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Eric Hinske

Arizona Diamondbacks National League WestPH

Age: 36
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 235 lb
Number: #11

Born: August 5, 1977 in Menasha, WI, United States
MLB debut: April 1, 2002

dbWAR: 4.2
PA: 58
AVG: .173
OBP: .259
SLG: .288
wRC+: 56

Eric Hinske was a position player for the Arizona Diamondbacks. In 2013 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 6 RBIs, notching 9 hits across 58 plate appearances in 49 games. His batting average was .173, 31.7% lower than the league average of .253. He reached base at a .259 clip and slugged .288, for an OPS of .547, 23.4% lower than the league mark of .714. He made contact on 71.4% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 56 wRC+ puts his offence 44% below average. That comes to -0.3 dbWAR — -2.8 runs with the bat, +0.0 for the ballpark, -0.0 on the bases, -0.6 on double plays, -1.2 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+56

wOBA.254

ISO.115

BB%10.3%

WAR-.3

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2013. These terms sum to -3.1 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 2002, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2013	AZ	49	58	9	1	6	0	6	17	.173	.259	.288	.115	.235	10.3%	29.3%	.254	-2.8	56	-0.3
2012	ATL	87	147	26	2	13	0	14	41	.197	.272	.311	.114	.267	9.5%	27.9%	.258	-7.0	58	-0.6
2011	ATL	116	264	55	10	28	0	26	71	.233	.311	.403	.169	.288	9.8%	26.9%	.319	-0.2	101	0.3
2010	ATL	128	320	72	11	51	0	33	75	.256	.338	.456	.199	.308	10.3%	23.4%	.348	+5.6	115	1.1
2009	PIT/NYY	89	224	46	8	25	1	27	52	.242	.348	.432	.189	.288	12.1%	23.2%	.349	+2.9	110	0.8
2008	TB	133	432	94	20	60	10	47	88	.247	.333	.465	.218	.270	10.9%	20.4%	.351	+6.4	114	1.3
2007	BOS	77	218	38	6	21	3	28	54	.204	.317	.398	.194	.252	12.8%	24.8%	.319	-3.0	85	-0.1
2006	TOR/BOS	106	312	75	13	34	2	35	79	.271	.353	.487	.217	.335	11.2%	25.3%	.365	+7.6	117	1.0
2005	TOR	146	537	125	15	68	8	46	121	.262	.333	.430	.168	.317	8.6%	22.5%	.335	+2.1	102	0.8

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 Eric Hinske'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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2010 Post	ATL	NLDS	4	4	3	1	1	1	2	1	1	.333	.500	1.333	1.833
2009 Post	NYY	World Series	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	—	1.000	—	—
2008 Post	TB	World Series	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	0	1	.500	.500	2.000	2.500
2007 Post	BOS	Postseason total	3	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000
		ALDS	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
		ALCS	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—
		World Series	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
2005–2013		Postseason total · 4 Octobers	10	9	7	4	2	2	3	2	4	.286	.444	1.143	1.587

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	8	8	2	0	0	3	.250	.250	.500	.325	37.5%
vs RHP	50	44	7	1	6	14	.159	.260	.250	.242	28.0%

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 Eric Hinske 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	58	—	—	—	—	—	—	.173	.259	.288	.254
Bases empty	32	29	3	0	0	3	12	.103	.188	.172	.175
Runner on first · thin	12	12	3	0	1	0	2	.250	.250	.333	.257
Runners on	26	23	6	1	6	3	5	.261	.346	.435	.350
RISP · thin	14	11	3	1	5	3	3	.273	.429	.545	.430

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, 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.