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Julio Borbon

Baltimore Orioles American League EastCF

Age: 30
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 195 lb
Number: #20

Born: February 20, 1986 in Starkville, MS, United States
MLB debut: June 29, 2009

dbWAR: 1.4
PA: 15
AVG: .308
OBP: .308
SLG: .308
wRC+: 66

Julio Borbon was 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, +0.0 for the ballpark, -0.4 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, 2016 regular season.

wRC+66

wOBA.270

ISO.000

BB%0.0%

WAR-.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2016. These terms sum to -0.6 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.


2016	BAL	4	15	4	0	0	0	0	3	.308	.308	.308	.000	.400	0.0%	20.0%	.270	-0.6	66	-0.1
2013	CHC/TEX	70	118	21	1	3	7	12	22	.200	.282	.276	.076	.244	10.2%	18.6%	.260	-5.2	57	-0.2
2011	TEX	29	98	24	0	11	6	3	9	.270	.305	.348	.079	.296	3.1%	9.2%	.295	-2.0	74	0.2
2010	TEX	131	468	121	3	42	15	19	59	.276	.309	.340	.064	.313	4.1%	12.6%	.293	-12.0	76	0.6
2009	TEX	44	179	49	4	20	19	15	28	.312	.376	.414	.102	.360	8.4%	15.6%	.358	+3.6	114	0.8

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 Julio Borbon'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	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2010 Post	TEX	Postseason total	8	9	9	4	1	3	.111	.111	.111	.222
		ALDS	3	6	6	1	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000
		ALCS	3	1	1	2	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
		World Series	2	2	2	1	1	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000

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, 2016. 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	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%
Exit velocity: 84.1
Max exit velo: 97.5
Hard hit: 14.3%
Sweet spot: 42.9%
Launch angle: 9.0°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity84.1 mph

Hard hit rate14.3%

Contact rate75.0%

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.

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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 .255.

Situational hitting

How Julio Borbon 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	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.

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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.