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Michael Young

Philadelphia Phillies National League East3B

Age: 37
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 200 lb
Number: #10

Born: October 19, 1976 in Covina, CA, United States
MLB debut: September 29, 2000

dbWAR: 29.7
PA: 565
AVG: .279
OBP: .335
SLG: .395
wRC+: 102

Michael Young was a third baseman for the Philadelphia Phillies. In 2013 he hit 8 home runs and knocked in 46 RBIs, notching 145 hits across 565 plate appearances in 146 games. His batting average was .279, 10.2% higher than the league average of .253. He reached base at a .335 clip and slugged .395, for an OPS of .730, 2.2% higher than the league mark of .714 — 5th of 17 on his team, and 181st of 453 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He made contact on 81.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 102 wRC+ puts his offence 2% above average. That comes to 1.6 dbWAR — +2.9 runs with the bat, -1.0 for the ballpark, -0.3 on the bases, -2.6 on double plays, +0.2 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+102

wOBA.324

ISO.116

BB%7.6%

WAR1.6

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2013. These terms sum to +14.3 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 2000, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2013	PHI/LAD	146	565	145	8	46	1	43	83	.279	.335	.395	.116	.319	7.6%	14.7%	.324	+2.9	102	1.6
2012	TEX	156	651	169	8	67	2	33	70	.277	.312	.370	.093	.299	5.1%	10.8%	.300	-9.8	83	-0.7
2011	TEX	159	689	213	11	106	6	47	78	.338	.380	.474	.136	.367	6.8%	11.3%	.374	+28.6	123	3.6
2010	TEX	157	718	186	21	91	4	50	115	.284	.330	.444	.160	.311	7.0%	16.0%	.340	+8.4	107	3.2
2009	TEX	135	593	174	22	68	8	47	90	.322	.374	.518	.196	.351	7.9%	15.2%	.390	+27.6	135	4.8
2008	TEX	155	708	183	12	82	10	55	109	.284	.339	.402	.118	.323	7.8%	15.4%	.332	-0.4	96	2.7
2007	TEX	156	692	201	9	94	13	47	107	.315	.366	.418	.103	.366	6.8%	15.5%	.350	+8.2	110	3.7
2006	TEX	162	748	217	14	103	7	48	96	.314	.356	.459	.145	.345	6.4%	12.8%	.357	+12.5	111	3.9
2005	TEX	159	732	221	24	91	5	58	91	.331	.385	.513	.183	.354	7.9%	12.4%	.394	+38.3	141	6.9

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 Michael Young'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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2013 Post	LAD	Postseason total	9	10	10	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	.100	.100	.100	.200
		NLDS	3	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.667
		NLCS	6	7	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
2012 Post	TEX	Wild Card	1	4	4	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000
2011 Post	TEX	Postseason total	17	74	70	7	16	7	2	12	3	15	.229	.257	.414	.671
		ALDS	4	16	15	1	2	0	0	0	1	2	.133	.188	.133	.321
		ALCS	6	29	28	3	7	3	1	7	1	6	.250	.276	.464	.740
		World Series	7	29	27	3	7	4	1	5	1	7	.259	.276	.519	.794
2010 Post	TEX	Postseason total	16	69	67	4	17	3	1	7	2	15	.254	.275	.343	.619
		ALDS	5	20	20	1	3	0	1	3	0	6	.150	.150	.300	.450
		ALCS	6	28	27	3	9	3	0	4	1	7	.333	.357	.444	.802
		World Series	5	21	20	0	5	0	0	0	1	2	.250	.286	.250	.536
2005–2013		Postseason total · 4 Octobers	43	157	151	11	36	10	3	19	5	31	.238	.261	.364	.625

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	154	138	35	2	16	18	.254	.331	.399	.321	11.7%
vs RHP	411	381	110	6	27	65	.289	.336	.394	.326	15.8%

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 Michael Young 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	565	—	—	—	—	—	—	.279	.335	.395	.324
Bases empty	332	308	86	4	4	23	50	.279	.331	.373	.318
Runner on first	117	110	31	3	13	7	16	.282	.325	.482	.351
Runners on	233	211	59	4	42	20	33	.280	.339	.427	.334
RISP	116	101	28	1	29	13	17	.277	.353	.366	.316

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.