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3B · 2023

Mike Brosseau

Age
29
B/T
R/R
Height
5' 10"
Weight
203 lb
Number
#20
Born
March 15, 1994 in Munster, IN, USA
MLB debut
June 23, 2019
dbWAR
2.2
9 season(s)
PA
78
AVG
.205
OBP
.256
SLG
.397
wRC+
73
100 = avg

Mike Brosseau is a third baseman for the Milwaukee Brewers. In 2023 he hit 4 home runs and knocked in 8 RBIs, notching 15 hits across 78 plate appearances in 26 games. His batting average was .205, 17.3% lower than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .256 clip and slugged .397, for an OPS of .654, 11.0% lower than the league mark of .734. He averaged 81.3 mph off the bat, hit 20.8% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 7.5% of them and made contact on 68.8% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 73 wRC+ puts his offence 27% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -2.5 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.282
ISO.192
BB%5.1%
WAR-.0

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.

Batting-2.5Baserunning-0.1Position-0.1Replacement+2.6
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

1.00.5-0.11920212223

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2023267815480420.205.256.397.192.2245.1%25.6%.282-2.573-0.0
2022641603662321448.255.344.418.163.3458.8%30.0%.340+3.71221.0
2021551692851821553.187.266.347.160.2458.9%31.4%.271-6.573-0.1
20203298265122831.302.378.558.256.4128.2%31.6%.397+6.31520.9
201947142366161739.273.319.462.189.3454.9%27.5%.331+1.11090.6

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2023302.100011013.8610.110.860.03.989233-0.1
2022303.000020010.004.111.000.03.001040.0
2020100.100000100.00-2.810.0027.00.00-630.0
2019304.000052004.507.211.250.00.0100160-0.1

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

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.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP494692215.196.245.326.25130.6%
vs RHP29276225.222.276.519.33417.2%
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.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB440000.000.000.000.0000.0%
vs RHB541110.250.4001.000.5390.0%

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

Barrel rate
7.5%
4 barrels
Exit velocity
81.3
mph average
Max exit velo
104.1
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
20.8%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
34.0%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
13.5°
average
Barrel rate7.5%
Exit velocity81.3 mph
Hard hit rate20.8%
Contact rate68.8%

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, 2023.

.1113 AB4 AB3 AB3 AB5 AB7 AB7 AB.16712 AB5 AB
Below averageLeague averageAbove average
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 Mike Brosseau 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.
SituationPAABHHRRBIBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBA
All situations78.205.256.397.282
Bases empty464284439.190.261.476.312
Runner on first · thin191840116.222.263.278.243
Runners on3231704111.226.250.290.239
RISP · thin131330305.231.231.308.233

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

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Pitch arsenal

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

Fastball93.3%2865.81,62539.3%6.3%
Mike Brosseau'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.

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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.