3B · 2021
Andy Burns
- Age
- 31
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 2"
- Weight
- 205 lb
- Born
- August 7, 1990 in Greenville, SC, USA
- MLB debut
- May 9, 2016
- dbWAR
- -.1 3 season(s)
- PA
- 15
- AVG
- .273
- OBP
- .467
- SLG
- .364
- wRC+
- 156 100 = avg
Andy Burns is a third baseman for the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2021 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 3 hits across 15 plate appearances in 8 games. His batting average was .273, 11.9% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .467 clip and slugged .364, for an OPS of .830, 14.1% higher than the league mark of .728. He averaged 85.3 mph off the bat, hit 22.2% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 88.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 156 wRC+ puts his offence 56% above average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — +1.0 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, -0.1 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.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2021. These four terms sum to +1.4 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 8 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | .273 | .467 | .364 | .091 | .300 | 20.0% | 6.7% | .395 | +1.0 | 156 | 0.1 | |
| 2016 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .143 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 28.6% | .104 | -1.2 | -45 | -0.1 |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 18.00 | 14.17 | 3.00 | 9.0 | 0.0 | 422 | 332 | -0.1 | — |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .222 | .364 | .333 | .325 | 0.0% |
| vs RHP | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .500 | .750 | .500 | .589 | 25.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .667 | .667 | 2.000 | 1.079 | 0.0% |
| vs RHB | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .292 | 33.3% |
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 9 tracked batted balls in 2021. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 85.3 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 104.2 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 22.2% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 44.4% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 7.2° average
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.
Situational hitting
How Andy Burns 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 | 15 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .273 | .467 | .364 | .395 |
| Bases empty · thin | 8 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .286 | .375 | .286 | .310 |
| Runner on first · thin | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .500 | .500 | 1.000 | .626 |
| Runners on · thin | 7 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | .250 | .571 | .500 | .493 |
| RISP · thin | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .000 | .600 | .000 | .440 |
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, 2021.
Pitch sequencing
What Andy Burns throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.
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Pitch arsenal
What he throws, how hard, and how often it misses in 2021.
| Changeup | 14 | 77.1 | 1,863 | 57.1% | 28.6% |
Head to head
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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.