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Johnny Lee Bench

First name: Johnny

Last name: Bench

Birthdate: 1947-12-07

Bats: R Throws: R

MLBAM ID: 110849

Retro ID: bencj101

Batting – Career

Year	Team	Off GS	Def GS	Game Shares	WAR	W	L	Victory Shares
1967	CIN	1.2	0.6	1.8	-0.5	0.0	1.8	0
1968	CIN	7.6	3.5	11.1	5.1	8.3	2.7	25
1969	CIN	7.4	3.3	10.7	6.3	9.5	1.3	28
1970	CIN	8.4	3.3	11.7	8.0	11.4	0.2	34
1971	CIN	8.0	3.2	11.3	3.0	6.3	4.9	19
1972	CIN	8.1	3.2	11.3	9.2	12.6	-1.2	38
1973	CIN	8.1	3.2	11.2	5.6	8.9	2.3	27
1974	CIN	8.8	3.5	12.2	8.0	11.6	0.6	35
1975	CIN	7.4	2.8	10.2	5.8	8.8	1.4	26
1976	CIN	6.6	2.9	9.5	4.4	7.1	2.3	21
1977	CIN	7.0	2.9	9.9	5.7	8.7	1.3	26
1978	CIN	5.7	2.3	8.0	4.3	6.7	1.3	20
1979	CIN	6.7	2.9	9.6	5.5	8.3	1.3	25
1980	CIN	5.2	2.3	7.4	3.4	5.6	1.8	17
1981	CIN	2.5	0.4	2.9	0.9	1.7	1.1	5
1982	CIN	5.6	1.4	7.0	-1.4	0.7	6.3	2
1983	CIN	4.3	0.7	5.0	0.5	2.0	3.0	6
Career		108.6	42.4	150.8	73.8	118.2	32.4	354

Detailed Batting Components

Year	Team	PA	BatRuns	Adj R	RISP	BSR	DP	ROE	Fld	Pos	RAA	RPW	WAA	Pos Wins	LgA	WAM	DVoDH
1967	CIN	93	-7	-8	0	0	-1	0	0	2	-9	8.2	-1.1	0.2	0.0	-0.9	5
1968	CIN	607	14	11	3	-1	-1	2	0	11	14	9.1	1.5	1.1	0.2	2.8	26
1969	CIN	592	23	20	4	0	0	3	1	11	28	10.1	2.8	1.1	0.2	4.1	26
1970	CIN	671	36	36	3	0	0	0	5	9	44	9.6	4.6	0.9	0.1	5.6	30
1971	CIN	613	0	1	-4	-1	-4	1	4	10	-3	8.2	-0.4	1.0	0.1	0.7	28
1972	CIN	652	42	46	-2	-2	-1	0	12	9	53	9.0	5.9	0.9	0.1	6.9	36
1973	CIN	651	11	15	0	3	-2	-2	7	9	21	9.2	2.3	0.9	0.1	3.3	31
1974	CIN	708	33	35	1	-3	-1	2	7	10	41	9.4	4.4	1.0	0.1	5.5	33
1975	CIN	605	28	27	-6	1	-1	0	6	8	27	9.5	2.8	0.8	0.1	3.7	27
1976	CIN	552	8	7	-2	0	-1	1	9	9	14	9.8	1.4	0.9	0.1	2.4	31
1977	CIN	560	23	22	4	0	0	1	0	9	27	10.0	2.7	0.9	0.1	3.7	22
1978	CIN	451	13	13	1	-4	0	4	5	7	19	9.4	2.0	0.7	0.0	2.7	22
1979	CIN	538	16	15	-3	2	-1	2	7	10	22	9.3	2.4	1.0	0.1	3.5	29
1980	CIN	407	11	11	0	0	0	1	-1	8	11	9.2	1.2	0.8	-0.1	1.9	16
1981	CIN	196	9	9	-2	-1	-1	-1	0	-1	4	9.1	0.4	-0.1	0.0	0.3	3
1982	CIN	439	0	-1	-6	0	-2	1	-15	0	-23	8.4	-2.7	0.0	-0.1	-2.8	-5
1983	CIN	334	1	0	1	-2	-2	2	-3	-1	-4	9.0	-0.4	-0.1	0.0	-0.5	2
Career		8,669	261	259	-8	-8	-18	17	44	120	286	-	29.8	12.0	1.1	42.9	362

