Vladimir Guerrero Sr.

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Hall-of-Famers as Seen Through Player Won-Lost Records: Vladimir Guerrero Sr.

Vladimir Guerrero Sr. was elected to the Hall of Fame in his 2nd year of eligibility, 2018, with 92.9% of the vote.

Five highlights of Vladimir Guerrero Sr.'s career:

Vladimir Guerrero was named to nine All-Star teams in his career, starting seven times at four different positions (all three outfield positions and DH). He won eight Silver Sluggers and received MVP votes twelve times.

Guerrero won the American League MVP award in his first season in the American League, 2004. That season, Guerrero batted .337/.391/.598 with 39 doubles, 39 home runs, 126 RBI, a league-leading 366 total bases, and a league-leading 124 runs scored.

Guerrero had back-to-back 30 home-run, 30 stolen-base seasons in 2001 and 2002. He missed by one home run having a 40-40 season in 2002 with 39 home runs and 40 stolen bases.

Vladimir Guerrero hit 449 home runs in his career and struck out 985 times. He is the only player since Stan Musial (who retired in 1963) to hit more than 400 home runs with fewer than 1,000 career strikeouts.

Vladimir Guerrero's son, Vlad Jr., made his major-league debut in 2019. Vlad Jr.'s first RBI scored Justin Smoak. Justin Smoak's first RBI, in 2010, drove in Vlad, Sr.

The first two tables below present Vladimir Guerrero Sr.'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
1996	MON	21	9	0.6	1.0	-0.4	-0.5
1997	MON	22	90	10.9	12.0	-0.9	-2.0
1998	MON	23	159	23.2	19.9	3.7	1.6
1999	MON	24	160	24.7	21.3	3.9	1.6
2000	MON	25	154	24.3	20.6	4.5	2.4
2001	MON	26	159	25.3	22.3	3.4	1.0
2002	MON	27	161	26.3	18.2	8.9	6.7
2003	MON	28	112	17.3	13.4	4.3	2.8
2004	ANA	29	156	22.8	17.9	6.3	4.2
2005	ANA	30	141	20.6	14.7	6.9	5.2
2006	ANA	31	156	21.5	18.9	3.8	1.8
2007	ANA	32	150	22.6	15.6	8.2	6.2
2008	ANA	33	143	18.7	14.7	5.0	3.3
2009	ANA	34	100	8.4	8.7	0.5	-0.6
2010	TEX	35	152	16.5	13.4	4.6	2.6
2011	BAL	36	145	10.1	12.5	-1.4	-3.0
			------	------	------	------	------
CAREER (reg. season)			2,147	293.8	245.0	61.4	33.4
			------	------	------	------	------
PostSeason (career)			44	4.2	4.8	-0.3	-0.8
			------	------	------	------	------
COMBINED			2,191	298.1	249.8	61.2	32.6

Season	Team	Age	Games	eWins	eLosses	eWORL	eWOPA

Expected Player Won-Lost Records
						Value Decomposition
1996	MON	21	9	0.7	0.9	-0.2	-0.3
1997	MON	22	90	12.2	10.8	1.7	0.5
1998	MON	23	159	24.3	18.9	6.0	3.8
1999	MON	24	160	24.9	21.0	4.5	2.2
2000	MON	25	154	25.1	19.8	6.2	4.0
2001	MON	26	159	25.8	21.8	4.4	2.0
2002	MON	27	161	25.6	19.0	7.3	5.1
2003	MON	28	112	16.8	13.8	3.5	2.0
2004	ANA	29	156	22.2	18.5	5.0	2.9
2005	ANA	30	141	19.6	15.7	4.9	3.2
2006	ANA	31	156	21.2	19.1	3.4	1.3
2007	ANA	32	150	20.8	17.4	4.6	2.6
2008	ANA	33	143	17.6	15.8	2.9	1.1
2009	ANA	34	100	8.4	8.7	0.5	-0.7
2010	TEX	35	152	15.7	14.2	3.0	1.1
2011	BAL	36	145	11.0	11.6	0.4	-1.2
			------	------	------	------	------
CAREER (reg. season)			2,147	291.9	246.9	58.1	30.1
			------	------	------	------	------
PostSeason (career)			44	4.2	4.8	-0.3	-0.8
			------	------	------	------	------
COMBINED			2,191	296.1	251.8	57.8	29.3

Vladimir Guerrero was a nine-time All-Star, starting seven All-Star games. Six of Guerrero's All-Star starts were in the outfield during seasons in which Guerrero played primarily right field (although he only started three All-Star games in right field). Guerrero also won eight Silver Sluggers, seven while a rightfielder.

The next table shows the top 10 rightfielders since 1947, ranked by eWins over positional average earned exclusively while playing right field.

		Top 10 Right Fielders since 1947 (ranked by eWOPA, RF only)
		eWins	eLosses	eWOPA
1	Hank Aaron	344.5	260.8	61.8
2	Reggie Jackson	280.3	226.3	40.8
3	Al Kaline	278.9	223.9	36.5
4	Frank Robinson	193.1	144.6	35.6
5	Larry Walker	238.7	192.9	31.6
6	Dwight Evans	272.7	233.9	27.8
7	Darryl Strawberry	186.5	148.4	27.3
8	Vladimir Guerrero Sr.	242.1	202.5	26.2
9	Bobby Abreu	273.2	232.8	25.6
10	Roberto Clemente	338.5	289.9	24.3

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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