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Carlos Pena

Age: 36
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 225 lb
Number: #23

Born: May 17, 1978 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
MLB debut: September 5, 2001

dbWAR: 18.1
PA: 63
AVG: .136
OBP: .190
SLG: .237
wRC+: 18

Carlos Pena was a first baseman for the Texas Rangers. In 2014 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 2 RBIs, notching 8 hits across 63 plate appearances in 18 games. His batting average was .136, 46.0% lower than the league average of .251. He reached base at a .190 clip and slugged .237, for an OPS of .428, 38.9% lower than the league mark of .700. He made contact on 71.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 18 wRC+ puts his offence 82% below average. That comes to -0.4 dbWAR — -5.5 runs with the bat, -0.1 for the ballpark, +0.2 on the bases, +1.1 on double plays, -0.9 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.102

BB%6.3%

WAR-.4

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2014. 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 2005–2014; his career began in 2001, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2014	TEX	18	63	8	1	2	1	4	11	.136	.190	.237	.102	.149	6.3%	17.5%	.198	-5.5	18	-0.4
2013	HOU/KC	88	328	58	8	25	1	43	92	.207	.321	.346	.139	.278	13.1%	28.0%	.302	-3.9	87	-0.3
2012	TB	156	599	98	19	61	2	87	181	.197	.330	.354	.157	.263	14.5%	30.2%	.313	-2.9	99	0.4
2011	CHC	148	606	111	28	80	2	101	161	.225	.357	.462	.237	.267	16.7%	26.6%	.362	+19.6	131	3.1
2010	TB	139	582	95	28	84	5	87	158	.196	.325	.407	.211	.222	14.9%	27.1%	.331	+2.6	110	1.6
2009	TB	135	570	107	39	100	3	87	163	.227	.356	.537	.310	.250	15.3%	28.6%	.383	+23.1	134	3.3
2008	TB	139	607	121	31	102	1	96	166	.247	.377	.494	.247	.298	15.8%	27.3%	.383	+24.7	136	3.5
2007	TB	147	612	138	46	121	1	103	142	.282	.411	.627	.345	.297	16.8%	23.2%	.438	+52.3	175	6.1
2006	BOS	13	37	9	1	3	0	4	10	.273	.351	.424	.152	.364	10.8%	27.0%	.346	+0.3	106	0.0
2005	DET	78	295	61	18	44	0	31	95	.235	.325	.477	.242	.293	10.5%	32.2%	.351	+4.9	115	0.8

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 Carlos Pena'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
2010 Post	TB	ALDS	4	17	14	4	4	1	1	1	4	3	7	0	.286	.412	.714	1.126
2008 Post	TB	Postseason total	15	63	53	9	14	2	0	3	10	10	17	3	.264	.381	.472	.853
		ALDS	3	11	10	0	5	0	0	0	2	1	4	2	.500	.545	.500	1.045
		ALCS	7	32	26	8	7	1	0	3	6	6	7	1	.269	.406	.654	1.060
		World Series	5	20	17	1	2	1	0	0	2	3	6	0	.118	.250	.176	.426
2005–2014		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	19	80	67	13	18	3	1	4	14	13	24	3	.269	.388	.522	.910

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	13	13	1	0	0	4	.077	.077	.154	.099	30.8%
vs RHP	50	46	7	1	4	7	.152	.220	.261	.223	14.0%

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.

Below averageLeague averageAbove average

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 Carlos Pena 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	63	—	—	—	—	—	—	.136	.190	.237	.198
Bases empty	32	29	5	1	1	3	8	.172	.250	.379	.283
Runner on first · thin	17	16	2	0	0	1	1	.125	.176	.125	.147
Runners on	31	30	3	0	1	1	3	.100	.129	.100	.110
RISP · thin	14	14	1	0	1	0	2	.071	.071	.071	.064

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, 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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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.