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Billy Butler - Kansas City Royals
Birthdate:4/18/1986	Bats/Throws:R/R	Height/Weight:6-2/240	Position:1B/DH
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Batting

Standard

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Season	Team	G	AB	PA	H	1B	2B	3B	HR	R	RBI	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	SF	SH	GDP	SB	CS	AVG
Total	- - -	375	1380	1510	401	262	96	3	40	160	200	118	8	215	4	8	0	51	1	1	.291
2006	Royals (AA)	119	477	535	158	109	33	1	15	82	96	41	3	67	8	8	1	25	1	0	.331
2007	Royals (AAA)	57	203	256	59	35	10	1	13	40	46	43	2	32	3	6	1	8	1	0	.291
2007	Royals	92	329	360	96	63	23	2	8	38	52	27	5	55	2	2	0	8	0	0	.292
2008	Royals (AAA)	26	101	115	34	22	6	1	5	18	13	14	0	7	0	0	0	4	0	0	.337
2008	Royals	124	443	478	122	89	22	0	11	44	55	33	0	57	0	2	0	23	0	1	.275
2009	Royals	159	608	672	183	110	51	1	21	78	93	58	3	103	2	4	0	20	1	0	.301
2010	Bill James	142	508		151	95	38	1	17	67	81	50		72					1	0	.297

Advanced

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Season	Team	BB%	K%	BB/K	OBP	SLG	OPS	ISO	Spd	BABIP	wRC	wRAA	wOBA
Total	- - -	7.9 %	15.6 %	0.55	.346	.451	.798	.161	1.9	.321	204.1	21.5	.346
2006	Royals (AA)	7.9 %	14.0 %	0.61	.388	.499	.887	.168	2.9	.362	90.8	22.6	.392
2007	Royals (AAA)	17.5 %	15.8 %	1.34	.412	.542	.954	.251	3.2	.291	48.4	14.4	.409
2007	Royals	7.6 %	16.7 %	0.49	.347	.447	.794	.155	2.1	.331	47.7	3.1	.341
2007	Average	8.7 %	19.2 %	0.50	.336	.423	.758	.155	5.2	.306	62.1	0.0	.331
2008	Royals (AAA)	12.2 %	6.9 %	2.00	.417	.564	.982	.228	2.9	.326	23.5	7.9	.424
2008	Royals	6.9 %	12.9 %	0.58	.324	.400	.724	.124	1.1	.296	53.6	-3.9	.318
2008	Average	8.9 %	19.7 %	0.50	.333	.416	.749	.152	5.1	.303	60.4	0.0	.328
2009	Royals	8.7 %	16.9 %	0.56	.362	.492	.853	.191	2.0	.335	102.8	22.3	.369
2009	Average	9.1 %	20.3 %	0.49	.333	.418	.751	.155	5.0	.302	60.2	0.0	.329
2010	Bill James	9.0 %	14.2 %	0.69	.361	.476	.837	.179	2.4	.320	83.8	17.0	.365

Batted Ball

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Season	Team	GB/FB	LD%	GB%	FB%	IFFB%	HR/FB	IFH%
Total	- - -	1.40	18.2 %	47.7 %	34.1 %	9.0 %	10.0 %	4.1 %
2007	Royals	1.43	20.7 %	46.7 %	32.6 %	10.0 %	8.9 %	4.7 %
2008	Royals	1.41	16.5 %	48.8 %	34.6 %	9.7 %	8.2 %	3.7 %
2009	Royals	1.37	18.1 %	47.3 %	34.6 %	8.0 %	11.9 %	4.1 %

More Batted Ball

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Season	Team	GB	FB	LD	IFFB	IFH	BU	Balls	Strikes	Pitches
Total	- - -	559	400	213	36	23	1	2183	3512	5695
2007	Royals	129	90	57	9	6	0	529	852	1381
2008	Royals	189	134	64	13	7	1	640	1075	1715
2009	Royals	241	176	92	14	10	0	1014	1585	2599

Win Probability

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Season	Team	WPA	-WPA	+WPA	RE24	REW	pLI	phLI	PH	WPA/LI	Clutch
Total	- - -	2.52	-23.72	26.24	24.65	2.14	0.91	1.07	20	1.18	1.58
2007	Royals	0.54	-5.46	6.00	7.06	0.62	0.89	0.85	7	0.26	0.34
2008	Royals	-0.20	-7.95	7.75	-2.67	-0.38	0.92	0.92	9	-1.33	1.11
2009	Royals	2.19	-10.31	12.49	20.26	1.90	0.92	1.76	4	2.25	0.13

