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Hall-of-Famers as Seen Through Player Won-Lost Records: Roberto Alomar

Roberto Alomar was elected to the Hall of Fame in his second year of eligibility, 2011, with 90.0% of the vote.

Five highlights of Roberto Alomar's career:

Roberto Alomar was named to twelve All-Star teams in his career, nine as the starting second baseman. Alomar won ten Gold Gloves and four Silver Sluggers.

Roberto Alomar is the son of Sandy Alomar, Sr., who played 1,481 major-league games across fifteen seasons, primarily at second base, and was named to the American League All-Star team in 1970. Roberto Alomar’s older brother, Sandy Alomar, Jr., played 1,377 games across a twenty-year career as a catcher, making six All-Star teams. Roberto and Sandy Jr. were teammates for two seasons with the Cleveland Indians, 1999 – 2000. They also both started the 1991 and 1992 All-Star games for the American League.

Roberto Alomar batted over .300 nine times in his career. He had an on-base percentage over .400 five times. He scored 100 or more runs six times and had at least 100 RBI twice.

Alomar played in 58 postseason games across seven seasons. He batted .313/.381/448 with 32 runs scored and 33 RBI in his postseason career. In the postseason, Alomar stole 20 bases and was caught stealing only twice. Alomar was the MVP of the 1992 ALCS, batting .423/.464/.692.

Alomar is the only Hall-of-Famer wearing a Toronto Blue Jays cap on his plaque.

The first two tables below present Roberto Alomar'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
1988	SDN	20	143	20.1	17.2	4.9	3.1
1989	SDN	21	158	21.8	20.0	3.8	1.8
1990	SDN	22	147	19.2	19.2	1.9	0.1
1991	TOR	23	161	23.4	21.3	4.7	2.6
1992	TOR	24	152	23.0	17.7	7.7	5.8
1993	TOR	25	153	23.3	17.6	8.3	6.3
1994	TOR	26	107	12.8	12.9	1.6	0.3
1995	TOR	27	130	15.2	16.4	0.9	-0.6
1996	BAL	28	153	21.6	16.3	7.9	6.0
1997	BAL	29	110	15.3	13.1	4.1	2.7
1998	BAL	30	147	17.4	19.2	0.7	-1.1
1999	CLE	31	159	22.7	16.4	8.7	6.8
2000	CLE	32	155	19.3	18.1	3.7	1.9
2001	CLE	33	157	21.5	16.5	7.5	5.5
2002	NYN	34	149	16.6	18.3	0.4	-1.4
+– 2003		35	140	14.8	17.4	-0.7	-2.2
	CHA		67	7.7	8.6	0.2	-0.6
	NYN		73	7.1	8.8	-0.8	-1.6
+– 2004		36	56	4.3	5.7	-0.8	-1.3
	ARI		38	3.2	3.6	-0.1	-0.4
	CHA		18	1.1	2.0	-0.7	-0.9
			------	------	------	------	------
CAREER (reg. season)			2,377	312.3	283.2	65.4	36.4
			------	------	------	------	------
PostSeason (career)			58	7.5	7.4	1.1	0.4
			------	------	------	------	------
COMBINED			2,435	319.8	290.6	66.5	36.7

Season	Team	Age	Games	eWins	eLosses	eWORL	eWOPA

Expected Player Won-Lost Records
						Value Decomposition
1988	SDN	20	143	19.2	18.1	3.1	1.3
1989	SDN	21	158	21.5	20.3	3.2	1.2
1990	SDN	22	147	19.3	19.2	2.1	0.3
1991	TOR	23	161	23.6	21.1	5.0	2.9
1992	TOR	24	152	21.8	18.8	5.5	3.5
1993	TOR	25	153	22.5	18.3	6.8	4.8
1994	TOR	26	107	13.2	12.5	2.6	1.3
1995	TOR	27	130	16.2	15.4	2.9	1.3
1996	BAL	28	153	21.0	17.0	6.6	4.7
1997	BAL	29	110	14.9	13.5	3.3	1.9
1998	BAL	30	147	18.7	18.0	3.2	1.3
1999	CLE	31	159	22.1	16.9	7.7	5.8
2000	CLE	32	155	19.0	18.3	3.2	1.4
2001	CLE	33	157	20.7	17.3	5.8	3.9
2002	NYN	34	149	17.3	17.6	1.8	0.0
+– 2003		35	140	15.0	17.2	-0.1	-1.7
	CHA		67	7.8	8.6	0.3	-0.5
	NYN		73	7.2	8.6	-0.4	-1.2
+– 2004		36	56	4.6	5.3	-0.1	-0.6
	ARI		38	3.4	3.4	0.5	0.1
	CHA		18	1.2	2.0	-0.6	-0.8
			------	------	------	------	------
CAREER (reg. season)			2,377	310.6	284.8	62.4	33.3
			------	------	------	------	------
PostSeason (career)			58	7.6	7.3	1.2	0.5
			------	------	------	------	------
COMBINED			2,435	318.2	292.2	63.6	33.8

