Players · D · DH · 2014 regular season
Adam Dunn
- Age
- 35
- B/T
- L/R
- Height
- 6' 6"
- Weight
- 285 lb
- Number
- #44
- Born
- November 9, 1979 in Houston, TX, United States
- MLB debut
- July 20, 2001
- dbWAR
- 29.3 Regular season, 2005–2014 only
- PA
- 511
- AVG
- .219
- OBP
- .337
- SLG
- .415
- wRC+
- 116 100 = avg
Adam Dunn was a designated hitter for the Chicago White Sox. In 2014 he hit 22 home runs and knocked in 64 RBIs, notching 94 hits across 511 plate appearances in 131 games. His batting average was .219, 12.8% lower than the league average of .251. He reached base at a .337 clip and slugged .415, for an OPS of .752, 7.4% higher than the league mark of .700 — 4th of 17 on his team, and 114th of 443 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He made contact on 66.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 116 wRC+ puts his offence 16% above average. That comes to 1.4 dbWAR — +9.5 runs with the bat, -0.4 for the ballpark, -0.7 on the bases, +0.5 on double plays, -10.0 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, 2014 regular season.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2014. These terms sum to +12.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.
WAR by season
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2014; his career began in 2001, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | CWS/OAK | 131 | 511 | 94 | 22 | 64 | 1 | 71 | 159 | .219 | .337 | .415 | .196 | .286 | 13.9% | 31.1% | .338 | +9.5 | 116 | 1.4 | |
| 2013 | CWS | 148 | 607 | 115 | 34 | 86 | 1 | 76 | 189 | .219 | .320 | .442 | .223 | .266 | 12.5% | 31.1% | .336 | +8.4 | 113 | 1.7 | |
| 2012 | CWS | 151 | 649 | 110 | 41 | 96 | 2 | 105 | 222 | .204 | .333 | .468 | .263 | .246 | 16.2% | 34.2% | .352 | +16.8 | 114 | 2.0 | |
| 2011 | CWS | 122 | 496 | 66 | 11 | 42 | 0 | 75 | 177 | .159 | .292 | .277 | .118 | .240 | 15.1% | 35.7% | .272 | -18.5 | 67 | -1.8 | |
| 2010 | WSH | 158 | 648 | 145 | 38 | 103 | 0 | 77 | 199 | .260 | .356 | .536 | .276 | .329 | 11.9% | 30.7% | .387 | +31.8 | 144 | 4.2 | |
| 2009 | WSH | 159 | 668 | 146 | 38 | 105 | 0 | 116 | 177 | .267 | .398 | .529 | .262 | .324 | 17.4% | 26.5% | .401 | +37.2 | 146 | 4.7 | |
| 2008 | CIN/AZ | 158 | 651 | 122 | 40 | 100 | 2 | 122 | 164 | .236 | .386 | .513 | .277 | .258 | 18.7% | 25.2% | .392 | +31.3 | 137 | 4.4 | |
| 2007 | CIN | 152 | 632 | 138 | 40 | 106 | 9 | 101 | 165 | .264 | .386 | .554 | .289 | .305 | 16.0% | 26.1% | .405 | +36.5 | 143 | 4.7 | |
| 2006 | CIN | 160 | 683 | 131 | 40 | 92 | 7 | 112 | 194 | .234 | .365 | .490 | .257 | .276 | 16.4% | 28.4% | .370 | +19.1 | 117 | 3.1 | |
| 2005 | CIN | 160 | 671 | 134 | 40 | 101 | 4 | 114 | 168 | .247 | .387 | .540 | .293 | .279 | 17.0% | 25.0% | .398 | +37.4 | 141 | 5.0 |
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2014; his career began in 2001, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | CWS | 1 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 9.00 | 6.13 | 3.00 | 0.0 | 9.0 | 241 | 164 | -0.0 | — |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 71 | 59 | 9 | 2 | 10 | 21 | .153 | .282 | .271 | .265 | 29.6% |
| vs RHP | 440 | 370 | 85 | 20 | 61 | 138 | .230 | .345 | .438 | .350 | 31.4% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .500 | .449 | 0.0% |
| vs RHB | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .333 | .500 | .333 | .401 | 0.0% |
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.
Situational hitting
How Adam Dunn hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.
| Situation | PA | AB | H | HR | RBI | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All situations | 511 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .219 | .337 | .415 | .338 |
| Bases empty | 281 | 240 | 52 | 12 | 12 | 37 | 85 | .217 | .331 | .425 | .343 |
| Runner on first | 105 | 89 | 16 | 4 | 9 | 15 | 43 | .180 | .305 | .337 | .300 |
| Runners on | 230 | 189 | 42 | 10 | 52 | 34 | 74 | .222 | .343 | .402 | .332 |
| RISP | 125 | 100 | 26 | 6 | 43 | 19 | 31 | .260 | .376 | .460 | .359 |
Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2014.
Pitch sequencing
What Adam Dunn throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.
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Pitch arsenal
What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.
| Changeup | 20 | 80.6 | 1,639 | 30.0% | 0.0% | 5 | — | — |
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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Nearest 2014 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.
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.