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Career Summary

Years	PA	AVG	OBP	SLG	TAv	WARP
17	3072	.225	.284	.343	.231	1.8

Birth Date	11-7-1948
Height	5' 10"
Weight	190 lbs

Bats	R
Throws	R

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YEAR	TEAM	AGE	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	TB	BB	SO	HBP	SF	SH	RBI	SB	CS	AVG	OBP	SLG	TAv	VORP	FRAA	WARP
1969	KCA	20	72	214	205	14	47	6	1	4	67	8	25	0	0	1	23	0	0	.229	.258	.327	.216	-3.8	0.1	-0.4
1970	KCA	21	6	11	9	1	1	0	0	0	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.111	.273	.111	.149	-0.1	-0.0	-0.0
1971	KCA	22	22	53	46	3	7	2	0	0	9	5	9	0	1	1	1	0	1	.152	.231	.196	.165	-4.8	-0.4	-0.6
1973	KCA	24	14	37	32	2	8	1	0	1	12	4	5	0	0	1	6	0	0	.250	.333	.375	.237	1.6	-0.0	0.2
1974	KCA	25	43	123	107	10	23	3	1	1	31	14	19	2	0	0	8	0	1	.215	.317	.290	.227	-1.4	-0.5	-0.2
1975	KCA	26	80	255	226	15	51	9	2	3	73	21	28	1	1	6	23	1	0	.226	.293	.323	.233	3.7	0.4	0.4
1976	KCA	27	95	295	267	24	61	13	3	5	95	16	45	0	3	9	34	0	0	.228	.269	.356	.235	4.1	-0.8	0.4
1977	KCA	28	29	85	80	3	18	4	0	1	25	3	12	0	0	2	9	0	1	.225	.253	.312	.193	-2.8	0.6	-0.2
1978	MIL	29	89	286	256	26	56	10	1	1	71	14	42	0	4	12	20	1	1	.219	.255	.277	.204	-2.2	-0.2	-0.3
1979	MIL	30	69	214	196	17	53	8	0	4	73	8	25	0	2	8	26	0	1	.270	.296	.372	.234	2.1	-0.1	0.2
1980	MIL	31	76	238	219	16	49	9	0	3	67	12	33	1	1	5	17	1	0	.224	.266	.306	.211	-2.8	-1.1	-0.4
1981	TOR	32	45	146	128	13	29	8	1	4	51	11	16	1	3	3	21	1	0	.227	.287	.398	.245	2.3	0.5	0.3
1982	TOR	33	96	291	260	26	63	17	0	10	110	24	34	0	5	2	37	1	1	.242	.301	.423	.257	8.9	0.3	1.0
1983	TOR	34	88	253	221	27	56	14	0	10	100	29	39	0	2	1	33	0	1	.253	.337	.452	.276	11.2	-0.4	1.1
1984	TOR	35	102	273	232	24	51	13	1	5	81	29	49	2	9	1	37	0	3	.220	.301	.349	.252	8.8	0.1	1.0
1985	TOR	36	42	113	99	11	16	3	0	4	31	10	12	1	3	0	14	0	0	.162	.239	.313	.221	-0.9	-0.4	-0.1
1986	TOR	37	81	185	160	13	29	8	0	2	43	20	25	0	1	4	12	0	0	.181	.271	.269	.203	-5.6	0.3	-0.5
Career			1049	3072	2743	245	618	128	10	58	940	230	419	8	35	56	321	5	10	.225	.284	.343	.231	18.5	-1.8	1.8

Advanced

'opp' stats - quality of opponents faced - have been moved and are available only as OPP_QUAL in the Statistics reports now.

