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Luke Zalusky	Bats: Right Throws: Right Height: 6' 2'' Weight: 225   Born: December 11, 1956 in Usa

Awards & Accomplishments
Landis Memorial Seriess Won	1989
Slick Fielder Award	1984    1985    1989    1992
All-Star Selections	1983    1988    1989

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
1979	22	VAL	JL	$ 300,000	6	6	6	7	7	7	8	8	8	1	1	1	4	4	4	5	5	5
1980	23	VAL	JL	$ 300,000	6	6	6	8	8	8	11	11	11	1	1	1	4	4	4	5	5	5
OOTP5 Min Ratings				$ 300,000	6	6	6	7	7	7	8	8	8	1	1	1	4	4	4	5	5	5
OOTP5 Max Ratings				$ 300,000	6	6	6	8	8	8	11	11	11	1	1	1	4	4	4	5	5	5
								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
1981	24	VAL	JL	$ 300,000				15	15	15	4	4	4	20	20	20	9	9	9	12	12	12
1982	25	VAL	JL	$ 2,435,714				16	16	17	6	6	6	20	20	20	9	9	9	12	12	12
1983	26	WAS	JL	$ 3,250,000				17	17	17	7	7	7	20	20	20	9	9	9	12	12	12
1984	27	WAS	JL	$ 3,250,000				17	17	18	8	8	8	20	20	20	9	9	9	12	12	12
1985	28	WAS	JL	$ 4,000,000				17	17	17	9	9	9	20	20	20	9	9	9	12	12	12
1986	29	WAS	JL	$ 4,000,000				17	17	18	10	10	10	20	20	20	9	9	9	13	13	13
1987	30	LV	FL	$ 4,000,000				16	16	17	8	8	8	20	20	20	9	9	9	13	13	13
1988	31	LV	FL	$ 4,000,000				16	16	16	8	8	8	20	20	20	9	9	9	12	12	12
1989	32	LV	FL	$ 6,630,000				16	16	16	8	8	8	20	20	20	9	9	9	12	12	12
1990	33	LV	FL	$ 6,630,000				15	15	15	9	9	9	20	20	20	9	9	9	11	11	11
1991	34	CAL	JL	$ 6,630,000				14	14	14	9	9	9	20	20	20	8	8	8	11	11	11
1992	35	CAL	JL	$ 6,630,000				13	13	13	8	8	8	20	20	20	7	7	7	9	9	9
1993	36	MTL	FL	$ 650,000				11	11	11	6	6	6	18	18	18	6	6	6	7	7	7
OOTP6 Min Ratings				$ 300,000				11	11	11	4	4	4	18	18	18	6	6	6	7	7	7
OOTP6 Max Ratings				$ 6,630,000				17	17	18	10	10	10	20	20	20	9	9	9	13	13	13

