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Mike Rouse

Cleveland Indians American League Central2B

Age: 27
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 190 lb

Born: April 25, 1980 in San Jose, CA, United States
MLB debut: June 9, 2006

dbWAR: -.6
PA: 76
AVG: .119
OBP: .200
SLG: .134
wRC+: -17

Mike Rouse was a second baseman for the Cleveland Indians. In 2007 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 4 RBIs, notching 8 hits across 76 plate appearances in 30 games. His batting average was .119, 55.5% lower than the league average of .268. He reached base at a .200 clip and slugged .134, for an OPS of .334, 55.9% lower than the league mark of .758. He made contact on 79.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -17 wRC+ puts his offence 117% below average. That comes to -0.7 dbWAR — -11.1 runs with the bat, -0.2 for the ballpark, -0.3 on the bases, +1.3 on double plays, +0.7 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+-17

wOBA.161

ISO.015

BB%9.2%

WAR-.7

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2007. These terms sum to -7.4 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	CLE	30	76	8	0	4	1	7	20	.119	.200	.134	.015	.167	9.2%	26.3%	.161	-11.1	-17	-0.7
2006	OAK	8	26	7	0	2	1	1	4	.292	.346	.417	.125	.350	3.8%	15.4%	.340	+0.1	105	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 LHP	11	11	0	0	0	6	.000	.000	.000	.000	54.5%
vs RHP	65	56	8	0	7	14	.143	.234	.161	.189	21.5%

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 Mike Rouse 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	76	—	—	—	—	—	—	.119	.200	.134	.161
Bases empty	41	38	3	0	0	3	13	.079	.146	.105	.128
Runner on first · thin	21	18	4	0	0	2	4	.222	.300	.222	.227
Runners on	35	29	5	0	4	4	7	.172	.265	.172	.202
RISP · thin	14	11	1	0	4	2	3	.091	.214	.091	.168

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.