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Mitch Moreland

Oakland Athletics American League WestDH

Age: 36
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 245 lb

Born: September 6, 1985 in Amory, MS, United States
MLB debut: July 29, 2010

dbWAR: 9.7
PA: 252
AVG: .227
OBP: .286
SLG: .415
wRC+: 93

Mitch Moreland was a designated hitter for the Oakland Athletics. In 2021 he hit 10 home runs and knocked in 30 RBIs, notching 52 hits across 252 plate appearances in 80 games. His batting average was .227, 6.9% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .286 clip and slugged .415, for an OPS of .701, 3.8% lower than the league mark of .728 — 10th of 12 on his team, and 268th of 463 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 91.0 mph off the bat, hit 47.7% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 8.6% of them and made contact on 69.6% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 93 wRC+ puts his offence 7% below average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — -3.2 runs with the bat, +0.5 for the ballpark, -0.2 on the bases, +0.9 on double plays, -5.0 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, 2021 regular season.

wRC+93

wOBA.302

ISO.188

BB%7.1%

WAR.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2021. 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.


2021	OAK	80	252	52	10	30	0	18	58	.227	.286	.415	.188	.256	7.1%	23.0%	.302	-3.2	93	0.0
2020	BOS/SD	42	152	36	10	29	0	15	32	.265	.342	.551	.287	.277	9.9%	21.1%	.373	+6.6	130	1.0
2019	BOS	91	335	75	19	58	1	34	74	.252	.328	.507	.255	.271	10.1%	22.1%	.350	+7.9	117	1.1
2018	BOS	120	459	99	15	68	2	50	102	.245	.325	.433	.188	.288	10.9%	22.2%	.330	+4.4	106	1.0
2017	BOS	148	576	125	22	79	0	57	120	.246	.326	.443	.197	.278	9.9%	20.8%	.330	+2.5	103	1.2
2016	TEX	140	503	107	22	60	1	35	118	.233	.298	.422	.189	.266	7.0%	23.5%	.311	-4.1	89	0.4
2015	TEX	132	515	131	23	85	1	32	112	.278	.330	.482	.204	.317	6.2%	21.7%	.351	+14.1	119	2.2
2014	TEX	52	184	41	2	23	0	12	43	.246	.297	.347	.102	.315	6.5%	23.4%	.291	-3.2	83	-0.2
2013	TEX	142	518	107	23	60	0	45	117	.232	.299	.437	.206	.255	8.7%	22.6%	.324	+2.5	105	0.8
2012	TEX	112	357	90	15	50	1	23	71	.275	.321	.468	.193	.306	6.4%	19.9%	.339	+5.6	108	0.9
2011	TEX	132	512	120	16	51	2	39	92	.259	.320	.414	.155	.290	7.6%	18.0%	.324	+1.2	91	0.4
2010	TEX	47	173	37	9	25	3	25	36	.255	.364	.469	.214	.275	14.5%	20.8%	.362	+5.1	122	0.7

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2021	OAK	1	1.0	1	1	1.17	1.00	9.0	27
2017	BOS	1	1.0	2	1	1.16	2.00	9.0	27
2014	TEX	1	1.0	0	0	3.13	0.00	0.0	84

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 Mitch Moreland'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	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2020 Post	SD	Postseason total	4	8	8	2	4	1	0	1	0	2	.500	.500	.625	1.125
		Wild Card	2	6	6	1	3	0	0	0	0	2	.500	.500	.500	1.000
		NLDS	2	2	2	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	.500	.500	1.000	1.500
2018 Post	BOS	Postseason total	10	19	17	3	5	1	1	5	1	6	.294	.368	.529	.898
		ALDS	1	3	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.667
		ALCS	5	8	6	1	3	1	0	2	1	1	.500	.625	.667	1.292
		World Series	4	8	8	1	1	0	1	3	0	4	.125	.125	.500	.625
2017 Post	BOS	ALDS	4	15	13	4	5	2	0	0	2	2	.385	.467	.538	1.005
2016 Post	TEX	ALDS	3	9	8	1	2	2	0	2	1	1	.250	.333	.500	.833
2015 Post	TEX	ALDS	4	15	13	0	0	0	0	1	2	3	.000	.133	.000	.133
2012 Post	TEX	Wild Card	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
2011 Post	TEX	Postseason total	9	32	29	2	3	0	2	3	2	8	.103	.188	.310	.498
		ALDS	3	12	10	1	1	0	1	2	1	1	.100	.250	.400	.650
		ALCS	3	10	9	0	1	0	0	0	1	5	.111	.200	.111	.311
		World Series	3	10	10	1	1	0	1	1	0	2	.100	.100	.400	.500
2010 Post	TEX	Postseason total	15	51	46	5	16	4	1	7	4	9	.348	.400	.500	.900
		ALDS	4	15	15	1	3	3	0	1	0	3	.200	.200	.400	.600
		ALCS	6	21	18	3	7	0	0	3	2	2	.389	.450	.389	.839
		World Series	5	15	13	1	6	1	1	3	2	4	.462	.533	.769	1.303
Career		Postseason total · 8 Octobers	50	150	135	17	35	10	4	19	12	32	.259	.329	.422	.751

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, 2021. 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	44	39	6	2	4	14	.154	.227	.333	.244	31.8%
vs RHP	208	190	46	8	14	44	.242	.298	.432	.314	21.2%

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2021. 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 LHB	2	2	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	50.0%
vs RHB	2	2	1	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	.438	0.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2021.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 174 tracked batted balls in 2021. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 8.6%
Exit velocity: 91.0
Max exit velo: 112.2
Hard hit: 47.7%
Sweet spot: 32.2%
Launch angle: 12.9°

Barrel rate8.6%

Exit velocity91.0 mph

Hard hit rate47.7%

Contact rate69.6%

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, 2021.

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 .243.

Situational hitting

How Mitch Moreland 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	252	—	—	—	—	—	—	.227	.286	.415	.302
Bases empty	148	136	33	7	7	10	35	.243	.304	.471	.332
Runner on first	43	40	7	2	5	3	10	.175	.233	.375	.262
Runners on	104	93	19	3	23	8	23	.204	.260	.333	.258
RISP	61	53	12	1	18	5	13	.226	.279	.302	.256

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2021.

Pitch sequencing

What Mitch Moreland throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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FastballChangeup

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Season


Fastball	76.5%	13	87.1	2,164	61.5%	16.7%	3	—	—

Mitch Moreland's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters. BAA and OPS are what hitters did against each pitch, credited to the one that ended the plate appearance, and are left blank under 15 at-bats.

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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.