P · 2015
Mark Buehrle
- Age
- 36
- B/T
- L/L
- Height
- 6' 2"
- Weight
- 240 lb
- Number
- #56
- Born
- March 23, 1979 in St. Charles, MO, USA
- MLB debut
- July 16, 2000
- dbWAR
- 1.3 2 season(s)
- PA
- 9
- AVG
- .143
- OBP
- .250
- SLG
- .143
- wRC+
- 18 100 = avg
Mark Buehrle is a pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays. In 2015 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 9 plate appearances in 4 games. His batting average was .143, 43.9% lower than the league average of .254. He reached base at a .250 clip and slugged .143, for an OPS of .393, 45.5% lower than the league mark of .721. He averaged 70.6 mph off the bat and made contact on 92.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 18 wRC+ puts his offence 82% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -0.8 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, 2015.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2015. These four terms sum to -0.5 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | .143 | .250 | .143 | .000 | .250 | 11.1% | 33.3% | .199 | -0.8 | 18 | -0.1 | — |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 32 | 32 | 198.2 | 15 | 8 | 0 | 214 | 84 | 91 | 33 | 3.81 | 4.26 | 1.24 | 4.1 | 1.5 | 96 | 108 | 1.4 | — |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% |
| vs RHP | 8 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | .167 | .286 | .167 | .228 | 37.5% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 215 | 203 | 59 | 8 | 8 | 21 | .291 | .321 | .473 | .345 | 9.8% |
| vs RHB | 612 | 565 | 155 | 14 | 25 | 70 | .274 | .307 | .428 | .317 | 11.4% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2015.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 3 tracked batted balls in 2015. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 70.6 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 80.7 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 66.7% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 6.7° 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, 2015.
Situational hitting
How Mark Buehrle 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 | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .143 | .250 | .143 | .199 |
| Bases empty · thin | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .200 | .200 | .200 | .176 |
| Runner on first · thin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| Runners on · thin | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 | .333 | .000 | .237 |
| RISP · thin | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 | .333 | .000 | .237 |
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, 2015.
Pitch sequencing
What Mark Buehrle 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 2015.
| Four-Seam Fastball | 743 | 83.9 | 1,317 | 47.5% | 9.4% | |
| Sinker | 690 | 82.9 | 1,641 | 39.6% | 9.9% | |
| Changeup | 595 | 78.2 | 1,588 | 36.6% | 17.5% | |
| Cutter | 549 | 79.4 | 784 | 42.1% | 11.3% | |
| Curveball | 241 | 71.2 | 973 | 40.2% | 9.7% | |
| Intentional Ball | 11 | 70.7 | 977 | 0.0% | — |
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.