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Mark Loretta

Los Angeles Dodgers National League West3B

Age: 38
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 200 lb
Number: #8

Born: August 14, 1971 in Santa Monica, CA, United States
MLB debut: September 4, 1995

dbWAR: 4.1
PA: 204
AVG: .232
OBP: .309
SLG: .276
wRC+: 60

Mark Loretta was a third baseman for the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2009 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 25 RBIs, notching 42 hits across 204 plate appearances in 104 games. His batting average was .232, 11.6% lower than the league average of .262. He reached base at a .309 clip and slugged .276, for an OPS of .585, 22.1% lower than the league mark of .751 — the worst on his team, and 411th of 432 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He made contact on 87.6% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 60 wRC+ puts his offence 40% below average. That comes to -0.8 dbWAR — -10.4 runs with the bat, +0.5 for the ballpark, -0.4 on the bases, -1.5 on double plays, -2.0 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+60

wOBA.270

ISO.044

BB%9.8%

WAR-.8

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2009. These terms sum to -8.1 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 2005–2009; his career began in 1995, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2009	LAD	104	204	42	0	25	1	20	21	.232	.309	.276	.044	.259	9.8%	10.3%	.270	-10.4	60	-0.8
2008	HOU	101	297	73	4	38	0	29	30	.280	.350	.383	.103	.297	9.8%	10.1%	.331	-0.5	98	0.8
2007	HOU	132	511	132	4	41	1	44	41	.287	.352	.372	.085	.308	8.6%	8.0%	.330	-2.3	99	1.4
2006	BOS	155	703	181	5	59	4	49	63	.285	.345	.361	.076	.308	7.0%	9.0%	.320	-10.0	88	1.3
2005	SD	105	463	113	3	38	8	45	34	.280	.360	.347	.067	.296	9.7%	7.3%	.321	-3.7	99	1.4

Pitching Regular season

																				Trend
2009	LAD	1	0	0.1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	12.10	0.00	0.0	0.0	0	280	-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 Mark Loretta's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	H	RBI	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2009 Post	LAD	Postseason total	3	3	3	1	1	1	.333	.333	.333	.667
		NLDS	1	1	1	1	1	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000
		NLCS	2	2	2	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
2005 Post	SD	NLDS	3	15	15	4	2	0	.267	.267	.267	.533
2005–2009		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	6	18	18	5	3	1	.278	.278	.278	.556

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, 2009. 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	66	55	15	0	9	5	.273	.364	.345	.320	7.6%
vs RHP	138	126	27	0	11	16	.214	.283	.246	.247	11.6%

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2009. 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 RHB	2	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.500	.000	.373	0.0%

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.

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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 .262.

Situational hitting

How Mark Loretta 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	204	—	—	—	—	—	—	.232	.309	.276	.270
Bases empty	99	89	20	0	0	9	6	.225	.303	.258	.267
Runner on first	33	29	3	0	0	4	4	.103	.212	.103	.169
Runners on	105	92	22	0	25	11	15	.239	.314	.293	.274
RISP	72	63	19	0	25	7	11	.302	.361	.381	.323

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2009.

Pitch sequencing

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

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Changeup

Select a count to see exactly what Mark Loretta throws in it.

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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Similar players

Nearest 2009 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Mike RedmondMIN

wRC+: 58
HR: 0
AVG: .237
WAR: -0.2

Jason KendallMIL

wRC+: 75
HR: 2
AVG: .241
WAR: 0.8

Paul JanishCIN

wRC+: 63
HR: 1
AVG: .211
WAR: -0.1

Gerald LairdDET

wRC+: 69
HR: 4
AVG: .225
WAR: 0.5

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.