Players · T · LF · 2011 regular season

Marcus Thames

Los Angeles Dodgers National League WestLF

Age: 34
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 220 lb
Number: #33

Born: March 6, 1977 in Louisville, MS, United States
MLB debut: June 10, 2002

dbWAR: 3.9
PA: 70
AVG: .197
OBP: .243
SLG: .333
wRC+: 59

Marcus Thames was a left fielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2011 he hit 2 home runs and knocked in 7 RBIs, notching 13 hits across 70 plate appearances in 35 games. His batting average was .197, 22.8% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .243 clip and slugged .333, for an OPS of .576, 19.9% lower than the league mark of .720. He made contact on 72.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 59 wRC+ puts his offence 41% below average. That comes to -0.3 dbWAR — -3.3 runs with the bat, +0.1 for the ballpark, -0.0 on the bases, -0.4 on double plays, -1.0 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, 2011 regular season.

wRC+59

wOBA.260

ISO.136

BB%5.7%

WAR-.3

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2011. These terms sum to -2.8 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 2005–2011; his career began in 2002, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2011	LAD	35	70	13	2	7	0	4	16	.197	.243	.333	.136	.229	5.7%	22.9%	.260	-3.3	59	-0.3
2010	NYY	79	237	61	12	33	0	19	61	.288	.350	.491	.203	.345	8.0%	25.7%	.371	+8.6	125	1.1
2009	DET	86	294	65	13	36	0	29	72	.252	.323	.453	.202	.291	9.9%	24.5%	.338	+1.2	103	0.2
2008	DET	100	342	76	25	56	0	24	95	.241	.292	.516	.275	.258	7.0%	27.8%	.349	+4.6	109	0.7
2007	DET	84	284	65	18	54	2	13	72	.242	.278	.498	.257	.261	4.6%	25.4%	.333	-0.7	96	0.3
2006	DET	109	390	89	26	60	1	37	92	.256	.333	.549	.293	.273	9.5%	23.6%	.378	+13.4	128	2.0
2005	DET	38	118	21	7	16	0	9	38	.196	.263	.411	.215	.222	7.6%	32.2%	.292	-3.7	75	-0.2

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 Marcus Thames'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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2010 Post	NYY	Postseason total	8	25	23	1	4	0	1	3	2	8	.174	.240	.304	.544
		ALDS	2	8	7	1	2	0	1	2	1	1	.286	.375	.714	1.089
		ALCS	6	17	16	0	2	0	0	1	1	7	.125	.176	.125	.301
2006 Post	DET	Postseason total	7	22	21	3	5	2	0	1	1	6	.238	.273	.333	.606
		ALDS	4	16	15	2	5	2	0	1	1	5	.333	.375	.467	.842
		ALCS	2	5	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
		World Series	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
2005–2011		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	15	47	44	4	9	2	1	4	3	14	.205	.255	.318	.574

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, 2011. 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	39	36	6	1	3	10	.167	.231	.306	.246	25.6%
vs RHP	31	30	7	1	1	6	.233	.258	.367	.278	19.4%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2011.

Loading 43 batted balls…

Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2011.

Below averageLeague averageAbove average

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 .254.

Situational hitting

How Marcus Thames 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	70	—	—	—	—	—	—	.197	.243	.333	.260
Bases empty	36	34	7	1	1	2	11	.206	.250	.324	.259
Runner on first · thin	16	16	4	1	3	0	0	.250	.250	.563	.354
Runners on	34	32	6	1	6	2	5	.188	.235	.344	.261
RISP · thin	18	16	2	0	3	2	5	.125	.222	.125	.178

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, 2011.

Not in the 2011 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.

Compare Marcus Thames with…

Side by side with up to three others.

Compare with… add up to 3 more players

Marcus Thames

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.