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Doug Mientkiewicz

Los Angeles Dodgers National League WestPH

Age: 35
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 210 lb
Number: #16

Born: June 19, 1974 in Toledo, OH, United States
MLB debut: September 18, 1998

dbWAR: 2.3
PA: 20
AVG: .333
OBP: .400
SLG: .389
wRC+: 125

Doug Mientkiewicz was a position player for the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2009 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 3 RBIs, notching 6 hits across 20 plate appearances in 17 games. His batting average was .333, 27.0% higher than the league average of .262. He reached base at a .400 clip and slugged .389, for an OPS of .789, 5.1% higher than the league mark of .751. He made contact on 88.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 125 wRC+ puts his offence 25% above average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — +0.5 runs with the bat, +0.0 for the ballpark, -0.0 on the bases, -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, 2009 regular season.

wRC+125

wOBA.363

ISO.056

BB%5.0%

WAR.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2009. These terms sum to +0.7 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 2005–2009; his career began in 1998, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2009	LAD	17	20	6	0	3	0	1	6	.333	.400	.389	.056	.500	5.0%	30.0%	.363	+0.5	125	0.1
2008	PIT	124	334	79	2	30	0	44	28	.277	.374	.379	.102	.298	13.2%	8.4%	.343	+2.8	110	0.9
2007	NYY	63	192	46	5	24	0	16	23	.277	.349	.440	.163	.295	8.3%	12.0%	.353	+2.7	109	0.6
2006	KC	89	361	89	4	43	3	35	50	.283	.359	.411	.127	.321	9.7%	13.9%	.343	+2.0	100	0.8
2005	NYM	86	313	66	11	29	0	32	39	.240	.322	.407	.167	.242	10.2%	12.5%	.317	-3.5	91	-0.1

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 Doug Mientkiewicz'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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2007 Post	NYY	ALDS	4	8	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.143	.000	.143

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, 2009. 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	3	3	1	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.300	33.3%
vs RHP	17	15	5	0	1	5	.333	.412	.400	.374	29.4%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2009.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2009.

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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 .262.

Situational hitting

How Doug Mientkiewicz 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	20	—	—	—	—	—	—	.333	.400	.389	.363
Bases empty · thin	8	7	2	0	0	1	2	.286	.375	.286	.315
Runner on first · thin	7	7	2	0	0	0	3	.286	.286	.286	.258
Runners on · thin	12	11	4	0	3	0	4	.364	.417	.455	.394
RISP · thin	5	4	2	0	3	0	1	.500	.600	.750	.586

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, 2009.

Not in the 2009 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.