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Jim Thome

Philadelphia Phillies National League EastDH

Age: 42
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 250 lb
Number: #25

Born: August 27, 1970 in Peoria, IL, United States
MLB debut: September 4, 1991

dbWAR: 18.4
PA: 186
AVG: .252
OBP: .344
SLG: .442
wRC+: 118

Jim Thome was a designated hitter for the Philadelphia Phillies. In 2012 he hit 8 home runs and knocked in 25 RBIs, notching 41 hits across 186 plate appearances in 58 games. His batting average was .252, 1.2% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .344 clip and slugged .442, for an OPS of .786, 8.5% higher than the league mark of .724 — 5th of 18 on his team, and 113th of 459 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He made contact on 65.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 118 wRC+ puts his offence 18% above average. That comes to 0.4 dbWAR — +3.6 runs with the bat, +0.1 for the ballpark, -0.2 on the bases, -1.1 on double plays, -4.1 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+118

wOBA.344

ISO.190

BB%11.8%

WAR.4

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2012. These terms sum to +3.4 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 1991, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2012	PHI/BAL	58	186	41	8	25	0	22	61	.252	.344	.442	.190	.351	11.8%	32.8%	.344	+3.6	118	0.4
2011	MIN/CLE	93	324	71	15	50	0	46	92	.256	.361	.477	.220	.327	14.2%	28.4%	.369	+12.2	136	1.4
2010	MIN	108	340	78	25	59	0	60	82	.283	.412	.627	.344	.310	17.6%	24.1%	.447	+32.7	186	3.5
2009	CWS/LAD	124	434	90	23	77	0	69	123	.249	.366	.481	.232	.306	15.9%	28.3%	.374	+14.3	125	1.7
2008	CWS	149	602	123	34	90	1	91	147	.245	.362	.503	.258	.273	15.1%	24.4%	.377	+21.9	126	2.1
2007	CWS	129	536	119	35	96	0	95	134	.275	.410	.563	.287	.316	17.7%	25.0%	.418	+36.9	152	3.9
2006	CWS	143	610	141	42	109	0	107	147	.288	.416	.598	.310	.321	17.5%	24.1%	.428	+47.0	159	5.1
2005	PHI	59	242	40	7	30	0	45	59	.207	.360	.352	.145	.256	18.6%	24.4%	.325	-1.1	92	0.3

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 Jim Thome'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	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2012 Post	BAL	Postseason total	4	16	15	0	2	0	0	1	5	.133	.188	.133	.321
		Wild Card	1	4	3	0	1	0	0	1	1	.333	.500	.333	.833
		ALDS	3	12	12	0	1	0	0	0	4	.083	.083	.083	.167
2010 Post	MIN	ALDS	3	13	10	2	1	0	0	2	3	.100	.308	.100	.408
2009 Post	LAD	Postseason total	5	5	3	0	1	0	0	1	1	.333	.600	.333	.933
		NLDS	3	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.333	.000	.333
		NLCS	2	2	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000
2008 Post	CWS	ALDS	4	17	16	1	2	1	1	1	3	.125	.176	.188	.364
2005–2012		Postseason total · 4 Octobers	16	51	44	3	6	1	1	5	12	.136	.255	.159	.414

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	30	28	5	3	2	10	.179	.233	.500	.317	33.3%
vs RHP	156	135	36	5	20	51	.267	.365	.430	.349	32.7%

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 Jim Thome 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	186	—	—	—	—	—	—	.252	.344	.442	.344
Bases empty	100	92	24	5	5	8	30	.261	.320	.457	.342
Runner on first	30	26	5	2	4	4	12	.192	.300	.462	.336
Runners on	86	71	17	3	20	14	31	.239	.372	.423	.346
RISP	56	45	12	1	16	10	19	.267	.411	.400	.352

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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Nearest 2012 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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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.