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Steven Souza Jr.

Age: 33
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 225 lb
Number: #21

Born: April 24, 1989 in Everett, WA, United States
MLB debut: April 13, 2014

dbWAR: 4.3
PA: 19
AVG: .158
OBP: .158
SLG: .158
wRC+: -22

Steven Souza Jr. was a right fielder for the Seattle Mariners. In 2022 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 1 RBI, notching 3 hits across 19 plate appearances in 6 games. His batting average was .158, 34.9% lower than the league average of .243. He reached base at a .158 clip and slugged .158, for an OPS of .316, 55.3% lower than the league mark of .706. He averaged 83.3 mph off the bat, hit 18.2% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 65.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -22 wRC+ puts his offence 122% below average. That comes to -0.3 dbWAR — -2.6 runs with the bat, +0.0 for the ballpark, -0.0 on the bases, -0.6 on double plays, -0.2 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, 2022 regular season.

wRC+-22

wOBA.139

ISO.000

BB%0.0%

WAR-.3

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2022. These terms sum to -2.8 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.


2022	SEA	6	19	3	0	1	0	0	8	.158	.158	.158	.000	.273	0.0%	42.1%	.139	-2.6	-22	-0.3
2021	LAD	16	36	5	1	3	0	2	14	.152	.222	.333	.182	.222	5.6%	38.9%	.244	-2.2	50	-0.2
2020	CHC	11	31	4	1	5	1	4	15	.148	.258	.333	.185	.273	12.9%	48.4%	.265	-1.5	63	-0.1
2018	AZ	71	272	53	5	29	6	28	75	.220	.309	.369	.149	.298	10.3%	27.6%	.304	-3.0	89	0.3
2017	TB	147	617	125	30	78	16	84	179	.239	.351	.459	.220	.302	13.6%	29.0%	.352	+14.4	123	3.0
2016	TB	119	468	106	17	49	7	31	159	.247	.303	.409	.163	.348	6.6%	34.0%	.312	-3.7	96	0.5
2015	TB	110	426	84	16	40	12	46	144	.225	.318	.399	.174	.318	10.8%	33.8%	.321	+1.4	104	1.1
2014	WSH	16	26	3	2	2	0	3	7	.130	.231	.391	.261	.071	11.5%	26.9%	.283	-0.6	77	-0.0

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 Steven Souza Jr.'s postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	H	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2021 Post	LAD	Postseason total	9	9	8	1	1	4	.125	.222	.125	.347
		Wild Card	1	1	1	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLDS	3	3	2	1	1	1	.500	.667	.500	1.167
		NLCS	5	5	5	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000

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, 2022. 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	5	5	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	80.0%
vs RHP	14	14	3	0	0	4	.214	.214	.214	.189	28.6%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2022.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 11 tracked batted balls in 2022. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 83.3
Max exit velo: 97.1
Hard hit: 18.2%
Sweet spot: 36.4%
Launch angle: 23.6°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity83.3 mph

Hard hit rate18.2%

Contact rate65.0%

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, 2022.

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 .242.

Situational hitting

How Steven Souza Jr. 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	19	—	—	—	—	—	—	.158	.158	.158	.139
Bases empty · thin	8	8	0	0	0	0	5	.000	.000	.000	.000
Runner on first · thin	5	5	1	0	0	0	1	.200	.200	.200	.176
Runners on · thin	11	11	3	0	1	0	3	.273	.273	.273	.240
RISP · thin	6	6	2	0	1	0	2	.333	.333	.333	.294

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Rows under 25 plate appearances are marked thin — at that size a rate moves several dozen points on one hit. Counted from play-by-play, 2022.

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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.