3B · 2023

Hanser Alberto

Chicago White Sox American League Central3B

Age: 31
B/T: R/R
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 215 lb
Number: #26

Born: October 17, 1992 in San Francisco de Macoris, Dominican Republic
MLB debut: May 29, 2015

dbWAR: .9
PA: 90
AVG: .220
OBP: .261
SLG: .390
wRC+: 73

Hanser Alberto was a third baseman for the Chicago White Sox. In 2023 he hit 3 home runs and knocked in 16 RBIs, notching 18 hits across 90 plate appearances in 28 games. His batting average was .220, 11.6% lower than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .261 clip and slugged .390, for an OPS of .652, 11.3% lower than the league mark of .734. He averaged 80.6 mph off the bat, hit 22.2% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 2.8% of them and made contact on 80.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 73 wRC+ puts his offence 27% below average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — -3.0 runs with the bat, -0.1 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, 2023.

wRC+73

wOBA.280

ISO.171

BB%4.4%

WAR.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2023. These four terms sum to +0.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2023	28	90	18	3	16	0	4	13	.220	.261	.390	.171	.224	4.4%	14.4%	.280	-3.0	73	0.0
2022	69	159	38	2	15	0	3	25	.244	.258	.365	.122	.279	1.9%	15.7%	.270	-5.3	69	-0.0
2021	97	255	65	2	24	3	4	26	.270	.291	.402	.133	.293	1.6%	10.2%	.298	-4.1	83	0.5
2020	54	231	62	3	22	3	5	30	.283	.306	.393	.110	.314	2.2%	13.0%	.303	-3.8	88	0.5
2019	135	550	160	12	51	4	16	50	.305	.329	.422	.116	.318	2.9%	9.1%	.320	-1.3	96	1.6
2018	12	30	5	0	0	0	2	4	.185	.241	.259	.074	.217	6.7%	13.3%	.228	-2.2	34	-0.1
2016	23	58	8	0	5	1	0	17	.143	.143	.161	.018	.205	0.0%	29.3%	.132	-8.7	-27	-0.6
2015	33	104	22	0	4	1	2	17	.222	.238	.263	.040	.268	1.9%	16.3%	.221	-7.9	31	-0.4

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2023	2	1.2	6	4	1	1	21.60	11.66	4.20	5.4	5.4	499	269	-0.1
2022	10	11.0	10	5	1	3	4.09	6.39	1.18	0.8	2.5	103	161	-0.3
2021	1	0.1	0	0	0	0	0.00	3.17	0.00	0.0	0.0	0	74	0.0
2019	1	1.0	1	2	0	2	18.00	25.21	3.00	0.0	18.0	400	560	-0.2

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	16	14	5	1	0	1	.357	.400	.714	.467	6.3%
vs RHP	74	68	13	2	4	12	.191	.233	.324	.242	16.2%

Season

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	6	5	3	0	1	0	.600	.667	.600	.560	0.0%
vs RHB	6	6	3	1	0	1	.500	.500	1.000	.626	16.7%

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

Barrel rate: 2.8%
Exit velocity: 80.6
Max exit velo: 104.6
Hard hit: 22.2%
Sweet spot: 34.7%
Launch angle: 12.7°

Barrel rate2.8%

Exit velocity80.6 mph

Hard hit rate22.2%

Contact rate80.2%

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 Hanser Alberto 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	90	—	—	—	—	—	—	.220	.261	.390	.280
Bases empty	43	41	6	1	1	2	7	.146	.186	.244	.191
Runner on first · thin	16	14	4	1	2	1	2	.286	.333	.571	.382
Runners on	47	41	12	2	15	2	6	.293	.333	.537	.366
RISP	31	27	8	1	13	1	4	.296	.333	.519	.358

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 Hanser Alberto throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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Fastball

Select a count to see exactly what Hanser Alberto throws in it.

Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, and how often it misses in 2023.


Fastball	100.0%	33	63.2	1,543	30.3%	0.0%

Hanser Alberto'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.

Head to head

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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.