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Jeff Cirillo

Age
38
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 1"
Weight
205 lb
Number
#26
Born
September 23, 1969 in Pasadena, CA, United States
MLB debut
May 11, 1994

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dbWAR
2.2
Regular season, 2005–2007 only
PA
218
AVG
.249
OBP
.316
SLG
.368
wRC+
85
100 = avg

Jeff Cirillo was a designated hitter for the Minnesota Twins. In 2007 he hit 2 home runs and knocked in 27 RBIs, notching 48 hits across 218 plate appearances in 77 games. His batting average was .249, 7.2% lower than the league average of .268. He reached base at a .316 clip and slugged .368, for an OPS of .684, 9.8% lower than the league mark of .758 — 10th of 15 on his team, and 319th of 439 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He made contact on 88.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 85 wRC+ puts his offence 15% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -4.8 runs with the bat, +0.5 for the ballpark, +0.2 on the bases, +0.1 on double plays, -2.3 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, 2007 regular season.

wRC+85
wOBA.309
ISO.119
BB%8.7%
WAR-.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2007. These terms sum to -0.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting-4.8Ballpark+0.5Baserunning+0.2Double plays+0.1Position-2.3Replacement+6.2
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

1.40.7-0.0050607

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2007; his career began in 1994, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

Trend
2007MIN/AZ772184822721919.249.316.368.119.2648.7%8.7%.309-4.885-0.0
2006MIL1102908432312133.319.369.414.095.3547.2%11.4%.350+3.31090.9
2005MIL772195242342322.281.373.427.146.30210.5%10.0%.360+5.31201.4

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2007; his career began in 1994, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

Trend
2007AZ101.000000120.007.242.009.018.00162-0.0—

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 Jeff Cirillo's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
SeasonTeamRoundGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBAVGOBPSLGOPS
2007 PostAZPostseason total466020000000.333.333.333.667
NLDS111000000000.000.000.000.000
NLCS355020000000.400.400.400.800

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, 2007. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP797019167.271.321.429.3298.9%
vs RHP1391232911312.236.314.333.2988.6%
Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2007. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB320011.000.333.000.24233.3%
vs RHB210010.000.500.000.3630.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2007.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2007.

—————5 AB—7 AB——7 AB.1258 AB—5 AB—5 AB—4 AB—3 AB
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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 .266.

Situational hitting

How Jeff Cirillo 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 situations218——————.249.316.368.309
Bases empty103921600119.174.262.239.240
Runner on first6354171552.315.383.519.397
Runners on11510132227810.317.366.485.373
RISP52471512238.319.346.447.346

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2007.

Pitch sequencing

What Jeff Cirillo throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

ShowBatter
ChangeupKnuckleball

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Changeup54.2%1380.92,09430.8%50.0%2——
Knuckle Ball41.7%1065.51,12440.0%25.0%1——
Jeff Cirillo's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters. BAA and OPS are what hitters did against each pitch, credited to the one that ended the plate appearance, and are left blank under 15 at-bats.

Not in the 2007 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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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.