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Corey Hart

Pittsburgh Pirates National League CentralPH

Age: 33
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 6"
Weight: 240 lb
Number: #1

Born: March 24, 1982 in Bowling Green, KY, United States
MLB debut: May 25, 2004

dbWAR: 15.3
PA: 57
AVG: .222
OBP: .246
SLG: .352
wRC+: 55

Corey Hart was a position player for the Pittsburgh Pirates. In 2015 he hit 2 home runs and knocked in 9 RBIs, notching 12 hits across 57 plate appearances in 35 games. His batting average was .222, 12.7% lower than the league average of .254. He reached base at a .246 clip and slugged .352, for an OPS of .597, 17.2% lower than the league mark of .721. He averaged 80.7 mph off the bat, hit 24.2% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 6.1% of them and made contact on 57.8% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 55 wRC+ puts his offence 45% below average. That comes to -0.4 dbWAR — -2.9 runs with the bat, +0.1 for the ballpark, -0.0 on the bases, -1.2 on double plays, -1.0 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, 2015 regular season.

wRC+55

wOBA.252

ISO.130

BB%1.8%

WAR-.4

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2015. These terms sum to -3.5 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 2005–2015; his career began in 2004, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2015	PIT	35	57	12	2	9	0	1	19	.222	.246	.352	.130	.294	1.8%	33.3%	.252	-2.9	55	-0.4
2014	SEA	68	255	47	6	21	2	16	59	.203	.271	.319	.116	.244	6.3%	23.1%	.269	-8.7	72	-0.6
2012	MIL	149	622	152	30	83	5	44	151	.270	.334	.507	.237	.318	7.1%	24.3%	.364	+21.7	125	2.9
2011	MIL	130	551	140	26	63	7	51	114	.285	.356	.510	.226	.323	9.3%	20.7%	.382	+26.3	141	3.5
2010	MIL	145	614	158	31	102	7	45	140	.283	.340	.525	.242	.324	7.3%	22.8%	.378	+25.7	136	3.7
2009	MIL	115	472	109	12	48	11	43	92	.260	.335	.418	.158	.305	9.1%	19.5%	.337	+1.6	106	1.1
2008	MIL	157	657	164	20	91	23	27	109	.268	.300	.459	.191	.293	4.1%	16.6%	.330	-1.9	99	1.2
2007	MIL	140	566	149	24	81	23	36	99	.295	.353	.539	.244	.321	6.4%	17.5%	.384	+22.9	132	3.7
2006	MIL	86	256	67	9	33	5	17	58	.283	.328	.468	.186	.337	6.6%	22.7%	.344	+1.7	105	0.3
2005	MIL	20	63	11	2	7	2	6	11	.193	.270	.368	.175	.205	9.5%	17.5%	.285	-2.3	69	-0.1

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 Corey Hart'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	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2011 Post	MIL	Postseason total	10	44	41	6	10	2	5	2	8	.244	.273	.390	.663
		NLDS	5	22	21	4	5	1	3	0	3	.238	.227	.381	.608
		NLCS	5	22	20	2	5	1	2	2	5	.250	.318	.400	.718
2008 Post	MIL	NLDS	4	16	13	0	3	0	0	1	3	.231	.333	.231	.564
2005–2015		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	14	60	54	6	13	2	5	3	11	.241	.288	.352	.640

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	30	28	3	1	1	14	.107	.167	.250	.172	46.7%
vs RHP	27	26	9	1	0	5	.346	.333	.462	.338	18.5%

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 33 tracked batted balls in 2015. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 6.1%
Exit velocity: 80.7
Max exit velo: 107.1
Hard hit: 24.2%
Sweet spot: 27.3%
Launch angle: 5.0°

Barrel rate6.1%

Exit velocity80.7 mph

Hard hit rate24.2%

Contact rate57.8%

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.

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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 .254.

Situational hitting

How Corey Hart 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	57	—	—	—	—	—	—	.222	.246	.352	.252
Bases empty	27	27	4	0	0	0	10	.148	.148	.185	.145
Runner on first · thin	9	9	2	0	0	0	2	.222	.222	.222	.196
Runners on	30	27	8	2	9	1	9	.296	.333	.519	.351
RISP · thin	21	18	6	2	9	1	7	.333	.381	.667	.421

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, 2015.

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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.