3B · 2023

Hunter Dozier

Kansas City Royals American League Central3B

Age: 32
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 220 lb
Number: #17

Born: August 22, 1991 in Wichita Falls, TX, USA
MLB debut: September 12, 2016

dbWAR: 4.0
PA: 91
AVG: .183
OBP: .253
SLG: .305
wRC+: 49

Hunter Dozier is a third baseman for the Kansas City Royals. In 2023 he hit 2 home runs and knocked in 9 RBIs, notching 15 hits across 91 plate appearances in 29 games. His batting average was .183, 26.4% lower than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .253 clip and slugged .305, for an OPS of .558, 24.1% lower than the league mark of .734. He averaged 84.4 mph off the bat, hit 38.9% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 3.7% of them and made contact on 66.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 49 wRC+ puts his offence 51% below average. That comes to -0.3 dbWAR — -5.5 runs with the bat, +0.3 on the bases, -0.5 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+49

wOBA.249

ISO.122

BB%8.8%

WAR-.3

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2023. These four terms sum to -2.6 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2023	29	91	15	2	9	2	8	29	.183	.253	.305	.122	.250	8.8%	31.9%	.249	-5.5	49	-0.3
2022	126	500	109	12	41	4	34	125	.236	.292	.387	.152	.298	6.8%	25.0%	.299	-5.0	91	0.3
2021	143	543	105	16	54	5	43	154	.216	.285	.394	.179	.276	7.9%	28.4%	.296	-9.6	81	0.3
2020	44	186	36	6	12	4	27	48	.228	.344	.392	.165	.288	14.5%	25.8%	.330	+1.3	105	0.5
2019	139	586	146	26	84	2	55	148	.279	.348	.522	.243	.339	9.4%	25.3%	.363	+20.3	125	3.5
2018	102	388	83	11	34	2	24	109	.229	.278	.395	.166	.296	6.2%	28.1%	.295	-7.4	82	-0.0
2016	8	21	4	0	1	0	2	8	.211	.286	.263	.053	.364	9.5%	38.1%	.252	-1.2	50	-0.1

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																			Trend
2022	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	2	2	0	1	18.00	19.11	3.00	0.0	9.0	454	482	-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	27	22	5	2	5	6	.227	.370	.545	.390	22.2%
vs RHP	64	60	10	0	3	23	.167	.203	.217	.189	35.9%

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

Barrel rate: 3.7%
Exit velocity: 84.4
Max exit velo: 107.9
Hard hit: 38.9%
Sweet spot: 29.6%
Launch angle: 12.3°

Barrel rate3.7%

Exit velocity84.4 mph

Hard hit rate38.9%

Contact rate66.9%

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, 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 Hunter Dozier 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	91	—	—	—	—	—	—	.183	.253	.305	.249
Bases empty	53	50	10	2	2	3	19	.200	.245	.360	.263
Runner on first · thin	15	13	2	0	0	2	3	.154	.267	.154	.212
Runners on	38	32	5	0	7	5	10	.156	.263	.219	.229
RISP · thin	23	19	3	0	7	3	7	.158	.261	.263	.240

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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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.