Javier Báez

Positions: Shortstop, Second Baseman and Third Baseman

Bats: Right • Throws: Right

6-0, 190lb (183cm, 86kg)

Team: Detroit Tigers (majors, 60-day IL)

Born: December 1, 1992 in Bayamon, Puerto Rico pr

Draft: Drafted by the Chicago Cubs in the 1st round (9th) of the 2011 MLB June Amateur Draft from Arlington Country Day School (Jacksonville, FL).

High School: Arlington Country Day School (Jacksonville, FL)

Debut: August 5, 2014 (Age 21-247d, 20,715th in major league history)
vs. COL 6 AB, 1 H, 1 HR, 1 RBI, 0 SB

Rookie Status: Exceeded rookie limits during 2014 season

2024 Contract Status: Signed thru 2027, 6 yrs/$140M (22-27)

Service Time (01/2024): 8.089 • Free Agent: 2028

Agents: Wasserman

Full Name: Ednel Javier Báez

Nicknames: Javy or El Mago

Twitter: @javy23baez

Instagram: @javy23baez

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Relatives: Brother-In-Law of José Berríos

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SUMMARY

2024

Career

WAR

-1.1

25.2

272

4377

1099

181

.184

.251

598

RBI

628

110

OBP

.222

.293

SLG

.294

.437

OPS

.516

.730

OPS+

Fielding stats are given overall and by position. In some cases, they will be identical.

