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Daric Barton

Age
29
B/T
L/R
Height
6' 0"
Weight
215 lb
Number
#10
Born
August 16, 1985 in Springfield, VT, United States
MLB debut
September 10, 2007

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dbWAR
4.3
Regular season, 8 season(s)
PA
64
AVG
.158
OBP
.234
SLG
.175
wRC+
19
100 = avg

Daric Barton was a first baseman for the Oakland Athletics. In 2014 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 5 RBIs, notching 9 hits across 64 plate appearances in 22 games. His batting average was .158, 37.1% lower than the league average of .251. He reached base at a .234 clip and slugged .175, for an OPS of .410, 41.5% lower than the league mark of .700. He made contact on 78.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 19 wRC+ puts his offence 81% below average. That comes to -0.5 dbWAR — -5.6 runs with the bat, -0.0 for the ballpark, -0.1 on the bases, -0.9 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, 2014 regular season.

wRC+19
wOBA.199
ISO.018
BB%7.8%
WAR-.5

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2014. These terms sum to -4.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting-5.6Ballpark-0.0Baserunning-0.1Double plays+0.0Position-0.9Replacement+1.7
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

3.51.5-0.50708091011121314

Batting Regular season

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

Trend
2014OAK22649050514.158.234.175.018.2057.8%21.9%.199-5.619-0.5
2013OAK361202831601318.269.350.375.106.29410.8%15.0%.328+1.01110.3
2012OAK40136231612232.204.338.292.088.27516.2%23.5%.298-2.3880.1
2011OAK672805002123947.212.325.267.055.26013.9%16.8%.277-9.371-0.5
2010OAK15968615210577110102.273.393.405.131.31616.0%14.9%.365+21.71293.5
2009OAK531924332402625.269.372.412.144.29613.5%13.0%.354+3.31150.7
2008OAK13652310194726599.226.327.348.121.27012.4%18.9%.308-10.985-0.2
2007OAK1884254811011.347.429.639.292.36211.9%13.1%.459+8.61931.0

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 Daric Barton's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
SeasonTeamRoundGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBAVGOBPSLGOPS
2013 PostOAKALDS133000000030.000.000.000.000

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, 2014. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP15153004.200.200.267.20626.7%
vs RHP494260510.143.245.143.19720.4%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2014.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2014.

—————3 AB—5 AB—2 AB.1258 AB.2508 AB—1 AB—6 AB.10010 AB—1 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 .251.

Situational hitting

How Daric Barton hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.

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By who is on base when he comes up. The season line is repeated as the baseline.
SituationPAABHHRRBIBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBA
All situations64——————.158.234.175.199
Bases empty4138700210.184.244.211.215
Runner on first · thin9600031.000.333.000.235
Runners on · thin231920534.105.217.105.170
RISP · thin141320503.154.143.154.128

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, 2014.

Not in the 2014 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.