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David Freese

Los Angeles Dodgers National League West1B

Age: 36
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 213 lb
Number: #23

Born: April 28, 1983 in Corpus Christi, TX, United States
MLB debut: April 6, 2009

dbWAR: 19.8
PA: 186
AVG: .315
OBP: .403
SLG: .599
wRC+: 170

David Freese was a first baseman for the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2019 he hit 11 home runs and knocked in 29 RBIs, notching 51 hits across 186 plate appearances in 78 games. His batting average was .315, 24.8% higher than the league average of .252. He reached base at a .403 clip and slugged .599, for an OPS of 1.002, 32.3% higher than the league mark of .758 — the second best on his team, and 8th of 451 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 92.0 mph off the bat, hit 52.7% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 15.5% of them and made contact on 71.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 170 wRC+ puts his offence 70% above average. That comes to 1.6 dbWAR — +15.3 runs with the bat, +0.3 for the ballpark, -0.1 on the bases, -1.6 on double plays, -2.8 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 regular season.

wRC+170

wOBA.419

ISO.284

BB%12.4%

WAR1.6

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2019. These terms sum to +16.6 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.


2019	LAD	78	186	51	11	29	0	23	44	.315	.403	.599	.284	.374	12.4%	23.7%	.419	+15.3	170	1.6
2018	PIT/LAD	112	312	83	11	51	0	24	72	.296	.359	.471	.175	.360	7.7%	23.1%	.360	+10.6	134	1.9
2017	PIT	130	503	112	10	52	0	58	116	.263	.368	.371	.108	.336	11.5%	23.1%	.329	+2.1	105	1.8
2016	PIT	138	492	118	13	55	0	45	142	.270	.352	.412	.142	.372	9.1%	28.9%	.337	+6.1	110	1.7
2015	LAA	121	470	109	14	56	1	31	107	.257	.323	.420	.163	.310	6.6%	22.8%	.329	+4.4	113	2.1
2014	LAA	134	511	120	10	55	1	38	124	.260	.321	.383	.123	.330	7.4%	24.3%	.318	+1.5	105	1.8
2013	STL	137	521	121	9	60	1	47	106	.262	.340	.381	.119	.320	9.0%	20.3%	.325	+3.1	109	1.6
2012	STL	143	567	147	20	79	3	57	122	.293	.372	.467	.174	.352	10.1%	21.5%	.370	+22.6	136	3.9
2011	STL	97	363	99	10	55	1	24	75	.297	.350	.441	.144	.356	6.6%	20.7%	.353	+9.1	126	1.9
2010	STL	69	270	71	4	36	1	21	59	.296	.361	.404	.108	.376	7.8%	21.9%	.347	+4.6	117	1.3
2009	STL	17	34	10	1	7	0	2	7	.323	.353	.484	.161	.375	5.9%	20.6%	.364	+0.9	124	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 David Freese'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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2019 Post	LAD	NLDS	4	8	8	2	4	1	0	0	0	0	3	.500	.500	.625	1.125
2018 Post	LAD	Postseason total	14	26	22	3	8	1	1	2	6	1	5	.364	.423	.773	1.196
		NLDS	3	3	2	0	1	0	0	0	3	0	0	.500	.333	.500	.833
		NLCS	6	9	8	1	2	1	0	1	2	0	2	.250	.333	.750	1.083
		World Series	5	14	12	2	5	0	1	1	1	1	3	.417	.500	.833	1.333
2014 Post	LAA	ALDS	3	11	8	1	1	0	0	1	1	2	4	.125	.364	.500	.864
2013 Post	STL	Postseason total	17	62	56	3	10	2	0	1	4	6	16	.179	.258	.268	.526
		NLDS	5	18	16	1	3	0	0	1	4	2	4	.188	.278	.375	.653
		NLCS	6	22	21	2	4	1	0	0	0	1	5	.190	.227	.238	.465
		World Series	6	22	19	0	3	1	0	0	0	3	7	.158	.273	.211	.483
2012 Post	STL	Postseason total	13	52	47	5	13	5	0	1	4	4	13	.277	.327	.447	.774
		Wild Card	1	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLDS	5	22	19	3	8	3	0	0	1	3	5	.421	.500	.579	1.079
		NLCS	7	27	26	2	5	2	0	1	2	1	7	.192	.222	.385	.607
2011 Post	STL	Postseason total	18	71	63	12	25	8	1	5	21	7	14	.397	.465	.794	1.258
		NLDS	5	18	18	1	5	2	0	1	5	0	9	.278	.278	.556	.833
		NLCS	6	25	22	7	12	3	0	3	9	2	2	.545	.600	1.091	1.691
		World Series	7	28	23	4	8	3	1	1	7	5	3	.348	.464	.696	1.160
Career		Postseason total · 6 Octobers	69	230	204	26	61	17	2	10	36	20	55	.299	.370	.549	.919

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, 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	117	101	29	5	16	30	.287	.385	.515	.383	25.6%
vs RHP	69	61	22	6	7	14	.361	.435	.738	.480	20.3%

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 110 tracked batted balls in 2019. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 15.5%
Exit velocity: 92.0
Max exit velo: 110.0
Hard hit: 52.7%
Sweet spot: 40.0%
Launch angle: 10.7°

Barrel rate15.5%

Exit velocity92.0 mph

Hard hit rate52.7%

Contact rate71.3%

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.

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 .252.

Situational hitting

How David Freese 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	186	—	—	—	—	—	—	.315	.403	.599	.419
Bases empty	104	91	30	6	6	12	25	.330	.413	.615	.429
Runner on first	45	40	12	3	6	5	12	.300	.378	.550	.391
Runners on	82	71	21	5	23	11	19	.296	.390	.577	.406
RISP	37	31	9	2	17	6	7	.290	.405	.613	.423

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. 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.