Armando
Mesa
 
Bats: Left
Throws: Left
Height: 5' 11''
Weight: 200
 
Born: March 12, 1973 in Venezuela
 
Awards & Accomplishments
All-Star Selections 2000    2001    2003    2006   
Ratings - Batting     Help
  AVG 2B 3B HR BB SO
Year Age Tm Lg Salary vL vR OA vL vR OA vL vR OA vL vR OA vL vR OA vL vR OA
2000 27 FL FF $ 6,980,000 5 5 5 4 5 5 4 4 4 11 12 12 4 4 4 4 4 4
2001 28 FL FF $ 6,980,000 5 6 5 4 5 5 4 4 4 12 12 12 4 4 4 4 4 4
2002 29 FL FF $ 6,980,000 5 6 5 5 5 5 4 4 4 12 13 13 4 4 4 5 4 4
2003 30 FL FF $ 6,980,000 5 5 5 5 5 5 4 4 4 12 13 13 4 4 4 5 4 4
2004 31 FL FF $ 6,980,000 5 6 5 5 5 5 4 4 4 12 13 13 4 4 4 5 4 4
2005 32 FL FF $ 6,980,000 5 5 5 4 5 4 4 4 4 11 12 12 4 4 4 4 4 4
2006 33 FL FF $ 300,000 5 5 5 4 5 5 4 4 4 10 10 10 4 4 4 4 4 4
2007 34 FL FF $ 300,000 4 5 5 5 5 5 4 4 4 8 9 9 4 4 4 4 4 4
2008 35 FL FF $ 300,000 4 5 4 5 5 5 4 4 4 7 8 7 3 4 4 4 4 4
OOTP5 Min Ratings $ 300,000 4 5 4 4 5 4 4 4 4 7 8 7 3 4 4 4 4 4
OOTP5 Max Ratings $ 6,980,000 5 6 5 5 5 5 4 4 4 12 13 13 4 4 4 5 4 4
                                             
