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Players · S · 1B · 2006 regular season

Chad Santos

Age
25
B/T
L/L
Height
5' 11"
Weight
220 lb
Born
April 28, 1981 in Honolulu, HI, United States
MLB debut
July 16, 2006

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dbWAR
.2
Regular season, 1 season(s)
PA
8
AVG
.429
OBP
.500
SLG
.857
wRC+
254
100 = avg

Chad Santos was a first baseman for the San Francisco Giants. In 2006 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 2 RBIs, notching 3 hits across 8 plate appearances in 3 games. His batting average was .429, 59.1% higher than the league average of .269. He reached base at a .500 clip and slugged .857, for an OPS of 1.357, 76.6% higher than the league mark of .768. He made contact on 50.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 254 wRC+ puts his offence 154% above average. That comes to 0.2 dbWAR — +1.5 runs with the bat, +0.0 for the ballpark, -0.0 on the bases, -0.1 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, 2006 regular season.

wRC+254
wOBA.566
ISO.429
BB%12.5%
WAR.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2006. These terms sum to +1.7 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting+1.5Ballpark+0.0Baserunning-0.0Double plays+0.0Position-0.1Replacement+0.2
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

Batting Regular season

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

Trend
2006SF38312012.429.500.857.429.50012.5%25.0%.566+1.52540.2—

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2006. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP332000.667.667.667.5980.0%
vs RHP541112.250.4001.000.54740.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2006.

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Situational hitting

How Chad Santos 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 situations8——————.429.500.857.566
Bases empty · thin7620012.333.429.333.361
Runner on first · thin11112001.0001.0004.0002.004
Runners on · thin11112001.0001.0004.0002.004

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, 2006.

Not in the 2006 data: pitch locations, first recorded in 2007; 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.