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3B · 2018

José Reyes

Age
35
B/T
S/R
Height
6' 0"
Weight
195 lb
Number
#7
Born
June 11, 1983 in Santiago, Dominican Republic
MLB debut
June 10, 2003
dbWAR
5.0
5 season(s)
PA
251
AVG
.189
OBP
.260
SLG
.320
wRC+
64
100 = avg

José Reyes is a third baseman for the New York Mets. In 2018 he hit 4 home runs and knocked in 16 RBIs, notching 43 hits across 251 plate appearances in 100 games. His batting average was .189, 23.9% lower than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .260 clip and slugged .320, for an OPS of .580, 20.3% lower than the league mark of .728 — the worst on his team, and 403rd of 448 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 85.0 mph off the bat, hit 25.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 1.9% of them and made contact on 81.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 64 wRC+ puts his offence 36% below average. That comes to -0.3 dbWAR — -12.0 runs with the bat, +0.1 on the bases, +0.4 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, 2018.

wRC+64
wOBA.259
ISO.132
BB%8.8%
WAR-.3

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2018. These four terms sum to -3.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting-12.0Baserunning+0.1Position+0.4Replacement+8.4
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

2.20.9-0.315161718

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
20181002514341652239.189.260.320.132.2118.8%15.5%.259-12.064-0.3
20171435611231558245079.246.315.413.168.2638.9%14.1%.317-3.7992.1
2016602796882492349.267.326.443.176.3028.2%17.6%.333+2.51081.4
2015116519132753242662.274.310.378.104.3015.0%11.9%.303-5.6932.2

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2018101.0000560254.0038.167.000.018.01,301920-0.4

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2018. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP666112259.197.258.377.27913.6%
vs RHP1851673121730.186.261.299.25216.2%
Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2018. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB543110.750.8002.2501.1480.0%
vs RHB642110.500.6671.250.7240.0%

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 156 tracked batted balls in 2018. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate
1.9%
3 barrels
Exit velocity
85.0
mph average
Max exit velo
107.3
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
25.0%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
32.1%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
9.3°
average
Barrel rate1.9%
Exit velocity85.0 mph
Hard hit rate25.0%
Contact rate81.0%

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.

.133.158.111.000.26715 AB.10519 AB.25012 AB.16718 AB.28621 AB.16730 AB.18211 AB.36422 AB.27311 AB
Below averageLeague averageAbove average
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 .247.

Situational hitting

How José Reyes 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.
SituationPAABHHRRBIBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBA
All situations251.189.260.320.259
Bases empty13912726331225.205.273.370.285
Runner on first525191308.176.176.294.201
Runners on112101171131014.168.243.257.226
RISP60508010106.160.300.220.248

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2018.

Pitch sequencing

What José Reyes 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.

Four-Seam Fastball68.8%3381.32,36448.5%12.5%
Curveball29.2%1463.31,99635.7%0.0%
José Reyes's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters.

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Similar players

Nearest 2018 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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.