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Mark Teahen

Age
30
B/T
L/R
Height
6' 3"
Weight
230 lb
Number
#24
Born
September 6, 1981 in Redlands, CA, United States
MLB debut
April 4, 2005

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dbWAR
7.1
Regular season, 7 season(s)
PA
177
AVG
.200
OBP
.273
SLG
.300
wRC+
60
100 = avg

Mark Teahen was a third baseman for the Chicago White Sox. In 2011 he hit 4 home runs and knocked in 14 RBIs, notching 32 hits across 177 plate appearances in 75 games. His batting average was .200, 21.6% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .273 clip and slugged .300, for an OPS of .573, 20.4% lower than the league mark of .720 — the second worst on his team, and 404th of 452 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He made contact on 75.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 60 wRC+ puts his offence 40% below average. That comes to -0.5 dbWAR — -8.0 runs with the bat, +0.0 for the ballpark, -0.5 on the bases, +0.2 on double plays, -0.7 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, 2011 regular season.

wRC+60
wOBA.262
ISO.100
BB%9.0%
WAR-.5

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2011. These terms sum to -4.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting-8.0Ballpark+0.0Baserunning-0.5Double plays+0.2Position-0.7Replacement+4.8
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

3.31.4-0.505060708091011

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.

Trend
2011CWS/TOR751773241401645.200.273.300.100.2529.0%25.4%.262-8.060-0.5
2010CWS772626042532561.258.327.382.124.3299.5%23.3%.321-1.0930.4
2009KC1425711421250837123.271.325.408.137.3326.5%21.5%.325-3.6921.5
2008KC1496231461559446131.255.313.402.147.3067.4%21.0%.317-8.0910.7
2007KC1446081557601355127.285.353.410.125.3599.0%20.9%.338+1.31011.0
2006KC1094391141869104085.290.357.517.226.3299.1%19.4%.377+15.01223.3
2005KC127491110755740107.246.309.376.130.3088.1%21.8%.305-10.2830.8

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2011. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP31284038.143.226.179.19725.8%
vs RHP1461322841337.212.283.326.27625.3%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2011.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2011.

.273.100.176.000.20010 AB.10010 AB.30010 AB.12516 AB.58817 AB.20015 AB.09111 AB.20015 AB—6 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 .254.

Situational hitting

How Mark Teahen 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 situations177——————.200.273.300.262
Bases empty1019021221123.233.317.311.292
Runner on first3938713113.184.205.316.231
Runners on767011212522.157.213.286.221
RISP373241949.125.222.250.210

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2011.

Not in the 2011 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.