P · 2017
Ervin Santana
- Age
- 39
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 2"
- Weight
- 175 lb
- Born
- December 12, 1982 in San Cristobal, Dominican Republic
- MLB debut
- May 17, 2005
Age shown as of the 2021 season.
- dbWAR
- 3.9 8 season(s)
- PA
- 10
- AVG
- .200
- OBP
- .200
- SLG
- .300
- wRC+
- 24 100 = avg
Ervin Santana is a pitcher for the Minnesota Twins. In 2017 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 5 RBIs, notching 2 hits across 10 plate appearances in 3 games. His batting average was .200, 21.6% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .200 clip and slugged .300, for an OPS of .500, 33.4% lower than the league mark of .750. He averaged 77.1 mph off the bat and made contact on 60.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 24 wRC+ puts his offence 76% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -0.9 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, 2017.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2017. These four terms sum to -0.6 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 3 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .200 | .200 | .300 | .100 | .286 | 0.0% | 30.0% | .214 | -0.9 | 24 | -0.1 | |
| 2016 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 50.0% | .000 | -1.5 | -116 | -0.1 |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 38 | 2 | 65.1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 65 | 34 | 52 | 22 | 4.68 | 4.47 | 1.33 | 7.2 | 3.0 | 110 | 105 | 0.2 | |
| 2019 | 3 | 3 | 13.1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 14 | 5 | 6 | 9.45 | 9.66 | 1.88 | 3.4 | 4.0 | 210 | 214 | -0.6 | |
| 2018 | 5 | 5 | 24.2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 31 | 22 | 16 | 9 | 8.03 | 7.94 | 1.62 | 5.8 | 3.3 | 193 | 191 | -0.8 | |
| 2017 | 33 | 33 | 211.1 | 16 | 8 | 0 | 177 | 77 | 167 | 61 | 3.28 | 4.46 | 1.13 | 7.1 | 2.6 | 75 | 102 | 1.8 | |
| 2016 | 30 | 30 | 181.1 | 7 | 11 | 0 | 168 | 68 | 149 | 53 | 3.38 | 3.81 | 1.22 | 7.4 | 2.6 | 81 | 91 | 2.6 | |
| 2015 | 17 | 17 | 108.0 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 104 | 48 | 82 | 36 | 4.00 | 4.17 | 1.30 | 6.8 | 3.0 | 101 | 105 | 0.9 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .500 | .317 | 0.0% |
| vs RHP | 6 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .167 | .167 | .167 | .146 | 50.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 390 | 363 | 78 | 16 | 21 | 61 | .215 | .260 | .386 | .277 | 15.6% |
| vs RHB | 475 | 424 | 99 | 15 | 40 | 106 | .233 | .307 | .396 | .307 | 22.3% |
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 5 tracked batted balls in 2017. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 77.1 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 93.2 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 40.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -2.2° 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, 2017.
Situational hitting
How Ervin Santana 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 | 10 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .200 | .200 | .300 | .214 |
| Bases empty · thin | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runner on first · thin | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 5 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .400 | .400 | .600 | .429 |
| RISP · thin | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .667 | .667 | 1.000 | .714 |
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.
Pitch sequencing
What Ervin Santana 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 2017.
| Slider | 1,193 | 84.5 | 2,371 | 47.2% | 38.7% | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 1,066 | 93.2 | 2,231 | 44.7% | 15.3% | |
| Sinker | 643 | 92.3 | 2,135 | 40.7% | 12.4% | |
| Changeup | 329 | 85.8 | 1,515 | 36.8% | 20.9% |
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.