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Hall-of-Famers as Seen Through Player Won-Lost Records: Chipper Jones

Chipper Jones was elected to the Hall of Fame in his 1st year of eligibility, 2018, with 97.2% of the vote.

Five highlights of Chipper Jones's career:

Chipper Jones was drafted by the Atlanta Braves with the first overall draft pick in 1990. He was the starting third baseman for the Atlanta Braves when they won the World Series five years later. This is the shortest gap between a top overall draft pick being drafted and winning a World Series with the team who drafted him.

Jones was named to eight All-Star teams, starting five of them. He received MVP votes thirteen times, finishing in the top ten in MVP voting six times. Jones won the 1999 National League MVP award. That season, Jones batted .319/.441/.633 with 45 home runs, 116 runs scored, 110 RBI, and stole 25 bases in 28 attempts.

Chipper Jones played 2,254 games with Bobby Cox as his manager. This is the most games for a player - manager combination since 1915 (Honus Wagner played 2,597 games under Fred Clarke from 1897 - 1915).

Jones recorded the last hit in the history of Atlanta Fulton-County Stadium, with a double off Andy Pettitte, leading off the bottom of the ninth inning in Game 5 of the 1996 World Series. He then recorded the first hit in the history of Turner Field with a first-inning single off the Cubs' Kevin Foster on April 4, 1997.

Chipper Jones named his third child Shea, after his favorite ballpark to play in. For his career, Jones batted .313/.407/.557 in 377 career plate appearances in Shea Stadium.

The first two tables below present Chipper Jones'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
1993	ATL	21	7	0.0	0.0	-0.0	-0.0
1994	-	22	-	-	-	-	-
1995	ATL	23	140	20.3	15.5	6.0	4.2
1996	ATL	24	157	22.8	17.2	7.3	5.3
1997	ATL	25	157	21.6	17.9	5.1	3.1
1998	ATL	26	160	23.6	15.9	9.3	7.3
1999	ATL	27	157	22.6	15.0	9.1	7.2
2000	ATL	28	156	21.2	16.7	6.0	4.2
2001	ATL	29	159	21.0	16.3	6.1	4.2
2002	ATL	30	158	23.6	16.4	8.0	6.0
2003	ATL	31	153	21.5	17.0	5.1	3.2
2004	ATL	32	137	17.1	12.8	5.2	3.7
2005	ATL	33	109	16.0	10.5	6.4	5.2
2006	ATL	34	110	13.1	12.1	1.7	0.5
2007	ATL	35	134	19.2	14.3	6.0	4.4
2008	ATL	36	128	15.5	12.2	4.2	2.9
2009	ATL	37	143	15.9	14.2	2.8	1.4
2010	ATL	38	95	12.1	9.4	3.5	2.5
2011	ATL	39	126	14.9	12.7	3.4	2.0
2012	ATL	40	112	14.1	11.5	3.5	2.2
			------	------	------	------	------
CAREER (reg. season)			2,498	336.2	257.6	98.6	69.6
			------	------	------	------	------
PostSeason (career)			93	11.1	11.0	0.8	-0.3
			------	------	------	------	------
COMBINED			2,591	347.3	268.6	99.4	69.4

Season	Team	Age	Games	eWins	eLosses	eWORL	eWOPA

Expected Player Won-Lost Records
						Value Decomposition
1993	ATL	21	7	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1994	-	22	-	-	-	-	-
1995	ATL	23	140	18.7	17.1	2.8	1.0
1996	ATL	24	157	22.4	17.7	6.4	4.5
1997	ATL	25	157	21.3	18.2	4.5	2.5
1998	ATL	26	160	22.5	17.0	6.8	4.9
1999	ATL	27	157	21.7	15.9	7.2	5.4
2000	ATL	28	156	20.9	17.0	5.5	3.6
2001	ATL	29	159	21.1	16.1	6.4	4.5
2002	ATL	30	158	22.5	17.4	5.8	3.8
2003	ATL	31	153	20.7	17.8	3.6	1.7
2004	ATL	32	137	16.5	13.4	4.1	2.6
2005	ATL	33	109	15.2	11.4	4.8	3.5
2006	ATL	34	110	14.2	10.9	4.1	2.9
2007	ATL	35	134	19.8	13.7	7.3	5.7
2008	ATL	36	128	16.0	11.7	5.1	3.8
2009	ATL	37	143	15.5	14.6	2.1	0.6
2010	ATL	38	95	11.7	9.8	2.7	1.7
2011	ATL	39	126	14.7	12.9	2.9	1.6
2012	ATL	40	112	13.7	11.9	2.6	1.3
			------	------	------	------	------
CAREER (reg. season)			2,498	329.2	264.6	84.5	55.5
			------	------	------	------	------
PostSeason (career)			93	11.4	10.7	1.4	0.3
			------	------	------	------	------
COMBINED			2,591	340.6	275.3	85.9	55.8

Chipper Jones was named to eight All-Star teams in his career. Five times, he was voted the starting third baseman for the National League.

In fact, Chipper Jones was one of the best third basemen in major-league history. The next table shows the top five third basemen for whom I have calculated Player won-lost records, ranked by eWins over positional average earned exclusively at third base.

		Third Base
		eWins	eLosses	eWOPA
1	Mike Schmidt	315.2	240.9	65.7
2	Eddie Mathews	293.4	229.5	56.0
3	Chipper Jones	266.7	214.9	45.5
4	Ron Santo	286.6	244.0	33.8
5	George Brett	220.6	187.4	31.5

In addition to being one of the top five third basemen in major-league history, he is also one of the top five switch-hitters in major-league history.

		Top Switch Hitters (eWins over Non-Pitcher Average)
		eWins	eLosses	WOPA_b
1	Mickey Mantle	247.3	152.5	89.0
2	Chipper Jones	241.3	181.6	53.4
3	Eddie Murray	280.2	233.8	44.0
4	Lance Berkman	177.6	129.5	44.0
5	Reggie Smith	176.5	135.0	36.7

One of the top five third basemen in major-league history; one of the top five switch-hitters in major-league history. Obviously, that's the resume of a Hall-of-Famer.

Article last updated: September 8, 2019

All articles are written so that they pull data directly from the most recent version of the Player won-lost database. Hence, any numbers cited within these articles should automatically incorporate the most recent update to Player won-lost records. In some cases, however, the accompanying text may have been written based on previous versions of Player won-lost records. I apologize if this results in non-sensical text in any cases.

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