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Sammy Sosa
- Age
- 39
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 0"
- Weight
- 225 lb
- Number
- #21
- Born
- November 12, 1968 in San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic
- MLB debut
- June 16, 1989
- dbWAR
- -.5 Regular season, 2005–2007 only
- PA
- 454
- AVG
- .252
- OBP
- .311
- SLG
- .468
- wRC+
- 102 100 = avg
Sammy Sosa was a designated hitter for the Texas Rangers. In 2007 he hit 21 home runs and knocked in 92 RBIs, notching 104 hits across 454 plate appearances in 114 games. His batting average was .252, 5.8% lower than the league average of .268. He reached base at a .311 clip and slugged .468, for an OPS of .779, 2.7% higher than the league mark of .758 — 11th of 19 on his team, and 177th of 439 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He made contact on 67.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 102 wRC+ puts his offence 2% above average. That comes to 0.2 dbWAR — +0.6 runs with the bat, +0.2 for the ballpark, -0.3 on the bases, -1.7 on double plays, -9.5 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, 2007 regular season.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2007. These terms sum to +2.3 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.
WAR by season
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2007; his career began in 1989, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 139 | 119 | 39 | 7 | 17 | 29 | .328 | .410 | .613 | .434 | 20.9% |
| vs RHP | 315 | 293 | 65 | 14 | 17 | 83 | .222 | .267 | .410 | .296 | 26.3% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2007.
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Hot and cold zones
Batting average by pitch location, 2007.
Situational hitting
How Sammy Sosa 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 | 454 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .252 | .311 | .468 | .337 |
| Bases empty | 213 | 195 | 45 | 9 | 9 | 16 | 62 | .231 | .296 | .431 | .321 |
| Runner on first | 93 | 89 | 18 | 4 | 12 | 4 | 17 | .202 | .237 | .393 | .275 |
| Runners on | 241 | 217 | 59 | 12 | 83 | 18 | 50 | .272 | .324 | .502 | .352 |
| RISP | 148 | 128 | 41 | 8 | 71 | 14 | 33 | .320 | .378 | .578 | .401 |
Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2007.
Not in the 2007 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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Nearest 2007 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.
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.