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Carlos Rivero

Age
26
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 3"
Weight
230 lb
Number
#19
Born
May 20, 1988 in Barquisimeto, Venezuela
MLB debut
August 29, 2014

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dbWAR
.3
Regular season, 1 season(s)
PA
8
AVG
.571
OBP
.625
SLG
1.286
wRC+
431
100 = avg

Carlos Rivero was a third baseman for the Boston Red Sox. In 2014 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 3 RBIs, notching 4 hits across 8 plate appearances in 4 games. His batting average was .571, 127.5% higher than the league average of .251. He reached base at a .625 clip and slugged 1.286, for an OPS of 1.911, 172.9% higher than the league mark of .700. He made contact on 73.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 431 wRC+ puts his offence 331% above average. That comes to 0.3 dbWAR — +2.9 runs with the bat, -0.0 for the ballpark, -0.0 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, 2014 regular season.

wRC+431
wOBA.795
ISO.714
BB%12.5%
WAR.3

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2014. These terms sum to +3.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting+2.9Ballpark-0.0Baserunning-0.0Double plays+0.0Position+0.0Replacement+0.2
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.

Trend
2014BOS48413010.571.6251.286.714.50012.5%0.0%.795+2.94310.3—

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2014. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP442100.500.5001.500.8660.0%
vs RHP432010.667.7501.000.7240.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2014.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2014.

————————2 AB——1 AB———1 AB
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 .251.

Situational hitting

How Carlos Rivero 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.
SituationPAABHHRRBIBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBA
All situations8——————.571.6251.286.795
Bases empty · thin6520010.400.500.600.483
Runner on first · thin11100001.0001.0002.0001.293
Runners on · thin22213001.0001.0003.0001.733
RISP · thin11113001.0001.0004.0002.173

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, 2014.

Not in the 2014 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.