Players · C · PH · 2008 regular season
José Cruz Jr.
- Age
- 34
- B/T
- S/R
- Height
- 6' 0"
- Weight
- 210 lb
- Number
- #23
- Born
- April 19, 1974 in Arroyo, Puerto Rico
- MLB debut
- May 31, 1997
- dbWAR
- 2.9 Regular season, 2005–2008 only
- PA
- 60
- AVG
- .122
- OBP
- .283
- SLG
- .143
- wRC+
- 29 100 = avg
José Cruz Jr. was a position player for the Houston Astros. In 2008 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 1 RBI, notching 6 hits across 60 plate appearances in 37 games. His batting average was .122, 53.6% lower than the league average of .264. He reached base at a .283 clip and slugged .143, for an OPS of .426, 43.1% lower than the league mark of .749. He made contact on 79.6% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 29 wRC+ puts his offence 71% below average. That comes to -0.3 dbWAR — -5.1 runs with the bat, -0.0 for the ballpark, -0.0 on the bases, +0.8 on double plays, -0.7 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, 2008 regular season.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2008. These terms sum to -3.4 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.
WAR by season
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2008; his career began in 1997, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 25 | 20 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 3 | .150 | .320 | .200 | .269 | 12.0% |
| vs RHP | 35 | 29 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 6 | .103 | .257 | .103 | .202 | 17.1% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2008.
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Hot and cold zones
Batting average by pitch location, 2008.
Situational hitting
How José Cruz Jr. hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.
| Situation | PA | AB | H | HR | RBI | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All situations | 60 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .122 | .283 | .143 | .230 |
| Bases empty | 39 | 33 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 | .152 | .282 | .182 | .237 |
| Runner on first · thin | 12 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | .000 | .167 | .000 | .122 |
| Runners on · thin | 21 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | .063 | .286 | .063 | .217 |
| RISP · thin | 9 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | .167 | .444 | .167 | .343 |
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, 2008.
Not in the 2008 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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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.