YEAR	Team	Lg	G	PA	TAv	oppAVG	oppOBP	oppSLG	oppTAv	BABIP	BPF	BRAA	repLVL	POS_ADJ	FRAA	BRR	BVORP	BWARP	VORP	WARP
1969	KCA	MLB	72	214	.216	.242	.312	.360	.000	.244	97	-9	5.5	3	0.1	-1.3	-3.8	-0.4	-3.8	-0.4
1970	KCA	MLB	6	11	.149	.253	.322	.387	.000	.125	96	-1.2	0.3	0.2	-0.0	0.8	-0.1	-0.0	-0.1	-0.0
1971	KCA	MLB	22	53	.165	.239	.294	.351	.000	.184	94	-4.6	1.3	0.8	-0.4	-1.4	-4.8	-0.6	-4.8	-0.6
1973	KCA	MLB	14	37	.237	.258	.325	.374	.000	.269	105	-0.8	1.0	0.6	-0.0	0.2	1.6	0.2	1.6	0.2
1974	KCA	MLB	43	123	.227	.244	.308	.349	.000	.253	104	-3.9	3.2	1.9	-0.5	-0.7	-1.4	-0.2	-1.4	-0.2
1975	KCA	MLB	80	255	.233	.258	.321	.378	.000	.245	102	-6.9	6.7	4.1	0.4	0.4	3.7	0.4	3.7	0.4
1976	KCA	MLB	95	295	.235	.257	.311	.364	.000	.255	101	-6.9	7.4	4.5	-0.8	0.4	4.1	0.4	4.1	0.4
1977	KCA	MLB	29	85	.193	.266	.322	.415	.000	.254	104	-5.9	2.4	1.4	0.6	-0.5	-2.8	-0.2	-2.8	-0.2
1978	MIL	MLB	89	286	.204	.261	.321	.389	.000	.253	98	-15.3	7.4	4.5	-0.2	-0.5	-2.2	-0.3	-2.2	-0.3
1979	MIL	MLB	69	214	.234	.267	.330	.408	.000	.290	99	-5.8	6.0	3.8	-0.1	-2.5	2.3	0.2	2.1	0.2
1980	MIL	MLB	76	238	.211	.268	.324	.399	.000	.250	98	-11.7	6.4	3.9	-1.1	-3.0	-2.8	-0.4	-2.8	-0.4
1981	TOR	MLB	45	146	.245	.261	.318	.378	.000	.225	102	-2	3.7	2.2	0.5	-1.9	2.3	0.3	2.3	0.3
1982	TOR	MLB	96	291	.257	.263	.319	.403	.000	.240	104	-0.7	7.9	4.6	0.3	-5.3	8.9	1.0	8.9	1.0
1983	TOR	MLB	88	253	.276	.267	.322	.409	.000	.264	105	4	6.9	4	-0.4	-2.4	11.2	1.1	11.2	1.1
1984	TOR	MLB	102	273	.252	.268	.326	.402	.000	.246	97	-2.1	7.3	4.1	0.1	-1.9	8.8	1.0	8.8	1.0
1985	TOR	MLB	42	113	.221	.267	.327	.408	.000	.140	98	-4.4	3.1	1.8	-0.4	-1.5	-0.9	-0.1	-0.9	-0.1
1986	TOR	MLB	81	185	.203	.260	.321	.406	.000	.201	101	-10.7	5.1	2.7	0.3	-1.7	-5.6	-0.5	-5.6	-0.5
Career		MLB		3072	.231	.260	.320	.389	.262	.243	100	-87.9	81.6	48.1	-1.8	-22.9	18.6	1.8	18.5	1.8

Statistics For All Levels

Year	Team	Lg	PA	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	AVG	OBP	SLG	ISO	TAv	VORP	FRAA	WARP
1969	KCA	MLB	214	14	47	6	1	4	23	8	25	0	0	.229	.258	.327	.098	.216	-3.8	0.1	-0.4
1970	KCA	MLB	11	1	1	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	.111	.273	.111	.000	.149	-0.1	-0.0	-0.0
1971	KCA	MLB	53	3	7	2	0	0	1	5	9	0	1	.152	.231	.196	.043	.165	-4.8	-0.4	-0.6
1973	KCA	MLB	37	2	8	1	0	1	6	4	5	0	0	.250	.333	.375	.125	.237	1.6	-0.0	0.2
1974	KCA	MLB	123	10	23	3	1	1	8	14	19	0	1	.215	.317	.290	.075	.227	-1.4	-0.5	-0.2
1975	KCA	MLB	255	15	51	9	2	3	23	21	28	1	0	.226	.293	.323	.097	.233	3.7	0.4	0.4
1976	KCA	MLB	295	24	61	13	3	5	34	16	45	0	0	.228	.269	.356	.127	.235	4.1	-0.8	0.4
1977	KCA	MLB	85	3	18	4	0	1	9	3	12	0	1	.225	.253	.312	.087	.193	-2.8	0.6	-0.2
1978	MIL	MLB	286	26	56	10	1	1	20	14	42	1	1	.219	.255	.277	.059	.204	-2.2	-0.2	-0.3
1979	MIL	MLB	214	17	53	8	0	4	26	8	25	0	1	.270	.296	.372	.102	.234	2.1	-0.1	0.2
1980	MIL	MLB	238	16	49	9	0	3	17	12	33	1	0	.224	.266	.306	.082	.211	-2.8	-1.1	-0.4
1981	TOR	MLB	146	13	29	8	1	4	21	11	16	1	0	.227	.287	.398	.172	.245	2.3	0.5	0.3
1982	TOR	MLB	291	26	63	17	0	10	37	24	34	1	1	.242	.301	.423	.181	.257	8.9	0.3	1.0
1983	TOR	MLB	253	27	56	14	0	10	33	29	39	0	1	.253	.337	.452	.199	.276	11.2	-0.4	1.1
1984	TOR	MLB	273	24	51	13	1	5	37	29	49	0	3	.220	.301	.349	.129	.252	8.8	0.1	1.0
1985	TOR	MLB	113	11	16	3	0	4	14	10	12	0	0	.162	.239	.313	.152	.221	-0.9	-0.4	-0.1
1986	TOR	MLB	185	13	29	8	0	2	12	20	25	0	0	.181	.271	.269	.087	.203	-5.6	0.3	-0.5

