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John Olerud
- Age
- 37
- B/T
- L/L
- Height
- 6' 5"
- Weight
- 225 lb
- Number
- #5
- Born
- August 5, 1968 in Seattle, WA, United States
- MLB debut
- September 3, 1989
- dbWAR
- .4 Regular season, 2005 only
- PA
- 192
- AVG
- .289
- OBP
- .344
- SLG
- .451
- wRC+
- 109 100 = avg
John Olerud was a first baseman for the Boston Red Sox. In 2005 he hit 7 home runs and knocked in 37 RBIs, notching 50 hits across 192 plate appearances in 70 games. His batting average was .289, 9.3% higher than the league average of .264. He reached base at a .344 clip and slugged .451, for an OPS of .795, 6.1% higher than the league mark of .749 — 7th of 12 on his team, and 126th of 431 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He made contact on 88.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 109 wRC+ puts his offence 9% above average. That comes to 0.4 dbWAR — +2.4 runs with the bat, -0.1 for the ballpark, -0.1 on the bases, -0.8 on double plays, -2.7 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, 2005 regular season.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2005. These terms sum to +4.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005; his career began in 1989, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | BOS | 70 | 192 | 50 | 7 | 37 | 0 | 16 | 20 | .289 | .344 | .451 | .162 | .289 | 8.3% | 10.4% | .345 | +2.4 | 109 | 0.4 | — |
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
| Season | Team | Round | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | AVG | OBP | SLG | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 Post | BOS | ALDS | 3 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .286 | .444 | .429 | .873 |
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.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 44 | 40 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 8 | .300 | .341 | .500 | .364 | 18.2% |
| vs RHP | 148 | 133 | 38 | 5 | 13 | 12 | .286 | .345 | .436 | .340 | 8.1% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2005.
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Situational hitting
How John Olerud 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 | 192 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .289 | .344 | .451 | .345 |
| Bases empty | 98 | 89 | 18 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 11 | .202 | .276 | .326 | .274 |
| Runner on first | 37 | 32 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 6 | .375 | .459 | .531 | .439 |
| Runners on | 94 | 84 | 32 | 4 | 34 | 7 | 9 | .381 | .415 | .583 | .422 |
| RISP | 57 | 52 | 20 | 3 | 31 | 2 | 3 | .385 | .386 | .615 | .411 |
Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2005.
Not in the 2005 data: pitch locations, first recorded in 2007; 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.