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2B · 2023

Jonathan Schoop

Age
32
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 1"
Weight
247 lb
Number
#7
Born
October 16, 1991 in Willemstad, Curacao
MLB debut
September 25, 2013
dbWAR
12.5
10 season(s)
PA
151
AVG
.213
OBP
.278
SLG
.272
wRC+
51
100 = avg

Jonathan Schoop is a second baseman for the Detroit Tigers. In 2023 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 7 RBIs, notching 29 hits across 151 plate appearances in 55 games. His batting average was .213, 14.2% lower than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .278 clip and slugged .272, for an OPS of .550, 25.1% lower than the league mark of .734 — the second worst on his team, and 438th of 461 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 89.4 mph off the bat, hit 38.6% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 3.0% of them and made contact on 70.8% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 51 wRC+ puts his offence 49% below average. That comes to -0.4 dbWAR — -8.8 runs with the bat, -0.3 on the bases, +0.4 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+51
wOBA.251
ISO.059
BB%8.6%
WAR-.4

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2023. These four terms sum to -3.6 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting-8.8Baserunning-0.3Position+0.4Replacement+5.0
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

4.31.8-0.8151617181920212223

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
202355151290701337.213.278.272.059.2878.6%24.5%.251-8.851-0.4
2022131510971138519107.202.239.322.121.2343.7%21.0%.247-26.754-0.8
20211566741732284237133.278.320.435.157.3175.5%19.7%.325+4.71101.5
202044177458230839.278.324.475.198.3164.5%22.0%.341+2.91150.9
20191194641112359120116.256.304.473.217.2984.3%25.0%.326+1.41031.7
20181285011102161119115.233.266.416.184.2613.8%23.0%.292-10.5820.8
201716067518232105135142.293.338.503.211.3305.2%21.0%.358+18.91224.3
20161626471642582121137.267.298.454.187.3053.2%21.2%.324+1.31032.5
2015843218515392979.279.306.482.203.3292.8%24.6%.341+6.11111.9

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2023101.100010100.001.760.756.80.00410.0

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

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.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP7161160816.262.338.328.30022.5%
vs RHP8075130521.173.225.227.20726.3%
Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2023. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB110000.000.000.000.0000.0%
vs RHB441001.250.250.250.22125.0%

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

Barrel rate
3.0%
3 barrels
Exit velocity
89.4
mph average
Max exit velo
111.3
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
38.6%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
33.7%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
11.2°
average
Barrel rate3.0%
Exit velocity89.4 mph
Hard hit rate38.6%
Contact rate70.8%

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.

.300.250.1742 AB4 AB7 AB.6258 AB.20020 AB.25016 AB.4449 AB.20010 AB.07713 AB
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 Jonathan Schoop 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.
SituationPAABHHRRBIBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBA
All situations151.213.278.272.251
Bases empty84761700822.224.298.276.264
Runner on first3633601311.182.250.242.227
Runners on67601207515.200.254.267.234
RISP312760624.222.258.296.241

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2023.

Pitch sequencing

What Jonathan Schoop 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 2023.

Changeup58.8%1069.41,71640.0%16.7%
Jonathan Schoop'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.

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

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.