2009 Pittsburgh Pirates Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics

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2009 Pittsburgh Pirates Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics
(Franchise Encyclopedia: 2008)
62-99, 6th place in NL Central
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Scored 636 runs, Allowed 768 runs. Pythagorean W-L: 67-94
Manager: John Russell (62-99)
Ballpark: PNC Park (ballparks.com)
Attendance: 1,577,853 (15th of 16)
Park Factors Over 100 favors batters, under 100 favors pitchers.
multi-year: Batting - 95, Pitching - 96; one-year: Batting - 94, Pitching - 95
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2008 Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics

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Rk	Pos		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
1	C	Ryan Doumit#	28	75	304	280	31	70	16	0	10	38	4	0	20	49	.250	.299	.414	.714	91	116	12	1	0	3	6
2	1B	Adam LaRoche*	29	87	368	324	46	80	25	1	12	40	2	2	41	81	.247	.329	.441	.770	106	143	9	0	0	3	6
3	2B	Freddy Sanchez	31	86	382	355	45	105	28	3	6	34	5	1	20	60	.296	.334	.442	.776	108	157	9	2	2	3	4
4	SS	Jack Wilson	31	75	286	266	26	71	18	1	4	31	2	1	15	31	.267	.304	.387	.691	85	103	4	0	3	2	2
5	3B	Andy LaRoche	25	150	590	524	64	135	29	5	12	64	3	1	50	84	.258	.330	.401	.731	97	210	16	8	6	2	1
6	LF	Nyjer Morgan*	28	71	321	278	39	77	6	5	2	27	18	10	29	49	.277	.351	.356	.707	92	99	6	5	5	4	2
7	CF	Andrew McCutchen	22	108	493	433	74	124	26	9	12	54	22	5	54	83	.286	.365	.471	.836	124	204	3	2	0	4	2
8	RF	Brandon Moss*	25	133	424	385	47	91	20	4	7	41	1	5	34	84	.236	.304	.364	.668	80	140	7	4	0	1	3
Rk	Pos		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
9	UT	Delwyn Young#	27	124	388	354	40	94	16	2	7	43	2	0	29	90	.266	.326	.381	.707	90	135	13	3	1	1	0
10	UT	Garrett Jones*	28	82	358	314	45	92	21	1	21	44	10	2	40	76	.293	.372	.567	.938	149	178	6	1	0	3	8
11	LF	Lastings Milledge	24	58	239	220	20	64	11	0	4	20	6	4	12	37	.291	.333	.395	.729	96	87	4	3	2	2	0
12	MI	Ramon Vazquez*	32	101	239	204	17	47	7	0	1	16	1	0	31	47	.230	.335	.279	.614	69	57	2	2	0	2	4
13	C	Jason Jaramillo#	26	63	224	206	20	52	14	0	3	26	1	0	17	33	.252	.309	.364	.673	81	75	11	0	1	0	2
14	CF	Nate McLouth*	27	45	195	168	27	43	7	1	9	34	7	0	21	29	.256	.349	.470	.819	119	79	2	4	0	2	0
15	1B	Steven Pearce	26	60	186	165	19	34	13	1	4	16	1	0	21	43	.206	.296	.370	.665	79	61	2	0	0	0	0
16	SS	Ronny Cedeno	26	46	170	155	17	40	4	1	5	21	2	0	9	29	.258	.307	.394	.701	88	61	3	2	4	0	2
17	C	Robinzon Diaz	25	41	138	129	9	36	7	0	1	19	0	1	3	9	.279	.307	.357	.663	79	46	5	3	1	2	0
18	UT	Eric Hinske*	31	54	126	106	18	27	9	0	1	11	0	0	17	27	.255	.373	.368	.741	102	39	0	3	0	0	0
19	UT	Craig Monroe	32	34	87	79	8	17	2	0	3	16	0	0	7	21	.215	.287	.354	.642	72	28	4	1	0	0	1
20	SS	Luis Cruz	25	27	78	70	5	15	1	0	0	2	0	0	6	7	.214	.282	.229	.511	40	16	1	1	0	1	1
21	UT	Brian Bixler	26	18	46	44	5	10	5	0	0	3	1	0	2	26	.227	.261	.341	.602	61	15	0	0	0	0	0