  Contact Power Gap Eye Ks
Year Age Tm Lg Salary   vL vR OA vL vR OA vL vR OA vL vR OA vL vR OA
2009 36 FL FF $ 300,000   5 5 5 7 7 7 5 6 6 3 4 3 5 5 5
2010 37 FL FF $ 300,000   5 5 5 7 7 7 5 5 5 3 4 3 5 5 5
OOTP6 Min Ratings $ 300,000   5 5 5 7 7 7 5 5 5 3 4 3 5 5 5
OOTP6 Max Ratings $ 300,000   5 5 5 7 7 7 5 6 6 3 4 3 5 5 5
Batting Stats     Help
Bold lines indicate player won Tyson Bacon Award or Bick Horizon Award.
Year Age Tm Lg G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO AVG OBP SLG OPS XR OWS
2000 27 FL FF 162 620 97 168 29 5 43 114 11 10 64 116 .271 .339 .542 .881 106.8 23.8
2001 28 FL FF 162 623 118 166 30 4 53 126 17 9 61 130 .266 .336 .583 .919 114.9 26.4
2002 29 FL FF 155 538 84 149 20 6 38 102 8 12 44 113 .277 .332 .548 .881 96.5 21.0
2003 30 FL FF 159 584 92 162 33 6 46 109 8 4 48 118 .277 .331 .591 .922 109.6 27.9
2004 31 FL FF 157 596 84 143 19 10 31 106 9 2 43 140 .240 .290 .461 .751 83.5 19.3
2005 32 FL FF 128 463 84 128 28 9 31 83 7 5 35 112 .276 .325 .577 .901 84.2 19.0
2006 33 FL FF 157 558 92 152 28 7 38 126 12 15 47 139 .272 .332 .552 .884 95.7 19.2
2007 34 FL FF 149 556 80 122 24 6 28 97 2 9 52 149 .219 .290 .435 .726 69.2 8.1
2008 35 FL FF 141 462 62 115 18 6 25 67 1 2 42 120 .249 .312 .476 .789 68.9 12.2
2009 36 FL FF 152 559 58 126 31 2 16 68 0 1 20 100 .225 .251 .374 .625 51.5 5.4
2010 37 FL FF 159 541 49 125 19 6 23 62 0 3 18 118 .231 .259 .416 .675 53.2 8.0
11 Years Sim 1681 6100 900 1556 279 67 372 1060 75 72 474 1355 .255 .310 .506 .816 934.0 190.4
162 Game Average 587 86 149 26 6 35 102 7 6 45 130 .255 .310 .506 .816 90.0  
Career Highs 162 623 118 168 33 10 53 126 17 15 64 149 .277 .339 .591 .922 114.9  
Career Batting Splits     Help
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Category G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO AVG OBP SLG OPS XR
vs RH   4354 681 1170 209 47 292 814 58 52 342 1007 .269 .323 .540 .863 735.3
vs LH   1746 219 386 70 20 80 246 17 20 132 348 .221 .276 .422 .697 205.4
Home 837 2987 459 788 125 31 196 552 32 38 237 635 .264 .319 .523 .842 485.6
Away 844 3113 441 768 154 36 176 508 43 34 237 720 .247 .301 .489 .790 455.1
RISP   1617 0 434 82 15 107 689 0 0 202 389 .268 .343 .536 .879 298.8
Pinch Hitting   86 12 16 3 2 2 11 0 0 10 27 .186 .276 .337 .613 8.3
Close/Late   753 122 186 24 10 42 107 0 0 107 180 .247 .342 .473 .815 125.1
Mar/Apr 259 996 173 267 45 11 79 211 5 11 86 226 .268 .328 .573 .901 180.2
May 294 1051 150 276 53 10 58 171 16 16 92 219 .263 .324 .498 .822 164.2
June 255 918 111 222 39 9 57 156 10 9 62 200 .242 .290 .490 .781 131.2
July 257 952 125 238 41 8 46 141 10 10 54 218 .250 .292 .455 .747 124.0
August 299 1074 163 268 50 16 66 200 16 14 82 247 .250 .303 .510 .813 164.6
Sep/Oct 317 1109 178 285 51 13 66 181 18 12 98 245 .257 .318 .505 .823 176.4
Fielding Stats     Help
Bold lines indicate player won Zachary Matthews Award.
Year Age Tm Lg Pos G GS IP PO A E DP FPct RF   DWS
2000 27 FL FF CF 131 129 1149.3 320 5 8 1 .976 2.54   5.6
    RF 31 30 276.7 62 2 2 1 .970 2.08    
2001 28 FL FF CF 158 158 1417.0 411 7 16 4 .963 2.65   7.9
    LF 2 0 5.0 2 0 0 0 1.000 3.60    