Defense

Catcher Defense

Year	Team	Chances	OAA	OAA adj	DER Runs	Frame Runs	SB Runs	Block Runs	Err Runs	Catcher Runs	Total Fielding Runs
1967	CIN	13	0.0	0	0	0	1.0	-1.0	0.2	0	0
1968	CIN	103	2.0	2	1	-3	6.2	-4.3	0.0	2	0
1969	CIN	126	3.0	3	2	-4	6.1	-4.0	1.3	3	1
1970	CIN	83	2.0	2	1	-3	6.3	2.8	-0.3	9	7
1971	CIN	77	2.0	2	1	-2	1.8	4.2	0.7	7	6
1972	CIN	76	2.0	2	1	-2	5.6	3.8	1.5	11	10
1973	CIN	71	1.0	1	1	-1	2.2	3.9	1.7	8	8
1974	CIN	76	1.0	1	1	-2	4.6	1.4	1.8	8	7
1975	CIN	80	1.0	1	1	-2	3.6	4.0	1.1	9	8
1976	CIN	79	2.0	2	1	-2	5.0	3.0	2.7	11	10
1977	CIN	57	1.0	1	1	-2	0.3	0.2	0.6	1	0
1978	CIN	57	1.0	1	1	-1	4.7	0.4	0.8	6	6
1979	CIN	61	1.0	1	1	-1	3.9	3.7	0.6	8	8
1980	CIN	39	0.0	0	0	-1	-2.0	0.0	1.7	0	-1
1981	CIN	2	0.0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0	-0.1	0	0
1982	CIN	0	0.0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0	0
1983	CIN	1	0.0	0	0	0	0.1	0.0	-0.2	0	0
		1001	19.0	19	13	-26	49.4	18.1	14.1	83	70

Infield Defense

Year	Team	POS	BIP	Chances	OAA	OAA adj	DER Runs	Play+	GB+	DP Start	DP Runs	Total Fielding Runs
1970	CIN	1B	186	26	0.0	0	0	3	2	0.0	0	0
1970	CIN	3B	3	1	0.0	0	0	1	0	0.0	0	0
1971	CIN	1B	118	7	-1.0	-1	-1	-4	-3	0.0	0	-1
1971	CIN	3B	63	10	1.0	1	1	3	2	0.0	0	1
1972	CIN	1B	92	8	0.0	0	0	0	1	0.0	0	0
1972	CIN	3B	103	13	0.0	0	0	-2	-1	0.0	0	0
1973	CIN	1B	84	4	0.0	0	0	-2	-1	0.0	0	0
1973	CIN	3B	21	3	0.0	0	0	-1	0	-0.1	0	0
1974	CIN	1B	46	5	1.0	1	1	1	1	0.0	0	1
1974	CIN	3B	814	107	-2.0	-2	-1	-12	-9	-0.4	0	-1
1975	CIN	1B	121	12	-1.0	-1	-1	0	0	0.0	0	-1
1976	CIN	1B	5	0	0.0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0
1977	CIN	1B	67	8	1.0	1	1	3	3	0.0	0	1
1977	CIN	3B	22	3	-1.0	-1	-1	-1	-1	-0.2	0	-1
1978	CIN	1B	222	23	0.0	0	0	-2	-2	0.0	0	0
1979	CIN	1B	43	2	-1.0	-1	-1	-2	-1	0.0	0	-1
1981	CIN	1B	952	101	0.0	0	0	-2	1	0.0	0	0
1982	CIN	1B	138	18	0.0	0	0	2	0	0.0	0	0
1982	CIN	3B	2546	318	-21.0	-20	-14	-51	-39	-0.7	-1	-15
1983	CIN	1B	740	83	0.0	0	0	7	3	1.1	1	1
1983	CIN	3B	977	116	-6.0	-6	-4	-15	-11	-0.5	0	-4
		1B	2814	297	-1.0	-1	-1	4	4	1.1	1	0
		3B	4549	571	-29.0	-28	-19	-78	-59	-1.9	-1	-20