Batting Stats     Help
Bold lines indicate player won Owner's Choice - Hitter Award or Owner's Choice - Rookie Award.
Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	XR	OWS
1979	22	VAL	JL	29	69	10	19	5	0	0	7	12	0	3	12	.275	.306	.348	.653	8.1	1.5
		AAA		116	499	67	155	32	6	1	49	38	10	30	84	.311	.350	.405	.755	69.5
		A		8	10	2	5	1	0	0	1	1	0	2	1	.500	.583	.600	1.183	3.1
1980	23	VAL	JL	156	610	91	167	36	13	1	46	88	18	36	118	.274	.315	.380	.695	79.6	12.5
1981	24	VAL	JL	153	577	90	172	36	13	2	47	77	35	40	95	.298	.348	.416	.764	81.1	11.2
1982	25	VAL	JL	140	553	94	172	48	14	6	50	64	33	37	89	.311	.360	.481	.841	88.2	15.5
1983	26	WAS	JL	154	585	90	173	42	24	5	78	69	24	53	100	.296	.357	.475	.832	94.0	16.1
1984	27	WAS	JL	148	567	84	169	39	21	6	74	60	31	37	105	.298	.342	.473	.815	84.7	13.8
1985	28	WAS	JL	156	624	112	172	42	26	6	54	60	20	41	109	.276	.327	.455	.783	90.6	17.2
1986	29	WAS	JL	154	608	103	183	43	22	12	82	69	26	52	110	.301	.362	.503	.865	108.7	16.2
1987	30	LV	FL	157	673	121	203	49	16	13	71	85	30	49	116	.302	.350	.480	.830	113.3	16.6
1988	31	LV	FL	151	610	120	199	46	21	13	60	89	32	46	96	.326	.377	.534	.911	117.0	23.5
1989	32	LV	FL	152	601	108	192	44	24	13	62	69	32	34	93	.319	.362	.537	.899	108.3	21.0
1990	33	LV	FL	146	573	94	183	43	26	12	82	51	38	23	90	.319	.346	.548	.894	96.2	17.0
1991	34	CAL	JL	101	346	40	101	26	9	4	34	27	14	22	58	.292	.341	.454	.795	49.4	7.1
1992	35	CAL	JL	142	483	64	135	36	6	4	46	27	14	26	120	.280	.321	.404	.725	56.1	7.6
1993	36	MTL	FL	142	429	64	115	31	13	5	49	18	5	17	92	.268	.300	.436	.736	53.6	7.1
1994	37	AA		128	529	97	179	45	14	13	77	22	10	37	96	.338	.382	.550	.932	98.9
15 Years Sim				2081	7908	1285	2355	566	248	102	842	865	352	516	1403	.298	.344	.471	.815	1228.8	203.8
1 Years AAA				116	499	67	155	32	6	1	49	38	10	30	84	.311	.349	.405	.754	69.5
1 Years AA				128	529	97	179	45	14	13	77	22	10	37	96	.338	.388	.550	.938	98.9
1 Years A				8	10	2	5	1	0	0	1	1	0	2	1	.500	.583	.600	1.183	3.1
3 Years Minors				252	1038	166	339	78	20	14	127	61	20	69	181	.327	.372	.481	.852	171.6
162 Game Average					615	100	183	44	19	7	65	67	27	40	109	.298	.344	.471	.815	95.7
Career Highs				157	673	121	203	49	26	13	82	89	38	53	120	.326	.377	.548	.911	117.0

Career Batting Splits     Help
Click on a Category to view yearly stats.
Category	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	XR
vs RH		5412	876	1579	393	166	70	577	570	224	341	979	.292	.338	.465	.803	810.3
vs LH		2496	409	776	173	82	32	265	295	128	175	424	.311	.358	.484	.843	406.9
Home	1038	3902	605	1135	260	117	50	384	413	165	250	730	.291	.337	.456	.793	575.8
Away	1043	4006	680	1220	306	131	52	458	452	187	266	673	.305	.351	.485	.837	641.4
RISP		1644	0	477	118	55	22	659	0	0	130	296	.290	.340	.469	.809	247.0
Pinch Hitting		72	8	16	5	2	0	10	2	1	2	11	.222	.237	.347	.584	5.5
Close/Late		828	119	233	50	32	6	98	0	0	61	159	.281	.338	.441	.779	114.0
Mar/Apr	339	1294	208	393	93	40	15	151	140	50	80	224	.304	.347	.472	.819	202.6
May	362	1408	209	390	96	40	11	132	170	54	83	245	.277	.321	.425	.746	191.9
June	343	1288	234	432	97	41	17	152	167	62	86	231	.335	.383	.514	.897	232.7
July	332	1251	188	353	95	31	17	138	133	44	91	224	.282	.336	.448	.784	184.7
August	343	1322	222	401	100	51	20	134	123	62	83	231	.303	.346	.502	.848	210.9
Sep/Oct	362	1345	224	386	85	45	22	135	132	80	93	248	.287	.337	.466	.803	194.4

