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Players · G · 2B · 2005 regular season

Keith Ginter

Age
29
B/T
R/R
Height
5' 10"
Weight
195 lb
Born
May 5, 1976 in Norwalk, CA, United States
MLB debut
September 20, 2000

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dbWAR
-1.0
Regular season, 2005 only
PA
156
AVG
.161
OBP
.234
SLG
.263
wRC+
30
100 = avg

Keith Ginter was a second baseman for the Oakland Athletics. In 2005 he hit 3 home runs and knocked in 25 RBIs, notching 22 hits across 156 plate appearances in 50 games. His batting average was .161, 39.3% lower than the league average of .264. He reached base at a .234 clip and slugged .263, for an OPS of .497, 33.7% lower than the league mark of .749 — the worst on his team, and 426th of 431 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He made contact on 83.1% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 30 wRC+ puts his offence 70% below average. That comes to -1.0 dbWAR — -13.1 runs with the bat, -0.2 for the ballpark, -0.0 on the bases, -1.0 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, 2005 regular season.

wRC+30
wOBA.228
ISO.102
BB%8.3%
WAR-1.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2005. These terms sum to -9.7 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting-13.1Ballpark-0.2Baserunning-0.0Double plays-1.0Position+0.2Replacement+4.4
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005; his career began in 2000, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

Trend
2005OAK501562232501325.161.234.263.102.1708.3%16.0%.228-13.130-1.0—

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2005. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP6861100411.164.206.213.19016.2%
vs RHP8876123914.158.256.303.25815.9%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2005.

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Situational hitting

How Keith Ginter hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.

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By who is on base when he comes up. The season line is repeated as the baseline.
SituationPAABHHRRBIBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBA
All situations156——————.161.234.263.228
Bases empty7771922510.127.195.225.196
Runner on first322740149.148.258.185.220
Runners on796613123815.197.273.303.260
RISP4739912246.231.283.385.288

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2005.

Not in the 2005 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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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.