Outfield Defense

Year	Team	POS	BIP	Chances	OAA	OAA adj	DER Runs	Play+	OF Arm Opps	OF Arm Runs	Total Fielding Runs
1970	CIN	LF	255	26	-2.0	-2	-2	-1	14	1	-1
1970	CIN	CF	45	4	0.0	0	0	-1	0	0	0
1970	CIN	RF	111	16	-2.0	-2	-2	-5	9	1	-1
1971	CIN	LF	203	18	-2.0	-2	-2	-2	5	1	-1
1971	CIN	RF	32	5	-1.0	-1	-1	-2	2	0	-1
1972	CIN	RF	288	42	2.0	2	2	-1	10	0	2
1973	CIN	RF	405	51	-1.0	-1	-1	-11	18	0	-1
1975	CIN	LF	414	43	0.0	0	0	-3	21	0	0
1975	CIN	RF	57	8	-1.0	-1	-1	0	5	0	-1
1976	CIN	LF	87	8	-1.0	-1	-1	-2	3	0	-1
1977	CIN	LF	138	14	0.0	0	0	0	4	0	0
1977	CIN	RF	17	0	0.0	0	0	-2	1	0	0
1978	CIN	LF	38	2	-1.0	-1	-1	-2	2	0	-1
1978	CIN	RF	8	0	0.0	0	0	-1	0	0	0
1983	CIN	LF	3	0	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
		LF	1138	111	-6.0	-6	-6	-10	49	2	-4
		CF	45	4	0.0	0	0	-1	0	0	0
		RF	918	122	-3.0	-3	-3	-22	45	1	-2

Batting – Postseason

Year	Team	Off GS	Def GS	Game Shares	WAR	W	L	Victory Shares
1970	CIN	0.4	0.2	0.6	0.3	0.4	0.2	1
1972	CIN	0.6	0.3	0.9	1.1	1.3	-0.3	4
1973	CIN	0.3	0.1	0.4	0.2	0.3	0.1	1
1975	CIN	0.6	0.2	0.8	0.2	0.4	0.4	1
1976	CIN	0.4	0.2	0.5	1.0	1.2	-0.6	3
1979	CIN	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0
Career		2.5	1.1	3.4	2.9	3.7	-0.1	10

Postseason Batting Components

Year	Team	PA	BatRuns	Adj R	RISP	BSR	Fld	Pos	RAA	RPW	WAA	Pos Wins	WAM	DVoDH
1970	CIN	32	-1	-1	0	0	1	1	0	9.0	0.0	0.1	0.1	2
1972	CIN	48	4	4	-1	1	1	1	5	7.1	0.7	0.1	0.8	3
1973	CIN	21	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	7.4	0.1	0.0	0.1	1
1975	CIN	45	-3	-3	0	0	2	1	-1	9.3	-0.1	0.1	0.0	4
1976	CIN	28	6	6	0	0	1	1	7	9.3	0.8	0.1	0.9	2
1979	CIN	14	1	1	0	0	-1	0	0	7.8	0.0	0.0	0.0	0
Career		188	8	8	-1	1	4	4	12	-	1.5	0.4	1.9	12

Glossary

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Stat description
GS	Game Shares
WAM	Wins above Majors. Formerly wins above average, but WAM! sounds better than WAA. Credit to Don Sobocinski for the name.
WAR	Wins above Replacement
VS	Victory Shares
W	Wins - Not traditional pitcher wins. Estimate of the number of wins each pitcher was responsible for. His share, as opposed to the shares of his fielders and offense.
L	Losses - See wins above, just the opposite side of the final score.
BatRuns	Batting runs above average
Adj R	Park adjusted batting runs
RISP	Runs for hitting better or worse than overall with runners in scoring position
BSR	Baserunning runs
DP	Double play avoidance runs
ROE	Runs from reaching on error
Fld	Fielding runs
Pos	Position adjustment
DH	Designated hitter adjustment
Pit	Pitcher batting adjustment
RAA	Runs above average before position and league adjustment
RPW	Runs per win
WAA	Wins above average before position and league adjustment
POS Wins	Position adjustment converted to wins
LGA	League quality adjustment
DVoDH	Defensive Value (in runs) over designated hitter
G	Games pitched
GS	Game shares. For pitchers based on innings and leverage index
XR	Expected runs based on ballparks and opponents faced
DR	Defensive runs support
Role	Starter vs reliever role adjustment
LgAdj	League adjustment
R+	Runs above average
LI	Leverage index
R_lev+	Leverage adjusted runs above average
Chances	Estimated opportunies to make a defensive play
BIP	Balls in play while this player was on the field
OAA	Outs above average, based on defensive efficiency assigned at the player level
OAA adj	Park adjusted outs above average
DER runs	Run value of outs above average
Frame Runs	Runs from framing balls and strikes
SB Runs	Stolen base prevention runs
Block Runs	Wild pitch and passed ball prevention runs
Err Runs	Catcher error prevention runs
Catcher Runs	Catcher runs from SB, errors, PB, and WP. Does not include framing.
Play+	plays made above average per ball in play
GB+	ground ball plays above average per ball in play
DP Start	Runs from starting double plays
DP Turn	Runs from turning double plays
DP runs	Total double play runs
OF Arm opps	Opportunities for an outfielder to make a throwing play
OF Arm runs	Runs from throwing from the outfield

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