C · 2015
Wil Nieves
- Age
- 38
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 5' 11"
- Weight
- 190 lb
- Number
- #23
- Born
- September 25, 1977 in San Juan, Puerto Rico
- MLB debut
- July 21, 2002
- dbWAR
- -.1 1 season(s)
- PA
- 14
- AVG
- .077
- OBP
- .143
- SLG
- .308
- wRC+
- 18 100 = avg
Wil Nieves is a catcher for the San Diego Padres. In 2015 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 4 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 14 plate appearances in 6 games. His batting average was .077, 69.8% lower than the league average of .254. He reached base at a .143 clip and slugged .308, for an OPS of .451, 37.5% lower than the league mark of .721. He averaged 72.0 mph off the bat, hit 20.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 67.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 18 wRC+ puts his offence 82% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -1.3 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, +0.2 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 -0.6 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 4 | .077 | .143 | .308 | .231 | .000 | 7.1% | 28.6% | .200 | -1.3 | 18 | -0.1 | — |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 25.0% |
| vs RHP | 10 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | .111 | .200 | .444 | .280 | 30.0% |
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 5 tracked batted balls in 2015. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 72.0 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 97.1 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 20.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 40.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -7.2° 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 Wil Nieves 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 | 14 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .077 | .143 | .308 | .200 |
| Bases empty · thin | 8 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .000 | .125 | .000 | .089 |
| Runner on first · thin | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 6 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | .167 | .167 | .667 | .348 |
| RISP · thin | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | .333 | .333 | 1.333 | .696 |
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.
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.