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1B · 2024

Bligh Madris

Age
28
B/T
L/R
Height
6' 1"
Weight
208 lb
Number
#93
Born
February 29, 1996 in Las Vegas, NV, USA
MLB debut
June 20, 2022
Drafted
2017, round 9
College
Colorado Mesa
dbWAR
.0
1 season(s)
PA
75
AVG
.269
OBP
.324
SLG
.358
wRC+
94
100 = avg

Bligh Madris is a first baseman for the Detroit Tigers. In 2024 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 5 RBIs, notching 18 hits across 75 plate appearances in 21 games. His batting average was .269, 10.4% higher than the league average of .243. He reached base at a .324 clip and slugged .358, for an OPS of .683, 4.0% lower than the league mark of .711. He averaged 87.1 mph off the bat, hit 35.4% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 6.3% of them and made contact on 71.1% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 94 wRC+ puts his offence 6% below average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — -0.5 runs with the bat, -0.2 on the bases, -1.5 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, 2024.

wRC+94
wOBA.304
ISO.090
BB%8.0%
WAR.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2024. These four terms sum to +0.3 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting-0.5Baserunning-0.2Position-1.5Replacement+2.5
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2024. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP210000.000.000.000.0000.0%
vs RHP7366181620.273.329.364.30827.4%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2024.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 48 tracked batted balls in 2024. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate
6.3%
3 barrels
Exit velocity
87.1
mph average
Max exit velo
108.3
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
35.4%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
37.5%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
23.6°
average
Barrel rate6.3%
Exit velocity87.1 mph
Hard hit rate35.4%
Contact rate71.1%

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, 2024.

.2221 AB3 AB3 AB6 AB7 AB.0009 AB4 AB.5008 AB.2508 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 .243.

Situational hitting

How Bligh Madris 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 situations75.269.324.358.304
Bases empty53501211315.240.283.340.276
Runner on first · thin9720013.286.375.429.355
Runners on · thin221760435.353.429.412.372
RISP · thin131040422.400.462.400.383

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, 2024.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2024217518150620.269.324.358.090.3628.0%26.7%.304-0.5940.0

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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.