Roberto Alomar and the Teams He Played For

Most of the players who I have written about in my Hall-of-Famers series either played their entire career with one team (e.g., Craig Biggio, Barry Larkin) or are most strongly associated with one team (e.g., Tom Glavine, John Smoltz, Frank Thomas , Ron Santo).

Roberto Alomar's Hall-of-Fame plaque shows him wearing a Toronto Blue Jays cap. Alomar did play more seasons for the Blue Jays than for any other team, but that amounted to only five full seasons. He did make the All-Star team and win a Gold Glove in all five of those seasons, but Alomar represented four different teams in All-Star games over the course of his career: in order, the San Diego Padres, Toronto Blue Jays, Baltimore Orioles, and Cleveland Indians.

The next four tables show where Roberto Alomar ranks in eWins over positional average as a second baseman in the history of these four franchises.

		Best Second Basemen in San Diego Padres History (sorted by eWOPA)
		eWins	eLosses	eWinPct	eWOPA
1	Mark Loretta	52.2	49.1	0.515	3.5
2	Roberto Alomar	59.2	56.7	0.511	2.8
3	Quilvio Veras	50.7	49.7	0.505	1.6
4	Ryan Schimpf	9.0	7.4	0.549	1.5
5	Tim Teufel	16.8	15.4	0.523	1.5

		Best Second Basemen in Toronto Blue Jays History (sorted by eWOPA)
		eWins	eLosses	eWinPct	eWOPA
1	Roberto Alomar	96.0	86.7	0.526	11.9
2	Devon Travis	36.6	35.7	0.506	1.5
3	Cavan Biggio	10.2	9.0	0.530	1.4
4	Orlando Hudson	52.2	52.5	0.499	1.3
5	Frank Menechino	5.4	4.6	0.538	0.9

		Best Second Basemen in Baltimore Orioles History (sorted by eWOPA)
		eWins	eLosses	eWinPct	eWOPA
1	Bobby Grich	90.8	76.4	0.543	17.5
2	Davey Johnson	109.1	103.3	0.514	8.7
3	Roberto Alomar	52.6	47.5	0.525	6.9
4	Brian Roberts	151.4	150.5	0.502	5.0
5	Jonathan Schoop	70.4	69.0	0.505	2.7

		Best Second Basemen in Cleveland Indians History (sorted by eWOPA)
		eWins	eLosses	eWinPct	eWOPA
1	Joe Gordon	73.2	63.1	0.537	11.2
2	Bobby Avila	138.5	131.4	0.513	10.0
3	Roberto Alomar	61.0	53.0	0.535	9.7
4	Carlos Baerga	95.0	90.1	0.513	7.8
5	Jason Kipnis	130.3	126.2	0.508	7.1

Alomar was the best second baseman in Toronto Blue Jays history - by a wide margin. He was also among the top three second baseman in franchise history for the other three teams for whom he made an All-Star game.

Best Second Basemen in MLB History

The next table shows the top 10 players in career eWins over positional average as a second baseman among all players for whom I have calculated Player won-lost records.

		Top 10 Second Basemen (sorted by eWOPA)
		eWins	eLosses	eWinPct	eWOPA
1	Joe L. Morgan	357.9	294.7	0.548	70.1
2	Rogers Hornsby	246.3	181.3	0.576	65.6
3	Charlie Gehringer	308.0	264.7	0.538	46.5
4	Lou Whitaker	290.6	261.6	0.526	38.7
5	Bobby Grich	220.7	191.8	0.535	36.6
6	Ryne Sandberg	270.5	237.7	0.532	35.2
7	Chase Utley	226.2	196.1	0.536	30.6
8	Joe Gordon	205.7	177.9	0.536	30.5
9	Bobby Doerr	253.3	226.8	0.528	30.1
10	Roberto Alomar	305.0	282.9	0.519	29.3

Roberto Alomar was one of the top 10 second basemen of the past 100 years of major-league history.

