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Michael Aubrey

Baltimore Orioles American League East1B

Age: 27
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 190 lb
Number: #68

Born: April 15, 1982 in Shreveport, LA, United States
MLB debut: May 17, 2008

dbWAR: .2
PA: 95
AVG: .289
OBP: .326
SLG: .500
wRC+: 118

Michael Aubrey was a first baseman for the Baltimore Orioles. In 2009 he hit 4 home runs and knocked in 14 RBIs, notching 26 hits across 95 plate appearances in 30 games. His batting average was .289, 10.1% higher than the league average of .262. He reached base at a .326 clip and slugged .500, for an OPS of .826, 10.1% higher than the league mark of .751. He made contact on 89.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 118 wRC+ puts his offence 18% above average. That comes to 0.3 dbWAR — +2.2 runs with the bat, -0.1 for the ballpark, -0.1 on the bases, -0.3 on double plays, -1.4 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+118

wOBA.362

ISO.211

BB%5.3%

WAR.3

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2009. These terms sum to +3.0 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.

																					Trend
2009	BAL	30	95	26	4	14	0	5	10	.289	.326	.500	.211	.289	5.3%	10.5%	.362	+2.2	118	0.3
2008	CLE	15	50	9	2	3	0	5	5	.200	.280	.333	.133	.184	10.0%	10.0%	.281	-2.1	64	-0.1

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	21	20	3	0	1	3	.150	.190	.250	.199	14.3%
vs RHP	74	70	23	4	4	7	.329	.365	.571	.408	9.5%

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 Michael Aubrey 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	95	—	—	—	—	—	—	.289	.326	.500	.362
Bases empty	51	51	16	1	1	0	6	.314	.314	.451	.335
Runner on first · thin	22	19	5	2	4	3	2	.263	.364	.684	.443
Runners on	44	39	10	3	13	5	4	.256	.341	.564	.392
RISP · thin	22	20	5	1	9	2	2	.250	.318	.450	.340

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, 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.