907 127 46 0 0 0 0 1
2008 24 175 678 610 80 183 39 3 28 101 8 5 64 117 .300 .367 .511 .879 126 312 7 2 0 2 10
2009 25 306 1222 1079 162 334 77 4 53 185 12 6 134 223 .310 .388 .536 .924 139 578 15 6 0 3 20
2010 26 456 1870 1626 268 511 113 6 90 298 28 11 225 348 .314 .401 .557 .958 150 906 26 13 0 6 28
2011 27 617 2589 2225 369 696 153 9 119 401 36 17 335 477 .313 .405 .550 .955 151 1224 46 17 0 12 43

Neutralized Batting

Change to: Default / 750 Runs / 1968 Dodgers / 2000 Rockies or

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 23 24 87 82 10 25 6 0 4 15 1 5 15 .305 .345 .524 .869 15 24
2008 24 151 582 521 66 151 31 3 23 80 7 57 102 .290 .361 .493 .854 93 151
2009 25 131 544 469 82 151 38 1 25 84 4 70 106 .322 .414 .567 .981 109 131
2010 26 150 648 547 106 177 36 2 37 113 16 91 125 .324 .424 .600 1.024 138 150
2011 27 161 727 604 105 190 41 3 30 107 8 113 129 .315 .422 .541 .964 138 161
5 Seasons 617 2588 2223 369 694 152 9 119 399 36 336 477 .312 .405 .549 .954 493 617
162 Game Avg. 162 680 584 97 182 40 2 31 105 9 88 125 .312 .405 .549 .954 129 617

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1919 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. Pre-1954 seasons have a substantial numbers of games missing play-by-play accounts and should be viewed as essentially incomplete.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
2009 NL (22, 1%)
2010 NL (1, 99%)
2011 NL (6, 30%)
1 MVP
1.30 Career Shares (171st)

Gold Gloves
2011 NL (1B)

Wins Above Replacements c a p y
2010 NL  5.9 (6th)
2011 NL  6.5 (6th)

WAR Position Playerss c a p y
2010 NL  5.9 (3rd)
2011 NL  6.5 (3rd)

Offensive WARs c a p y
2010 NL  6.6 (2nd)
2011 NL  5.8 (6th)

Batting Average s c a p y
2009 NL  .322 (5th)
2010 NL  .324 (2nd)
2011 NL  .309 (5th)

On-Base% s c a p y
2009 NL  .414 (4th)
2010 NL  .424 (1st)
2011 NL  .416 (1st)

Slugging % s c a p y
2009 NL  .567 (5th)
2010 NL  .600 (1st)
2011 NL  .531 (9th)

On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y
2009 NL  .981 (3rd)
2010 NL  1.024 (1st)
2011 NL  .947 (5th)

Games Played s c a p y
2011 NL  161 (2nd)

At Bats s c a p y
2011 NL  599 (8th)

Plate Appearances s c a p y
2011 NL  719 (2nd)

Runs Scored s c a p y
2010 NL  106 (4th)
2011 NL  101 (5th)

Hits s c a p y
2010 NL  177 (6th)
2011 NL  185 (6th)

Total Bases s c a p y
2010 NL  328 (3rd)
2011 NL  318 (4th)

Doubles s c a p y
2011 NL  40 (1st)

Home Runs s c a p y
2010 NL  37 (3rd)

Runs Batted In s c a p y
2010 NL  113 (3rd)
2011 NL  103 (6th)

Bases on Balls s c a p y
2010 NL  91 (4th)
2011 NL  110 (1st)

Singles s c a p y
2011 NL  113 (10th)

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
2009 NL  156 (4th)
2010 NL  172 (2nd)
2011 NL  156 (5th)

Runs Created s c a p y
2010 NL  144 (1st)
2011 NL  133 (4th)

Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y
2009 NL  41 (6th)
2010 NL  59 (2nd)
2011 NL  52 (3rd)
Active  173 (31st)

Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y
2009 NL  3.9 (6th)
2010 NL  5.7 (2nd)
2011 NL  5.1 (3rd)
Active  16.7 (31st)

Extra Base Hits s c a p y
2010 NL  75 (4th)
2011 NL  72 (5th)

Times On Base s c a p y
2010 NL  275 (4th)
2011 NL  299 (1st)

Offensive Win % s c a p y
2009 NL  .768 (2nd)
2010 NL  .804 (1st)
2011 NL  .747 (5th)

Intentional Bases on Balls s c a p y
2011 NL  15 (6th)

Double Plays Grounded Into s c a p y
2011 NL  20 (4th)

Power-Speed # s c a p y
2010 NL  22.3 (8th)

AB per HR s c a p y
2010 NL  14.8 (3rd)

Base-Out Runs Added (RE24)s c a p y
2009 NL  50.18 (4th)
2010 NL  68.07 (1st)
2011 NL  63.42 (3rd)
Active  217.29 (26th)
Career  217.29 (171st)

Win Probability Added (WPA)s c a p y
2009 NL  6.1 (4th)
2010 NL  7.0 (1st)
2011 NL  7.1 (2nd)
Active  22.4 (22nd)
Career  22.4 (150th)

Situ. Wins Added (WPA/LI)s c a p y
2009 NL  5.0 (3rd)
2010 NL  6.6 (1st)
2011 NL  5.4 (4th)
Active  20.0 (31st)
Career  20.0 (186th)

Base-Out Wins Added (REW)s c a p y
2009 NL  4.7 (4th)
2010 NL  6.5 (1st)
2011 NL  6.2 (3rd)
Active  20.7 (27th)
Career  20.7 (180th)

                                         

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 - 7 (316), Average HOFer ≈ 27
Gray InkBatting - 53 (481), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 48 (399), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 32 (255), Average HOFer ≈ 50

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