2B · 2019

Alen Hanson

Toronto Blue Jays American League East2B

Age: 27
B/T: S/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 170 lb

Born: October 22, 1992 in La Romana, Dominican Republic
MLB debut: May 16, 2016

dbWAR: -.4
PA: 48
AVG: .163
OBP: .229
SLG: .163
wRC+: 0

Alen Hanson is a second baseman for the Toronto Blue Jays. In 2019 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 4 RBIs, notching 7 hits across 48 plate appearances in 17 games. His batting average was .163, 35.5% lower than the league average of .252. He reached base at a .229 clip and slugged .163, for an OPS of .392, 48.3% lower than the league mark of .758. He averaged 80.0 mph off the bat, hit 23.1% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 67.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 0 wRC+ puts his offence 100% below average. That comes to -0.4 dbWAR — -6.0 runs with the bat, +0.2 on the bases, -0.3 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, 2019.

wRC+0

wOBA.176

ISO.000

BB%6.3%

WAR-.4

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2019. These four terms sum to -4.5 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2019	17	48	7	0	4	1	3	17	.163	.229	.163	.000	.259	6.3%	35.4%	.176	-6.0	0	-0.4
2018	104	310	74	8	39	7	9	71	.252	.274	.425	.173	.303	2.9%	22.9%	.301	-4.4	88	0.6
2017	97	234	48	4	11	11	12	52	.221	.262	.346	.124	.268	5.1%	22.2%	.264	-11.8	59	-0.5
2016	21	33	7	0	1	2	2	5	.226	.273	.258	.032	.269	6.1%	15.2%	.226	-2.5	35	-0.2

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2019. 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	23	21	4	0	1	9	.190	.217	.190	.183	39.1%
vs RHP	25	22	3	0	2	8	.136	.240	.136	.169	32.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2019.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 26 tracked batted balls in 2019. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 80.0
Max exit velo: 99.5
Hard hit: 23.1%
Sweet spot: 23.1%
Launch angle: 9.1°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity80.0 mph

Hard hit rate23.1%

Contact rate67.9%

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, 2019.

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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 .252.

Situational hitting

How Alen Hanson 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	48	—	—	—	—	—	—	.163	.229	.163	.176
Bases empty · thin	21	20	2	0	0	1	7	.100	.143	.100	.117
Runner on first · thin	10	9	1	0	0	0	4	.111	.200	.111	.160
Runners on	27	23	5	0	4	2	10	.217	.296	.217	.223
RISP · thin	17	14	4	0	4	2	6	.286	.353	.286	.262

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, 2019.

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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.