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Andre Ethier

Los Angeles Dodgers National League WestLF

Age: 35
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 210 lb
Number: #16

Born: April 10, 1982 in Phoenix, AZ, United States
MLB debut: May 2, 2006

dbWAR: 26.6
PA: 38
AVG: .235
OBP: .316
SLG: .441
wRC+: 96

Andre Ethier was a left fielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2017 he hit 2 home runs and knocked in 3 RBIs, notching 8 hits across 38 plate appearances in 20 games. His batting average was .235, 7.7% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .316 clip and slugged .441, for an OPS of .757, 0.9% higher than the league mark of .750. He averaged 84.5 mph off the bat, hit 36.4% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 9.1% of them and made contact on 73.1% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 96 wRC+ puts his offence 4% below average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — -0.2 runs with the bat, +0.0 for the ballpark, -0.0 on the bases, +0.3 on double plays, -0.5 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, 2017 regular season.

wRC+96

wOBA.318

ISO.206

BB%10.5%

WAR.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2017. These terms sum to +0.6 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.


2017	LAD	20	38	8	2	3	0	4	10	.235	.316	.441	.206	.273	10.5%	26.3%	.318	-0.2	96	0.1
2016	LAD	16	26	5	1	2	0	2	6	.208	.269	.375	.167	.235	7.7%	23.1%	.267	-1.1	67	-0.1
2015	LAD	141	445	116	14	53	2	43	75	.294	.366	.486	.192	.330	9.7%	16.9%	.371	+19.0	141	2.9
2014	LAD	128	380	85	4	42	2	31	74	.249	.322	.370	.120	.307	8.2%	19.5%	.311	-0.7	101	1.1
2013	LAD	142	553	131	12	52	4	61	95	.272	.360	.423	.151	.315	11.0%	17.2%	.345	+11.5	124	2.9
2012	LAD	149	618	158	20	89	2	50	124	.284	.351	.460	.176	.333	8.1%	20.1%	.354	+17.1	129	2.9
2011	LAD	134	551	142	11	62	0	58	103	.292	.368	.421	.129	.348	10.5%	18.7%	.350	+12.3	122	2.5
2010	LAD	139	585	151	23	82	2	59	102	.292	.364	.493	.201	.322	10.1%	17.4%	.373	+22.1	135	3.4
2009	LAD	157	685	162	31	106	6	72	116	.272	.361	.508	.237	.289	10.5%	16.9%	.377	+24.4	135	3.7
2008	LAD	140	596	160	20	77	6	59	88	.305	.375	.510	.206	.330	9.9%	14.8%	.389	+27.5	145	4.4
2007	LAD	147	507	127	13	64	0	46	68	.284	.350	.452	.168	.305	9.1%	13.4%	.346	+4.3	105	1.2
2006	LAD	124	441	122	11	55	5	34	77	.308	.365	.477	.169	.354	7.7%	17.5%	.367	+11.2	119	1.7

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 Andre Ethier'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	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2017 Post	LAD	Postseason total	8	15	13	1	4	0	0	1	2	2	3	.308	.400	.538	.938
		NLDS	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	—	1.000	—	—
		NLCS	2	8	8	1	2	0	0	1	1	0	3	.250	.250	.625	.875
		World Series	5	6	5	0	2	0	0	0	1	1	0	.400	.500	.400	.900
2016 Post	LAD	Postseason total	7	7	6	2	2	0	0	1	1	1	2	.333	.429	.833	1.262
		NLDS	2	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000
		NLCS	5	5	4	2	1	0	0	1	1	1	1	.250	.400	1.000	1.400
2015 Post	LAD	NLDS	5	18	16	1	4	1	0	0	2	2	4	.250	.333	.313	.646
2014 Post	LAD	NLDS	2	6	4	0	1	1	0	0	0	2	1	.250	.500	.500	1.000
2013 Post	LAD	Postseason total	10	26	23	1	3	0	0	0	0	3	8	.130	.231	.130	.361
		NLDS	4	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.250	.000	.250
		NLCS	6	22	20	1	3	0	0	0	0	2	7	.150	.227	.150	.377
2009 Post	LAD	Postseason total	8	35	31	7	11	3	1	3	6	3	6	.355	.429	.806	1.235
		NLDS	3	14	12	5	6	2	1	2	3	1	2	.500	.571	1.333	1.905
		NLCS	5	21	19	2	5	1	0	1	3	2	4	.263	.333	.474	.807
2008 Post	LAD	Postseason total	8	37	32	6	6	1	0	0	0	5	10	.188	.297	.219	.516
		NLDS	3	14	10	2	1	0	0	0	0	4	4	.100	.357	.100	.457
		NLCS	5	23	22	4	5	1	0	0	0	1	6	.227	.261	.273	.534
2006 Post	LAD	NLDS	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
Career		Postseason total · 8 Octobers	49	145	126	18	31	6	1	5	11	18	34	.246	.345	.429	.773

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, 2017. 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	3	3	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%
vs RHP	35	31	8	2	4	10	.258	.343	.484	.346	28.6%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2017.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 22 tracked batted balls in 2017. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 9.1%
Exit velocity: 84.5
Max exit velo: 108.2
Hard hit: 36.4%
Sweet spot: 45.5%
Launch angle: 7.2°

Barrel rate9.1%

Exit velocity84.5 mph

Hard hit rate36.4%

Contact rate73.1%

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, 2017.

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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 Andre Ethier 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	38	—	—	—	—	—	—	.235	.316	.441	.318
Bases empty · thin	24	21	4	2	2	3	7	.190	.292	.476	.328
Runner on first · thin	9	9	3	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.291
Runners on · thin	14	13	4	0	1	1	3	.308	.357	.385	.299
RISP · thin	5	4	1	0	1	1	2	.250	.400	.500	.317

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, 2017.

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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.