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José Molina

Age: 39
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 250 lb
Number: #28

Born: June 3, 1975 in Bayamon, Puerto Rico
MLB debut: September 6, 1999

dbWAR: -.2
PA: 247
AVG: .178
OBP: .230
SLG: .187
wRC+: 18

José Molina was a catcher for the Tampa Bay Rays. In 2014 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 10 RBIs, notching 40 hits across 247 plate appearances in 78 games. His batting average was .178, 29.2% lower than the league average of .251. He reached base at a .230 clip and slugged .187, for an OPS of .417, 40.4% lower than the league mark of .700 — the worst on his team, and 440th of 443 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He made contact on 77.6% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 18 wRC+ puts his offence 82% below average. That comes to -1.1 dbWAR — -21.8 runs with the bat, -0.0 for the ballpark, +0.4 on the bases, +0.5 on double plays, +4.2 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, 2014 regular season.

wRC+18

wOBA.198

ISO.009

BB%5.7%

WAR-1.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2014. These terms sum to -10.2 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 — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2014; his career began in 1999, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2014	TB	78	247	40	0	10	3	14	55	.178	.230	.187	.009	.233	5.7%	22.3%	.198	-21.8	18	-1.1
2013	TB	91	313	66	2	18	2	22	63	.233	.290	.304	.071	.290	7.0%	20.1%	.270	-11.5	68	0.1
2012	TB	87	274	56	8	32	3	20	60	.223	.286	.355	.131	.262	7.3%	21.9%	.287	-6.8	81	0.5
2011	TOR	54	191	48	3	15	2	15	44	.281	.342	.415	.135	.363	7.9%	23.0%	.340	+2.9	109	1.1
2010	TOR	54	183	41	6	12	1	9	36	.246	.304	.377	.132	.280	4.9%	19.7%	.307	-2.7	85	0.4
2009	NYY	48	155	30	1	11	0	14	28	.217	.292	.268	.051	.264	9.0%	18.1%	.263	-8.8	53	-0.4
2008	NYY	92	297	58	3	18	0	12	52	.216	.263	.313	.097	.255	4.0%	17.5%	.261	-17.6	50	-0.5
2007	LAA/NYY	64	202	49	1	19	2	5	43	.257	.274	.340	.084	.324	2.5%	21.3%	.274	-10.5	57	-0.2
2006	LAA	74	245	54	4	22	1	9	49	.240	.273	.369	.129	.287	3.7%	20.0%	.282	-11.3	65	-0.1
2005	LAA	67	203	42	6	25	2	13	41	.228	.286	.348	.120	.263	6.4%	20.2%	.286	-7.4	71	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 José Molina'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	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2013 Post	TB	Postseason total	3	9	8	0	0	0	1	4	.000	.111	.000	.111
		Wild Card	1	4	3	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.250	.000	.250
		ALDS	2	5	5	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000
2009 Post	NYY	Postseason total	5	7	6	0	1	0	1	1	.167	.286	.167	.452
		ALDS	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
		ALCS	2	3	3	0	1	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.667
		World Series	2	3	2	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.333	.000	.333
2005 Post	LAA	Postseason total	2	4	4	1	2	1	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000
		ALDS	1	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000
		ALCS	1	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667
2005–2014		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	10	20	18	1	3	1	2	5	.167	.250	.167	.417

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, 2014. 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	55	51	13	0	3	11	.255	.309	.275	.271	20.0%
vs RHP	193	175	27	0	11	45	.154	.206	.160	.175	23.3%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2014.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2014.

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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 .251.

Situational hitting

How José Molina 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	247	—	—	—	—	—	—	.178	.230	.187	.198
Bases empty	126	122	25	0	0	3	29	.205	.230	.213	.204
Runner on first	48	43	7	0	1	3	9	.163	.234	.163	.194
Runners on	122	104	15	0	10	11	27	.144	.229	.154	.189
RISP	74	61	8	0	9	8	18	.131	.225	.148	.186

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2014.

Not in the 2014 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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Similar players

Nearest 2014 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Mark EllisSTL

wRC+: 29
HR: 0
AVG: .180
WAR: -0.9

Brendan RyanNYY

wRC+: 14
HR: 0
AVG: .167
WAR: -0.9

Miguel RojasLAD

wRC+: 32
HR: 1
AVG: .181
WAR: -0.6

James AdduciTEX

wRC+: 33
HR: 1
AVG: .168
WAR: -0.7

Comparable

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.