P · 2015
Chin-hui Tsao
- Age
- 35
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 210 lb
- Number
- #71
- Born
- June 2, 1981 in Hua-Lien, Taiwan
- MLB debut
- July 25, 2003
Age shown as of the 2016 season.
- dbWAR
- -.3 3 season(s)
- PA
- 1
- AVG
- 1.000
- OBP
- 1.000
- SLG
- 2.000
- wRC+
- 793 100 = avg
Chin-hui Tsao is a pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2015 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 1 plate appearances in 1 game. His batting average was 1.000, 293.0% higher than the league average of .254. He reached base at a 1.000 clip and slugged 2.000, for an OPS of 3.000, 315.9% higher than the league mark of .721. He averaged 101.4 mph off the bat, hit 100.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 100.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 793 wRC+ puts his offence 693% above average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — +0.8 runs with the bat, +0.0 on the bases, +0.0 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 +0.8 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 2.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.275 | +0.8 | 793 | 0.1 | — |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 2 | 0 | 1.2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5.40 | 8.55 | 2.40 | 0.0 | 16.2 | 129 | 204 | -0.1 | |
| 2015 | 5 | 0 | 7.0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 10.29 | 7.99 | 2.57 | 9.0 | 3.9 | 260 | 202 | -0.3 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 2.000 | 1.275 | 0.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 15 | 14 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 2 | .571 | .600 | 1.143 | .731 | 13.3% |
| vs RHB | 22 | 20 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 5 | .350 | .409 | .600 | .423 | 22.7% |
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 1 tracked batted balls in 2015. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 101.4 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 101.4 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 100.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 100.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 22.0° 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 Chin-hui Tsao 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 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1.000 | 1.000 | 2.000 | 1.275 |
| Bases empty · thin | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 2.000 | 1.275 |
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.
Pitch sequencing
What Chin-hui Tsao 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 2015.
| Slider | 57 | 87.4 | 762 | 50.9% | 21.2% | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 52 | 93.8 | 1,933 | 48.1% | 28.0% |
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.