Injury History beta

Date On	Date Off	Transaction	Days	Games	Side	Body Part	Injury	Severity	Surgery Date	Reaggravation

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Title	Author	Date
Overthinking It: This Week in Catcher Framing, 5/10	Ben Lindbergh	2013-05-10
Overthinking It: This Week in Catcher Framing, 5/3	Ben Lindbergh	2013-05-03
The Lineup Card: 11 Favorite Baserunning Memories	Baseball Prospectus	2013-04-24
The Asian Equation: A Guide to Asian Prospects in the World Baseball Classic	Michael Street	2013-03-01
Pebble Hunting: 30 Teams, 30 Home Run Calls	Sam Miller	2012-07-23
Western Front: Fixing a Bug in the Mariners	Geoff Young	2012-01-31
One-Hoppers: ALDS G1: Moore Impresses As Rays Beat Rangers	R.J. Anderson	2011-09-30
Clubhouse Confidential: Hoping for a Sign	Marc Carig	2011-07-20
Prospectus Perspective: The Last of The Czars	Steven Goldman	2010-08-16
The Week In Quotes: March 2-8	Alex Carnevale	2009-03-09
On the Beat: Sure Hands and Helping Hands	John Perrotto	2009-03-01
On the Beat: More Questions and Even Less Time	John Perrotto	2009-02-08
On the Beat: Mega-Dealing	John Perrotto	2008-12-11
You Could Look It Up: The New Brew	Steven Goldman	2008-07-08
You Could Look It Up: Offensive Offenders	Steven Goldman	2008-05-13
Schrodinger's Bat: For the Sake of Completeness	Dan Fox	2008-01-17
Under The Knife: Rantastic	Will Carroll	2007-08-06
Schrodinger's Bat: The Price of Contentment	Dan Fox	2007-03-29
Prospectus Matchups: Mommy, It's a Stray Datum! Can We Keep It?	Jim Baker	2007-01-26
No Bang Off the Bench?: A Closer Look at Pinch Hitting	Andrew Dolphin	2006-08-09
Prospectus Today: It's Over	Joe Sheehan	2006-03-17
World Baseball Classic: Notes From Anaheim	Will Carroll	2006-03-14
Prospectus Roundtable: Top 50 Prospects - Catchers	Baseball Prospectus	2005-02-01
Prospectus Roundtable: Top 50 Prospects, Part I	Baseball Prospectus	2004-02-21
Internet Baseball Awards: Managers of the Year	Greg Spira	2002-10-16
Transaction Analysis: Transaction Analysis: June 2-3, 2002	Christina Kahrl	2002-06-05
The Week In Quotes: May 6-12	Derek Zumsteg	2002-05-13
The Week In Quotes: April 8-14, 2002	Derek Zumsteg	2002-04-15
The Week In Quotes: April 1-7	Derek Zumsteg	2002-04-08
The Week In Quotes: March 4-17	Derek Zumsteg	2002-03-18

