CF · 2024
Bubba Thompson
- Age
- 26
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 2"
- Weight
- 197 lb
- Born
- June 9, 1998 in Mobile, AL, USA
- MLB debut
- August 4, 2022
- Drafted
- 2017, round 1
- High school
- McGill-Toolen Catholic
- dbWAR
- -.1 1 season(s)
- PA
- 18
- AVG
- .111
- OBP
- .111
- SLG
- .167
- wRC+
- -35 100 = avg
Bubba Thompson is a center fielder for the Cincinnati Reds. In 2024 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 2 hits across 18 plate appearances in 12 games. His batting average was .111, 54.3% lower than the league average of .243. He reached base at a .111 clip and slugged .167, for an OPS of .278, 60.9% lower than the league mark of .711. He averaged 85.7 mph off the bat, hit 28.6% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 14.3% of them and made contact on 45.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -35 wRC+ puts his offence 135% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -2.9 runs with the bat, +1.0 on the bases, +0.0 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.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2024. These four terms sum to -1.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 14 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | .143 | .143 | .214 | .152 | 50.0% |
| vs RHP | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 100.0% |
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 7 tracked batted balls in 2024. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 14.3% 1 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 85.7 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 102.3 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 28.6% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 28.6% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -9.4° 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, 2024.
Situational hitting
How Bubba Thompson 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 | 18 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .111 | .111 | .167 | .118 |
| Bases empty · thin | 8 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | .125 | .125 | .125 | .111 |
| Runner on first · thin | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .250 | .250 | .500 | .310 |
| Runners on · thin | 10 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | .100 | .100 | .200 | .124 |
| RISP · thin | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .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, 2024.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 12 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 11 | .111 | .111 | .167 | .056 | .286 | 0.0% | 61.1% | .118 | -2.9 | -35 | -0.1 | — |
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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.