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Miguel Cairo

Cincinnati Reds National League Central1B

Age: 38
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 225 lb
Number: #41

Born: May 4, 1974 in Anaco, Venezuela
MLB debut: April 17, 1996

dbWAR: .2
PA: 156
AVG: .187
OBP: .212
SLG: .280
wRC+: 29

Miguel Cairo was a first baseman for the Cincinnati Reds. In 2012 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 13 RBIs, notching 28 hits across 156 plate appearances in 67 games. His batting average was .187, 26.7% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .212 clip and slugged .280, for an OPS of .492, 32.1% lower than the league mark of .724 — the second worst on his team, and 443rd of 459 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He made contact on 87.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 29 wRC+ puts his offence 71% below average. That comes to -1.0 dbWAR — -12.5 runs with the bat, -0.3 for the ballpark, +0.7 on the bases, -0.5 on double plays, -1.2 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, 2012 regular season.

wRC+29

wOBA.217

ISO.093

BB%2.6%

WAR-1.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2012. These terms sum to -9.5 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 2005–2012; his career began in 1996, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2012	CIN	67	156	28	1	13	4	4	20	.187	.212	.280	.093	.208	2.6%	12.8%	.217	-12.5	29	-1.0
2011	CIN	96	276	65	8	33	3	18	36	.265	.330	.412	.147	.279	6.5%	13.0%	.331	+2.3	105	1.1
2010	CIN	89	226	58	4	28	4	17	30	.290	.353	.410	.120	.320	7.5%	13.3%	.343	+3.2	112	1.0
2009	PHI	27	47	12	1	2	0	0	4	.267	.283	.422	.156	.275	0.0%	8.5%	.308	-1.0	82	0.0
2008	SEA	87	250	55	0	23	5	18	32	.249	.316	.330	.081	.289	7.2%	12.8%	.297	-7.4	77	-0.2
2007	NYY/STL	70	193	44	0	15	10	11	24	.253	.303	.328	.075	.291	5.7%	12.4%	.285	-8.2	64	-0.2
2006	NYY	77	244	53	0	30	13	13	31	.239	.280	.320	.081	.273	5.3%	12.7%	.269	-13.9	56	-0.3
2005	NYM	99	367	82	2	19	13	19	31	.251	.296	.324	.073	.268	5.2%	8.4%	.277	-16.1	64	-0.2

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 Miguel Cairo's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2012 Post	CIN	NLDS	2	2	2	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
2010 Post	CIN	NLDS	3	3	3	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
2009 Post	PHI	Postseason total	4	5	5	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLDS	2	3	3	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLCS	2	2	2	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
2005–2012		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	9	10	10	2	.000	.000	.000	.000

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, 2012. 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	47	46	11	0	0	3	.239	.234	.348	.249	6.4%
vs RHP	109	104	17	1	4	17	.163	.202	.250	.203	15.6%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2012.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2012.

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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 .254.

Situational hitting

How Miguel Cairo 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	156	—	—	—	—	—	—	.187	.212	.280	.217
Bases empty	98	94	17	1	1	3	12	.181	.214	.287	.223
Runner on first · thin	21	21	2	0	1	0	3	.095	.095	.190	.120
Runners on	58	56	11	0	12	1	8	.196	.207	.268	.207
RISP	37	35	9	0	11	1	5	.257	.270	.314	.256

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, 2012.

Not in the 2012 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 2012 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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HR: 2
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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.