Players · E · CF · 2006 regular season
Alex Escobar
- Age
- 28
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 215 lb
- Number
- #44
- Born
- September 6, 1978 in Caracas, Venezuela
- MLB debut
- May 8, 2001
- dbWAR
- .9 Regular season, 2006 only
- PA
- 99
- AVG
- .356
- OBP
- .394
- SLG
- .575
- wRC+
- 152 100 = avg
Alex Escobar was a center fielder for the Washington Nationals. In 2006 he hit 4 home runs and knocked in 18 RBIs, notching 31 hits across 99 plate appearances in 33 games. His batting average was .356, 32.3% higher than the league average of .269. He reached base at a .394 clip and slugged .575, for an OPS of .969, 26.1% higher than the league mark of .768. He made contact on 80.4% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 152 wRC+ puts his offence 52% above average. That comes to 0.9 dbWAR — +6.1 runs with the bat, +0.1 for the ballpark, +0.4 on the bases, -0.1 on double plays, +0.3 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, 2006 regular season.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2006. These terms sum to +9.6 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2006; his career began in 2001, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | WSH | 33 | 99 | 31 | 4 | 18 | 2 | 8 | 18 | .356 | .394 | .575 | .218 | .391 | 8.1% | 18.2% | .410 | +6.1 | 152 | 0.9 | — |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 36 | 30 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 8 | .400 | .417 | .800 | .482 | 22.2% |
| vs RHP | 63 | 57 | 19 | 1 | 5 | 10 | .333 | .381 | .456 | .369 | 15.9% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2006.
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Situational hitting
How Alex Escobar 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 | 99 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .356 | .394 | .575 | .410 |
| Bases empty | 44 | 42 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | .381 | .409 | .595 | .434 |
| Runner on first · thin | 23 | 18 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 2 | .500 | .609 | .722 | .573 |
| Runners on | 55 | 45 | 15 | 3 | 17 | 6 | 10 | .333 | .382 | .556 | .391 |
| RISP | 32 | 27 | 6 | 2 | 14 | 1 | 8 | .222 | .219 | .444 | .260 |
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, 2006.
Not in the 2006 data: pitch locations, first recorded in 2007; 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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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.