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Players · S · 2B · 2005 regular season

Rey Sanchez

Age
38
B/T
R/R
Height
5' 9"
Weight
170 lb
Number
#1
Born
October 5, 1967 in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico
MLB debut
September 8, 1991

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dbWAR
-.1
Regular season, 2005 only
PA
48
AVG
.279
OBP
.326
SLG
.302
wRC+
70
100 = avg

Rey Sanchez was a second baseman for the New York Yankees. In 2005 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 2 RBIs, notching 12 hits across 48 plate appearances in 19 games. His batting average was .279, 5.5% higher than the league average of .264. He reached base at a .326 clip and slugged .302, for an OPS of .628, 16.1% lower than the league mark of .749. He made contact on 91.4% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 70 wRC+ puts his offence 30% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -1.6 runs with the bat, -0.0 for the ballpark, -0.4 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, 2005 regular season.

wRC+70
wOBA.288
ISO.023
BB%4.2%
WAR-.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2005. These terms sum to -0.8 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting-1.6Ballpark-0.0Baserunning-0.4Double plays-0.3Position+0.4Replacement+1.3
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005; his career began in 1991, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

Trend
2005NYY19481202023.279.326.302.023.3004.2%6.3%.288-1.670-0.1—

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2005. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP25228011.364.417.409.3744.0%
vs RHP23214012.190.227.190.1958.7%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2005.

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Situational hitting

How Rey Sanchez 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 situations48——————.279.326.302.288
Bases empty282560023.240.321.240.268
Runner on first · thin8840000.500.500.625.495
Runners on · thin201860200.333.333.389.320
RISP · thin121020200.200.200.200.179

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, 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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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.