Fielding Stats     Help
Bold lines indicate player won Slick Fielder Award.
Year	Age	Tm	Lg	Pos	G	GS	IP	PO	A	E	DP	FPct	RF					DWS
1979	22	VAL	JL	3B	10	10	80.0	4	21	1	5	.962	2.81					0.3
				SS	4	4	32.0	4	12	1	0	.941	4.50					0.2
				2B	4	2	20.0	2	10	0	2	1.000	5.40					0.1
1980	23	VAL	JL	3B	152	149	1235.7	63	297	11	22	.970	2.62					5.9
				RF	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00					0.0
1981	24	VAL	JL	3B	102	100	763.0	48	182	12	15	.950	2.71					3.3
				2B	50	49	370.0	72	133	2	25	.990	4.99					2.4
1982	25	VAL	JL	2B	83	81	627.3	123	253	10	43	.974	5.39					2.7
				3B	55	54	451.7	28	112	2	8	.986	2.79					1.5
				CF	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00					0.0
				RF	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00
				LF	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00
1983	26	WAS	JL	3B	147	147	1304.7	77	295	11	19	.971	2.57					4.5
				1B	5	5	44.0	34	7	0	4	1.000	8.39					0.1
				2B	2	0	2.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	4.50					0.0
1984	27	WAS	JL	3B	145	144	1238.3	79	287	4	26	.989	2.66					4.2
				2B	6	1	17.0	2	4	0	1	1.000	3.18					0.1
				CF	1	0	3.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	3.00					0.0
1985	28	WAS	JL	3B	151	147	1323.7	93	295	9	25	.977	2.64					3.4
				SS	1	0	7.0	3	5	0	3	1.000	10.29					0.2
				2B	2	0	3.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	6.00					0.0
1986	29	WAS	JL	3B	77	75	650.7	56	145	4	12	.980	2.78					2.7
				2B	75	70	633.0	134	196	6	41	.982	4.69					1.6
1987	30	LV	FL	3B	154	152	1352.0	85	299	13	21	.967	2.56					3.9
				2B	2	0	4.0	4	1	0	2	1.000	11.25					0.1
1988	31	LV	FL	3B	148	143	1266.7	66	314	8	26	.979	2.70					6.0
				2B	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00					0.0
1989	32	LV	FL	3B	150	140	1245.0	77	321	6	25	.985	2.88					7.7
1990	33	LV	FL	3B	141	135	1224.7	54	299	7	25	.981	2.59					4.7
				2B	4	0	11.7	0	3	0	0	1.000	2.32					0.0
1991	34	CAL	JL	3B	57	57	496.7	31	119	6	6	.962	2.72					1.7
				2B	36	27	251.0	49	92	3	14	.979	5.06					1.0
1992	35	CAL	JL	3B	128	127	1022.0	86	240	5	20	.985	2.87					4.0
				2B	7	1	22.0	6	9	0	1	1.000	6.14					0.2
1993	36	MTL	FL	2B	122	116	960.3	199	346	4	63	.993	5.11					6.0
				3B	7	5	46.3	3	18	2	1	.913	4.08					0.3
				SS	2	0	10.0	2	4	0	2	1.000	5.40					0.1
				RF	2	0	4.0	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00					0.0
				3B	1624	1585	13700.9	850	3244	101	256	.976	2.69					54.1
				2B	394	347	2922.3	592	1049	25	192	.985	5.05					14.1
				SS	7	4	49.0	9	21	1	5	.968	5.51					0.4
				1B	5	5	44.0	34	7	0	4	1.000	8.39					0.1
				RF	4	0	6.0	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00					0.0
				CF	2	0	5.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.80					0.0
				LF	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00
Career Totals					2037	1941	16728.3	1486	4321	127	457	.979	3.12					68.8
Career Highs					156	152	1356.0	204	368	14	66	.990	5.04

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
1979	22	VAL	JL	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
1980	23	VAL	JL	10	43	6	16	6	2	0	6	2	0	0	7	.372	.364	.605	.968
1981	24	VAL	JL	3	13	4	7	2	2	0	2	1	1	0	5	.538	.500	1.000	1.500
1983	26	WAS	JL	15	63	10	18	7	6	1	9	3	1	0	15	.286	.308	.635	.943
1988	31	LV	FL	9	40	6	14	5	1	1	4	2	2	0	8	.350	.350	.600	.950
1989	32	LV	FL	16	66	12	27	7	5	0	5	10	4	7	11	.409	.473	.667	1.140
1990	33	LV	FL	5	18	3	6	3	1	0	3	0	1	1	5	.333	.368	.611	.980
1992	35	CAL	JL	16	54	6	17	5	0	1	6	1	2	3	5	.315	.362	.463	.825
1993	36	MTL	FL	9	30	3	5	2	1	0	4	0	0	0	10	.167	.167	.300	.467
Career Post-Season Batting				83	328	50	110	37	18	3	39	19	11	11	66	.335	.362	.585	.948

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.

