LF · 2019

Peter Bourjos

Los Angeles Angels American League WestLF

Age: 32
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 190 lb
Number: #25

Born: March 31, 1987 in Park Ridge, IL, USA
MLB debut: August 3, 2010

dbWAR: -1.2
PA: 46
AVG: .091
OBP: .109
SLG: .114
wRC+: -52

Peter Bourjos is a left fielder for the Los Angeles Angels. In 2019 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 2 RBIs, notching 4 hits across 46 plate appearances in 16 games. His batting average was .091, 64.0% lower than the league average of .252. He reached base at a .109 clip and slugged .114, for an OPS of .222, 70.7% lower than the league mark of .758. He averaged 85.6 mph off the bat, hit 18.5% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 3.7% of them and made contact on 67.8% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -52 wRC+ puts his offence 152% below average. That comes to -0.7 dbWAR — -8.8 runs with the bat, +0.4 on the bases, -0.2 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, 2019.

wRC+-52

wOBA.099

ISO.023

BB%2.2%

WAR-.7

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2019. These four terms sum to -7.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2019	16	46	4	0	2	2	1	15	.091	.109	.114	.023	.133	2.2%	32.6%	.099	-8.8	-52	-0.7
2018	32	47	9	1	4	0	2	15	.205	.239	.364	.159	.286	4.3%	31.9%	.263	-2.1	60	-0.1
2017	77	203	42	5	15	5	12	53	.223	.272	.383	.160	.282	5.9%	26.1%	.284	-6.9	74	-0.2
2016	117	383	89	5	23	6	17	91	.251	.292	.389	.138	.323	4.4%	23.8%	.294	-8.3	85	-0.1
2015	101	225	39	4	13	5	19	59	.200	.290	.333	.133	.263	8.4%	26.2%	.275	-7.5	72	-0.2

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2019. 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	26	26	2	0	0	9	.077	.077	.077	.067	34.6%
vs RHP	20	18	2	0	1	6	.111	.150	.167	.140	30.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2019.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 27 tracked batted balls in 2019. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 3.7%
Exit velocity: 85.6
Max exit velo: 109.8
Hard hit: 18.5%
Sweet spot: 25.9%
Launch angle: 18.9°

Barrel rate3.7%

Exit velocity85.6 mph

Hard hit rate18.5%

Contact rate67.8%

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, 2019.

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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 .252.

Situational hitting

How Peter Bourjos 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	46	—	—	—	—	—	—	.091	.109	.114	.099
Bases empty · thin	24	24	3	0	0	0	7	.125	.125	.125	.109
Runner on first · thin	7	7	1	0	1	0	3	.143	.143	.286	.174
Runners on · thin	22	20	1	0	2	1	8	.050	.091	.100	.088
RISP · thin	15	13	0	0	1	1	5	.000	.067	.000	.047

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, 2019.

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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.