BP Chats

Date	Question	Answer
2011-04-13 13:00:00	what are your favorite announcers to listen to in baseball? (xxx from yyy)	Scully is my favorite. Buck Martinez is a guilty pleasure. Basically, if you can talk intelligently about the game, I'm a fan. If you want to talk about bullshit because you can't talk about the game, I'm not a fan. MLB.tv allows me to pick my poison. I love having the choice. (Jason Parks)
2009-12-15 14:00:00	With Buck Martinez leaving the O's and MASN to do play by play for the Blue Jays, have the Orioles finally found a role for Mike Flanagan in the MacPhail era? (TGisriel from Baltimore)	Oh, Tom, don't get me started on announcers. I was talking about how reading boxscores at dawn and listening to ballgames on the radio in the barn as I fed the animals was part of my fan-forming experience. I can gripe that today's announcers talk too much while saying too little, and that I miss the sounds of the crowd and the bat as part of the broadcast, but these days, silent announcers and ambient noise means listening to the snortling Jumbotron and frenzied in-game entertainment. Before I start yelling at kids to get off my lawn (the dingo usually scares them off as is), Flanagan's pleasant enough, and the real question--as suggested by Ken Funck a few months ago in his interview with a Foxian--is to sort what a modern broadcast ought to be and can be, not what it used to be, or what it's wound up as. (Christina Kahrl)
2008-10-20 13:00:00	so how much credit are you willing to assign Chuck Lamarr for the Rays' season? Buck Martinez couldn't stop talking about him last week, even though most would consider his tenure one long nightmare/joke. He drafted Crawford and Upton and traded for Kazmir. That counts for something, no? (elmer from cal)	It counts for something, the same way that Pat Gillick's praise of Ed Wade counts for something. You know, most of these guys are not 100% bad at their jobs (there are Hawk Harrelson exceptions out there). At the same time, you know, Moses got the Hebrews all the way across the desert to the promised land. He didn't turn it over to a guy named Bob at the last rest-stop on the Turnpike. LaMar was all over the map (as Moses would have had to be to let Bob take over) and his constant reversals and missteps indicated he was unlikely to get to the end. (Steven Goldman)
2008-10-07 13:00:00	That's dissapointing. At least the tbs guys are better than Joe Morgan. (Bill from CT)	I like the team that worked on the White Sox/Rays series, but I also like Don Orsillo a lot. Buck Martinez needs to find a new line of work though, preferably one where he isn't allowed to think or speak. (Marc Normandin)

BP Roundtables

Date	Roundtable Name	Comment
2010-10-06 10:00:00	2010 Playoffs Day One	Question for Buck Martinez: is bringing in a bunch of players who didn't actually play well equal to meeting "their needs?" (Steven Goldman)
2010-10-06 10:00:00	2010 Playoffs Day One	If Buck Martinez would have read Ben Lindbergh's preview of this series, he'd realize all that talk about the Rangers' starters going longer under Nolan Ryan's plan is a bunch of BS so far. (John Perrotto)
2009-10-21 17:00:00	NLCS Game 5	Buck Martinez's suddenly-evinced fascination with turning things over is getting to me. He could be flipping pancakes. And this: "Shows how much respect Charlie has for the Dodgers" on pulling Hamels. It could also be that Hamels isn't pitching well. Finally, can even Bobby Cox explain what Martinez contributed in that long platoon with Ernie Whitt? (Steven Goldman)
2009-10-21 17:00:00	NLCS Game 5	How about that odd statement by Buck Martinez about how pitchers are more likely to tighten up when they sit in 90-degree weather? Say what? (John Perrotto)
2009-10-15 17:00:00	2009 NLCS Game One (Phillies/Dodgers)	I wish I had Buck Martinez's hair. (John Perrotto)
2009-10-15 17:00:00	2009 NLCS Game One (Phillies/Dodgers)	I wish I had Buck Martinez's hair. (John Perrotto)
2009-10-15 17:00:00	2009 NLCS Game One (Phillies/Dodgers)	I want Buck Martinez's voice. (Eric Seidman)
2009-10-15 17:00:00	2009 NLCS Game One (Phillies/Dodgers)	I want Buck Martinez's voice. (Eric Seidman)
2008-10-13 17:00:00	NLCS Game Four	Whenever I hear Buck Martinez on a broadcast, I think that Ernie Whitt is being under-utilized. (Steven Goldman)
2008-10-13 17:00:00	NLCS Game Four	Re BJ: No, he got comfortable. Maddon and the medical staff did an amazing job managing that injury and situation so that he could get comfortable again. Granted, one wrong swing and he's back to zero. Of course, Buck Martinez told a story about Cliff Floyd being credited with saving Upton's season .... (Will Carroll)
2008-10-10 13:30:00	Friday LCS	Chip once defended me -- ironically, Steve Stone was chewing me out -- so I will not criticize him tonight. Buck Martinez is fair game. (Will Carroll)
2008-10-02 11:00:00	Thursday Playoff Games	At risk of sounding like Buck Martinez, Iwamura really does all the little things well. And did I mention this Longoria kid is good? (Will Carroll)