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SS · 2015

Clint Barmes

Age
36
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 1"
Weight
200 lb
Number
#12
Born
March 6, 1979 in Vincennes, IN, USA
MLB debut
September 5, 2003
dbWAR
.2
1 season(s)
PA
224
AVG
.232
OBP
.281
SLG
.353
wRC+
74
100 = avg

Clint Barmes was a shortstop for the San Diego Padres. In 2015 he hit 3 home runs and knocked in 16 RBIs, notching 48 hits across 224 plate appearances in 90 games. His batting average was .232, 8.9% lower than the league average of .254. He reached base at a .281 clip and slugged .353, for an OPS of .633, 12.2% lower than the league mark of .721 — 12th of 15 on his team, and 352nd of 445 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 83.0 mph off the bat, hit 17.9% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 2.2% of them and made contact on 76.4% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 74 wRC+ puts his offence 26% below average. That comes to 0.2 dbWAR — -6.9 runs with the bat, -0.5 on the bases, +2.3 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.

wRC+74
wOBA.278
ISO.121
BB%4.5%
WAR.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2015. These four terms sum to +2.3 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting-6.9Baserunning-0.5Position+2.3Replacement+7.5
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2015902244831601055.232.281.353.121.3024.5%24.6%.278-6.9740.2

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2015. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP10899242630.242.299.374.29227.8%
vs RHP116108241425.222.263.333.26521.6%

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 134 tracked batted balls in 2015. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate
2.2%
3 barrels
Exit velocity
83.0
mph average
Max exit velo
103.8
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
17.9%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
41.8%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
17.6°
average
Barrel rate2.2%
Exit velocity83.0 mph
Hard hit rate17.9%
Contact rate76.4%

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.

.000.100.000.2077 AB.20010 AB4 AB.40015 AB.28621 AB.13829 AB7 AB.41217 AB.31029 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 .254.

Situational hitting

How Clint Barmes 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 situations224.232.281.353.278
Bases empty1311243022636.242.282.371.288
Runner on first4338101527.263.317.421.326
Runners on938318114419.217.278.325.262
RISP5045809212.178.245.244.206

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2015.

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Similar players

Nearest 2015 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.