P · 2021

Zack Greinke

Age: 40
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 200 lb
Number: #23

Born: October 21, 1983 in Orlando, FL, USA
MLB debut: May 22, 2004

Age shown as of the 2023 season.

dbWAR: 23.5
PA: 2
AVG: .000
OBP: .000
SLG: .000
wRC+: -121

Zack Greinke is a pitcher for the Houston Astros. In 2021 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 2 plate appearances in 1 game. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .728. He averaged 93.5 mph off the bat and made contact on 66.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -121 wRC+ puts his offence 221% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -0.5 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, 2021.

wRC+-121

wOBA.000

ISO.000

BB%0.0%

WAR-.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2021. These four terms sum to -0.5 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2021	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-0.5	-121	-0.0
2019	25	56	14	3	8	1	2	12	.280	.308	.580	.300	.314	3.6%	21.4%	.364	+2.0	129	0.3
2018	30	71	15	0	5	3	3	16	.234	.269	.297	.063	.313	4.2%	22.5%	.252	-3.8	53	-0.1
2017	29	70	13	0	4	0	2	18	.210	.246	.274	.065	.295	2.9%	25.7%	.232	-5.4	35	-0.3
2016	25	60	11	0	3	1	3	9	.212	.246	.231	.019	.244	5.0%	15.0%	.213	-5.2	25	-0.3
2015	30	77	15	2	3	1	1	14	.224	.232	.343	.119	.250	1.3%	18.2%	.248	-4.2	53	-0.2

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2023	30	27	142.1	2	15	158	80	97	23	5.06	4.74	1.27	6.1	1.5	117	110	0.7
2022	26	26	137.0	4	9	157	56	73	27	3.68	4.03	1.34	4.8	1.8	93	102	1.3
2021	30	29	171.0	11	6	164	79	120	36	4.16	4.71	1.17	6.3	1.9	97	111	0.8
2020	12	12	67.0	3	3	67	30	67	9	4.03	2.80	1.13	9.0	1.2	90	63	1.8
2019	33	33	208.2	18	5	175	68	187	30	2.93	3.22	0.98	8.1	1.3	65	71	4.7
2018	33	33	207.2	15	11	181	74	199	43	3.21	3.70	1.08	8.6	1.9	77	89	3.1
2017	32	32	202.1	17	7	172	72	215	45	3.20	3.31	1.07	9.6	2.0	73	76	4.3
2016	26	26	158.2	13	7	161	77	134	41	4.37	4.12	1.27	7.6	2.3	104	98	1.7
2015	32	32	222.2	19	3	148	41	200	40	1.66	2.76	0.84	8.1	1.6	42	70	5.5

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2021. 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	2	2	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	50.0%

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2021. 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 LHB	275	256	51	8	15	45	.199	.241	.324	.246	16.4%
vs RHB	422	396	113	22	21	75	.285	.323	.505	.352	17.8%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2021.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 1 tracked batted balls in 2021. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 93.5
Max exit velo: 93.5
Hard hit: 0.0%
Sweet spot: 0.0%
Launch angle: 39.0°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity93.5 mph

Hard hit rate0.0%

Contact rate66.7%

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, 2021.

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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 .243.

Situational hitting

How Zack Greinke 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	2	—	—	—	—	—	—	.000	.000	.000	.000
Bases empty · thin	2	2	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, 2021.

Pitch sequencing

What Zack Greinke 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 2021.


Four-Seam Fastball	39.8%	1,026	88.9	2,234	48.7%	11.9%
Changeup	22.1%	569	86.4	1,593	34.4%	27.8%
Curveball	16.4%	422	71.2	2,364	45.0%	25.8%
Slider	13.2%	339	83.6	2,346	38.9%	30.2%
Sinker	5.8%	149	89.5	2,145	36.2%	14.3%
Cutter	2.1%	55	83.9	2,406	36.4%	35.5%

Zack Greinke'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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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.