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Lance Berkman

Age: 37
B/T: S/L
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 220 lb
Number: #17

Born: February 10, 1976 in Waco, TX, United States
MLB debut: July 16, 1999

dbWAR: 32.3
PA: 294
AVG: .242
OBP: .340
SLG: .359
wRC+: 100

Lance Berkman was a designated hitter for the Texas Rangers. In 2013 he hit 6 home runs and knocked in 34 RBIs, notching 62 hits across 294 plate appearances in 73 games. His batting average was .242, 4.4% lower than the league average of .253. He reached base at a .340 clip and slugged .359, for an OPS of .700, 2.0% lower than the league mark of .714 — 9th of 14 on his team, and 235th of 453 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He made contact on 76.1% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 100 wRC+ puts his offence 0% above average. That comes to 0.2 dbWAR — -0.1 runs with the bat, +0.1 for the ballpark, -0.3 on the bases, +0.7 on double plays, -6.5 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+100

wOBA.317

ISO.117

BB%12.9%

WAR.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2013. These terms sum to +1.6 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 2005–2013; his career began in 1999, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2013	TEX	73	294	62	6	34	0	38	52	.242	.340	.359	.117	.283	12.9%	17.7%	.317	-0.1	100	0.2
2012	STL	32	97	21	2	7	2	14	19	.259	.381	.444	.185	.317	14.4%	19.6%	.359	+3.0	128	0.4
2011	STL	145	587	147	31	94	2	92	93	.301	.412	.547	.246	.315	15.7%	15.8%	.414	+42.5	170	5.6
2010	HOU/NYY	121	481	100	14	58	3	77	85	.248	.368	.413	.166	.282	16.0%	17.7%	.352	+10.3	123	1.6
2009	HOU	136	563	126	25	80	7	97	98	.274	.399	.509	.235	.296	17.2%	17.4%	.393	+27.6	144	3.8
2008	HOU	159	665	173	29	106	18	99	108	.312	.420	.567	.255	.341	14.9%	16.2%	.424	+49.7	160	6.1
2007	HOU	153	668	156	34	102	7	94	125	.278	.386	.510	.232	.300	14.1%	18.7%	.389	+30.0	140	4.3
2006	HOU	152	646	169	45	136	3	98	106	.315	.420	.621	.306	.316	15.2%	16.4%	.433	+52.3	163	6.0
2005	HOU	132	565	137	24	82	4	91	72	.293	.411	.524	.231	.302	16.1%	12.7%	.405	+34.3	153	4.4

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 Lance Berkman'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
2011 Post	STL	Postseason total	18	76	64	17	20	2	0	2	11	9	12	2	.313	.413	.438	.851
		NLDS	5	22	18	4	3	1	0	1	4	2	3	1	.167	.286	.389	.675
		NLCS	6	23	20	4	6	0	0	0	2	2	2	1	.300	.391	.300	.691
		World Series	7	31	26	9	11	1	0	1	5	5	7	0	.423	.516	.577	1.093
2010 Post	NYY	Postseason total	5	19	16	3	5	1	1	1	4	2	3	0	.313	.368	.688	1.056
		ALDS	1	4	4	2	2	1	0	1	2	0	1	0	.500	.500	1.500	2.000
		ALCS	4	15	12	1	3	0	1	0	2	2	2	0	.250	.333	.417	.750
2005 Post	HOU	Postseason total	14	62	48	6	16	5	0	2	14	12	12	1	.333	.468	.563	1.030
		NLDS	4	18	14	4	5	1	0	1	5	3	4	0	.357	.500	.643	1.143
		NLCS	6	25	21	2	6	2	0	1	3	4	3	0	.286	.400	.524	.924
		World Series	4	19	13	0	5	2	0	0	6	5	5	1	.385	.526	.538	1.065
2005–2013		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	37	157	128	26	41	8	1	5	29	23	27	3	.320	.429	.516	.945

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, 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	79	71	18	3	8	14	.254	.329	.451	.347	17.7%
vs RHP	215	185	44	3	30	38	.238	.344	.324	.306	17.7%

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 Lance Berkman 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	294	—	—	—	—	—	—	.242	.340	.359	.317
Bases empty	155	135	29	1	1	20	29	.215	.316	.296	.287
Runner on first	64	55	15	2	7	9	10	.273	.375	.418	.354
Runners on	139	121	33	5	33	18	23	.273	.367	.430	.352
RISP	75	66	18	3	26	9	13	.273	.360	.439	.349

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2013.

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.