CF · 2016
Julio Borbon
- Age
- 30
- B/T
- L/L
- Height
- 6' 0"
- Weight
- 195 lb
- Number
- #20
- Born
- February 20, 1986 in Starkville, MS, USA
- MLB debut
- June 29, 2009
- dbWAR
- -.1 1 season(s)
- PA
- 15
- AVG
- .308
- OBP
- .308
- SLG
- .308
- wRC+
- 66 100 = avg
Julio Borbon is a center fielder for the Baltimore Orioles. In 2016 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 4 hits across 15 plate appearances in 4 games. His batting average was .308, 20.5% higher than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .308 clip and slugged .308, for an OPS of .615, 16.7% lower than the league mark of .739. He averaged 84.1 mph off the bat, hit 14.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 75.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 66 wRC+ puts his offence 34% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -0.6 runs with the bat, -0.4 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, 2016.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2016. These four terms sum to -0.6 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 4 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .308 | .308 | .308 | .000 | .400 | 0.0% | 20.0% | .270 | -0.6 | 66 | -0.1 | — |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .500 | .439 | 0.0% |
| vs RHP | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .222 | .222 | .222 | .195 | 27.3% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2016.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 7 tracked batted balls in 2016. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 84.1 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 97.5 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 14.3% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 42.9% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 9.0° average
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, 2016.
Situational hitting
How Julio Borbon hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.
| Situation | PA | AB | H | HR | RBI | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All situations | 15 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .308 | .308 | .308 | .270 |
| Bases empty · thin | 7 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .286 | .286 | .286 | .251 |
| Runner on first · thin | 6 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .400 | .400 | .400 | .351 |
| Runners on · thin | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .292 |
| RISP · thin | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .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, 2016.
Head to head
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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.