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Omar Infante

Kansas City Royals American League Central2B

Age: 35
B/T: R/R
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 195 lb
Number: #20

Born: December 26, 1981 in Puerto la Cruz, Venezuela
MLB debut: September 7, 2002

dbWAR: 11.2
PA: 149
AVG: .239
OBP: .279
SLG: .321
wRC+: 57

Omar Infante was a second baseman for the Kansas City Royals. In 2016 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 11 RBIs, notching 32 hits across 149 plate appearances in 38 games. His batting average was .239, 6.5% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .279 clip and slugged .321, for an OPS of .600, 18.8% lower than the league mark of .739 — 13th of 15 on his team, and 395th of 438 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 85.8 mph off the bat, hit 25.7% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 76.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 57 wRC+ puts his offence 43% below average. That comes to -0.2 dbWAR — -7.0 runs with the bat, -0.4 for the ballpark, -0.1 on the bases, +0.5 on double plays, +1.1 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, 2016 regular season.

wRC+57

wOBA.262

ISO.082

BB%6.0%

WAR-.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2016. These terms sum to -1.8 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 2005–2016; his career began in 2002, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2016	KC	38	149	32	0	11	0	9	23	.239	.279	.321	.082	.278	6.0%	15.4%	.262	-7.0	57	-0.2
2015	KC	122	455	97	2	44	2	9	69	.220	.234	.318	.098	.255	2.0%	15.2%	.240	-27.8	45	-1.3
2014	KC	135	575	133	6	66	9	33	68	.252	.295	.337	.085	.275	5.7%	11.8%	.283	-13.5	78	0.8
2013	DET	117	476	144	10	51	5	20	44	.318	.345	.450	.132	.333	4.2%	9.2%	.350	+11.9	118	3.0
2012	MIA/DET	148	588	152	12	53	17	21	65	.274	.300	.419	.144	.291	3.6%	11.1%	.314	-2.3	96	2.4
2011	FLA	147	640	160	7	49	4	34	67	.276	.315	.382	.105	.298	5.3%	10.5%	.310	-5.1	94	1.9
2010	ATL	129	506	151	8	47	7	29	62	.321	.359	.416	.096	.355	5.7%	12.3%	.347	+8.5	114	2.4
2009	ATL	67	229	62	2	27	2	19	28	.305	.361	.389	.084	.339	8.3%	12.2%	.338	+0.9	107	0.8
2008	ATL	93	348	93	3	40	0	22	44	.293	.338	.416	.123	.327	6.3%	12.6%	.333	+0.1	98	1.0
2007	DET	57	178	45	2	17	4	9	29	.271	.307	.355	.084	.316	5.1%	16.3%	.297	-5.7	73	0.0
2006	DET	73	245	62	4	25	3	14	45	.277	.325	.415	.138	.328	5.7%	18.4%	.327	-2.0	94	0.4
2005	DET	117	434	90	9	43	8	16	73	.222	.254	.367	.145	.248	3.7%	16.8%	.273	-20.4	61	-0.1

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 Omar Infante'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	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2014 Post	KC	Postseason total	15	58	51	5	13	3	1	6	5	15	0	.255	.310	.373	.683
		Wild Card	1	5	5	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	.400	.400	.400	.800
		ALDS	3	13	11	1	0	0	0	1	1	4	0	.000	.077	.000	.077
		ALCS	4	16	13	0	4	0	0	0	3	3	0	.308	.438	.308	.745
		World Series	7	24	22	4	7	3	1	5	1	6	0	.318	.333	.591	.924
2013 Post	DET	Postseason total	11	42	39	1	8	2	0	3	3	6	0	.205	.262	.256	.518
		ALDS	5	19	18	0	4	1	0	3	1	2	0	.222	.263	.278	.541
		ALCS	6	23	21	1	4	1	0	0	2	4	0	.190	.261	.238	.499
2012 Post	DET	Postseason total	13	54	50	9	15	1	0	0	2	13	2	.300	.340	.320	.660
		ALDS	5	19	17	6	6	1	0	0	1	6	1	.353	.389	.412	.801
		ALCS	4	19	18	3	4	0	0	0	1	3	1	.222	.263	.222	.485
		World Series	4	16	15	0	5	0	0	0	0	4	0	.333	.375	.333	.708
2010 Post	ATL	NLDS	4	19	18	1	4	1	0	0	1	5	0	.222	.263	.278	.541
2006 Post	DET	Postseason total	2	4	3	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	1	.333	.500	.333	.833
		ALCS	1	3	2	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	1	.500	.667	.500	1.167
		World Series	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
2005–2016		Postseason total · 5 Octobers	45	177	161	16	41	7	1	9	12	40	3	.255	.307	.317	.624

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, 2016. 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	35	29	7	0	3	6	.241	.294	.310	.265	17.1%
vs RHP	114	105	25	0	6	17	.238	.274	.324	.262	14.9%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2016.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 105 tracked batted balls in 2016. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 85.8
Max exit velo: 105.3
Hard hit: 25.7%
Sweet spot: 41.9%
Launch angle: 13.1°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity85.8 mph

Hard hit rate25.7%

Contact rate76.7%

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, 2016.

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 .255.

Situational hitting

How Omar Infante 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	149	—	—	—	—	—	—	.239	.279	.321	.262
Bases empty	82	77	16	0	0	5	11	.208	.256	.286	.242
Runner on first	26	25	9	0	0	0	3	.360	.360	.400	.331
Runners on	67	57	16	0	11	4	12	.281	.308	.368	.288
RISP	41	32	7	0	11	4	9	.219	.275	.344	.261

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2016.

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Similar players

Nearest 2016 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Adeiny HechavarríaMIA

wRC+: 60
HR: 3
AVG: .236
WAR: -0.1

Very close

Miguel RojasMIA

wRC+: 66
HR: 1
AVG: .247
WAR: -0.4

Very close

Erick AybarATL

wRC+: 66
HR: 3
AVG: .243
WAR: -0.2

Very close

Christian ColónKC

wRC+: 59
HR: 1
AVG: .231
WAR: -0.3

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.