By measuring against average, the above table docks players for seasons in which they were below average. In the case of Roberto Alomar, this was the case for the final three seasons of his career.

The next table parallels the preceding table, but negative seasonal eWOPA values are zeroed out. In effect, this next table ranks the top 10 primes by major-league second basemen.

		Top 10 Second Base Primes (sorted by eWOPA, negative eWOPA zeroed out)
		eWins	eLosses	eWinPct	eWOPA
1	Joe L. Morgan	357.9	294.7	0.548	70.4
2	Rogers Hornsby	246.3	181.3	0.576	65.6
3	Charlie Gehringer	308.0	264.7	0.538	46.8
4	Lou Whitaker	290.6	261.6	0.526	39.2
5	Bobby Grich	220.7	191.8	0.535	36.6
6	Ryne Sandberg	270.5	237.7	0.532	35.2
7	Chase Utley	226.2	196.1	0.536	33.5
8	Roberto Alomar	305.0	282.9	0.519	31.6
9	Joe Gordon	205.7	177.9	0.536	30.7
10	Bobby Doerr	253.3	226.8	0.528	30.7

Zeroing out Alomar's post-prime seasons pushes him up two slots on the list of second basemen for whom I have calculated Player won-lost records. What is most interesting to me about this table is that Alomar sliding up two slots was literally the only difference in the two lists.

Roberto Alomar's Overall Place in History

I will conclude this article with the top 40 players in pWins over replacement level from 1968 (the year in which both Roberto Alomar and I were born) through 2004, Alomar's final season in the major leagues.

		pWins over Replacement Level Top 40 Players
	Player	pWins	pLosses	pWOPA	pWORL
1	Barry Bonds	434.2	285.6	130.4	165.5
2	Roger Clemens	289.7	208.4	86.2	119.8
3	Greg Maddux	279.8	219.4	78.8	109.6
4	Joe L. Morgan	315.6	241.0	79.9	107.2
5	Rickey Henderson	428.4	350.3	62.5	100.5
6	Mike Schmidt	338.5	257.6	71.0	99.7
7	Reggie Jackson	367.3	291.8	59.9	93.8
8	Tom Seaver	290.2	244.1	61.6	93.3
9	Randy 'Big Unit' Johnson	233.2	176.2	65.9	92.9
10	Jim Palmer	220.8	164.9	61.2	85.4
11	Cal Ripken	382.3	351.6	49.2	84.5
12	Steve Carlton	318.4	290.8	46.3	82.0
13	Nolan Ryan	354.5	329.1	38.5	81.3
14	Lou Whitaker	303.8	262.6	51.2	78.5
15	Barry Larkin	291.5	249.5	51.6	77.9
16	Pedro J. Martinez	158.2	104.6	59.0	76.8
17	Dave Winfield	397.3	339.8	38.7	75.5
18	Dwight Evans	330.1	271.9	45.6	75.3
19	George Brett	327.7	275.9	44.4	74.9
20	Jeff Bagwell	273.5	199.4	50.9	74.1
21	Johnny Bench	245.3	194.2	52.0	73.6
22	J. Kevin Brown	200.2	159.6	49.0	72.5
23	Tom Glavine	237.9	208.7	44.5	72.2
24	Eddie Murray	346.7	285.5	38.6	70.7
25	Paul Molitor	316.7	273.4	38.3	70.6
26	Bert Blyleven	289.2	261.4	35.6	70.6
27	Fergie Jenkins	254.7	223.9	41.0	70.2
28	Don Sutton	291.3	270.8	36.0	69.8
29	Dennis Eckersley	215.6	175.2	41.9	69.8
30	Mike Mussina	179.2	134.4	47.6	69.2
31	Alan Trammell	281.6	257.9	41.2	67.2
32	Mark McGwire	221.2	158.3	48.7	67.2
33	Frank E. Thomas	216.8	159.8	45.6	67.1
34	Chipper Jones	215.3	160.7	48.4	67.0
35	Ozzie Smith	333.3	312.5	35.6	66.5
36	Robin Yount	366.7	345.7	31.9	66.5
37	Carlton Fisk	251.9	219.3	43.0	66.2
38	Roberto Alomar	312.3	283.2	36.4	65.4
39	Bobby Grich	252.2	218.9	41.9	64.7
40	John Smoltz	189.7	157.0	41.9	64.6

Article last updated: January 13, 2020

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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