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Bobby Abreu

Age: 40
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 220 lb
Number: #53

Born: March 11, 1974 in Aragua, Venezuela
MLB debut: September 1, 1996

dbWAR: 25.4
PA: 155
AVG: .248
OBP: .342
SLG: .338
wRC+: 104

Bobby Abreu was a right fielder for the New York Mets. In 2014 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 14 RBIs, notching 33 hits across 155 plate appearances in 75 games. His batting average was .248, 1.2% lower than the league average of .251. He reached base at a .342 clip and slugged .338, for an OPS of .680, 2.8% lower than the league mark of .700 — 9th of 15 on his team, and 247th of 443 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He made contact on 80.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 104 wRC+ puts his offence 4% above average. That comes to 0.2 dbWAR — -0.1 runs with the bat, +0.4 for the ballpark, +0.0 on the bases, -0.1 on double plays, -2.2 for the position he plays, against replacement level. It includes no fielding: defensive runs are proprietary and are not estimated here, so the figure credits playing a demanding position but not playing it well.

League context

Percentile among qualified batters, 2014 regular season.

wRC+104

wOBA.313

ISO.090

BB%12.9%

WAR.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2014. These terms sum to +2.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2014; his career began in 1996, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2014	NYM	75	155	33	1	14	1	20	21	.248	.342	.338	.090	.283	12.9%	13.5%	.313	-0.1	104	0.2
2012	LAD/LAA	98	257	53	3	24	6	37	56	.242	.350	.342	.100	.311	14.4%	21.8%	.313	-1.2	100	0.3
2011	LAA	142	585	127	8	60	21	78	113	.253	.353	.365	.112	.310	13.3%	19.3%	.326	+2.4	109	1.3
2010	LAA	154	667	146	20	78	24	87	132	.255	.352	.435	.180	.296	13.0%	19.8%	.353	+14.5	124	2.9
2009	LAA	152	667	165	15	103	30	94	113	.293	.390	.435	.142	.338	14.1%	16.9%	.367	+18.7	123	3.3
2008	NYY	156	684	180	20	100	22	73	109	.296	.371	.471	.176	.333	10.7%	15.9%	.375	+23.5	127	3.8
2007	NYY	157	699	171	16	101	25	84	115	.283	.369	.445	.162	.322	12.0%	16.5%	.364	+16.5	117	3.5
2006	PHI/NYY	155	686	163	15	107	30	124	138	.297	.424	.462	.164	.366	18.1%	20.1%	.394	+33.2	136	5.0
2005	PHI	162	719	168	24	102	31	117	134	.286	.405	.474	.189	.329	16.3%	18.6%	.384	+31.6	131	5.1

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason batting

Postseason Bobby Abreu's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2009 Post	LAA	Postseason total	9	42	34	6	9	4	0	3	8	8	0	.265	.405	.382	.787
		ALDS	3	13	9	4	5	2	0	1	4	0	0	.556	.692	.778	1.470
		ALCS	6	29	25	2	4	2	0	2	4	8	0	.160	.276	.240	.516
2007 Post	NYY	ALDS	4	17	15	1	4	1	1	2	2	3	1	.267	.353	.533	.886
2006 Post	NYY	ALDS	4	17	15	2	5	1	0	4	2	2	0	.333	.412	.400	.812
2005–2014		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	17	76	64	9	18	6	1	9	12	13	1	.281	.395	.422	.817

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2014. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHP	16	15	3	0	1	2	.200	.250	.200	.212	12.5%
vs RHP	139	118	30	1	19	19	.254	.353	.356	.325	13.7%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2014.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2014.

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Batting average by location of the pitch that ended each plate appearance, catcher's view. The bordered square is the strike zone; the outer band is chase territory. Cells with fewer than 8 at-bats are left grey rather than shown as signal. League average on the same attribution is .251.

Situational hitting

How Bobby Abreu hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.

Split by

By who is on base when he comes up. The season line is repeated as the baseline.
Situation	PA	AB	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
All situations	155	—	—	—	—	—	—	.248	.342	.338	.313
Bases empty	83	74	18	0	0	9	12	.243	.325	.324	.300
Runner on first	29	24	6	1	3	5	3	.250	.379	.417	.365
Runners on	72	59	15	1	14	11	9	.254	.361	.356	.329
RISP	43	35	9	0	11	6	6	.257	.349	.314	.305

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2014.

Not in the 2014 data: exit velocity and launch angle, first recorded in 2015. The play-by-play goes back to 2005, but the measurements on each pitch and batted ball arrived later, so the panels built from them are left off this season.

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Nearest 2014 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Ramon SantiagoCIN

wRC+: 99
HR: 2
AVG: .246
WAR: 0.8

Rubén TejadaNYM

wRC+: 91
HR: 5
AVG: .237
WAR: 1.1

Prince FielderTEX

wRC+: 95
HR: 3
AVG: .247
WAR: 0.1

Carlos RuizPHI

wRC+: 112
HR: 6
AVG: .252
WAR: 2.6

How these are computed

wOBA uses linear weights measured from this season's own play-by-play rather than published constants, and wRC+ is park-adjusted against that same league. dbWAR is our own open implementation — not fWAR or bWAR — and the full derivation, including its simplifications, is on the methodology page.