P · 2018
Bartolo Colon
- Age
- 45
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 5' 11"
- Weight
- 285 lb
- Number
- #40
- Born
- May 24, 1973 in Altamira, Dominican Republic
- MLB debut
- April 4, 1997
- dbWAR
- 1.7 8 season(s)
- PA
- 4
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .000
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- -109 100 = avg
Bartolo Colon is a pitcher for the Texas Rangers. In 2018 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 4 plate appearances in 2 games. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .728. He averaged 76.9 mph off the bat and made contact on 28.6% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -109 wRC+ puts his offence 209% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -1.0 runs with the bat, +0.0 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, 2018.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2018. These four terms sum to -0.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 75.0% | .000 | -1.0 | -109 | -0.1 | |
| 2017 | 12 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 50.0% | .000 | -5.4 | -123 | -0.5 | |
| 2016 | 30 | 65 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 40 | .083 | .098 | .167 | .083 | .211 | 1.5% | 61.5% | .116 | -10.7 | -39 | -0.9 | |
| 2015 | 28 | 64 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 24 | .138 | .150 | .155 | .017 | .229 | 0.0% | 37.5% | .136 | -9.1 | -28 | -0.7 |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 28 | 24 | 146.1 | 7 | 12 | 0 | 172 | 94 | 81 | 25 | 5.78 | 5.47 | 1.35 | 5.0 | 1.5 | 139 | 132 | -0.8 | |
| 2017 | 28 | 28 | 143.0 | 7 | 14 | 0 | 192 | 103 | 89 | 35 | 6.48 | 5.21 | 1.59 | 5.6 | 2.2 | 149 | 120 | 0.1 | |
| 2016 | 34 | 33 | 191.2 | 15 | 8 | 0 | 200 | 73 | 128 | 32 | 3.43 | 3.99 | 1.21 | 6.0 | 1.5 | 82 | 95 | 2.3 | |
| 2015 | 33 | 31 | 194.2 | 14 | 13 | 0 | 217 | 90 | 136 | 24 | 4.16 | 3.84 | 1.24 | 6.3 | 1.1 | 105 | 97 | 2.3 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 50.0% |
| vs RHP | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 100.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 293 | 270 | 73 | 7 | 18 | 37 | .270 | .315 | .459 | .334 | 12.6% |
| vs RHB | 335 | 321 | 99 | 25 | 7 | 44 | .308 | .322 | .620 | .396 | 13.1% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2018.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 1 tracked batted balls in 2018. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 76.9 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 76.9 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -30.0° 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, 2018.
Situational hitting
How Bartolo Colon 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 | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Bases empty · thin | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| RISP · thin | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .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, 2018.
Pitch sequencing
What Bartolo Colon 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 2018.
| Sinker | 1,389 | 86.9 | 2,136 | 44.1% | 8.4% | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 365 | 89.3 | 2,279 | 44.4% | 15.1% | |
| Changeup | 248 | 80.8 | 1,656 | 43.1% | 25.3% | |
| Slider | 164 | 80.5 | 2,388 | 32.9% | 18.3% | |
| Cutter | 62 | 85.5 | 2,312 | 32.3% | 12.0% |
Head to head
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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.