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J.D. Drew

Age: 36
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 200 lb
Number: #7

Born: November 20, 1975 in Valdosta, GA, United States
MLB debut: September 8, 1998

dbWAR: 17.8
PA: 286
AVG: .222
OBP: .315
SLG: .302
wRC+: 70

J.D. Drew was a right fielder for the Boston Red Sox. In 2011 he hit 4 home runs and knocked in 22 RBIs, notching 55 hits across 286 plate appearances in 81 games. His batting average was .222, 13.1% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .315 clip and slugged .302, for an OPS of .617, 14.2% lower than the league mark of .720 — the worst on his team, and 368th of 452 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He made contact on 78.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 70 wRC+ puts his offence 30% below average. That comes to -0.4 dbWAR — -8.6 runs with the bat, -0.8 for the ballpark, -0.7 on the bases, +1.5 on double plays, -2.8 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, 2011 regular season.

wRC+70

wOBA.282

ISO.081

BB%11.5%

WAR-.4

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2011. These terms sum to -3.6 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 2005–2011; his career began in 1998, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2011	BOS	81	286	55	4	22	0	33	58	.222	.315	.302	.081	.270	11.5%	20.3%	.282	-8.6	70	-0.4
2010	BOS	138	546	122	22	68	3	60	105	.255	.341	.452	.197	.282	11.0%	19.2%	.352	+11.6	116	2.1
2009	BOS	137	539	126	24	68	2	82	109	.279	.392	.522	.243	.319	15.2%	20.2%	.400	+29.4	143	3.9
2008	BOS	108	456	103	19	64	4	79	80	.280	.408	.519	.239	.307	17.3%	17.5%	.407	+27.7	147	3.7
2007	BOS	139	552	126	11	64	4	79	100	.270	.373	.423	.152	.319	14.3%	18.1%	.353	+7.9	106	1.7
2006	LAD	146	594	140	20	100	2	89	106	.283	.393	.498	.215	.321	15.0%	17.8%	.387	+25.1	132	3.9
2005	LAD	72	311	72	15	36	1	51	50	.286	.412	.520	.234	.300	16.4%	16.1%	.406	+19.4	156	2.9

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 J.D. Drew'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
2009 Post	BOS	ALDS	3	10	9	1	2	0	1	2	1	1	.222	.300	.556	.856
2008 Post	BOS	Postseason total	11	43	38	3	10	2	2	6	4	10	.263	.349	.474	.823
		ALDS	4	14	14	2	4	1	1	3	0	4	.286	.286	.571	.857
		ALCS	7	29	24	1	6	1	1	3	4	6	.250	.379	.417	.796
2007 Post	BOS	Postseason total	14	54	51	7	16	3	1	11	2	6	.314	.352	.431	.783
		ALDS	3	11	11	1	2	0	0	3	0	1	.182	.182	.182	.364
		ALCS	7	26	25	5	9	1	1	6	1	2	.360	.385	.520	.905
		World Series	4	17	15	1	5	2	0	2	1	3	.333	.412	.467	.878
2006 Post	LAD	NLDS	3	13	13	1	2	0	0	0	0	3	.154	.154	.154	.308
2005–2011		Postseason total · 4 Octobers	31	120	111	12	30	5	4	19	7	20	.270	.325	.423	.748

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, 2011. 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	54	48	8	1	6	16	.167	.259	.292	.257	29.6%
vs RHP	232	200	47	3	27	42	.235	.328	.305	.287	18.1%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2011.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2011.

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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 J.D. Drew 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	286	—	—	—	—	—	—	.222	.315	.302	.282
Bases empty	154	141	28	3	3	12	32	.199	.266	.298	.260
Runner on first	47	37	12	0	1	8	9	.324	.447	.378	.381
Runners on	132	107	27	1	19	21	26	.252	.371	.308	.308
RISP	85	70	15	1	18	13	17	.214	.329	.271	.265

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2011.

Not in the 2011 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 2011 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Fred LewisCIN

wRC+: 78
HR: 3
AVG: .230
WAR: -0.1

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HR: 3
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Austin KearnsCLE

wRC+: 72
HR: 2
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WAR: -0.5

Ryan SpilborghsCOL

wRC+: 59
HR: 3
AVG: .210
WAR: -0.8

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.