22	3B	Neil Walker#	23	17	40	36	5	7	1	0	0	0	1	0	4	11	.194	.275	.222	.497	37	8	1	0	0	0	0
23	OF	Jeff Salazar*	28	21	26	23	1	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	3	7	.043	.154	.043	.197	-43	1	1	0	0	0	0
Rk	Pos		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
24	P	Zach Duke*	26	31	79	60	1	12	2	0	0	5	0	0	4	18	.200	.246	.233	.479	31	14	0	0	14	1	0
25	P	Paul Maholm*	27	30	67	58	1	4	1	0	1	2	0	0	3	36	.069	.115	.138	.253	-32	8	0	0	6	0	0
26	P	Ross Ohlendorf	26	28	64	59	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	23	.068	.083	.068	.151	-58	4	3	0	4	0	0
27	P	Charlie Morton	25	18	33	31	1	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	15	.129	.129	.129	.258	-30	4	0	0	2	0	0
28	P	Ian Snell	27	15	27	23	0	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	10	.174	.174	.174	.348	-5	4	0	0	4	0	0
29	P	Jeff Karstens	26	37	26	22	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	12	.045	.160	.045	.205	-41	1	0	1	1	0	0
30	P	Kevin Hart	26	10	20	16	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	4	.125	.263	.125	.388	10	2	0	0	1	0	0
31	P	Daniel McCutchen	26	6	12	11	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	3	.091	.167	.091	.258	-28	1	0	0	0	0	0
32	P	Virgil Vasquez	27	14	11	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	1	0	0
33	P	Tom Gorzelanny*	26	9	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
34	P	John Grabow*	30	43	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	1	0	0
35	P	Chris Bootcheck	30	13	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
36	P	Joel Hanrahan	27	33	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
37	P	Sean Burnett*	26	37	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
38	P	Jesse Chavez	25	71	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
39	P	Steven Jackson	27	39	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
40	P	Donald Veal*	24	19	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	1	0	0
41	P	Phil Dumatrait	27	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
42	P	Tyler Yates	31	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
43	P	Evan Meek	26	39	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
44	P	Jose Ascanio	24	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
45	P	Eric Hacker#	26	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
46	P	Matt Capps	25	56	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
47	P	Craig Hansen	25	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
48	P	Anthony Claggett#	24	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
49	P	Denny Bautista	28	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
		Team Totals	27.0	161	6058	5417	636	1364	289	34	125	612	90	32	499	1142	.252	.318	.387	.705	90	2096	124	46	60	36	44
		Rank in 16 NL teams				15	16	14	9	9	14		8	11	14	10	14	14	15	14		15		13		15
Rk	Pos		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

* - bats left-handed, # - bats both, else - bats right, ? - unknown; OPS_lg for OPS+ does not include pitchers.

