1B · 2023

Jake Lamb

Los Angeles Angels American League West1B

Age: 33
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 220 lb
Number: #19

Born: October 9, 1990 in Seattle, WA, USA
MLB debut: August 7, 2014

dbWAR: 9.8
PA: 54
AVG: .216
OBP: .259
SLG: .353
wRC+: 64

Jake Lamb is a first baseman for the Los Angeles Angels. In 2023 he hit 2 home runs and knocked in 5 RBIs, notching 11 hits across 54 plate appearances in 17 games. His batting average was .216, 13.2% lower than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .259 clip and slugged .353, for an OPS of .612, 16.6% lower than the league mark of .734. He averaged 89.1 mph off the bat, hit 44.4% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 2.8% of them and made contact on 66.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 64 wRC+ puts his offence 36% below average. That comes to -0.2 dbWAR — -2.4 runs with the bat, -0.1 on the bases, -1.1 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, 2023.

wRC+64

wOBA.267

ISO.137

BB%5.6%

WAR-.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2023. These four terms sum to -1.8 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2023	17	54	11	2	5	0	3	15	.216	.259	.353	.137	.265	5.6%	27.8%	.267	-2.4	64	-0.2
2022	40	111	21	3	6	0	11	38	.216	.315	.392	.175	.321	9.9%	34.2%	.317	+0.4	102	0.2
2021	54	170	28	7	19	0	22	51	.194	.306	.368	.174	.239	12.9%	30.0%	.302	-2.2	89	0.2
2020	30	99	17	3	10	0	8	25	.193	.283	.352	.159	.233	8.1%	25.3%	.283	-3.3	73	-0.1
2019	78	226	36	6	30	1	32	55	.193	.323	.353	.160	.234	14.2%	24.3%	.301	-4.2	86	0.2
2018	56	238	46	6	31	1	26	65	.222	.307	.348	.126	.286	10.9%	27.3%	.293	-4.9	81	0.3
2017	149	635	133	30	105	6	87	152	.248	.357	.487	.239	.287	13.7%	23.9%	.357	+17.5	116	3.9
2016	150	594	130	29	91	6	64	154	.249	.332	.509	.260	.294	10.8%	25.9%	.358	+17.1	117	4.0
2015	107	390	92	6	34	3	36	97	.263	.331	.386	.123	.344	9.2%	24.9%	.316	-0.4	97	1.4

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

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2023	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.00	3.26	1.00	0.0	0.0	0	75	0.0	—

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	1	0	0	0	1	0	—	1.000	—	.708	0.0%
vs RHP	53	51	11	2	2	15	.216	.245	.353	.259	28.3%

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.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHB	2	2	1	0	0	0	.500	.500	1.000	.631	0.0%
vs RHB	2	2	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%

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

Barrel rate: 2.8%
Exit velocity: 89.1
Max exit velo: 107.3
Hard hit: 44.4%
Sweet spot: 36.1%
Launch angle: 12.0°

Barrel rate2.8%

Exit velocity89.1 mph

Hard hit rate44.4%

Contact rate66.9%

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.

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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 Jake Lamb 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	54	—	—	—	—	—	—	.216	.259	.353	.267
Bases empty	34	32	8	2	2	2	8	.250	.294	.469	.326
Runner on first · thin	10	9	1	0	0	1	3	.111	.200	.111	.159
Runners on · thin	20	19	3	0	3	1	7	.158	.200	.158	.168
RISP · thin	10	10	2	0	3	0	4	.200	.200	.200	.177

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.

Pitch sequencing

What Jake Lamb 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.

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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.