Players · T · LF · 2009 regular season
So Taguchi
- Age
- 40
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 5' 10"
- Weight
- 170 lb
- Number
- #99
- Born
- July 2, 1969 in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
- MLB debut
- June 10, 2002
- dbWAR
- 1.4 Regular season, 2005–2009 only
- PA
- 12
- AVG
- .273
- OBP
- .333
- SLG
- .364
- wRC+
- 86 100 = avg
So Taguchi was a left fielder for the Chicago Cubs. In 2009 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 3 hits across 12 plate appearances in 5 games. His batting average was .273, 3.9% higher than the league average of .262. He reached base at a .333 clip and slugged .364, for an OPS of .697, 7.2% lower than the league mark of .751. He made contact on 73.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 86 wRC+ puts his offence 14% below average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — -0.2 runs with the bat, -0.0 for the ballpark, -0.0 on the bases, -0.1 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, 2009 regular season.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2009. These terms sum to +0.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.
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 2005–2009; his career began in 2002, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | CHC | 5 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | .273 | .333 | .364 | .091 | .429 | 8.3% | 33.3% | .317 | -0.2 | 86 | 0.0 | |
| 2008 | PHI | 64 | 103 | 20 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 14 | .220 | .283 | .297 | .077 | .260 | 7.8% | 13.6% | .268 | -5.5 | 55 | -0.4 | |
| 2007 | STL | 119 | 340 | 89 | 3 | 30 | 7 | 23 | 32 | .290 | .350 | .368 | .078 | .315 | 6.8% | 9.4% | .328 | -2.3 | 96 | 0.8 | |
| 2006 | STL | 123 | 361 | 84 | 2 | 31 | 11 | 32 | 48 | .266 | .335 | .351 | .085 | .306 | 8.9% | 13.3% | .311 | -7.7 | 84 | 0.3 | |
| 2005 | STL | 134 | 424 | 114 | 8 | 53 | 11 | 20 | 62 | .288 | .322 | .412 | .124 | .321 | 4.7% | 14.6% | .322 | -2.9 | 93 | 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
| Season | Team | Round | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | AVG | OBP | SLG | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 Post | PHI | NLCS | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| 2006 Post | STL | Postseason total | 8 | 18 | 15 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | .400 | .438 | .867 | 1.304 |
| NLDS | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 4.000 | 5.000 | ||
| NLCS | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 2.333 | 3.333 | ||
| World Series | 4 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | .182 | .250 | .182 | .432 | ||
| 2005 Post | STL | Postseason total | 4 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| NLDS | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | ||
| NLCS | 3 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | ||
| 2005–2009 | Postseason total · 3 Octobers | 16 | 29 | 26 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 0 | .231 | .259 | .500 | .759 |
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.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 10 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | .222 | .300 | .333 | .290 | 30.0% |
| vs RHP | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .500 | .500 | .500 | .451 | 50.0% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2009.
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Hot and cold zones
Batting average by pitch location, 2009.
Situational hitting
How So Taguchi 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 | 12 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .273 | .333 | .364 | .317 |
| Bases empty · thin | 7 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .143 | .143 | .143 | .129 |
| Runner on first · thin | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .667 | .667 | 1.000 | .728 |
| Runners on · thin | 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .500 | .600 | .750 | .581 |
| RISP · thin | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .000 | .500 | .000 | .360 |
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, 2009.
Not in the 2009 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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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.