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Chris Carter

Age
28
B/T
L/L
Height
6' 0"
Weight
230 lb
Number
#23
Born
September 16, 1982 in Fremont, CA, United States
MLB debut
June 5, 2008

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dbWAR
.1
Regular season, 3 season(s)
PA
180
AVG
.263
OBP
.317
SLG
.389
wRC+
98
100 = avg

Chris Carter was a position player for the New York Mets. In 2010 he hit 4 home runs and knocked in 24 RBIs, notching 44 hits across 180 plate appearances in 96 games. His batting average was .263, 2.4% higher than the league average of .257. He reached base at a .317 clip and slugged .389, for an OPS of .706, 3.1% lower than the league mark of .728 — 9th of 15 on his team, and 244th of 442 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He made contact on 85.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 98 wRC+ puts his offence 2% below average. That comes to 0.2 dbWAR — -1.0 runs with the bat, +0.3 for the ballpark, -0.7 on the bases, +1.4 on double plays, -2.9 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, 2010 regular season.

wRC+98
wOBA.318
ISO.126
BB%6.7%
WAR.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2010. These terms sum to +2.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting-1.0Ballpark+0.3Baserunning-0.7Double plays+1.4Position-2.9Replacement+4.9
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

0.20.0-0.2080910

Batting Regular season

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

Trend
2010NYM961804442411217.263.317.389.126.2746.7%9.4%.318-1.0980.2
2009BOS46001004.000.000.000.000.0000.0%66.7%.000-1.6-123-0.2
2008BOS920603025.333.400.333.000.46210.0%25.0%.342+0.11040.0

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2010. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP771001.143.143.143.12814.3%
vs RHP1731604341216.269.324.400.3269.2%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2010.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2010.

.391—.268.154.3758 AB—6 AB—1 AB.42119 AB.13315 AB—7 AB.38513 AB.08312 AB—5 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 .257.

Situational hitting

How Chris Carter 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 situations180——————.263.317.389.318
Bases empty103942211910.234.301.330.290
Runner on first3433101303.303.324.424.333
Runners on77732232337.301.338.466.357
RISP43401222034.300.349.500.376

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2010.

Not in the 2010 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.