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Austin Kearns

Age: 33
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 240 lb
Number: #28

Born: May 20, 1980 in Lexington, KY, United States
MLB debut: April 17, 2002

dbWAR: 5.1
PA: 31
AVG: .185
OBP: .290
SLG: .185
wRC+: 42

Austin Kearns was a position player for the Miami Marlins. In 2013 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 5 hits across 31 plate appearances in 19 games. His batting average was .185, 26.9% lower than the league average of .253. He reached base at a .290 clip and slugged .185, for an OPS of .476, 33.4% lower than the league mark of .714. He made contact on 75.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 42 wRC+ puts his offence 58% below average. That comes to -0.2 dbWAR — -2.0 runs with the bat, -0.0 for the ballpark, -0.0 on the bases, -0.3 on double plays, -0.5 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+42

wOBA.235

ISO.000

BB%12.9%

WAR-.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2013. These terms sum to -2.0 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. Seasons on file run 2005–2013; his career began in 2002, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2013	MIA	19	31	5	0	0	0	4	8	.185	.290	.185	.000	.263	12.9%	25.8%	.235	-2.0	42	-0.2
2012	MIA	85	175	36	4	16	2	22	44	.245	.366	.367	.122	.323	12.6%	25.1%	.334	+2.1	110	0.3
2011	CLE	52	174	30	2	7	0	18	48	.200	.302	.287	.087	.280	10.3%	27.6%	.278	-5.7	72	-0.5
2010	CLE/NYY	115	461	106	10	49	4	46	116	.263	.351	.395	.132	.344	10.0%	25.2%	.339	+4.9	111	1.2
2009	WSH	73	211	34	3	17	1	32	51	.195	.336	.305	.109	.258	15.2%	24.2%	.304	-5.0	80	-0.4
2008	WSH	86	357	68	7	32	2	35	63	.217	.311	.316	.099	.250	9.8%	17.6%	.293	-11.7	72	-0.7
2007	WSH	161	674	156	16	74	2	71	106	.266	.355	.411	.145	.299	10.5%	15.7%	.343	+4.3	109	1.7
2006	CIN/WSH	150	629	142	24	86	9	76	135	.264	.363	.467	.203	.308	12.1%	21.5%	.364	+14.6	114	2.4
2005	CIN	112	448	93	18	67	0	48	107	.240	.333	.452	.212	.281	10.7%	23.9%	.345	+5.2	106	1.3

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	17	15	3	0	2	4	.200	.294	.200	.240	23.5%
vs RHP	14	12	2	0	2	4	.167	.286	.167	.228	28.6%

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 Austin Kearns 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	31	—	—	—	—	—	—	.185	.290	.185	.235
Bases empty · thin	18	16	3	0	0	2	5	.188	.278	.188	.227
Runner on first · thin	5	4	2	0	0	1	1	.500	.600	.500	.498
Runners on · thin	13	11	2	0	0	2	3	.182	.308	.182	.246
RISP · thin	8	7	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.125	.000	.088

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.