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Darnell McDonald

Age: 35
B/T: R/R
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 205 lb
Number: #54

Born: November 17, 1978 in Fort Collins, CO, United States
MLB debut: April 30, 2004

dbWAR: 1.5
PA: 57
AVG: .302
OBP: .351
SLG: .434
wRC+: 116

Darnell McDonald was a right fielder for the Chicago Cubs. In 2013 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 5 RBIs, notching 16 hits across 57 plate appearances in 25 games. His batting average was .302, 19.1% higher than the league average of .253. He reached base at a .351 clip and slugged .434, for an OPS of .785, 9.9% higher than the league mark of .714. He made contact on 77.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 116 wRC+ puts his offence 16% above average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — +1.4 runs with the bat, -0.2 for the ballpark, -0.1 on the bases, -0.9 on double plays, -0.7 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, 2013 regular season.

wRC+116

wOBA.350

ISO.132

BB%7.0%

WAR.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2013. These terms sum to +1.2 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. Seasons on file run 2007–2013; his career began in 2004, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2013	CHC	25	57	16	1	5	0	4	8	.302	.351	.434	.132	.341	7.0%	14.0%	.350	+1.4	116	0.1
2012	BOS/NYY	37	103	18	2	9	1	12	19	.205	.297	.352	.148	.235	11.7%	18.4%	.293	-2.1	78	0.0
2011	BOS	67	175	37	6	24	2	14	33	.236	.303	.401	.166	.258	8.0%	18.9%	.315	-0.7	92	0.2
2010	BOS	106	363	86	9	34	9	30	85	.270	.336	.429	.160	.342	8.3%	23.4%	.343	+5.0	109	1.6
2009	CIN	45	111	28	2	10	1	5	31	.267	.306	.400	.133	.361	4.5%	27.9%	.314	-1.7	88	-0.0
2007	MIN	4	11	1	0	0	0	1	3	.100	.182	.100	.000	.143	9.1%	27.3%	.148	-1.7	-28	-0.1

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2007–2013; his career began in 2004, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

																				Trend
2012	BOS	1	0	1.0	0	1	0	2	3	0	2	27.00	22.09	4.00	0.0	18.0	673	550	-0.2
2011	BOS	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	1	2	0	2	18.00	9.03	3.00	0.0	18.0	457	229	-0.1

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2013. 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	32	28	12	1	4	1	.429	.500	.679	.512	3.1%
vs RHP	25	25	4	0	0	7	.160	.160	.160	.143	28.0%

Season

No pitching splits recorded for 2013.

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2013.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2013.

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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 .253.

Situational hitting

How Darnell McDonald 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	57	—	—	—	—	—	—	.302	.351	.434	.350
Bases empty	34	33	9	0	0	1	6	.273	.294	.364	.293
Runner on first · thin	11	9	2	0	0	2	0	.222	.364	.222	.290
Runners on · thin	23	20	7	1	5	3	2	.350	.435	.550	.435
RISP · thin	12	11	5	1	5	1	2	.455	.500	.818	.567

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, 2013.

Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Season


Changeup	62.5%	15	82.4	1,780	26.7%	0.0%	1	—	—

Darnell McDonald's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters. BAA and OPS are what hitters did against each pitch, credited to the one that ended the plate appearance, and are left blank under 15 at-bats.

Not in the 2013 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.