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Jonathan Van Every

Age
31
B/T
L/L
Height
6' 1"
Weight
200 lb
Number
#44
Born
November 27, 1979 in Greenwood, MS, United States
MLB debut
May 14, 2008

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dbWAR
.1
Regular season, 5 season(s)
PA
21
AVG
.211
OBP
.286
SLG
.421
wRC+
91
100 = avg

Jonathan Van Every was a center fielder for the Boston Red Sox. In 2010 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 1 RBI, notching 4 hits across 21 plate appearances in 13 games. His batting average was .211, 18.2% lower than the league average of .257. He reached base at a .286 clip and slugged .421, for an OPS of .707, 3.0% lower than the league mark of .728. He made contact on 71.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 91 wRC+ puts his offence 9% below average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — -0.2 runs with the bat, -0.0 for the ballpark, -0.0 on the bases, +0.0 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+91
wOBA.316
ISO.211
BB%9.5%
WAR.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2010. These terms sum to +0.4 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting-0.2Ballpark-0.0Baserunning-0.0Double plays+0.0Position+0.0Replacement+0.6
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

0.20.1-0.0080910

Batting Regular season

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

Trend
2010BOS1321411029.211.286.421.211.3339.5%42.9%.316-0.2910.0
2009BOS513413025.364.462.636.273.60015.4%38.5%.477+1.51940.2
2008BOS918405016.235.278.353.118.3645.6%33.3%.282-0.863-0.0

Pitching Regular season

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

Trend
2010BOS101.0000221018.0014.082.009.00.0441345-0.1
2009BOS100.200010010.007.603.000.013.50176-0.0

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 LHP440003.000.000.000.00075.0%
vs RHP17154126.267.353.533.39135.3%
Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2010. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB220001.000.000.000.00050.0%
vs RHB332100.667.6672.0001.1360.0%

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.

—————1 AB—2 AB—2 AB——3 AB——1 AB—3 AB—
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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 .257.

Situational hitting

How Jonathan Van Every 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 situations21——————.211.286.421.316
Bases empty · thin151441115.286.333.571.395
Runner on first · thin4300012.000.250.000.180
Runners on · thin6500014.000.167.000.120
RISP · thin2200002.000.000.000.000

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, 2010.

Pitch sequencing

What Jonathan Van Every throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Changeup92.9%1378.81,68930.8%0.0%5——
Jonathan Van Every's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters. BAA and OPS are what hitters did against each pitch, credited to the one that ended the plate appearance, and are left blank under 15 at-bats.

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.