C · 2023
Anthony Bemboom
- Age
- 33
- B/T
- L/R
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 195 lb
- Number
- #12
- Born
- January 18, 1990 in St. Cloud, MN, USA
- MLB debut
- May 12, 2019
- dbWAR
- -.7 7 season(s)
- PA
- 13
- AVG
- .182
- OBP
- .308
- SLG
- .182
- wRC+
- 50 100 = avg
Anthony Bemboom is a catcher for the Baltimore Orioles. In 2023 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 2 hits across 13 plate appearances in 5 games. His batting average was .182, 26.8% lower than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .308 clip and slugged .182, for an OPS of .490, 33.3% lower than the league mark of .734. He averaged 79.9 mph off the bat, hit 11.1% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 88.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 50 wRC+ puts his offence 50% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -0.8 runs with the bat, -0.0 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, 2023.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2023. These four terms sum to -0.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | .182 | .308 | .182 | .000 | .222 | 15.4% | 15.4% | .245 | -0.8 | 50 | -0.0 | |
| 2022 | 20 | 59 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 17 | .115 | .207 | .212 | .096 | .147 | 10.2% | 28.8% | .199 | -5.4 | 20 | -0.2 | |
| 2021 | 8 | 28 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 10 | .222 | .250 | .222 | .000 | .353 | 3.6% | 35.7% | .214 | -2.4 | 28 | -0.1 | |
| 2020 | 17 | 60 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 13 | .208 | .328 | .417 | .208 | .212 | 11.7% | 21.7% | .327 | +0.3 | 100 | 0.3 | |
| 2019 | 22 | 56 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 21 | .130 | .145 | .204 | .074 | .188 | 1.8% | 37.5% | .150 | -8.3 | -17 | -0.5 |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 18.00 | 16.17 | 3.00 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 422 | 379 | -0.1 | |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.00 | 6.19 | 1.00 | 0.0 | 9.0 | 0 | 139 | -0.0 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .000 | .333 | .000 | .236 | 33.3% |
| vs RHP | 10 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .222 | .300 | .222 | .248 | 10.0% |
No pitching splits recorded for 2023.
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 9 tracked batted balls in 2023. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 79.9 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 96.8 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 11.1% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 18.4° average
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.
Situational hitting
How Anthony Bemboom hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.
| Situation | PA | AB | H | HR | RBI | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All situations | 13 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .182 | .308 | .182 | .245 |
| Bases empty · thin | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .167 | .286 | .167 | .227 |
| Runner on first · thin | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .295 |
| Runners on · thin | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .200 | .333 | .200 | .265 |
| RISP · thin | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 | .333 | .000 | .236 |
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.
Head to head
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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.