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Scott Rolen

Cincinnati Reds National League Central3B

Age: 37
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 245 lb
Number: #27

Born: April 4, 1975 in Evansville, IN, United States
MLB debut: August 1, 1996

dbWAR: 16.5
PA: 330
AVG: .245
OBP: .318
SLG: .398
wRC+: 96

Scott Rolen was a third baseman for the Cincinnati Reds. In 2012 he hit 8 home runs and knocked in 39 RBIs, notching 72 hits across 330 plate appearances in 90 games. His batting average was .245, 3.8% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .318 clip and slugged .398, for an OPS of .716, 1.1% lower than the league mark of .724 — 6th of 13 on his team, and 228th of 459 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He made contact on 82.8% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 96 wRC+ puts his offence 4% below average. That comes to 1.1 dbWAR — -0.2 runs with the bat, -0.6 for the ballpark, -0.3 on the bases, +0.9 on double plays, +1.7 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, 2012 regular season.

wRC+96

wOBA.318

ISO.153

BB%9.1%

WAR1.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2012. These terms sum to +10.4 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 2005–2012; his career began in 1996, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2012	CIN	90	330	72	8	39	2	30	62	.245	.318	.398	.153	.282	9.1%	18.8%	.318	-0.2	96	1.1
2011	CIN	64	269	61	5	36	1	10	36	.242	.279	.397	.155	.262	3.7%	13.4%	.299	-4.5	83	0.4
2010	CIN	132	537	134	20	83	1	50	82	.285	.358	.497	.212	.302	9.3%	15.3%	.375	+21.1	134	3.8
2009	TOR/CIN	127	535	145	11	67	5	45	62	.305	.368	.455	.149	.327	8.4%	11.6%	.365	+13.8	124	3.3
2008	TOR	115	467	107	11	50	5	46	71	.262	.349	.431	.169	.292	9.9%	15.2%	.349	+6.3	112	2.2
2007	STL	110	441	104	8	58	5	37	56	.265	.331	.398	.133	.287	8.4%	12.7%	.325	-4.1	94	1.0
2006	STL	141	594	154	22	95	7	56	69	.296	.369	.518	.223	.301	9.4%	11.6%	.380	+21.5	131	4.3
2005	STL	56	223	46	5	28	1	25	28	.235	.323	.383	.148	.250	11.2%	12.6%	.316	-2.6	90	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

Postseason Scott Rolen's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2012 Post	CIN	NLDS	4	17	16	1	4	0	0	1	1	4	.250	.294	.250	.544
2010 Post	CIN	NLDS	3	11	11	0	1	0	0	0	0	8	.091	.091	.091	.182
2006 Post	STL	Postseason total	14	57	51	9	14	5	1	2	5	7	.275	.351	.431	.782
		NLDS	3	12	11	0	1	1	0	0	0	2	.091	.167	.182	.348
		NLCS	6	24	21	4	5	1	0	0	3	1	.238	.333	.286	.619
		World Series	5	21	19	5	8	3	1	2	2	4	.421	.476	.737	1.213
2005–2012		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	21	85	78	10	19	5	1	3	6	19	.244	.306	.346	.652

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, 2012. 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	87	77	18	1	9	13	.234	.322	.325	.296	14.9%
vs RHP	243	217	54	7	21	49	.249	.317	.424	.326	20.2%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2012.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2012.

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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 .254.

Situational hitting

How Scott Rolen 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	330	—	—	—	—	—	—	.245	.318	.398	.318
Bases empty	168	156	36	6	6	11	32	.231	.286	.429	.314
Runner on first	65	58	12	1	3	7	9	.207	.292	.328	.282
Runners on	162	138	36	2	33	19	30	.261	.352	.362	.323
RISP	97	80	24	1	30	12	21	.300	.392	.388	.349

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2012.

Not in the 2012 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.