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Adam Jones

Age
34
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 2"
Weight
215 lb
Number
#10
Born
August 1, 1985 in San Diego, CA, United States
MLB debut
July 14, 2006

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dbWAR
33.0
Regular season, 14 season(s)
PA
528
AVG
.260
OBP
.313
SLG
.414
wRC+
92
100 = avg

Adam Jones was a right fielder for the Arizona Diamondbacks. In 2019 he hit 16 home runs and knocked in 67 RBIs, notching 126 hits across 528 plate appearances in 134 games. His batting average was .260, 3.0% higher than the league average of .252. He reached base at a .313 clip and slugged .414, for an OPS of .728, 4.0% lower than the league mark of .758 — 9th of 14 on his team, and 267th of 451 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 86.3 mph off the bat, hit 33.5% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 5.9% of them and made contact on 73.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 92 wRC+ puts his offence 8% below average. That comes to 0.3 dbWAR — -5.6 runs with the bat, +0.2 for the ballpark, -0.3 on the bases, -1.9 on double plays, -5.1 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, 2019 regular season.

wRC+92
wOBA.310
ISO.155
BB%5.9%
WAR.3

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2019. These terms sum to +2.7 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting-5.6Ballpark+0.2Baserunning-0.3Double plays-1.9Position-5.1Replacement+15.4
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

5.02.3-0.30607080910111213141516171819

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.

Trend
2019AZ1345281261667231101.260.313.414.155.2965.9%19.1%.310-5.6920.3
2018BAL144613163156372493.281.313.419.138.3113.9%15.2%.318-0.21001.6
2017BAL1476351702673227113.285.322.466.181.3124.3%17.8%.337+6.51082.6
2016BAL1506721642983239115.265.310.436.171.2805.8%17.1%.322+0.21022.4
2015BAL1375811472782324102.269.308.474.205.2864.1%17.6%.337+9.41092.7
2014BAL1596821812996719133.281.311.469.188.3112.8%19.5%.344+15.71244.4
2013BAL160689186331081425136.285.318.493.208.3143.6%19.7%.354+19.01234.9
2012BAL16269718632821634126.287.334.505.218.3134.9%18.1%.366+25.61265.0
2011BAL14661815925831229113.280.319.466.185.3044.7%18.3%.343+10.71163.3
2010BAL1486211651969723119.284.325.442.158.3283.7%19.2%.341+7.51072.5
2009BAL1195191311970103693.277.335.457.180.3086.9%17.9%.348+6.31092.6
2008BAL1315141299571023108.270.311.400.130.3294.5%21.0%.316-7.3870.9
2007SEA277116242421.246.300.400.154.3335.6%29.6%.312-1.4850.1
2006SEA267616183222.216.237.311.095.2942.6%28.9%.241-6.138-0.3

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 Adam Jones's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
SeasonTeamRoundGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBAVGOBPSLGOPS
2016 PostBALWild Card155110000010.200.200.200.400
2014 PostBALPostseason total73127660013381.222.323.333.656
ALDS31311420000131.182.308.182.490
ALCS41816240013250.250.333.438.771
2012 PostBALPostseason total62726020001070.077.074.077.151
Wild Card143000001010.000.000.000.000
ALDS52323020000060.087.087.087.174
CareerPostseason total · 3 Octobers1463587900143161.155.206.207.413

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.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2019. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP1701574141033.261.306.420.30619.4%
vs RHP35932985122169.258.316.410.31219.2%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2019.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 355 tracked batted balls in 2019. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate
5.9%
21 barrels
Exit velocity
86.3
mph average
Max exit velo
108.5
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
33.5%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
35.2%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
11.5°
average
Barrel rate5.9%
Exit velocity86.3 mph
Hard hit rate33.5%
Contact rate73.2%

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, 2019.

.000.174.103.178.36411 AB.37516 AB.18816 AB.25735 AB.38539 AB.28938 AB.44436 AB.35853 AB.30839 AB
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 .252.

Situational hitting

How Adam Jones 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.
SituationPAABHHRRBIBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBA
All situations528——————.260.313.414.310
Bases empty3062867011111667.245.294.406.300
Runner on first1039629313315.302.333.469.339
Runners on223200565561535.280.338.425.324
RISP120104272431220.260.342.385.311

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2019.

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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.