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RF · 2015

Domonic Brown

Age
28
B/T
L/L
Height
6' 5"
Weight
225 lb
Number
#9
Born
September 3, 1987 in Zephyrhills, FL, USA
MLB debut
July 28, 2010
dbWAR
-.1
1 season(s)
PA
204
AVG
.228
OBP
.284
SLG
.349
wRC+
75
100 = avg

Domonic Brown is a right fielder for the Philadelphia Phillies. In 2015 he hit 5 home runs and knocked in 25 RBIs, notching 43 hits across 204 plate appearances in 63 games. His batting average was .228, 10.6% lower than the league average of .254. He reached base at a .284 clip and slugged .349, for an OPS of .634, 12.2% lower than the league mark of .721 — 13th of 15 on his team, and 350th of 445 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 87.6 mph off the bat, hit 33.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 5.6% of them and made contact on 78.4% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 75 wRC+ puts his offence 25% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -5.5 runs with the bat, +0.1 on the bases, -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, 2015.

wRC+75
wOBA.283
ISO.122
BB%6.9%
WAR-.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2015. These four terms sum to -1.3 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting-5.5Baserunning+0.1Position-2.8Replacement+6.8
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2015632044352531436.228.284.349.122.2576.9%17.6%.283-5.575-0.1

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2015. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP454210037.238.289.333.27715.6%
vs RHP1591473351129.224.283.354.28518.2%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2015.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 126 tracked batted balls in 2015. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate
5.6%
7 barrels
Exit velocity
87.6
mph average
Max exit velo
110.6
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
33.3%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
31.7%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
12.5°
average
Barrel rate5.6%
Exit velocity87.6 mph
Hard hit rate33.3%
Contact rate78.4%

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, 2015.

.222.0007 AB5 AB5 AB.21119 AB.34823 AB.28614 AB.25927 AB.23126 AB.2229 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 .254.

Situational hitting

How Domonic Brown 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 situations204.228.284.349.283
Bases empty1131052122819.200.257.295.249
Runner on first423871348.184.262.263.243
Runners on918422323617.262.319.417.325
RISP49461522029.326.367.543.394

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2015.

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Similar players

Nearest 2015 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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.