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Chase Utley

Los Angeles Dodgers National League West2B

Age: 40
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 195 lb
Number: #26

Born: December 17, 1978 in Pasadena, CA, United States
MLB debut: April 4, 2003

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dbWAR: 54.0
PA: 187
AVG: .213
OBP: .305
SLG: .305
wRC+: 73

Chase Utley was a second baseman for the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2018 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 14 RBIs, notching 35 hits across 187 plate appearances in 83 games. His batting average was .213, 13.9% lower than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .305 clip and slugged .305, for an OPS of .610, 16.2% lower than the league mark of .728 — the second worst on his team, and 379th of 448 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 87.7 mph off the bat, hit 35.2% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 2.8% of them and made contact on 86.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 73 wRC+ puts his offence 27% below average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — -6.5 runs with the bat, +0.4 for the ballpark, +0.1 on the bases, +0.6 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, 2018 regular season.

wRC+73

wOBA.275

ISO.091

BB%9.1%

WAR.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2018. These terms sum to +0.0 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 2005–2018; his career began in 2003, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2018	LAD	83	187	35	1	14	3	17	34	.213	.305	.305	.091	.262	9.1%	18.2%	.275	-6.5	73	0.0
2017	LAD	125	353	73	8	34	6	32	57	.236	.324	.405	.168	.264	9.1%	16.1%	.321	-1.1	98	1.2
2016	LAD	137	565	129	14	52	2	40	115	.252	.319	.396	.145	.299	7.1%	20.4%	.315	-2.9	101	2.1
2015	PHI/LAD	107	423	79	8	39	4	32	64	.212	.286	.343	.131	.230	7.6%	15.1%	.277	-13.2	72	0.2
2014	PHI	155	664	159	11	78	10	53	85	.270	.339	.407	.138	.295	8.0%	12.8%	.328	+7.4	113	3.9
2013	PHI	131	531	135	18	69	8	45	79	.284	.348	.475	.191	.305	8.5%	14.9%	.360	+17.4	126	3.7
2012	PHI	83	362	77	11	45	11	43	43	.256	.365	.429	.173	.261	11.9%	11.9%	.346	+7.7	120	2.5
2011	PHI	103	454	103	11	44	14	39	47	.259	.344	.425	.166	.269	8.6%	10.4%	.343	+8.0	116	3.2
2010	PHI	115	511	117	16	65	13	63	63	.275	.387	.445	.169	.288	12.3%	12.3%	.375	+20.2	135	4.4
2009	PHI	156	687	161	31	93	23	88	110	.282	.397	.508	.226	.300	12.8%	16.0%	.400	+37.4	144	7.1
2008	PHI	159	707	177	33	104	14	64	104	.292	.380	.535	.244	.301	9.1%	14.7%	.395	+35.7	141	6.6
2007	PHI	132	613	176	22	103	9	50	89	.332	.410	.566	.234	.362	8.2%	14.5%	.425	+46.0	159	7.1
2006	PHI	160	739	203	32	102	15	63	132	.309	.379	.527	.219	.343	8.5%	17.9%	.394	+35.5	136	6.3
2005	PHI	147	628	158	28	105	16	69	109	.291	.376	.540	.249	.315	11.0%	17.4%	.395	+33.1	138	5.9

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 Chase Utley'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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2017 Post	LAD	Postseason total	8	19	15	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	5	0	.000	.211	.000	.211
		NLDS	1	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.000	.500	.000	.500
		NLCS	3	8	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	.000	.125	.000	.125
		World Series	4	7	6	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.143	.000	.143
2016 Post	LAD	Postseason total	10	32	28	1	3	0	0	0	2	3	8	1	.107	.219	.107	.326
		NLDS	5	18	16	0	3	0	0	0	2	1	5	1	.188	.278	.188	.465
		NLCS	5	14	12	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	0	.000	.143	.000	.143
2015 Post	LAD	NLDS	3	3	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.333	.333	.333	.667
2011 Post	PHI	NLDS	5	21	16	5	7	2	1	0	1	3	3	0	.438	.571	.688	1.259
2010 Post	PHI	Postseason total	9	40	33	8	7	1	0	1	5	4	4	4	.212	.325	.333	.658
		NLDS	3	13	11	3	3	0	0	1	4	0	2	1	.273	.308	.545	.853
		NLCS	6	27	22	5	4	1	0	0	1	4	2	3	.182	.333	.227	.561
2009 Post	PHI	Postseason total	15	66	54	15	16	1	0	6	10	12	12	3	.296	.424	.648	1.072
		NLDS	4	18	14	5	6	0	0	1	1	4	3	2	.429	.556	.643	1.198
		NLCS	5	23	19	3	4	0	0	0	1	4	4	0	.211	.348	.211	.558
		World Series	6	25	21	7	6	1	0	5	8	4	5	1	.286	.400	1.048	1.448
2008 Post	PHI	Postseason total	14	64	50	10	11	3	0	3	9	13	14	3	.220	.391	.460	.851
		NLDS	4	17	15	1	2	1	0	0	2	2	4	0	.133	.235	.200	.435
		NLCS	5	23	17	4	6	2	0	1	3	6	5	0	.353	.522	.647	1.169
		World Series	5	24	18	5	3	0	0	2	4	5	5	3	.167	.375	.500	.875
2007 Post	PHI	NLDS	3	13	11	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	5	0	.182	.308	.182	.490
2005–2018		Postseason total · 8 Octobers	67	258	210	41	47	7	1	10	27	39	52	11	.224	.364	.410	.774

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, 2018. 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	17	14	2	0	2	4	.143	.235	.214	.210	23.5%
vs RHP	170	150	33	1	15	30	.220	.312	.313	.282	17.6%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2018.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 108 tracked batted balls in 2018. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 2.8%
Exit velocity: 87.7
Max exit velo: 106.4
Hard hit: 35.2%
Sweet spot: 38.0%
Launch angle: 14.0°

Barrel rate2.8%

Exit velocity87.7 mph

Hard hit rate35.2%

Contact rate86.7%

A barrel is a batted ball whose exit velocity and launch angle have historically produced at least a .500 average and 1.500 slugging — 98 mph within 26–30°, widening to 8–50° by 116 mph. Reconstructed from Statcast's published anchor points, which reproduces them exactly; the interior is within a degree. Sweet spot (8–32°) is an exact definition.

Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2018.

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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 .247.

Situational hitting

How Chase Utley 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	187	—	—	—	—	—	—	.213	.305	.305	.275
Bases empty	112	103	20	1	1	6	26	.194	.259	.282	.246
Runner on first	32	30	7	0	0	2	6	.233	.281	.300	.261
Runners on	75	61	15	0	13	11	8	.246	.373	.344	.320
RISP	43	31	8	0	13	9	2	.258	.442	.387	.366

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2018.

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Similar players

Nearest 2018 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Greg GarciaSTL

wRC+: 74
HR: 3
AVG: .221
WAR: 0.0

Very close

Wilmer DifoWSH

wRC+: 74
HR: 7
AVG: .230
WAR: 0.4

Ryan FlahertyATL

wRC+: 58
HR: 2
AVG: .217
WAR: -0.4

Logan ForsytheLAD

wRC+: 74
HR: 2
AVG: .232
WAR: 0.0

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.