1B · 2023

Eric Hosmer

Age: 34
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 226 lb
Number: #30

Born: October 24, 1989 in South Miami, FL, USA
MLB debut: May 6, 2011

dbWAR: 10.5
PA: 100
AVG: .234
OBP: .280
SLG: .330
wRC+: 65

Eric Hosmer is a first baseman for the Chicago Cubs. In 2023 he hit 2 home runs and knocked in 14 RBIs, notching 22 hits across 100 plate appearances in 31 games. His batting average was .234, 5.8% lower than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .280 clip and slugged .330, for an OPS of .610, 17.0% lower than the league mark of .734 — 13th of 15 on his team, and 394th of 461 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 84.5 mph off the bat, hit 34.8% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 5.8% of them and made contact on 76.4% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 65 wRC+ puts his offence 35% below average. That comes to -0.3 dbWAR — -4.2 runs with the bat, -0.2 on the bases, -2.5 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+65

wOBA.270

ISO.096

BB%6.0%

WAR-.3

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2023. These four terms sum to -3.5 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2023	31	100	22	2	14	0	6	25	.234	.280	.330	.096	.299	6.0%	25.0%	.270	-4.2	65	-0.3
2022	103	419	102	8	44	0	37	64	.268	.334	.382	.113	.304	8.8%	15.3%	.315	+1.1	109	0.6
2021	151	565	137	12	65	5	48	99	.269	.337	.395	.126	.313	8.5%	17.5%	.322	+2.4	106	0.8
2020	38	156	41	9	36	4	9	28	.287	.333	.517	.231	.296	5.8%	17.9%	.359	+5.0	127	0.7
2019	160	667	164	22	99	0	40	163	.265	.310	.425	.160	.323	6.0%	24.4%	.311	-6.5	96	0.0
2018	157	677	155	18	69	7	62	142	.253	.322	.398	.145	.302	9.2%	21.0%	.313	-3.0	95	0.5
2017	162	671	192	25	94	6	66	104	.318	.385	.498	.179	.351	9.8%	15.5%	.380	+30.9	141	3.8
2016	158	667	161	25	104	5	57	132	.266	.328	.433	.167	.301	8.5%	19.8%	.330	+4.3	100	1.2
2015	157	667	178	18	93	7	61	108	.297	.363	.459	.162	.336	9.1%	16.2%	.359	+22.0	129	3.2

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

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.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHP	18	16	3	0	2	5	.188	.278	.250	.247	27.8%
vs RHP	82	78	19	2	4	20	.244	.280	.346	.275	24.4%

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

Barrel rate: 5.8%
Exit velocity: 84.5
Max exit velo: 110.3
Hard hit: 34.8%
Sweet spot: 26.1%
Launch angle: 3.3°

Barrel rate5.8%

Exit velocity84.5 mph

Hard hit rate34.8%

Contact rate76.4%

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.

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 Eric Hosmer 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	100	—	—	—	—	—	—	.234	.280	.330	.270
Bases empty	56	51	8	2	2	5	16	.157	.232	.275	.229
Runner on first · thin	19	18	6	0	1	1	5	.333	.368	.389	.336
Runners on	44	43	14	0	12	1	9	.326	.341	.395	.323
RISP	25	25	8	0	11	0	4	.320	.320	.400	.313

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, 2023.

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Similar players

Nearest 2023 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Eduardo EscobarLAA

wRC+: 65
HR: 6
AVG: .226
WAR: -0.3

Very close

Christian VázquezMIN

wRC+: 62
HR: 6
AVG: .223
WAR: 0.2

Very close

Brett BatyNYM

wRC+: 65
HR: 9
AVG: .212
WAR: -0.4

Very close

Endy RodríguezPIT

wRC+: 67
HR: 3
AVG: .220
WAR: 0.2

Very close

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.