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Cliff Floyd

Age
37
B/T
L/R
Height
6' 4"
Weight
230 lb
Number
#30
Born
December 5, 1972 in Chicago, IL, United States
MLB debut
September 18, 1993

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dbWAR
5.7
Regular season, 2005–2009 only
PA
17
AVG
.125
OBP
.176
SLG
.125
wRC+
-27
100 = avg

Cliff Floyd was a designated hitter for the San Diego Padres. In 2009 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 2 hits across 17 plate appearances in 10 games. His batting average was .125, 52.4% lower than the league average of .262. He reached base at a .176 clip and slugged .125, for an OPS of .301, 59.8% lower than the league mark of .751. He made contact on 58.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -27 wRC+ puts his offence 127% below average. That comes to -0.2 dbWAR — -2.6 runs with the bat, +0.1 for the ballpark, -0.0 on the bases, +0.3 on double plays, -0.4 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, 2009 regular season.

wRC+-27
wOBA.148
ISO.000
BB%5.9%
WAR-.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2009. These terms sum to -2.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting-2.6Ballpark+0.1Baserunning-0.0Double plays+0.3Position-0.4Replacement+0.5
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

3.71.8-0.20506070809

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2009; his career began in 1993, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

Trend
2009SD1017200017.125.176.125.000.2225.9%41.2%.148-2.6-27-0.2
2008TB8028466113912858.268.349.455.187.3029.9%20.4%.354+4.91160.7
2007CHC1053228094503547.284.373.422.138.31410.9%14.6%.354+5.01071.0
2006NYM9637681114462958.244.324.407.163.2637.7%15.4%.323-4.3930.5
2005NYM1506261503498126398.273.358.505.233.27610.1%15.7%.372+21.11293.7

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 Cliff Floyd's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
SeasonTeamRoundGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBAVGOBPSLGOPS
2008 PostTBPostseason total71818341012070.222.222.444.667
ALDS255111001030.200.200.400.600
ALCS41010120011040.200.200.500.700
World Series133110000000.333.333.333.667
2007 PostCHCNLDS285000000220.000.375.000.375
2006 PostNYMPostseason total61312340012130.333.385.583.968
NLDS3109340012120.444.500.7781.278
NLCS333000000010.000.000.000.000
2005–2009Postseason total · 3 Octobers1539356810243120.229.308.429.736

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, 2009. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP110000.000.000.000.0000.0%
vs RHP16152017.133.188.133.15843.8%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2009.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2009.

—————2 AB—4 AB——1 AB—3 AB—1 AB———
Below averageLeague averageAbove average
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 .262.

Situational hitting

How Cliff Floyd 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.
SituationPAABHHRRBIBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBA
All situations17——————.125.176.125.148
Bases empty · thin9910003.111.111.111.100
Runner on first · thin5510002.200.200.200.180
Runners on · thin8710014.143.250.143.203
RISP · thin3200012.000.333.000.240

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, 2009.

Not in the 2009 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.