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Delmon Young

Baltimore Orioles American League EastRF

Age: 30
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 240 lb
Number: #21

Born: September 14, 1985 in Montgomery, AL, United States
MLB debut: August 29, 2006

dbWAR: 4.5
PA: 180
AVG: .270
OBP: .289
SLG: .339
wRC+: 68

Delmon Young was a right fielder for the Baltimore Orioles. In 2015 he hit 2 home runs and knocked in 16 RBIs, notching 47 hits across 180 plate appearances in 52 games. His batting average was .270, 6.2% higher than the league average of .254. He reached base at a .289 clip and slugged .339, for an OPS of .628, 12.9% lower than the league mark of .721 — 14th of 17 on his team, and 356th of 445 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 88.4 mph off the bat, hit 39.4% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 2.4% of them and made contact on 74.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 68 wRC+ puts his offence 32% below average. That comes to -0.5 dbWAR — -5.7 runs with the bat, -0.5 for the ballpark, -0.1 on the bases, -1.0 on double plays, -1.9 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, 2015 regular season.

wRC+68

wOBA.276

ISO.069

BB%2.2%

WAR-.5

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2015. These terms sum to -4.4 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 — postseason games are listed separately below.


2015	BAL	52	180	47	2	16	0	4	29	.270	.289	.339	.069	.313	2.2%	16.1%	.276	-5.7	68	-0.5
2014	BAL	83	255	73	7	30	2	10	51	.302	.337	.442	.140	.359	3.9%	20.0%	.348	+6.7	127	1.0
2013	PHI/TB	103	361	87	11	38	0	20	78	.260	.307	.407	.147	.306	5.5%	21.6%	.318	-0.0	97	0.3
2012	DET	151	608	153	18	74	0	20	112	.267	.296	.411	.145	.299	3.3%	18.4%	.309	-4.8	91	-0.6
2011	MIN/DET	123	503	127	12	64	1	23	85	.268	.302	.393	.125	.302	4.6%	16.9%	.307	-5.1	92	0.0
2010	MIN	151	613	170	21	112	5	28	81	.298	.333	.493	.195	.312	4.6%	13.2%	.359	+16.3	124	2.8
2009	MIN	105	416	112	12	60	2	12	92	.284	.308	.425	.142	.338	2.9%	22.1%	.321	-4.0	90	-0.2
2008	MIN	150	623	167	10	69	14	35	105	.290	.336	.405	.115	.338	5.6%	16.9%	.327	-3.1	99	0.7
2007	TB	162	681	186	13	93	10	26	127	.288	.316	.408	.119	.338	3.8%	18.6%	.319	-9.6	91	0.5
2006	TB	30	131	40	3	10	2	1	24	.317	.336	.476	.159	.370	0.8%	18.3%	.352	+1.7	109	0.4

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 Delmon Young'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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2014 Post	BAL	Postseason total	4	9	9	0	2	1	0	0	4	0	3	0	.222	.222	.333	.556
		ALDS	2	4	4	0	1	1	0	0	3	0	2	0	.250	.250	.500	.750
		ALCS	2	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	.200	.200	.200	.400
2013 Post	TB	Postseason total	5	13	11	1	3	0	0	1	3	1	1	0	.273	.308	.545	.853
		Wild Card	1	4	3	1	1	0	0	1	1	1	1	0	.333	.500	1.333	1.833
		ALDS	4	9	8	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	.250	.222	.250	.472
2012 Post	DET	Postseason total	13	52	48	5	15	2	0	3	9	3	11	0	.313	.365	.542	.907
		ALDS	5	18	17	0	4	0	0	0	2	0	3	0	.235	.278	.235	.513
		ALCS	4	19	17	3	6	1	0	2	6	2	5	0	.353	.421	.765	1.186
		World Series	4	15	14	2	5	1	0	1	1	1	3	0	.357	.400	.643	1.043
2011 Post	DET	Postseason total	9	36	34	6	8	0	0	5	6	2	7	0	.235	.278	.676	.954
		ALDS	5	21	19	4	6	0	0	3	3	2	2	0	.316	.381	.789	1.170
		ALCS	4	15	15	2	2	0	0	2	3	0	5	0	.133	.133	.533	.667
2010 Post	MIN	ALDS	3	13	12	1	4	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	.333	.385	.500	.885
2009 Post	MIN	ALDS	3	14	12	1	1	1	0	0	0	1	5	1	.083	.214	.167	.381
Career		Postseason total · 6 Octobers	37	137	126	14	33	4	1	9	22	8	28	1	.262	.314	.524	.838

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, 2015. 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	60	58	18	0	0	7	.310	.317	.328	.283	11.7%
vs RHP	120	116	29	2	4	22	.250	.275	.345	.273	18.3%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2015.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 127 tracked batted balls in 2015. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 2.4%
Exit velocity: 88.4
Max exit velo: 109.8
Hard hit: 39.4%
Sweet spot: 38.6%
Launch angle: 8.8°

Barrel rate2.4%

Exit velocity88.4 mph

Hard hit rate39.4%

Contact rate74.7%

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, 2015.

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 .254.

Situational hitting

How Delmon Young 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	180	—	—	—	—	—	—	.270	.289	.339	.276
Bases empty	94	92	24	2	2	1	13	.261	.277	.348	.274
Runner on first	43	42	10	0	0	1	10	.238	.256	.262	.231
Runners on	86	82	23	0	14	3	16	.280	.302	.329	.279
RISP	43	40	13	0	14	2	6	.325	.349	.400	.327

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2015.

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Nearest 2015 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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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.