Batting Average 1988-6-.326 1989-10-.319 1990-9-.319 On-Base Pct 1988-7-.377 Slugging Pct 1988-9-.534 1989-8-.537 1990-6-.548 OPS 1988-5-.911 1989-8-.899 XR 1983-10-94.0 1988-2-117.0 1989-6-108.3 CAR-25-1228.8 Games 1980-9-156 1985-8-156 1987-5-157 CAR-23-2081 At-Bats 1980-7-610 1985-3-624 1986-3-608 1987-1-673 1988-5-610 1989-7-601 CAR-16-7908 Runs 1985-3-112 1987-6-121 1988-2-120 1989-2-108 CAR-15-1285 Hits 1987-3-203 1988-5-199 1989-6-192 CAR-16-2355 Total Bases 1988-3-326 1989-4-323 1990-9-314 CAR-20-3723 Singles 1987-6-125 CAR-25-1439 Doubles 1982-3-48 1983-9-42 1985-4-42 1986-9-43 1987-6-49 1988-8-46 1989-10-44 CAR-6-566 Triples 1980-3-13 1981-3-13 1982-2-14 1983-1-24 1984-1-21 1985-1-26 1986-1-22 1987-1-16 1988-2-21 1989-1-24 1990-1-26 1993-5-13 CAR-1-248 Stolen Bases 1980-1-88 1981-2-77 1982-3-64 1983-3-69 1984-4-60 1985-6-60 1986-6-69 1987-1-85 1988-1-89 1989-1-69 1990-4-51 CAR-5-865 Caught Stealing 1980-4-18 1981-2-35 1982-1-33 1983-3-24 1984-3-31 1985-5-20 1986-4-26 1987-1-30 1988-1-32 1989-1-32 1990-1-38 CAR-2-352 Strikeouts CAR-31-1403

Black Ink Test: 16    (Avg Batter in HOF ~ 13)    Gray Ink Test: 99    (Avg Batter in HOF ~ 95)    Hall of Fame Standards: 57    (Avg Batter in HOF ~ 46)

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History

Drafted in 1st round, 5th overall pick, by Valencia in 1979

Had first career hit on 8/22/1979, off Kevin Robinson (LOU)

Had 23-game hitting streak snapped on 5/3/1980

Hit first career homerun on 8/15/1980, off Danny Ramirez (HON)

Won Phenom Award in 1980, hitting .274 with 1 HR, 46 RBI

Traded from Washington to Las Vegas on 3/2/1987 (Going to WAS: RF Jessie Knickerbocker, RF Jerry Johnson, 2B Raymond Smith, P Ronnie Lee, P Billy Pena. Going to LV: 3B Luke Zalusky, CF Bob Skube)

Had 21-game hitting streak snapped on 5/25/1988

Had 5 hits with 4 RBI against Hackensack on 6/23/1988

Won Player of the Week award on 6/25/1988, hitting .633 with 2 HR, 10 RBI

Was selected to the 1988 Allstar game

Had 5 hits with 2 RBI against Long Beach on 7/19/1988

7/31/1988: Signed a contract extension with Las Vegas, $6,630,000 per year, for 4 years

9/1/1988: Signed a contract extension with Las Vegas, $6,630,000 per year, for 4 years

Was selected to the 1989 Allstar game

Won Landis Memorial Series with Las Vegas in 1989

Won Slick Fielder Award at Third Base in 1989

Injured on 6/28/1990 with a Inflamed Achilles Tendon, out for 2 weeks

Won Player of the Week award on 9/10/1990, hitting .538 with 1 HR, 8 RBI

Had 2000th career hit on 9/29/1990, off Mauro Furtado (CLG)

Traded from Las Vegas to California on 3/2/1991 (Going to LV: 3B Francisco Juarez, P Raymond Woodruff. Going to CAL: 3B Luke Zalusky)

Injured on 7/22/1991 with a Pulled Groin Muscle, out for 7-8 weeks

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