LF · 2022

Austin Dean

San Francisco Giants National League WestLF

Age: 29
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 215 lb

Born: October 14, 1993 in Spring, TX, USA
MLB debut: August 15, 2018

dbWAR: -.3
PA: 9
AVG: .375
OBP: .444
SLG: .375
wRC+: 144

Austin Dean is a left fielder for the San Francisco Giants. In 2022 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 3 hits across 9 plate appearances in 3 games. His batting average was .375, 54.5% higher than the league average of .243. He reached base at a .444 clip and slugged .375, for an OPS of .819, 16.0% higher than the league mark of .706. He averaged 83.6 mph off the bat, hit 25.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 93.8% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 144 wRC+ puts his offence 44% above average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — +0.4 runs with the bat, -0.0 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, 2022.

wRC+144

wOBA.372

ISO.000

BB%11.1%

WAR.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2022. These four terms sum to +0.6 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2022	3	9	3	0	0	0	1	0	.375	.444	.375	.000	.375	11.1%	0.0%	.372	+0.4	144	0.1
2021	22	38	7	1	7	0	6	11	.233	.342	.400	.167	.300	15.8%	28.9%	.325	+0.2	111	0.1
2020	3	7	1	0	0	0	3	2	.250	.571	.500	.250	.500	42.9%	28.6%	.486	+1.0	212	0.1
2019	63	189	40	6	21	0	9	47	.225	.261	.404	.180	.270	4.8%	24.9%	.277	-7.3	68	-0.4
2018	34	122	25	4	14	1	7	22	.221	.279	.363	.142	.241	5.7%	18.0%	.283	-3.4	82	-0.1

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2022. 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	6	6	2	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.294	0.0%
vs RHP	3	2	1	0	1	0	.500	.667	.500	.530	0.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2022.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 8 tracked batted balls in 2022. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 83.6
Max exit velo: 110.2
Hard hit: 25.0%
Sweet spot: 12.5%
Launch angle: -4.0°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity83.6 mph

Hard hit rate25.0%

Contact rate93.8%

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, 2022.

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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 .242.

Situational hitting

How Austin Dean 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	9	—	—	—	—	—	—	.375	.444	.375	.372
Bases empty · thin	8	7	3	0	0	1	0	.429	.500	.429	.419
Runners on · thin	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
RISP · thin	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000

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, 2022.

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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.