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Michael Brantley

Age: 36
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 209 lb
Number: #23

Born: May 15, 1987 in Bellevue, WA, United States
MLB debut: September 1, 2009

dbWAR: 29.0
PA: 57
AVG: .278
OBP: .298
SLG: .426
wRC+: 94

Michael Brantley was a left fielder for the Houston Astros. In 2023 he hit 2 home runs and knocked in 7 RBIs, notching 15 hits across 57 plate appearances in 15 games. His batting average was .278, 11.8% higher than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .298 clip and slugged .426, for an OPS of .724, 1.4% lower than the league mark of .734. He averaged 90.4 mph off the bat, hit 37.7% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 92.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 94 wRC+ puts his offence 6% below average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — -0.5 runs with the bat, +0.0 for the ballpark, -0.1 on the bases, -0.3 on double plays, -0.7 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, 2023 regular season.

wRC+94

wOBA.309

ISO.148

BB%3.5%

WAR.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2023. These terms sum to +0.2 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.


2023	HOU	15	57	15	2	7	0	2	2	.278	.298	.426	.148	.255	3.5%	3.5%	.309	-0.5	94	0.0
2022	HOU	64	277	70	5	26	1	31	30	.288	.370	.416	.128	.311	11.2%	10.8%	.347	+8.0	126	1.3
2021	HOU	121	508	146	8	47	1	33	53	.311	.362	.437	.126	.337	6.5%	10.4%	.349	+13.5	123	2.2
2020	HOU	46	187	51	5	22	2	17	28	.300	.364	.476	.176	.336	9.1%	15.0%	.364	+6.7	133	1.2
2019	HOU	148	637	179	22	90	3	51	66	.311	.372	.503	.191	.320	8.0%	10.4%	.369	+25.5	129	3.6
2018	CLE	143	631	176	17	76	12	48	60	.309	.364	.468	.160	.319	7.6%	9.5%	.362	+22.6	126	3.4
2017	CLE	90	375	101	9	52	11	31	50	.299	.357	.444	.145	.325	8.3%	13.3%	.345	+6.4	115	1.6
2016	CLE	11	43	9	0	7	1	3	6	.231	.279	.282	.051	.265	7.0%	14.0%	.240	-2.8	42	-0.2
2015	CLE	137	596	164	15	84	15	60	51	.310	.379	.480	.170	.318	10.1%	8.6%	.372	+26.1	129	3.9
2014	CLE	156	676	200	20	97	23	52	56	.327	.385	.506	.178	.333	7.7%	8.3%	.393	+40.6	158	6.4
2013	CLE	149	611	158	10	73	17	40	67	.284	.332	.396	.112	.304	6.5%	11.0%	.324	+2.9	106	1.8
2012	CLE	148	609	159	6	60	12	53	56	.288	.348	.402	.114	.310	8.7%	9.2%	.326	+3.4	108	2.7
2011	CLE	112	496	120	7	46	13	34	76	.266	.318	.384	.118	.303	6.9%	15.3%	.313	-2.8	96	0.8
2010	CLE	72	325	73	3	22	10	22	38	.246	.296	.327	.081	.271	6.8%	11.7%	.283	-10.9	72	0.1
2009	CLE	28	121	35	0	11	4	8	19	.313	.358	.348	.036	.376	6.6%	15.7%	.324	-0.9	98	0.2

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 Michael Brantley'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	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2023 Post	HOU	Postseason total	8	32	28	1	5	1	1	2	4	6	1	.179	.281	.321	.603
		ALDS	3	12	11	1	3	0	1	1	1	3	1	.273	.333	.545	.879
		ALCS	5	20	17	0	2	1	0	1	3	3	0	.118	.250	.176	.426
2021 Post	HOU	Postseason total	16	73	69	4	22	4	0	9	3	14	1	.319	.347	.377	.724
		ALDS	4	20	19	0	7	1	0	4	0	5	1	.368	.368	.421	.789
		ALCS	6	26	26	3	7	1	0	4	0	5	0	.269	.269	.308	.577
		World Series	6	27	24	1	8	2	0	1	3	4	0	.333	.407	.417	.824
2020 Post	HOU	Postseason total	13	59	52	10	18	2	3	11	6	9	1	.346	.424	.558	.981
		Wild Card	2	9	7	2	2	1	0	2	2	2	0	.286	.444	.429	.873
		ALDS	4	19	19	6	7	1	2	5	0	2	0	.368	.368	.737	1.105
		ALCS	7	31	26	2	9	0	1	4	4	5	1	.346	.452	.462	.913
2019 Post	HOU	Postseason total	18	79	70	7	20	0	1	4	9	12	1	.286	.367	.329	.696
		ALDS	5	20	19	3	4	0	1	1	1	5	0	.211	.250	.368	.618
		ALCS	6	27	23	1	7	0	0	1	4	4	0	.304	.407	.304	.712
		World Series	7	32	28	3	9	0	0	2	4	3	1	.321	.406	.321	.728
2018 Post	CLE	ALDS	3	12	10	0	2	0	0	1	1	1	0	.200	.250	.200	.450
2017 Post	CLE	ALDS	3	12	11	0	1	0	0	0	1	4	0	.091	.167	.091	.258
2013 Post	CLE	Wild Card	1	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500
Career		Postseason total · 7 Octobers	62	271	244	22	69	7	5	27	24	46	4	.283	.348	.373	.721

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, 2023. 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	12	11	3	0	1	0	.273	.333	.273	.280	0.0%
vs RHP	45	43	12	2	1	2	.279	.289	.465	.317	4.4%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2023.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 53 tracked batted balls in 2023. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 90.4
Max exit velo: 106.2
Hard hit: 37.7%
Sweet spot: 35.8%
Launch angle: 14.0°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity90.4 mph

Hard hit rate37.7%

Contact rate92.0%

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, 2023.

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 .248.

Situational hitting

How Michael Brantley 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	57	—	—	—	—	—	—	.278	.298	.426	.309
Bases empty	35	33	7	1	1	2	2	.212	.257	.333	.260
Runner on first · thin	11	11	6	1	2	0	0	.545	.545	.909	.617
Runners on · thin	22	21	8	1	6	0	0	.381	.364	.571	.389
RISP · thin	11	10	2	0	4	0	0	.200	.182	.200	.161

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, 2023.

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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.