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Jay Bruce

Age: 34
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 230 lb
Number: #32

Born: April 3, 1987 in Beaumont, TX, United States
MLB debut: May 27, 2008

dbWAR: 21.0
PA: 39
AVG: .118
OBP: .231
SLG: .235
wRC+: 33

Jay Bruce was a first baseman for the New York Yankees. In 2021 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 3 RBIs, notching 4 hits across 39 plate appearances in 10 games. His batting average was .118, 51.7% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .231 clip and slugged .235, for an OPS of .466, 36.0% lower than the league mark of .728. He averaged 82.2 mph off the bat, hit 19.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 63.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 33 wRC+ puts his offence 67% below average. That comes to -0.3 dbWAR — -3.2 runs with the bat, +0.0 for the ballpark, -0.0 on the bases, -0.6 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, 2021 regular season.

wRC+33

wOBA.221

ISO.118

BB%12.8%

WAR-.3

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2021. These terms sum to -3.2 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.


2021	NYY	10	39	4	1	3	0	5	13	.118	.231	.235	.118	.150	12.8%	33.3%	.221	-3.2	33	-0.3
2020	PHI	32	103	19	6	14	0	7	24	.198	.252	.469	.271	.197	6.8%	23.3%	.298	-2.1	84	-0.0
2019	PHI/SEA	98	333	67	26	59	1	19	82	.216	.261	.523	.306	.200	5.7%	24.6%	.320	-0.7	97	0.4
2018	NYM	94	361	71	9	37	2	41	75	.223	.310	.370	.147	.263	11.4%	20.8%	.300	-5.4	95	0.2
2017	NYM/CLE	146	617	141	36	101	1	57	139	.254	.324	.508	.254	.274	9.2%	22.5%	.354	+15.2	125	2.7
2016	CIN/NYM	147	589	135	33	99	4	44	126	.250	.309	.506	.256	.266	7.5%	21.4%	.345	+11.0	116	2.3
2015	CIN	157	649	131	26	87	9	58	145	.226	.294	.434	.209	.251	8.9%	22.3%	.313	-2.0	94	0.9
2014	CIN	135	545	107	18	66	12	44	149	.217	.281	.373	.156	.269	8.1%	27.3%	.291	-9.2	85	0.3
2013	CIN	160	697	164	30	109	7	63	185	.262	.329	.478	.216	.322	9.0%	26.5%	.349	+16.7	122	3.4
2012	CIN	154	633	141	34	99	9	62	155	.252	.327	.514	.263	.283	9.8%	24.5%	.358	+19.6	123	3.2
2011	CIN	157	664	150	32	97	8	71	158	.256	.341	.474	.217	.297	10.7%	23.8%	.355	+17.6	121	2.9
2010	CIN	147	573	143	25	70	5	58	136	.281	.353	.493	.212	.334	10.1%	23.7%	.371	+20.6	131	3.1
2009	CIN	99	387	77	22	58	3	38	75	.223	.303	.470	.246	.221	9.8%	19.4%	.337	+1.2	103	0.9
2008	CIN	108	452	105	21	52	4	33	110	.254	.314	.453	.199	.296	7.3%	24.3%	.338	+1.8	101	0.9

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 Jay Bruce'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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2017 Post	CLE	ALDS	5	21	18	5	5	1	2	4	2	8	.278	.333	.667	1.000
2016 Post	NYM	Wild Card	1	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
2013 Post	CIN	Wild Card	1	4	4	0	1	0	0	1	0	2	.250	.250	.250	.500
2012 Post	CIN	NLDS	5	22	19	2	5	2	1	4	2	2	.263	.364	.526	.890
2010 Post	CIN	NLDS	3	10	8	1	2	0	1	1	2	0	.250	.400	.625	1.025
Career		Postseason total · 5 Octobers	15	60	52	8	13	3	4	10	6	13	.250	.333	.538	.872

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, 2021. 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	14	12	2	0	2	3	.167	.286	.250	.256	21.4%
vs RHP	25	22	2	1	3	10	.091	.200	.227	.201	40.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2021.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 21 tracked batted balls in 2021. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 82.2
Max exit velo: 105.6
Hard hit: 19.0%
Sweet spot: 38.1%
Launch angle: 4.7°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity82.2 mph

Hard hit rate19.0%

Contact rate63.7%

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, 2021.

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 .243.

Situational hitting

How Jay Bruce 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	39	—	—	—	—	—	—	.118	.231	.235	.221
Bases empty	29	24	3	1	1	5	9	.125	.276	.292	.267
Runner on first · thin	6	6	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000
Runners on · thin	10	10	1	0	2	0	4	.100	.100	.100	.088
RISP · thin	4	4	1	0	2	0	1	.250	.250	.250	.219

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, 2021.

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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.