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Jhonny Peralta

St. Louis Cardinals National League Central3B

Age: 35
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 225 lb
Number: #2

Born: May 28, 1982 in Santiago, Dominican Republic
MLB debut: June 12, 2003

dbWAR: 30.9
PA: 58
AVG: .204
OBP: .259
SLG: .204
wRC+: 26

Jhonny Peralta was a third baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals. In 2017 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 11 hits across 58 plate appearances in 21 games. His batting average was .204, 20.1% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .259 clip and slugged .204, for an OPS of .462, 38.4% lower than the league mark of .750. He averaged 88.0 mph off the bat, hit 43.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 76.6% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 26 wRC+ puts his offence 74% below average. That comes to -0.4 dbWAR — -5.3 runs with the bat, +0.1 for the ballpark, -0.0 on the bases, -0.3 on double plays, +0.1 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, 2017 regular season.

wRC+26

wOBA.215

ISO.000

BB%6.9%

WAR-.4

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2017. These terms sum to -3.7 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2017; his career began in 2003, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2017	STL	21	58	11	0	0	0	4	13	.204	.259	.204	.000	.268	6.9%	22.4%	.215	-5.3	26	-0.4
2016	STL	82	313	75	8	29	0	20	56	.260	.307	.408	.149	.294	6.4%	17.9%	.311	-2.6	95	0.8
2015	STL	155	640	159	17	71	1	50	111	.275	.334	.411	.136	.311	7.8%	17.3%	.326	+4.6	109	2.9
2014	STL	157	628	147	21	75	3	58	112	.263	.336	.443	.180	.292	9.2%	17.8%	.348	+16.1	120	4.1
2013	DET	107	448	124	11	55	3	35	98	.303	.358	.457	.154	.374	7.8%	21.9%	.360	+14.7	125	3.3
2012	DET	148	585	127	13	63	1	49	105	.239	.305	.384	.145	.275	8.4%	17.9%	.305	-6.5	88	1.3
2011	DET	146	576	157	21	86	0	40	95	.299	.345	.478	.179	.325	6.9%	16.5%	.361	+18.1	126	4.1
2010	CLE/DET	147	615	137	15	81	1	53	103	.249	.311	.392	.143	.275	8.6%	16.7%	.313	-5.9	93	1.5
2009	CLE	151	645	148	11	83	0	51	134	.254	.316	.375	.120	.309	7.9%	20.8%	.311	-11.6	89	0.8
2008	CLE	154	664	167	23	89	3	48	126	.276	.331	.473	.197	.312	7.2%	19.0%	.352	+10.6	113	3.5
2007	CLE	152	647	155	21	72	4	61	146	.270	.341	.430	.160	.324	9.4%	22.6%	.342	+3.4	100	2.7
2006	CLE	149	632	146	13	68	0	56	152	.257	.323	.385	.128	.327	8.9%	24.1%	.317	-10.6	88	1.2
2005	CLE	140	570	147	24	78	0	58	128	.292	.366	.520	.228	.346	10.2%	22.5%	.384	+25.2	142	5.0

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason batting

Postseason Jhonny Peralta's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2015 Post	STL	NLDS	4	15	14	1	2	1	0	1	1	6	0	.143	.200	.214	.414
2014 Post	STL	Postseason total	9	35	31	2	5	1	0	1	4	6	0	.161	.257	.194	.451
		NLDS	4	15	14	2	3	1	0	0	1	4	0	.214	.267	.286	.552
		NLCS	5	20	17	0	2	0	0	1	3	2	0	.118	.250	.118	.368
2013 Post	DET	Postseason total	10	34	33	2	11	4	1	6	1	5	0	.333	.353	.545	.898
		ALDS	4	12	12	1	5	1	1	5	0	2	0	.417	.417	.750	1.167
		ALCS	6	22	21	1	6	3	0	1	1	3	0	.286	.318	.429	.747
2012 Post	DET	Postseason total	13	52	50	5	13	1	3	5	2	9	1	.260	.288	.460	.748
		ALDS	5	18	17	1	5	0	0	0	1	3	1	.294	.333	.294	.627
		ALCS	4	19	18	3	7	1	2	3	1	3	0	.389	.421	.778	1.199
		World Series	4	15	15	1	1	0	1	2	0	3	0	.067	.067	.267	.333
2011 Post	DET	Postseason total	11	45	41	2	9	3	2	3	2	8	0	.220	.273	.439	.712
		ALDS	5	20	18	0	4	2	0	1	1	4	0	.222	.300	.333	.633
		ALCS	6	25	23	2	5	1	2	2	1	4	0	.217	.250	.522	.772
2007 Post	CLE	Postseason total	11	48	42	6	14	5	2	10	5	11	1	.333	.396	.595	.991
		ALDS	4	19	15	2	7	3	0	2	4	3	1	.467	.579	.667	1.246
		ALCS	7	29	27	4	7	2	2	8	1	8	0	.259	.276	.556	.831
2005–2017		Postseason total · 6 Octobers	58	229	211	18	54	15	8	26	15	45	2	.256	.307	.441	.748

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2017. 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	25	24	3	0	1	8	.125	.160	.125	.133	32.0%
vs RHP	33	30	8	0	3	5	.267	.333	.267	.277	15.2%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2017.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 30 tracked batted balls in 2017. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 88.0
Max exit velo: 106.1
Hard hit: 43.3%
Sweet spot: 43.3%
Launch angle: 18.2°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity88.0 mph

Hard hit rate43.3%

Contact rate76.6%

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, 2017.

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 .254.

Situational hitting

How Jhonny Peralta 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	58	—	—	—	—	—	—	.204	.259	.204	.215
Bases empty	32	31	8	0	0	1	6	.258	.281	.258	.241
Runner on first · thin	20	17	3	0	0	3	6	.176	.300	.176	.238
Runners on	26	23	3	0	0	3	7	.130	.231	.130	.183
RISP · thin	6	6	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, 2017.

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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.