Team Pitching

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Rk	Pos		Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB
1	SP	Zach Duke*	26	11	16	.407	4.06	32	32	0	3	1	0	213.0	231	101	96	23	49	0	106	3	1	2	891	99	1.315	9.8	1.0	2.1	4.5	2.16
2	SP	Paul Maholm*	27	8	9	.471	4.44	31	31	0	0	0	0	194.2	221	102	96	14	60	4	119	6	1	11	836	91	1.443	10.2	0.6	2.8	5.5	1.98
3	SP	Ross Ohlendorf	26	11	10	.524	3.92	29	29	0	0	0	0	176.2	165	80	77	25	53	1	109	7	1	2	725	103	1.234	8.4	1.3	2.7	5.6	2.06
4	SP	Charlie Morton	25	5	9	.357	4.55	18	18	0	1	1	0	97.0	102	49	49	7	40	0	62	5	0	4	416	89	1.464	9.5	0.6	3.7	5.8	1.55
5	SP	Ian Snell	27	2	8	.200	5.36	15	15	0	1	0	0	80.2	87	50	48	7	44	3	52	1	0	3	360	75	1.624	9.7	0.8	4.9	5.8	1.18
Rk	Pos		Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB
6	CL	Matt Capps	25	4	8	.333	5.80	57	0	50	0	0	27	54.1	73	36	35	10	17	3	46	3	0	0	251	70	1.656	12.1	1.7	2.8	7.6	2.71
7	RP	Jesse Chavez	25	1	4	.200	4.01	73	0	24	0	0	0	67.1	69	33	30	11	22	3	47	1	0	5	286	100	1.351	9.2	1.5	2.9	6.3	2.14
8	RP	John Grabow*	30	3	0	1.000	3.42	45	0	4	0	0	0	47.1	43	19	18	4	28	2	41	2	0	0	209	118	1.500	8.2	0.8	5.3	7.8	1.46
9	RP	Evan Meek	26	1	1	.500	3.45	41	0	14	0	0	0	47.0	34	18	18	2	29	2	42	0	0	5	195	117	1.340	6.5	0.4	5.6	8.0	1.45
10	RP	Steven Jackson	27	2	3	.400	3.14	40	0	10	0	0	0	43.0	38	20	15	2	22	3	21	0	0	3	186	128	1.395	8.0	0.4	4.6	4.4	0.95
Rk	Pos		Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB
11		Jeff Karstens	26	4	6	.400	5.42	39	13	8	0	0	0	108.0	115	66	65	12	45	5	52	2	0	1	471	74	1.481	9.6	1.0	3.8	4.3	1.16
12		Kevin Hart	26	1	8	.111	6.92	10	10	0	0	0	0	53.1	74	47	41	8	26	2	39	2	0	4	254	58	1.875	12.5	1.4	4.4	6.6	1.50
13		Virgil Vasquez	27	2	5	.286	5.84	14	7	4	0	0	0	44.2	58	30	29	6	18	1	29	3	0	0	206	69	1.701	11.7	1.2	3.6	5.8	1.61
14		Daniel McCutchen	26	1	2	.333	4.21	6	6	0	0	0	0	36.1	38	17	17	6	11	2	19	1	0	0	155	96	1.349	9.4	1.5	2.7	4.7	1.73
15		Sean Burnett*	26	1	2	.333	3.06	38	0	7	0	0	1	32.1	22	12	11	3	15	4	23	3	0	2	133	132	1.144	6.1	0.8	4.2	6.4	1.53
16		Joel Hanrahan	27	0	1	.000	1.72	33	0	7	0	0	0	31.1	23	12	6	0	20	1	37	1	0	5	134	234	1.372	6.6	0.0	5.7	10.6	1.85
17		Donald Veal*	24	1	0	1.000	7.16	19	0	10	0	0	0	16.1	18	13	13	2	20	0	16	2	0	2	87	56	2.327	9.9	1.1	11.0	8.8	0.80
18		Chris Bootcheck	30	0	0		11.05	13	0	3	0	0	0	14.2	16	18	18	1	9	0	13	1	0	0	70	36	1.705	9.8	0.6	5.5	8.0	1.44
19		Denny Bautista	28	1	1	.500	5.27	14	0	4	0	0	0	13.2	15	8	8	1	7	0	15	1	0	3	61	76	1.610	9.9	0.7	4.6	9.9	2.14
20		Phil Dumatrait*	27	0	2	.000	6.92	15	0	2	0	0	0	13.0	13	11	10	4	11	0	7	0	0	0	64	58	1.846	9.0	2.8	7.6	4.8	0.64
