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Edwin Encarnación

Chicago White Sox American League CentralDH

Age: 37
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 230 lb
Number: #10

Born: January 7, 1983 in La Romana, Dominican Republic
MLB debut: June 24, 2005

dbWAR: 41.7
PA: 181
AVG: .157
OBP: .250
SLG: .377
wRC+: 66

Edwin Encarnación was a designated hitter for the Chicago White Sox. In 2020 he hit 10 home runs and knocked in 19 RBIs, notching 25 hits across 181 plate appearances in 44 games. His batting average was .157, 35.7% lower than the league average of .245. He reached base at a .250 clip and slugged .377, for an OPS of .627, 15.2% lower than the league mark of .740 — the second worst on his team, and 262nd of 310 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 85.4 mph off the bat, hit 33.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 10.4% of them and made contact on 67.4% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 66 wRC+ puts his offence 34% below average. That comes to -0.6 dbWAR — -7.5 runs with the bat, -0.1 for the ballpark, -0.1 on the bases, +0.1 on double plays, -4.0 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, 2020 regular season.

wRC+66

wOBA.273

ISO.220

BB%8.8%

WAR-.6

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2020. These terms sum to -5.7 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.


2020	CWS	44	181	25	10	19	0	16	54	.157	.250	.377	.220	.156	8.8%	29.8%	.273	-7.5	66	-0.6
2019	SEA/NYY	109	486	102	34	86	0	58	103	.244	.344	.531	.287	.239	11.9%	21.2%	.366	+18.0	131	2.4
2018	CLE	137	579	123	32	107	3	63	132	.246	.336	.474	.228	.265	10.9%	22.8%	.349	+14.7	117	1.7
2017	CLE	157	669	143	38	107	2	104	133	.258	.377	.504	.245	.271	15.5%	19.9%	.377	+29.5	137	3.2
2016	TOR	160	702	158	42	127	2	87	138	.263	.357	.529	.266	.270	12.4%	19.7%	.379	+31.9	133	3.6
2015	TOR	146	624	146	39	111	3	77	98	.277	.372	.557	.280	.267	12.3%	15.7%	.397	+39.6	161	4.8
2014	TOR	128	542	128	34	98	2	62	82	.268	.354	.547	.279	.260	11.4%	15.1%	.395	+33.2	155	4.1
2013	TOR	142	621	144	36	104	7	82	62	.272	.370	.534	.262	.247	13.2%	10.0%	.393	+35.8	148	4.3
2012	TOR	151	644	152	42	110	13	84	94	.280	.384	.557	.277	.266	13.0%	14.6%	.402	+41.9	157	5.2
2011	TOR	134	530	131	17	55	8	43	77	.272	.334	.453	.181	.292	8.1%	14.5%	.348	+11.2	114	1.6
2010	TOR	96	367	81	21	51	1	29	60	.244	.305	.482	.238	.235	7.9%	16.3%	.345	+5.6	111	1.7
2009	CIN/TOR	85	338	66	13	39	2	37	67	.225	.320	.410	.184	.245	10.9%	19.8%	.327	-1.7	97	1.0
2008	CIN	145	582	127	26	68	1	61	102	.251	.340	.466	.215	.264	10.5%	17.5%	.357	+11.6	114	2.8
2007	CIN	138	560	145	16	76	8	39	86	.289	.356	.438	.149	.322	7.0%	15.4%	.353	+8.1	109	2.7
2006	CIN	116	467	112	15	72	6	41	78	.276	.359	.473	.197	.307	8.8%	16.7%	.363	+10.5	113	2.4
2005	CIN	69	234	49	9	31	3	20	60	.232	.308	.436	.204	.282	8.5%	25.6%	.326	-0.9	93	0.6

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 Edwin Encarnación'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
2020 Post	CWS	Wild Card	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
2019 Post	NYY	Postseason total	8	36	31	2	5	3	0	2	5	13	.161	.278	.258	.536
		ALDS	3	14	13	2	4	2	0	2	1	2	.308	.357	.462	.819
		ALCS	5	22	18	0	1	1	0	0	4	11	.056	.227	.111	.338
2018 Post	CLE	ALDS	3	12	10	1	1	0	0	0	2	4	.100	.250	.100	.350
2017 Post	CLE	ALDS	3	9	7	1	0	0	0	0	1	3	.000	.222	.000	.222
2016 Post	TOR	Postseason total	9	39	35	5	10	1	3	9	4	5	.286	.359	.571	.930
		Wild Card	1	5	4	1	1	0	1	3	1	1	.250	.400	1.000	1.400
		ALDS	3	14	12	4	5	0	2	4	2	0	.417	.500	.917	1.417
		ALCS	5	20	19	0	4	1	0	2	1	4	.211	.250	.263	.513
2015 Post	TOR	Postseason total	11	47	40	5	11	2	1	5	7	8	.275	.383	.400	.783
		ALDS	5	23	18	3	6	1	1	3	5	1	.333	.478	.556	1.034
		ALCS	6	24	22	2	5	1	0	2	2	7	.227	.292	.273	.564
Career		Postseason total · 6 Octobers	35	145	125	14	27	6	4	16	19	34	.216	.324	.360	.684

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, 2020. 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	41	33	4	3	6	12	.121	.275	.424	.305	29.3%
vs RHP	140	126	21	7	10	42	.167	.243	.365	.264	30.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2020.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 106 tracked batted balls in 2020. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 10.4%
Exit velocity: 85.4
Max exit velo: 112.9
Hard hit: 33.0%
Sweet spot: 30.2%
Launch angle: 22.8°

Barrel rate10.4%

Exit velocity85.4 mph

Hard hit rate33.0%

Contact rate67.4%

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, 2020.

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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 .244.

Situational hitting

How Edwin Encarnación 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	181	—	—	—	—	—	—	.157	.250	.377	.273
Bases empty	95	87	14	7	7	7	28	.161	.232	.448	.285
Runner on first	34	32	7	2	4	1	14	.219	.265	.438	.299
Runners on	86	72	11	3	12	9	26	.153	.271	.292	.259
RISP	52	40	4	1	8	8	12	.100	.275	.175	.233

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2020.

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Similar players

Nearest 2020 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Gary SánchezNYY

wRC+: 65
HR: 10
AVG: .147
WAR: -0.2

Very close

Hunter RenfroeTB

wRC+: 71
HR: 8
AVG: .156
WAR: -0.2

Tyler O'NeillSTL

wRC+: 67
HR: 7
AVG: .173
WAR: -0.3

Joc PedersonLAD

wRC+: 85
HR: 7
AVG: .190
WAR: -0.1

Comparable

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.