    RF 2 0 3.0 1 0 0 0 1.000 3.00    
2002 29 FL FF RF 136 126 1145.3 263 7 3 1 .989 2.12   3.1
    CF 8 8 68.7 13 0 0 0 1.000 1.70    
    LF 9 0 18.0 3 0 0 0 1.000 1.50    
2003 30 FL FF RF 119 118 1045.3 206 10 0 2 1.000 1.86   5.2
    CF 33 28 266.0 76 1 3 1 .963 2.61    
    LF 5 0 10.0 2 1 0 0 1.000 2.70    
2004 31 FL FF CF 146 145 1317.7 373 14 10 2 .975 2.64   5.1
    RF 10 4 43.3 7 0 0 0 1.000 1.45    
    LF 1 0 2.0 0 0 0 0 .000 0.00    
2005 32 FL FF LF 62 59 537.0 121 3 2 0 .984 2.08   3.9
    CF 59 58 512.7 159 3 6 0 .964 2.84    
    RF 3 0 8.0 6 0 0 0 1.000 6.75    
2006 33 FL FF CF 136 133 1186.0 338 8 10 0 .972 2.63   4.4
    LF 12 8 78.0 15 0 1 0 .938 1.73    
    RF 8 0 28.7 6 2 0 0 1.000 2.51    
2007 34 FL FF CF 141 139 1266.7 298 8 9 2 .971 2.17   4.7
    RF 5 0 8.0 2 1 0 1 1.000 3.38    
    LF 2 0 3.0 0 0 0 0 .000 0.00    
2008 35 FL FF CF 127 121 1043.0 282 7 9 0 .970 2.49   4.9
    LF 6 1 24.0 4 0 0 0 1.000 1.50    
    RF 10 0 17.0 4 0 0 0 1.000 2.12    
2009 36 FL FF LF 109 99 865.3 187 4 10 0 .950 1.99   2.3
    CF 42 42 346.0 88 2 6 0 .938 2.34    
    RF 5 0 10.0 3 0 0 0 1.000 2.70    
2010 37 FL FF LF 155 150 1298.3 327 8 13 3 .963 2.32   1.2
    RF 1 0 3.0 1 0 0 0 1.000 3.00    
  CF 981 961 8573.0 2358 55 77 10 .969 2.53   32.7
  LF 363 317 2840.7 661 16 26 3 .963 2.14   7.5
  RF 330 278 2588.3 561 22 5 5 .991 2.03   8.2
Career Totals   1674 1556 14001.9 3580 93 108 18 .971 2.36   48.4
Career Highs   162 159 1426.0 414 14 16 4 .990 2.66    
Post-Season Batting Stats     Help
Bold lines indicate player won Post Season MVP Award.
Year Age Tm Lg G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO AVG OBP SLG OPS
2003 30 FL FF 11 44 6 12 4 2 1 6 0 1 1 10 .273 .283 .523 .805
2005 32 FL FF 14 56 6 15 1 0 3 8 6 2 2 13 .268 .305 .446 .752
Career Post-Season Batting 25 100 12 27 5 2 4 14 6 3 3 23 .270 .295 .480 .775
Batting Leaderboards     Help
Top 10 finishes. Stats are Year-Rank-Value. League leaders are in bold.
(*) indicates hit-less at-bats added to meet minimum plate appearances.
Season Rankings are League Based.
Slugging Pct
2000-5-.542
2001-7-.583
2002-5-.548
2003-2-.591
2005-1-.577
2006-2-.552
CAR-17-.506
OPS
2000-8-.881
2001-8-.919
2002-7-.881
2003-2-.922
2005-6-.901
2006-8-.884
XR
2000-9-106.8
2001-8-114.9
2002-9-96.5
2003-2-109.6
Games
2000-1-162
2001-1-162
2003-2-159
2004-10-157
2006-6-157
2010-4-159
At-Bats
2003-8-584
Runs
2000-9-97
2001-2-118
2003-4-92
Total Bases
2000-6-336
2001-5-363
2002-8-295
2003-2-345
2004-10-275
2006-2-308
Triples
2004-3-10
2005-6-9
2010-5-6
CAR-37-67
Homeruns
2000-3-43
2001-3-53
2002-3-38
2003-1-46
2004-6-31
2005-4-31
2006-2-38
2007-7-28
2008-9-25
CAR-16-372
RBIs
2000-4-114
2001-4-126
2002-5-102
2003-1-109
2004-1-106
2006-2-126
CAR-47-1060
Caught Stealing
2000-9-10
2002-9-12
Walks
2000-10-64
Strikeouts
2004-5-140
2006-4-139
2007-6-149
2010-3-118
CAR-25-1355
         
 
   Black Ink Test: 17    (Avg Batter in HOF ~ 26)
   Gray Ink Test: 99    (Avg Batter in HOF ~ 157)
   Hall of Fame Standards: 36    (Avg Batter in HOF ~ 62)
 
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