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Alex Sanchez
- Age
- 29
- B/T
- L/L
- Height
- 5' 8"
- Weight
- 155 lb
- Born
- August 26, 1976 in Havana, Cuba
- MLB debut
- June 15, 2001
- dbWAR
- .6 Regular season, 2005 only
- PA
- 192
- AVG
- .324
- OBP
- .353
- SLG
- .432
- wRC+
- 110 100 = avg
Alex Sanchez was a right fielder for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. In 2005 he hit 2 home runs and knocked in 16 RBIs, notching 57 hits across 192 plate appearances in 59 games. His batting average was .324, 22.5% higher than the league average of .264. He reached base at a .353 clip and slugged .432, for an OPS of .785, 4.7% higher than the league mark of .749 — 5th of 14 on his team, and 142nd of 431 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He made contact on 82.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 110 wRC+ puts his offence 10% above average. That comes to 0.6 dbWAR — +2.2 runs with the bat, +0.1 for the ballpark, -0.6 on the bases, -0.4 on double plays, -1.1 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.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2005. These terms sum to +5.6 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 2005; his career began in 2001, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 24 | 23 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | .304 | .304 | .522 | .357 | 25.0% |
| vs RHP | 168 | 153 | 50 | 1 | 8 | 28 | .327 | .360 | .418 | .343 | 16.7% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2005.
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Situational hitting
How Alex Sanchez 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 | 192 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .324 | .353 | .432 | .344 |
| Bases empty | 119 | 113 | 36 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 21 | .319 | .353 | .416 | .342 |
| Runner on first | 33 | 30 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 4 | .367 | .367 | .567 | .406 |
| Runners on | 73 | 63 | 21 | 1 | 15 | 2 | 13 | .333 | .353 | .460 | .348 |
| RISP | 40 | 33 | 10 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 9 | .303 | .342 | .364 | .301 |
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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Nearest 2005 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.