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Jeff Bagwell

Age
37
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 0"
Weight
215 lb
Number
#5
Born
May 27, 1968 in Boston, MA, United States
MLB debut
April 8, 1991

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dbWAR
.3
Regular season, 2005 only
PA
123
AVG
.250
OBP
.358
SLG
.380
wRC+
101
100 = avg

Jeff Bagwell was a first baseman for the Houston Astros. In 2005 he hit 3 home runs and knocked in 19 RBIs, notching 25 hits across 123 plate appearances in 39 games. His batting average was .250, 5.5% lower than the league average of .264. He reached base at a .358 clip and slugged .380, for an OPS of .738, 1.5% lower than the league mark of .749 — 6th of 14 on his team, and 222nd of 431 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He made contact on 82.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 101 wRC+ puts his offence 1% above average. That comes to 0.3 dbWAR — -0.0 runs with the bat, +0.1 for the ballpark, -0.1 on the bases, +1.0 on double plays, -1.8 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, 2005 regular season.

wRC+101
wOBA.330
ISO.130
BB%14.6%
WAR.3

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2005. These terms sum to +2.6 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting-0.0Ballpark+0.1Baserunning-0.1Double plays+1.0Position-1.8Replacement+3.4
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005; his career began in 1991, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

Trend
2005HOU391232531901821.250.358.380.130.27514.6%17.1%.330-0.01010.3—

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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 Jeff Bagwell's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
SeasonTeamRoundGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBAVGOBPSLGOPS
2005 PostHOUPostseason total71311220001010.182.308.182.490
NLDS222110001000.500.500.5001.000
NLCS111000000000.000.000.000.000
World Series4108110000010.125.300.125.425

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.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2005. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP26206157.300.423.450.37626.9%
vs RHP97801921314.237.340.362.31814.4%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2005.

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Situational hitting

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

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By who is on base when he comes up. The season line is repeated as the baseline.
SituationPAABHHRRBIBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBA
All situations123——————.250.358.380.330
Bases empty59511022814.196.305.333.294
Runner on first · thin211741440.235.381.529.398
Runners on644915117107.306.406.429.363
RISP43321101367.344.419.375.345

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Rows under 25 plate appearances are marked thin — at that size a rate moves several dozen points on one hit. Counted from play-by-play, 2005.

Not in the 2005 data: pitch locations, first recorded in 2007; 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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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.