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J.J. Putz

2020 Hall of Fame Ballot Series: J.J. Putz

Five facts about J.J. Putz:

J.J. Putz was named to the American League All-Star team in 2007. Putz finished 13th in MVP voting that season as well.

Putz won the AL Rolaids Relief Man award in 2007. That season Putz led the AL in games finished (65) and was second in saves with 40, while compiling a traditional won-lost record of 6-1 with a 1.38 ERA and 82 strikeouts in 71.2 innings pitched.

Putz saved 30 or more games four times in his career. His career high in saves was 45 in 2011.

From 2006 - 2013, Putz struck out 490 batters in 426.1 innings pitched, a K/9 rate of 10.3. That was the eighth-highest K/9 over these eight seasons among pitchers who pitched at least 400 innings.

J.J. Putz is second in Arizona Diamondbacks franchise history with 83 saves. He is third in Seattle Mariners history with 101 saves.

The first two tables below present J.J. Putz's career as measured by Player won-lost records, in and out of context.

Season	Team	Age	Games	pWins	pLosses	pWORL	pWOPA

Basic Player Won-Lost Records
						Value Decomposition
2003	SEA	26	3	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2004	SEA	27	54	2.8	3.0	0.2	-0.3
2005	SEA	28	64	3.5	4.1	0.0	-0.7
2006	SEA	29	72	6.7	2.8	4.7	3.8
2007	SEA	30	68	6.9	2.3	5.2	4.3
2008	SEA	31	47	4.2	4.4	0.5	-0.3
2009	NYN	32	29	1.9	2.0	0.3	-0.1
2010	CHA	33	59	3.4	2.8	1.0	0.4
2011	ARI	34	60	6.5	2.9	4.4	3.5
2012	ARI	35	57	4.6	3.8	1.5	0.7
2013	ARI	36	40	2.4	2.2	0.6	0.1
2014	ARI	37	18	0.3	0.5	-0.1	-0.2
			------	------	------	------	------
CAREER (reg. season)			571	43.3	30.7	18.3	11.2
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PostSeason (career)			3	0.1	0.2	-0.1	-0.1
			------	------	------	------	------
COMBINED			574	43.3	30.9	18.2	11.1

Season	Team	Age	Games	eWins	eLosses	eWORL	eWOPA

Expected Player Won-Lost Records
						Value Decomposition
2003	SEA	26	3	0.0	0.0	0.0	-0.0
2004	SEA	27	54	2.8	3.0	0.3	-0.3
2005	SEA	28	64	3.8	3.8	0.5	-0.2
2006	SEA	29	72	6.0	3.5	3.2	2.3
2007	SEA	30	68	5.7	3.4	3.0	2.1
2008	SEA	31	47	4.4	4.3	0.7	-0.1
2009	NYN	32	29	1.9	1.9	0.2	-0.1
2010	CHA	33	59	3.8	2.4	1.9	1.3
2011	ARI	34	60	5.9	3.5	3.1	2.2
2012	ARI	35	57	4.8	3.6	1.9	1.1
2013	ARI	36	40	2.4	2.2	0.5	0.0
2014	ARI	37	18	0.4	0.4	0.1	0.0
			------	------	------	------	------
CAREER (reg. season)			571	41.9	32.1	15.4	8.4
			------	------	------	------	------
PostSeason (career)			3	0.1	0.1	0.0	-0.0
			------	------	------	------	------
COMBINED			574	42.0	32.3	15.4	8.3

This is J.J. Putz's first year on the Hall-of-Fame ballot.

Vote Prediction

It is an honor for J.J. Putz simply to appear on a Hall-of-Fame ballot.

Player Won-Lost Records and J.J. Putz

J.J. Putz was a pretty good relief pitcher for about nine years with a few excellent seasons mixed in. One thing that you may not know about J.J. Putz is that he had a fielding percentage of 1.000 in 10 of his 12 seasons, committing only two errors in this career (one each in 2006 and 2008). Granted, relief pitchers don't generally have a lot of fielding opportunities, but when they came, Putz was very good at handling them.

Putz tends not to show up in my fielding leader tables as I typically measure them simply because he has too few fielding decisions. But ranking pitchers by fielding win percentage (i.e., fielding eWins divided by fielding (eWins plus eLosses)), Putz looks pretty good.


Top Fielding Pitchers, since 2000, ranked by eWin Pct. (min. 0.5 eWins)
	Player	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.
1	Heath Murray	0.5	0.0	0.943
2	Brent Suter	0.8	0.1	0.852
3	Alex Claudio	0.7	0.2	0.790
4	Andrew Bailey	0.5	0.2	0.774
5	Kenta Maeda	1.6	0.6	0.744
6	Kendall Graveman	1.0	0.3	0.739
7	Robbie Ross	0.5	0.2	0.721
8	Luke Weaver	0.5	0.2	0.714
9	Kirk Rueter	2.3	1.0	0.704
10	Frank Castillo	0.5	0.2	0.703
11	Chad Green	0.6	0.2	0.696
12	Zack Greinke	4.8	2.2	0.687
13	Orlando Hernandez	1.4	0.7	0.686
14	Jose Berrios	0.7	0.3	0.683
15	Richard Bleier	0.6	0.3	0.680
16	Rick Reed	0.7	0.3	0.675
17	Tim Collins	0.5	0.3	0.673
18	Luis M. Castillo	0.7	0.4	0.671
19	Anthony Bass	0.6	0.3	0.670
20	J.J. Putz	0.9	0.4	0.669
21	Jason Simontacchi	0.6	0.3	0.668
22	Jeremy Hellickson	2.0	1.0	0.667
23	Jose Mesa	1.1	0.6	0.664
24	Gerrit Cole	1.6	0.8	0.662
25	Ryan Madson	1.5	0.8	0.657

Article last updated: December 16, 2019

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