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Eric Bruntlett

Philadelphia Phillies National League East2B

Age: 31
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 200 lb
Number: #4

Born: March 29, 1978 in Lafayette, IN, United States
MLB debut: June 27, 2003

dbWAR: -.6
PA: 118
AVG: .171
OBP: .224
SLG: .238
wRC+: 19

Eric Bruntlett was a second baseman for the Philadelphia Phillies. In 2009 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 7 RBIs, notching 18 hits across 118 plate appearances in 62 games. His batting average was .171, 34.7% lower than the league average of .262. He reached base at a .224 clip and slugged .238, for an OPS of .462, 38.4% lower than the league mark of .751 — the worst on his team, and 429th of 432 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He made contact on 75.1% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 19 wRC+ puts his offence 81% below average. That comes to -0.8 dbWAR — -11.5 runs with the bat, -0.1 for the ballpark, +0.4 on the bases, -0.3 on double plays, +0.0 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, 2009 regular season.

wRC+19

wOBA.213

ISO.067

BB%4.2%

WAR-.8

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2009. These terms sum to -8.2 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 2005–2009; his career began in 2003, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2009	PHI	62	118	18	0	7	2	5	26	.171	.224	.238	.067	.220	4.2%	22.0%	.213	-11.5	19	-0.8
2008	PHI	95	238	46	2	15	8	21	35	.217	.297	.297	.080	.251	8.8%	14.7%	.272	-12.0	58	-0.4
2007	HOU	64	165	34	0	14	6	20	27	.246	.346	.283	.036	.306	12.1%	16.4%	.298	-5.2	77	0.2
2006	HOU	56	136	33	0	10	3	13	21	.277	.351	.345	.067	.333	9.6%	15.4%	.316	-2.4	85	0.2
2005	HOU	56	121	24	4	14	7	10	25	.220	.292	.413	.193	.250	8.3%	20.7%	.312	-1.8	89	0.2

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 Eric Bruntlett'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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2009 Post	PHI	Postseason total	2	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLCS	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—
		World Series	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
2008 Post	PHI	Postseason total	9	8	6	3	2	1	1	1	0	0	.333	.500	.833	1.333
		NLDS	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000
		NLCS	3	3	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.333	.000	.333
		World Series	5	4	3	3	1	1	1	0	0	0	.333	.500	1.333	1.833
2005 Post	HOU	Postseason total	3	7	7	1	1	0	0	0	5	1	.143	.143	.143	.286
		NLDS	2	6	6	1	1	0	0	0	4	1	.167	.167	.167	.333
		NLCS	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
2005–2009		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	14	16	14	5	3	1	1	1	5	1	.214	.313	.429	.741

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, 2009. 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	54	48	11	0	4	10	.229	.315	.333	.300	18.5%
vs RHP	64	57	7	0	1	16	.123	.145	.158	.138	25.0%

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.

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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 .262.

Situational hitting

How Eric Bruntlett 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	118	—	—	—	—	—	—	.171	.224	.238	.213
Bases empty	56	51	8	0	0	2	10	.157	.232	.235	.222
Runner on first	28	26	5	0	0	2	8	.192	.250	.231	.226
Runners on	62	54	10	0	7	3	16	.185	.217	.241	.205
RISP	34	28	5	0	7	1	8	.179	.188	.250	.187

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. 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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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.