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2020 Hall of Fame Ballot Series: Carlos Pena

Five facts about Carlos Pena:

Carlos Pena was named to one All-Star team in his career, in 2009.

Pena won one Silver Slugger - in 2007 - and one Gold Glove - in 2008. Pena received MVP votes twice, finishing ninth in AL MVP voting in both 2007 and 2008.

For his career, Carlos Pena averaged 32 home runs per 650 plate appearances. He hit 30 or more home runs three times (2007, 2008, and 2009) and led the American League with 39 home runs in 2009.

For his career, Pena averaged 90 RBI and runs scored per 650 plate appearances. Pena had 100 or more RBI three times in his career. He scored 89 or more runs three times.

Pena was named American League Comeback Player of the Year in 2007. After playing only 97 games combined in 2005 and 2006, Pena played 148 games in 2007, batting .282/.411/.627 (all three career highs) with career highs in hits (138), walks (103), doubles (29), home runs (46), total bases (307), RBI (121), and runs scored (99).

The first two tables below present Carlos Pena'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
2001	TEX	23	22	1.4	1.7	-0.3	-0.4
+– 2002		24	115	10.0	10.7	-0.5	-1.5
	DET		75	6.6	7.7	-1.0	-1.7
	OAK		40	3.4	3.0	0.5	0.2
2003	DET	25	131	10.8	13.6	-2.6	-3.8
2004	DET	26	142	11.4	12.2	-0.5	-1.7
2005	DET	27	79	7.4	6.4	1.4	0.6
2006	BOS	28	18	1.3	1.0	0.3	0.2
2007	TBA	29	148	16.3	13.1	3.6	2.3
2008	TBA	30	139	17.5	12.4	5.6	4.2
2009	TBA	31	135	14.3	11.6	2.9	1.7
2010	TBA	32	144	15.6	12.1	3.8	2.5
2011	CHN	33	153	16.3	14.2	2.1	0.7
2012	TBA	34	160	14.6	13.8	1.3	-0.1
+– 2013		35	89	6.6	7.7	-0.6	-1.4
	HOU		85	6.6	7.4	-0.4	-1.2
	KCA		4	0.0	0.3	-0.2	-0.2
2014	TEX	36	18	0.8	2.3	-1.5	-1.6
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CAREER (reg. season)			1,493	144.1	132.7	15.1	1.5
			------	------	------	------	------
PostSeason (career)			19	2.0	2.2	-0.1	-0.3
			------	------	------	------	------
COMBINED			1,512	146.1	134.9	15.0	1.2

Season	Team	Age	Games	eWins	eLosses	eWORL	eWOPA

Expected Player Won-Lost Records
						Value Decomposition
2001	TEX	23	22	1.6	1.5	0.2	0.0
+– 2002		24	115	10.2	10.5	-0.1	-1.1
	DET		75	7.1	7.2	0.0	-0.7
	OAK		40	3.1	3.3	-0.1	-0.4
2003	DET	25	131	12.1	12.3	0.1	-1.1
2004	DET	26	142	12.0	11.5	0.8	-0.4
2005	DET	27	79	7.0	6.9	0.6	-0.1
2006	BOS	28	18	1.1	1.2	-0.0	-0.1
2007	TBA	29	148	17.2	12.1	5.6	4.2
2008	TBA	30	139	16.8	13.0	4.3	2.9
2009	TBA	31	135	14.4	11.6	3.1	1.9
2010	TBA	32	144	14.7	13.0	2.0	0.7
2011	CHN	33	153	16.5	14.0	2.6	1.1
2012	TBA	34	160	14.2	14.2	0.5	-0.9
+– 2013		35	89	6.7	7.5	-0.4	-1.2
	HOU		85	6.7	7.3	-0.2	-1.0
	KCA		4	0.0	0.3	-0.2	-0.2
2014	TEX	36	18	1.2	1.9	-0.7	-0.8
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CAREER (reg. season)			1,493	145.6	131.1	18.6	5.0
			------	------	------	------	------
PostSeason (career)			19	2.3	1.9	0.5	0.3
			------	------	------	------	------
COMBINED			1,512	148.0	133.1	19.1	5.3

This is Carlos Pena's first year on the Hall-of-Fame ballot.

Vote Prediction

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

Player Won-Lost Records and Carlos Pena

Carlos Pena was a late bloomer. After a couple of so-so seasons for a couple of pretty bad Detroit Tigers teams, Pena then missed the equivalent of about 1-1/2 seasons to injuries. Then, finally healthy and on a new team, Pena broke out in 2007 at the age of 29 with career highs in hits (138), walks (103), doubles (29), home runs (46), total bases (307), runs scored (99), RBI (121), and all three batting rate statistics: batting average (.282), on-base percentage (.411), and slugging percentage (.627). All of those figures remained career highs for Pena, but he followed up his breakout 2007 season with four more full-time seasons of above average production.

The next table shows the players most similar to Carlos Pena at ages 29 - 33, the 2007 - 2011 seasons for Pena.

Player	Games	eWins	eLosses	eWOPA	eWORL	Bat	Run	Field

		Most Similar Players to Carlos Pena in Value
						Wins over Baseline
Carlos Pena	719	79.9	63.4	11.3	18.1	15.4	0.1	0.2
Ted Kluszewski	609	65.2	53.6	6.8	13.0	11.7	0.2	0.3
Bob Watson	712	79.8	66.4	6.9	14.1	13.0	-0.2	0.9
Pedro Guerrero	584	75.2	60.0	10.3	16.7	14.3	-0.3	-0.8
Duke Snider	622	76.0	59.1	13.2	20.1	14.2	-0.0	1.1
Dick Allen	622	79.2	59.2	14.4	21.2	18.1	0.3	-0.1
Derrek Lee	654	79.4	62.3	10.2	16.9	13.2	-0.5	1.2
Frank E. Thomas	620	64.6	48.9	12.3	19.3	14.9	-0.5	-0.1
Mickey Tettleton	705	68.5	59.0	10.8	17.3	12.7	-0.7	0.1
Ryan Klesko	685	79.0	63.1	9.3	16.4	13.5	-0.1	-1.0
Norm Cash	725	79.6	64.0	8.3	15.4	13.4	-0.6	1.3

That's an impressive set of players, even including two Hall-of-Famers. For Carlos Pena, it's just a shame there weren't more seasons like these.

Article last updated: December 11, 2019

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