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2021 Hall of Fame Ballot Series: Aramis Ramirez

Five facts about Aramis Ramirez:

Aramis Ramirez was the youngest player in major-league baseball when he made his debut on May 26, 1998, one month before his 20th birthday.

Aramis Ramirez was named to three All-Star teams, won one Silver Slugger, and received MVP votes five times.

Ramirez had 100 or more RBI seven times. He hit 25 or more home runs ten times and scoerd 90 or more runs four times.

Ramirez won the 2008 NL Hank Aaron Award, awarded to the best hitter in the league. That season, Ramirez batted .289/.380/.518 with 44 doubles, 27 home runs, 97 runs scored and 111 RBI.

Ramirez led the National League in doubles (50) and extra-base hits (80) in 2012. That season he batted .300/.360/.540 with 27 home runs, 92 runs scored, and 105 RBI. For that, he finished 9th in NL MVP voting, the highest MVP finish of his career.

The first two tables below present Aramis Ramirez'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
1998	PIT	20	72	6.1	8.8	-2.1	-2.9
1999	PIT	21	18	1.3	1.9	-0.4	-0.6
2000	PIT	22	73	5.6	8.2	-2.0	-2.7
2001	PIT	23	158	20.4	18.3	3.6	1.6
2002	PIT	24	142	14.7	17.1	-1.2	-2.8
+– 2003		25	159	18.9	19.8	0.6	-1.3
	CHN		63	8.1	6.6	2.1	1.3
	PIT		96	10.8	13.2	-1.5	-2.7
2004	CHN	26	145	19.4	15.6	4.9	3.1
2005	CHN	27	123	16.2	14.1	3.1	1.7
2006	CHN	28	157	19.3	18.2	2.2	0.4
2007	CHN	29	132	19.9	14.9	6.1	4.5
2008	CHN	30	149	20.1	15.4	5.8	4.1
2009	CHN	31	82	11.1	9.3	2.4	1.5
2010	CHN	32	124	14.1	14.8	0.2	-1.1
2011	CHN	33	149	18.0	16.8	2.6	1.0
2012	MIL	34	149	21.0	15.0	7.2	5.4
2013	MIL	35	92	9.8	10.0	0.5	-0.5
2014	MIL	36	133	15.8	14.4	2.5	1.0
+– 2015		37	137	14.4	15.1	0.1	-1.3
	MIL		81	8.6	8.8	0.3	-0.6
	PIT		56	5.8	6.3	-0.1	-0.7
			------	------	------	------	------
CAREER (reg. season)			2,194	266.1	247.7	36.1	11.1
			------	------	------	------	------
PostSeason (career)			19	2.4	2.3	0.3	0.0
			------	------	------	------	------
COMBINED			2,213	268.5	250.0	36.3	11.2

Season	Team	Age	Games	eWins	eLosses	eWORL	eWOPA

Expected Player Won-Lost Records
						Value Decomposition
1998	PIT	20	72	6.7	8.2	-1.0	-1.7
1999	PIT	21	18	1.4	1.8	-0.3	-0.4
2000	PIT	22	73	6.2	7.6	-0.8	-1.5
2001	PIT	23	158	21.2	17.5	5.3	3.3
2002	PIT	24	142	14.6	17.2	-1.4	-3.0
+– 2003		25	159	19.4	19.3	1.6	-0.3
	CHN		63	7.6	7.1	1.1	0.4
	PIT		96	11.8	12.3	0.5	-0.7
2004	CHN	26	145	19.0	16.0	4.1	2.4
2005	CHN	27	123	16.4	13.9	3.6	2.2
2006	CHN	28	157	19.9	17.6	3.6	1.8
2007	CHN	29	132	18.7	16.0	3.8	2.2
2008	CHN	30	149	19.3	16.1	4.3	2.7
2009	CHN	31	82	10.7	9.7	1.7	0.8
2010	CHN	32	124	13.9	15.0	-0.1	-1.5
2011	CHN	33	149	18.9	15.9	4.5	2.8
2012	MIL	34	149	20.1	15.9	5.3	3.6
2013	MIL	35	92	10.1	9.7	1.0	0.1
2014	MIL	36	133	15.6	14.6	1.9	0.5
+– 2015		37	137	14.4	15.1	0.1	-1.3
	MIL		81	8.7	8.7	0.5	-0.3
	PIT		56	5.7	6.4	-0.4	-0.9
			------	------	------	------	------
CAREER (reg. season)			2,194	266.5	247.3	37.4	12.5
			------	------	------	------	------
PostSeason (career)			19	2.3	2.3	0.2	-0.0
			------	------	------	------	------
COMBINED			2,213	268.9	249.6	37.6	12.5

This is Aramis Ramirez's first year on the Hall-of-Fame ballot.

Vote Prediction

Aramis Ramirez probably has the fourth-strongest Hall-of-Fame case among players appearing for the first time on the Hall of Fame ballot. Unfortunately for him, I think there are probably only three newcomers with a realistic chance of making a second ballot and I'm not sure there are any newcomers that I would bet on actually being elected to the Hall of Fame. I could see Ramirez getting a few votes - I'll predict he gets five votes - but mostly it is simply an honor for Aramis Ramirez to appear on a Hall-of-Fame ballot.

Player Won-Lost Records and Aramis Ramirez

In his prime, Aramis Ramirez was a very good player: a middle-of-the-order hitter for three playoff teams who was the best Chicago Cubs third baseman since Hall-of-Famer Ron Santo.

So, exactly how good was he? The next table tries to rank Aramis Ramirez among third basemen in "recent" baseball history (i.e., since the start of divisional play).


Top 25 Third Basemen, since 1969 (ranked by eWORL)
	Player	eWins	eLosses	eWORL
1	Mike Schmidt	315.2	240.9	92.5
2	Chipper Jones	266.7	214.9	68.9
3	Adrian Beltre	339.5	306.0	60.6
4	Wade Boggs	272.9	240.9	55.8
5	Scott Rolen	261.3	224.6	54.5
6	George Brett	220.6	187.4	51.2
7	Ron Cey	249.4	215.7	48.2
8	Graig Nettles	286.4	262.1	45.8
9	Sal Bando	209.2	181.4	43.1
10	Evan Longoria	200.2	173.3	42.7
11	Alex Rodriguez	160.9	132.0	42.1
12	Matt D. Williams	222.0	195.4	41.8
13	David Wright	207.0	178.2	41.7
14	Robin Ventura	219.8	198.8	39.9
15	Buddy Bell	262.7	247.1	36.3
16	Aramis Ramirez	262.0	242.9	36.3
17	Darrell Evans	179.4	156.1	34.2
18	Ken Caminiti	207.2	187.6	33.4
19	Eric Chavez	164.2	145.5	33.3
20	Troy Glaus	160.3	141.0	32.8
21	Josh Donaldson	127.0	103.9	32.7
22	Doug DeCinces	183.1	166.6	31.9
23	Tim Wallach	243.6	229.0	29.9
24	Gary Gaetti	259.2	252.8	28.6
25	Nolan Arenado	134.4	115.5	26.5

Aramis Ramirez did not have a Hall-of-Fame career. But he did have a damn fine career.

Article last updated: November 30, 2020

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