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3B · 2023

Jean Segura

Age
33
B/T
R/R
Height
5' 10"
Weight
220 lb
Number
#2
Born
March 17, 1990 in San Juan, Dominican Republic
MLB debut
July 24, 2012
dbWAR
20.9
9 season(s)
PA
326
AVG
.219
OBP
.277
SLG
.279
wRC+
52
100 = avg

Jean Segura is a third baseman for the Miami Marlins. In 2023 he hit 3 home runs and knocked in 21 RBIs, notching 66 hits across 326 plate appearances in 84 games. His batting average was .219, 11.7% lower than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .277 clip and slugged .279, for an OPS of .556, 24.3% lower than the league mark of .734 — the second worst on his team, and 430th of 461 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 87.1 mph off the bat, hit 39.4% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 3.2% of them and made contact on 80.8% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 52 wRC+ puts his offence 48% below average. That comes to -0.7 dbWAR — -18.9 runs with the bat, -0.3 on the bases, +1.3 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.

wRC+52
wOBA.251
ISO.060
BB%6.7%
WAR-.7

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2023. These four terms sum to -6.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting-18.9Baserunning-0.3Position+1.3Replacement+10.9
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

5.82.6-0.7151617181920212223

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2023843266632162247.219.277.279.060.2516.7%14.4%.251-18.952-0.7
202298387981033132558.277.336.387.110.3076.5%15.0%.321+3.01051.8
2021131567149145893978.290.348.436.146.3176.9%13.8%.340+10.81173.2
2020542175172522345.266.347.422.156.31410.6%20.7%.335+2.51101.0
20191446181611260103073.280.323.420.141.3024.9%11.8%.317-3.0952.4
20181446321781063203269.304.341.415.111.3275.1%10.9%.329+5.71133.4
20171255661571145223483.300.349.427.128.3396.0%14.7%.337+5.91113.1
201615369420320643339101.319.368.499.181.3535.6%14.6%.375+29.41285.8
2015142584144650251393.257.281.336.079.2982.2%15.9%.270-21.6650.8

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

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.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP726815038.221.254.279.23111.1%
vs RHP2542335131939.219.283.279.25715.4%

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 251 tracked batted balls in 2023. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate
3.2%
8 barrels
Exit velocity
87.1
mph average
Max exit velo
114.0
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
39.4%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
23.5%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
3.1°
average
Barrel rate3.2%
Exit velocity87.1 mph
Hard hit rate39.4%
Contact rate80.8%

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, 2023.

.000.167.167.222.12516 AB.42921 AB.25012 AB.28025 AB.28132 AB.25831 AB.33315 AB.19226 AB.08025 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 .248.

Situational hitting

How Jean Segura 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 situations326.219.277.279.251
Bases empty18917833331025.185.233.264.223
Runner on first6359170036.288.333.322.296
Runners on137123330181222.268.338.301.290
RISP746416018916.250.342.281.286

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2023.

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Similar players

Nearest 2023 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.