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Willie Bloomquist

Age: 38
B/T: R/R
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 200 lb
Number: #16

Born: November 27, 1977 in Bremerton, WA, United States
MLB debut: September 1, 2002

dbWAR: 2.4
PA: 72
AVG: .159
OBP: .194
SLG: .174
wRC+: -3

Willie Bloomquist was a second baseman for the Seattle Mariners. In 2015 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 4 RBIs, notching 11 hits across 72 plate appearances in 32 games. His batting average was .159, 37.3% lower than the league average of .254. He reached base at a .194 clip and slugged .174, for an OPS of .368, 48.9% lower than the league mark of .721. He averaged 87.4 mph off the bat, hit 20.5% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 2.3% of them and made contact on 80.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -3 wRC+ puts his offence 103% below average. That comes to -0.7 dbWAR — -8.4 runs with the bat, +0.1 for the ballpark, -0.2 on the bases, +0.2 on double plays, -0.0 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, 2015 regular season.

wRC+-3

wOBA.170

ISO.014

BB%2.8%

WAR-.7

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2015. These terms sum to -6.4 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 2005–2015; his career began in 2002, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2015	SEA	32	72	11	0	4	1	2	13	.159	.194	.174	.014	.196	2.8%	18.1%	.170	-8.4	-3	-0.7
2014	SEA	45	139	37	1	14	1	4	32	.278	.297	.346	.068	.356	2.9%	23.0%	.284	-3.1	84	0.1
2013	AZ	47	150	44	0	14	0	8	11	.317	.360	.367	.050	.341	5.3%	7.3%	.328	+1.2	108	0.5
2012	AZ	80	338	98	0	23	7	12	55	.302	.325	.398	.096	.362	3.6%	16.3%	.318	-0.3	94	1.0
2011	AZ	96	381	93	4	26	20	23	51	.266	.317	.340	.074	.300	6.0%	13.4%	.295	-7.5	79	0.6
2010	KC/CIN	74	199	50	3	17	8	9	28	.267	.299	.380	.112	.299	4.5%	14.1%	.303	-3.5	85	0.1
2009	KC	122	468	115	4	29	25	27	73	.265	.308	.355	.090	.309	5.8%	15.6%	.296	-13.9	73	0.1
2008	SEA	65	192	46	0	9	14	25	29	.279	.377	.285	.006	.338	13.0%	15.1%	.315	-2.8	90	0.6
2007	SEA	68	188	48	2	13	7	10	35	.277	.321	.329	.052	.338	5.3%	18.6%	.297	-6.1	75	-0.0
2006	SEA	86	283	62	1	15	16	24	40	.247	.320	.299	.052	.288	8.5%	14.1%	.288	-11.6	70	0.1
2005	SEA	73	267	64	0	22	14	11	38	.257	.289	.333	.076	.300	4.1%	14.2%	.278	-11.5	65	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 Willie Bloomquist'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	AZ	NLDS	5	23	22	3	7	0	0	0	1	1	3	3	.318	.348	.318	.666

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, 2015. 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	41	38	7	0	2	5	.184	.244	.211	.213	12.2%
vs RHP	31	31	4	0	0	8	.129	.129	.129	.114	25.8%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2015.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 44 tracked batted balls in 2015. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 2.3%
Exit velocity: 87.4
Max exit velo: 101.3
Hard hit: 20.5%
Sweet spot: 34.1%
Launch angle: 11.1°

Barrel rate2.3%

Exit velocity87.4 mph

Hard hit rate20.5%

Contact rate80.2%

A barrel is a batted ball whose exit velocity and launch angle have historically produced at least a .500 average and 1.500 slugging — 98 mph within 26–30°, widening to 8–50° by 116 mph. Reconstructed from Statcast's published anchor points, which reproduces them exactly; the interior is within a degree. Sweet spot (8–32°) is an exact definition.

Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2015.

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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 .254.

Situational hitting

How Willie Bloomquist 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	72	—	—	—	—	—	—	.159	.194	.174	.170
Bases empty	41	38	6	0	0	2	10	.158	.220	.158	.182
Runner on first · thin	13	13	2	0	0	0	2	.154	.154	.154	.136
Runners on	31	31	5	0	4	0	3	.161	.161	.194	.155
RISP · thin	18	18	3	0	4	0	1	.167	.167	.222	.169

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, 2015.

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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.