21		Tyler Yates	31	0	2	.000	7.50	15	0	2	0	0	0	12.0	14	12	10	2	7	1	9	1	0	0	56	54	1.750	10.5	1.5	5.3	6.8	1.29
22		Tom Gorzelanny*	26	3	1	.750	5.19	9	0	2	0	0	0	8.2	6	5	5	0	4	0	7	0	0	0	36	78	1.154	6.2	0.0	4.2	7.3	1.75
23		Craig Hansen	25	0	0		5.68	5	0	1	0	0	0	6.1	6	4	4	1	4	0	5	1	0	0	30	71	1.579	8.5	1.4	5.7	7.1	1.25
24		Eric Hacker	26	0	0		6.00	3	0	2	0	0	0	3.0	4	2	2	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	14	67	2.000	12.0	0.0	6.0	3.0	0.50
25		Jose Ascanio	24	0	1	.000	6.75	2	0	1	0	0	0	2.2	4	2	2	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	13	60	1.500	13.5	0.0	0.0	6.8
26		Anthony Claggett	24	0	0		9.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	2	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	45	2.000	18.0	9.0	0.0	0.0
		Team Totals	26.3	62	99	.385	4.59	161	161	156	5	2	28	1418.1	1491	768	724	152	563	37	919	47	3	52	6144	88	1.448	9.5	1.0	3.6	5.8	1.63
		Rank in 16 NL teams		15	2						6	13	16	16	13	11	14	6	7		15
Rk	Pos		Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB

* - throws left-handed, # - throws both, else - throws right, ? - unknown

Team Fielding--Totals

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	Age	G	GS	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzrd	Rtzhm	Rof	Rdp	Rctch	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%	Pos. Summary
Jose Ascanio	24	2	0	2.2	1	0	1	0	0	1.000									3.38	0.50	0		0	0		P
Denny Bautista	28	14	0	13.2	3	1	2	0	0	1.000									1.98	0.21	0		0	0		P
Brian Bixler	26	16	13	108.0	58	19	36	3	4	.948									4.58	3.44	0		0	0		SS-2B-CF
Chris Bootcheck	30	13	0	14.2	4	1	2	1	0	.750									1.84	0.23	0		0	0		P
Sean Burnett	26	38	0	32.1	7	3	4	0	0	1.000									1.95	0.18	0		0	0		P
Matt Capps	25	57	0	54.1	10	4	5	1	1	.900									1.49	0.16	0		0	0		P
Ronny Cedeno	26	42	42	367.0	203	66	133	4	27	.980									4.88	4.74	0		0	0		SS
Jesse Chavez	25	73	0	67.1	11	6	5	0	1	1.000									1.47	0.15	0		0	0		P
Anthony Claggett	24	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0										0.00	0.00	0		0	0		P
Luis Cruz	25	22	18	173.1	104	43	59	2	10	.981									5.30	4.64	0		0	0		SS-2B
Robinzon Diaz	25	33	33	283.0	213	188	23	2	1	.991									6.71	6.39	7		27	9	25%	C
Ryan Doumit	28	72	71	624.1	479	420	53	6	9	.987									6.82	6.57	2		44	20	31%	C-RF
Zach Duke	26	32	32	213.0	53	16	35	2	5	.962									2.15	1.59	0		0	0		P
Phil Dumatrait	27	15	0	13.0	2	2	0	0	0	1.000									1.38	0.13	0		0	0		P
Tom Gorzelanny	26	9	0	8.2	3	0	3	0	0	1.000									3.12	0.33	0		0	0		P
John Grabow	30	45	0	47.1	9	0	8	1	0	.889									1.52	0.18	0		0	0		P
Eric Hacker	26	3	0	3.0	3	1	2	0	0	1.000									9.00	1.00	0		0	0		P