2024 Fielding Game Log (overall)

2024 Fielding Game Log (overall)
Rk	Gtm	Date	Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
1	1	Mar 28	DET	@	CHW	W,1-0	CG	30	9.0	2	1	0	3	0	SS
2	2	Mar 30	DET	@	CHW	W,7-6	CG	42	10.0	3	0	0	3	0	SS
3	3	Mar 31	DET	@	CHW	W,3-2	CG	33	9.0	1	3	0	4	1	SS
4	4	Apr 1	DET	@	NYM	W,5-0	CG	38	10.0	2	2	0	4	1	SS
5	6 (1)	Apr 4 (2)	DET	@	NYM	L,1-2	CG	33	8.1	1	1	0	2	0	SS
6	7	Apr 5	DET		OAK	W,5-4	CG	37	9.0	2	2	0	4	0	SS
7	8	Apr 6	DET		OAK	L,0-4	CG	37	9.0	1	3	0	4	1	SS
8	10 (1)	Apr 8	DET	@	PIT	L,4-7	CG	40	8.0	3	5	0	8	2	SS
9	11	Apr 9	DET	@	PIT	W,5-3	CG	36	9.0	3	3	0	6	0	SS
10	12	Apr 12	DET		MIN	W,8-2	CG	37	9.0	1	4	0	5	0	SS
11	13	Apr 13 (1)	DET		MIN	L,5-11	GF	13	2.0	0	1	0	1	0	PR SS
12	14	Apr 13 (2)	DET		MIN	L,1-4	CG	37	9.0	2	2	0	4	0	SS
13	15	Apr 14	DET		MIN	W,4-3	CG	38	9.0	0	2	0	2	0	SS
14	16	Apr 15	DET		TEX	L,0-1	CG	34	9.0	1	2	0	3	0	SS
15	17	Apr 16	DET		TEX	W,4-2	CG	34	9.0	1	3	0	4	0	SS
16	18	Apr 17	DET		TEX	L,4-5	CG	36	9.0	0	5	0	5	2	SS
17	19	Apr 18	DET		TEX	L,7-9	CG	46	9.0	1	3	0	4	1	SS
18	20	Apr 19	DET	@	MIN	W,5-4	GF	7	2.0	0	0	0	0	0	SS
19	21	Apr 20	DET	@	MIN	L,3-4	CG	36	8.0	0	2	1	3	1	SS
20	22	Apr 21	DET	@	MIN	W,6-1	CG	37	9.0	1	4	0	5	0	SS
21	23	Apr 22	DET	@	TBR	W,7-1	CG	34	9.0	0	5	0	5	0	SS
22	24	Apr 23	DET	@	TBR	W,4-2	CG	36	9.0	1	4	1	6	1	SS
23	25	Apr 24	DET	@	TBR	L,5-7	CG	34	8.0	1	2	0	3	1	SS
24	26	Apr 26	DET		KCR	L,0-8	CG	40	9.0	1	0	0	1	0	SS
25	27	Apr 27	DET		KCR	W,6-5	CG	39	9.0	2	4	2	8	1	SS
26	30 (2)	Apr 30 (2)	DET		STL	W,11-6	CG	43	9.0	3	1	0	4	0	SS
May			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
27	31	May 1	DET		STL	W,4-1	CG	33	9.0	0	0	0	0	0	SS
28	32	May 3	DET	@	NYY	L,1-2	CG	33	8.0	2	2	0	4	1	SS
29	34 (1)	May 5	DET	@	NYY	L,2-5	CG	33	7.0	0	1	0	1	0	SS
30	35	May 6	DET	@	CLE	L,1-2	CG	30	8.0	3	1	0	4	0	SS
31	36	May 7	DET	@	CLE	W,11-7	CG	37	9.0	4	3	0	7	2	SS
32	37	May 8	DET	@	CLE	L,4-5	CG	36	9.1	2	2	0	4	0	SS
33	38	May 10	DET		HOU	L,2-5	CG	38	9.0	1	1	0	2	0	SS
34	40 (1)	May 12	DET		HOU	L,3-9	CG	45	9.0	6	2	0	8	3	SS
35	41	May 13	DET		MIA	W,6-5	CG	38	9.0	1	2	0	3	1	SS
36	42	May 14	DET		MIA	L,0-1	CG	32	10.0	5	4	0	9	1	SS
37	43	May 15	DET		MIA	L,0-2	CG	33	9.0	2	3	0	5	0	SS
38	44	May 17	DET	@	ARI	W,13-0	GS	19	6.0	1	1	0	2	0	SS
39	45	May 18	DET	@	ARI	W,8-3	CG	36	9.0	4	4	0	8	2	SS
40	46	May 19	DET	@	ARI	L,4-6	CG	39	8.0	4	1	0	5	1	SS
41	47	May 20	DET	@	KCR	L,3-8	CG	39	8.0	2	2	0	4	0	SS
42	49 (1)	May 22	DET	@	KCR	L,3-8	CG	37	8.0	1	2	0	3	0	SS
43	50	May 23	DET		TOR	L,1-9	CG	40	9.0	1	3	0	4	1	SS
44	52 (1)	May 25	DET		TOR	W,2-1	CG	36	9.0	1	9	0	10	1	SS
45	53	May 26	DET		TOR	W,14-11	CG	47	9.0	0	4	0	4	0	SS
46	54	May 29 (1)	DET		PIT	W,8-0	CG	31	9.0	0	2	0	2	0	SS
47	56 (1)	May 30	DET	@	BOS	W,5-0	CG	31	9.0	0	1	1	2	0	SS
Jun			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
48	58 (1)	Jun 1	DET	@	BOS	L,3-6	CG	36	8.0	3	1	1	5	0	SS
49	59	Jun 2	DET	@	BOS	W,8-4	CG	42	10.0	2	1	0	3	0	SS
50	60	Jun 3	DET	@	TEX	W,2-1	CG	36	9.0	0	2	0	2	1	SS
51	62 (1)	Jun 5	DET	@	TEX	L,1-9	CG	43	8.0	5	2	0	7	0	SS
52	63	Jun 7	DET		MIL	L,0-10	CG	44	9.0	2	1	0	3	0	SS
53	64	Jun 8	DET		MIL	L,4-5	CG	39	9.0	4	5	1	10	2	SS
Jul			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
54	91 (26)	Jul 8	DET		CLE	W,1-0	CG	29	9.0	2	6	0	8	2	SS
55	92	Jul 9	DET		CLE	L,8-9	CG	51	10.0	1	2	0	3	1	SS
56	93	Jul 10	DET		CLE	W,5-4	GF	6	1.0	0	2	0	2	0	PH SS
57	94	Jul 11	DET		CLE	W,10-1	CG	32	9.0	1	2	0	3	0	SS
58	95	Jul 12	DET		LAD	L,3-4	CG	39	9.0	0	2	1	3	0	SS
59	96	Jul 13	DET		LAD	W,11-9	GS	25	5.0	5	1	0	6	1	SS
60	99 (2)	Jul 20	DET	@	TOR	W,7-3	CG	32	9.0	2	1	0	3	0	SS
61	100	Jul 21	DET	@	TOR	L,4-5	CG	36	8.0	1	1	0	2	1	SS
62	101	Jul 22	DET	@	CLE	W,8-2	CG	41	9.0	0	5	0	5	0	SS
63	103 (1)	Jul 24	DET	@	CLE	L,1-2	CG	32	8.0	0	1	0	1	0	SS
64	104	Jul 25	DET	@	CLE	W,3-0	CG	31	9.0	1	3	0	4	2	SS
65	105	Jul 26	DET		MIN	L,3-9	CG	45	9.0	1	1	0	2	0	SS
66	106	Jul 27	DET		MIN	W,7-2	CG	35	9.0	1	4	0	5	0	SS
67	107	Jul 28	DET		MIN	L,0-5	CG	43	9.0	1	1	0	2	0	SS
Aug			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
68	111 (3)	Aug 2	DET		KCR	L,2-9	CG	43	9.0	1	2	0	3	0	SS
69	112	Aug 3	DET		KCR	W,6-5	CG	43	11.0	2	3	0	5	0	SS
70	113	Aug 4	DET		KCR	L,2-3	CG	38	9.0	2	3	0	5	0	SS
71	114	Aug 6	DET	@	SEA	W,4-2	CG	33	9.0	4	3	0	7	2	SS
72	115	Aug 7	DET	@	SEA	W,6-2	CG	33	9.0	1	1	0	2	1	SS
73	117 (1)	Aug 9	DET	@	SFG	L,2-3	CG	34	8.2	1	2	0	3	0	SS
74	118	Aug 10	DET	@	SFG	L,1-3	CG	36	8.0	1	4	1	6	0	SS
75	119	Aug 11	DET	@	SFG	W,5-4	GF	12	3.0	0	3	0	3	0	PR SS
76	120	Aug 13	DET		SEA	W,15-1	GS	26	7.0	1	2	0	3	1	SS
77	122 (1)	Aug 15	DET		SEA	W,2-1	CG	35	9.0	2	2	0	4	0	SS
78	124 (1)	Aug 17	DET		NYY	W,4-0	CG	34	9.0	1	4	0	5	0	SS
79	126 (1)	Aug 20	DET	@	CHC	L,1-3	CG	32	8.0	1	1	0	2	0	SS
80	128 (1)	Aug 22	DET	@	CHC	L,2-10	CG	39	8.0	0	1	0	1	0	SS
							80gm		672.1	122	189	9	320	39