1B · 2023

Luke Voit

Milwaukee Brewers National League Central1B

Age: 32
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 258 lb
Number: #59

Born: February 13, 1991 in Wildwood, MO, USA
MLB debut: June 25, 2017

dbWAR: 6.4
PA: 74
AVG: .221
OBP: .284
SLG: .265
wRC+: 53

Luke Voit is a first baseman for the Milwaukee Brewers. In 2023 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 4 RBIs, notching 15 hits across 74 plate appearances in 22 games. His batting average was .221, 11.2% lower than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .284 clip and slugged .265, for an OPS of .548, 25.3% lower than the league mark of .734. He averaged 86.7 mph off the bat, hit 36.6% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 7.3% of them and made contact on 59.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 53 wRC+ puts his offence 47% below average. That comes to -0.3 dbWAR — -4.2 runs with the bat, +0.3 on the bases, -1.8 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+53

wOBA.253

ISO.044

BB%5.4%

WAR-.3

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2023. These four terms sum to -3.3 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2023	22	74	15	0	4	2	4	27	.221	.284	.265	.044	.366	5.4%	36.5%	.253	-4.2	53	-0.3
2022	135	568	113	22	69	1	55	179	.226	.308	.402	.176	.298	9.7%	31.5%	.314	+0.9	108	0.4
2021	68	241	51	11	35	0	21	74	.239	.328	.437	.197	.313	8.7%	30.7%	.335	+3.6	113	0.6
2020	56	234	59	22	52	0	17	54	.277	.338	.610	.333	.268	7.3%	23.1%	.394	+14.4	146	1.6
2019	118	510	113	21	62	0	71	142	.263	.378	.464	.200	.345	13.9%	27.8%	.364	+17.9	135	2.1
2018	47	161	46	15	36	0	17	43	.322	.398	.671	.350	.365	10.6%	26.7%	.451	+17.3	185	1.9
2017	59	124	28	4	18	0	7	31	.246	.306	.430	.184	.304	5.6%	25.0%	.320	-0.5	100	0.1

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	33	33	3	0	0	20	.091	.091	.121	.092	60.6%
vs RHP	41	35	12	0	4	7	.343	.439	.400	.382	17.1%

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

Barrel rate: 7.3%
Exit velocity: 86.7
Max exit velo: 109.0
Hard hit: 36.6%
Sweet spot: 46.3%
Launch angle: 12.4°

Barrel rate7.3%

Exit velocity86.7 mph

Hard hit rate36.6%

Contact rate59.3%

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 Luke Voit 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	74	—	—	—	—	—	—	.221	.284	.265	.253
Bases empty	44	40	8	0	0	3	17	.200	.273	.250	.243
Runner on first · thin	11	11	3	0	0	0	5	.273	.273	.273	.241
Runners on	30	28	7	0	4	1	10	.250	.300	.286	.267
RISP · thin	19	17	4	0	4	1	5	.235	.316	.294	.282

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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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.