LF · 2016

Carl Crawford

Los Angeles Dodgers National League WestLF

Age: 35
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 230 lb
Number: #13

Born: August 5, 1981 in Houston, TX, USA
MLB debut: July 20, 2002

dbWAR: -.3
PA: 87
AVG: .185
OBP: .230
SLG: .235
wRC+: 25

Carl Crawford is a left fielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2016 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 6 RBIs, notching 15 hits across 87 plate appearances in 29 games. His batting average was .185, 27.5% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .230 clip and slugged .235, for an OPS of .464, 37.2% lower than the league mark of .739. He averaged 87.1 mph off the bat, hit 29.8% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 78.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 25 wRC+ puts his offence 75% below average. That comes to -0.7 dbWAR — -7.8 runs with the bat, -0.4 on the bases, -1.4 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, 2016.

wRC+25

wOBA.209

ISO.049

BB%4.6%

WAR-.7

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2016. These four terms sum to -6.7 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2016	29	87	15	0	6	0	4	11	.185	.230	.235	.049	.211	4.6%	12.6%	.209	-7.8	25	-0.7
2015	68	193	48	4	16	10	10	41	.265	.304	.403	.138	.324	5.2%	21.2%	.308	-1.3	96	0.4

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2016. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHP	12	12	1	0	0	3	.083	.083	.083	.073	25.0%
vs RHP	75	69	14	0	4	8	.203	.253	.261	.231	10.7%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2016.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 57 tracked batted balls in 2016. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 87.1
Max exit velo: 103.2
Hard hit: 29.8%
Sweet spot: 35.1%
Launch angle: 5.6°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity87.1 mph

Hard hit rate29.8%

Contact rate78.9%

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, 2016.

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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 .255.

Situational hitting

How Carl Crawford 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.
Situation	PA	AB	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
All situations	87	—	—	—	—	—	—	.185	.230	.235	.209
Bases empty	52	48	8	0	0	3	7	.167	.231	.208	.203
Runner on first · thin	15	15	2	0	0	0	2	.133	.133	.133	.117
Runners on	35	33	7	0	6	1	4	.212	.229	.273	.218
RISP · thin	20	18	5	0	6	1	2	.278	.300	.389	.293

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, 2016.

Head to head

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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.