Joel Hanrahan	27	33	0	31.1	4	2	1	1	1	.750									0.86	0.09	0		0	0		P
Craig Hansen	25	5	0	6.1	0	0	0	0	0										0.00	0.00	0		0	0		P
Kevin Hart	26	10	10	53.1	19	9	9	1	2	.947									3.04	1.80	0		0	0		P
Eric Hinske	31	25	20	174.2	78	69	9	0	4	1.000									4.02	3.12	0		0	0		RF-1B-3B-DH
Steven Jackson	27	40	0	43.0	7	3	4	0	1	1.000									1.47	0.18	0		0	0		P
Jason Jaramillo	26	62	58	520.0	354	322	28	4	5	.989									6.06	5.65	4		36	14	28%	C
Garrett Jones	28	84	82	726.0	388	346	41	1	26	.997									4.80	4.61	0		0	0		RF-1B-LF
Jeff Karstens	26	39	13	108.0	16	4	12	0	0	1.000									1.33	0.41	0		0	0		P
Adam LaRoche	29	87	86	756.2	836	776	59	1	86	.999									9.93	9.60	0		0	0		1B
Andy LaRoche	25	146	142	1246.0	432	97	321	14	34	.968									3.02	2.86	0		0	0		3B
Paul Maholm	27	31	31	194.2	50	9	39	2	3	.960									2.22	1.55	0		0	0		P
Andrew McCutchen	22	108	108	952.2	275	263	10	2	1	.993									2.58	2.53	0		0	0		CF
Daniel McCutchen	26	6	6	36.1	7	3	4	0	0	1.000									1.73	1.17	0		0	0		P
Nate McLouth	27	45	44	380.0	122	117	5	0	2	1.000									2.89	2.71	0		0	0		CF
Evan Meek	26	41	0	47.0	11	6	5	0	1	1.000									2.11	0.27	0		0	0		P
Lastings Milledge	24	56	56	500.0	117	111	6	0	0	1.000									2.11	2.09	0		0	0		LF
Craig Monroe	32	20	13	121.0	31	31	0	0	0	1.000									2.31	1.55	0		0	0		LF-RF-DH
Nyjer Morgan	28	72	69	602.1	170	163	6	1	1	.994									2.53	2.35	0		0	0		LF-CF
Charlie Morton	25	18	18	97.0	18	7	11	0	2	1.000									1.67	1.00	0		0	0		P
Brandon Moss	25	100	95	835.2	228	217	9	2	4	.991									2.43	2.26	0		0	0		RF-LF
Ross Ohlendorf	26	29	29	176.2	42	14	27	1	3	.976									2.09	1.41	0		0	0		P
Steven Pearce	26	43	42	371.0	393	361	30	2	31	.995									9.49	9.09	0		0	0		1B-RF
Jeff Salazar	28	4	1	18.1	8	7	1	0	0	1.000									3.93	2.00	0		0	0		CF-RF-LF
Freddy Sanchez	31	85	84	739.2	410	184	224	2	63	.995									4.96	4.80	0		0	0		2B
Ian Snell	27	15	15	80.2	17	6	11	0	0	1.000									1.90	1.13	0		0	0		P
Virgil Vasquez	27	14	7	44.2	8	0	7	1	0	.875									1.41	0.50	0		0	0		P
Ramon Vazquez	32	64	48	434.1	203	77	124	2	29	.990									4.17	3.14	0		0	0		SS-2B-3B
Donald Veal	24	19	0	16.1	3	2	1	0	1	1.000									1.65	0.16	0		0	0		P
Neil Walker	23	9	8	69.2	22	6	15	1	1	.955									2.71	2.33	0		0	0		3B
Jack Wilson	31	74	74	650.2	354	105	242	7	64	.980									4.80	4.69	0		0	0		SS
Tyler Yates	31	15	0	12.0	2	0	2	0	0	1.000									1.50	0.13	0		0	0		P
Delwyn Young	27	83	81	692.1	306	168	132	6	37	.980									3.90	3.61	0		0	0		2B-RF-LF
Team Totals	26.9	161	1449	12765.0	6094	4255	1766	73	460	.988									4.25	3.06	13		107	43	29%
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