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Chin-Lung Hu

Age: 27
B/T: R/R
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 190 lb
Number: #60

Born: February 2, 1984 in Tainan City, Taiwan
MLB debut: September 1, 2007

dbWAR: -1.3
PA: 23
AVG: .050
OBP: .091
SLG: .050
wRC+: -72

Chin-Lung Hu was a second baseman for the New York Mets. In 2011 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 1 RBI, notching 1 hit across 23 plate appearances in 19 games. His batting average was .050, 80.4% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .091 clip and slugged .050, for an OPS of .141, 80.4% lower than the league mark of .720. He made contact on 64.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -72 wRC+ puts his offence 172% below average. That comes to -0.4 dbWAR — -4.4 runs with the bat, +0.0 for the ballpark, +0.2 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, 2011 regular season.

wRC+-72

wOBA.073

ISO.000

BB%4.3%

WAR-.4

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2011. These terms sum to -3.7 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.


2011	NYM	19	23	1	0	1	1	1	11	.050	.091	.050	.000	.100	4.3%	47.8%	.073	-4.4	-72	-0.4
2010	LAD	9	25	3	0	1	1	0	5	.130	.160	.174	.043	.158	0.0%	20.0%	.154	-3.4	-19	-0.3
2009	LAD	5	6	2	0	2	0	0	2	.400	.333	.600	.200	.500	0.0%	33.3%	.364	+0.2	126	0.0
2008	LAD	48	129	21	0	9	2	11	23	.181	.252	.233	.052	.226	8.5%	17.8%	.213	-12.7	19	-0.8
2007	LAD	10	31	7	2	5	0	0	8	.241	.241	.517	.276	.263	0.0%	25.8%	.320	-0.4	88	0.1

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2011. 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	17	15	1	0	1	10	.067	.118	.067	.094	58.8%
vs RHP	6	5	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	16.7%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2011.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2011.

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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 Chin-Lung Hu 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	23	—	—	—	—	—	—	.050	.091	.050	.073
Bases empty · thin	11	10	1	0	0	1	3	.100	.182	.100	.146
Runner on first · thin	3	3	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000
Runners on · thin	12	10	0	0	1	0	8	.000	.000	.000	.000
RISP · thin	9	7	0	0	1	0	5	.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, 2011.

Not in the 2011 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.