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John-Ford Griffin

Toronto Blue Jays American League EastRF

Age: 28
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 215 lb

Born: November 19, 1979 in Sarasota, FL, United States
MLB debut: September 6, 2005

dbWAR: .3
PA: 14
AVG: .300
OBP: .429
SLG: .700
wRC+: 185

John-Ford Griffin was a right fielder for the Toronto Blue Jays. In 2007 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 3 RBIs, notching 3 hits across 14 plate appearances in 6 games. His batting average was .300, 11.9% higher than the league average of .268. He reached base at a .429 clip and slugged .700, for an OPS of 1.129, 48.8% higher than the league mark of .758. He made contact on 59.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 185 wRC+ puts his offence 85% above average. That comes to 0.2 dbWAR — +1.4 runs with the bat, +0.0 for the ballpark, -0.0 on the bases, -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, 2007 regular season.

wRC+185

wOBA.457

ISO.400

BB%21.4%

WAR.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2007. These terms sum to +1.6 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.

																					Trend
2007	TOR	6	14	3	1	3	0	3	5	.300	.429	.700	.400	.400	21.4%	35.7%	.457	+1.4	185	0.2
2005	TOR	6	13	4	1	6	0	0	4	.308	.308	.692	.385	.375	0.0%	30.8%	.425	+1.0	163	0.1

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2007. 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 RHP	14	10	3	1	3	5	.300	.429	.700	.457	35.7%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2007.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2007.

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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 .266.

Situational hitting

How John-Ford Griffin 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	14	—	—	—	—	—	—	.300	.429	.700	.457
Bases empty · thin	10	8	2	1	1	2	4	.250	.400	.625	.438
Runner on first · thin	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
Runners on · thin	4	2	1	0	2	1	1	.500	.500	1.000	.504
RISP · thin	3	1	1	0	2	1	0	1.000	.667	2.000	.672

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, 2007.

Not in the 2007 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.