Pitch Type

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Season	Team	FB	SL	CT	CB	CH	SF	KN	XX	PO
Total	- - -	57.9% (91.3)	18.1% (83.2)	4.3% (86.9)	7.7% (76.1)	10.8% (81.6)	0.7% (83.4)	0.5% (66.8)	2.7%	0.1%
2007	Royals	58.6% (91.0)	18.6% (82.8)	2.1% (84.8)	7.6% (75.0)	11.2% (81.0)	1.1% (82.3)	0.7% (66.0)	1.7%	0.3%
2008	Royals	58.5% (90.6)	20.1% (82.6)	4.2% (85.8)	7.2% (75.1)	9.5% (81.0)	0.2% (80.8)	0.3% (64.2)	2.6%	0.1%
2009	Royals	57.1% (91.9)	16.6% (83.9)	5.5% (87.8)	8.0% (77.1)	11.5% (82.1)	0.8% (85.1)	0.5% (68.3)	3.4%

Pitch Type Values

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Season	Team	wFB	wSL	wCT	wCB	wCH	wSF	wKN	wFB/C	wSL/C	wCT/C	wCB/C	wCH/C	wSF/C	wKN/C
Total	- - -	18.6	-10.7	2.8	6.0	-1.6	-1.6	0.2	0.58	-1.07	1.19	1.41	-0.28	-4.28	0.63
2007	Royals	6.7	-4.9	0.0	2.2	0.5	-0.6	0.2	0.85	-1.94	0.13	2.12	0.34	-3.73	1.72
2008	Royals	-6.4	-3.1	2.1	-1.0	-1.7	0.0	0.2	-0.65	-0.93	2.95	-0.85	-1.05	0.76	3.54
2009	Royals	18.2	-2.7	0.7	4.8	-0.5	-1.1	-0.2	1.27	-0.65	0.53	2.40	-0.17	-5.78	-1.50

Plate Discipline

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Season	Team	O-Swing%	Z-Swing%	Swing%	O-Contact%	Z-Contact%	Contact%	Zone%	F-Strike%
Total *	- - -	24.5 %	64.8 %	44.5 %	63.9 %	90.4 %	83.1 %	49.6 %	55.8 %
2007	Royals	23.6 %	69.4 %	46.6 %	58.8 %	89.9 %	82.0 %	50.2 %	56.4 %
2007	Average	25.0 %	66.6 %	45.9 %	60.8 %	88.2 %	80.8 %	50.3 %	58.7 %
2008	Royals	24.8 %	63.0 %	44.7 %	60.7 %	93.3 %	84.6 %	51.9 %	58.6 %
2008	Average	25.4 %	65.4 %	45.9 %	61.7 %	87.8 %	80.8 %	51.1 %	58.6 %
2009	Royals	24.9 %	63.4 %	43.3 %	68.5 %	88.6 %	82.6 %	47.8 %	53.6 %
2009	Average	25.1 %	65.9 %	45.2 %	61.8 %	87.8 %	80.5 %	49.3 %	58.2 %

Fielding

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Season	Team	Pos	G	GS	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	FP	RF/G	RF/9	DG	exO	Arm	DPR	RngR	ErrR	UZR	UZR/150
Total Total	- - - - - -	1B LF	192 6	187 5	1591.0 43.0	1453 4	109 0	14 1	146 0	.991 .800	8.1 0.7	0.0 0.0	175 4	183 6	1.2	-1.0	-2.5 -1.5	-2.0 -0.8	-5.5 -1.1	-4.8 -27.7
2007	Royals	1B	13	11	83.0	79	8	2	6	.978	6.7	9.4	12	12		-0.2	2.0	-0.6	1.3	15.4
2008	Royals	1B	34	33	260.0	233	9	2	27	.992	7.1	8.4	27	27		-0.2	0.4	-0.2	-0.1	-0.9
2009	Royals	1B	145	143	1248.0	1141	92	10	113	.992	8.5	8.9	136	144		-0.7	-4.9	-1.2	-6.7	-7.4
2007	Royals	LF	6	5	43.0	4	0	1	0	.800	0.7	0.8	4	6	1.2		-1.5	-0.8	-1.1	-27.7

Value

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Season	Team	Batting	Fielding	Replacement	Positional	RAR	WAR	Dollars	Salary
Total	- - -	20.6	-6.7	50.3	-34.0	30.2	3.0	$13.3	$0.4
2007	Royals	3.3	0.1	12.0	-9.1	6.3	0.6	$2.5
2008	Royals	-3.7	-0.1	15.9	-12.3	-0.1	0.0	($0.1)	$0.4
2009	Royals	21.0	-6.7	22.4	-12.6	24.1	2.4	$10.8

Saturday, August 08, 2009

News: Butler went 3-for-4 with three doubles and three RBI in the Royals' win over the A's Saturday.

Analysis: The three doubles bring him to 36 on the year, good for second in the AL behind Brian Roberts. Unlike Roberts, Butler's doubles should translate into home runs in future seasons. His physical size made us salivate about 30-100+ seasons when he was called up as a 21-year-old, and while he will have to try pretty hard to hit 20-80 this season, he could reach that initial potential in the next year or two.

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