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Bryan Petersen
- Age
- 26
- B/T
- L/R
- Height
- 6' 0"
- Weight
- 200 lb
- Number
- #11
- Born
- April 9, 1986 in Agoura, CA, United States
- MLB debut
- May 7, 2010
- dbWAR
- -.2 Regular season, 4 season(s)
- PA
- 273
- AVG
- .195
- OBP
- .272
- SLG
- .257
- wRC+
- 49 100 = avg
Bryan Petersen was a left fielder for the Miami Marlins. In 2012 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 17 RBIs, notching 47 hits across 273 plate appearances in 80 games. His batting average was .195, 23.4% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .272 clip and slugged .257, for an OPS of .530, 26.9% lower than the league mark of .724 — 17th of 19 on his team, and 434th of 459 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He made contact on 79.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 49 wRC+ puts his offence 51% below average. That comes to -1.0 dbWAR — -15.8 runs with the bat, -0.0 for the ballpark, +0.5 on the bases, +0.6 on double plays, -1.7 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, 2012 regular season.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2012. These terms sum to -9.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.
WAR by season
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | FLA | 1 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.00 | 6.03 | 1.00 | 0.0 | 9.0 | 0 | 153 | -0.0 | — |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 58 | 51 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 20 | .137 | .241 | .176 | .204 | 34.5% |
| vs RHP | 215 | 190 | 40 | 0 | 18 | 38 | .211 | .281 | .279 | .256 | 17.7% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2012.
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Hot and cold zones
Batting average by pitch location, 2012.
Situational hitting
How Bryan Petersen hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.
| Situation | PA | AB | H | HR | RBI | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All situations | 273 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .195 | .272 | .257 | .245 |
| Bases empty | 174 | 159 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 37 | .176 | .247 | .214 | .217 |
| Runner on first | 39 | 32 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 8 | .219 | .306 | .313 | .282 |
| Runners on | 99 | 82 | 19 | 0 | 17 | 11 | 21 | .232 | .319 | .341 | .298 |
| RISP | 60 | 50 | 12 | 0 | 15 | 7 | 13 | .240 | .328 | .360 | .307 |
Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2012.
Pitch arsenal
What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.
| Four-Seam Fastball | 10 | 89.6 | 1,869 | 50.0% | 0.0% | 2 | — | — |
Not in the 2012 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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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.