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Don Kelly

Age: 36
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 215 lb
Number: #32

Born: February 15, 1980 in Butler, PA, United States
MLB debut: April 2, 2007

dbWAR: -.8
PA: 30
AVG: .148
OBP: .200
SLG: .296
wRC+: 28

Don Kelly was a first baseman for the Miami Marlins. In 2016 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 3 RBIs, notching 4 hits across 30 plate appearances in 11 games. His batting average was .148, 42.0% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .200 clip and slugged .296, for an OPS of .496, 32.8% lower than the league mark of .739. He averaged 84.0 mph off the bat, hit 10.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 90.6% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 28 wRC+ puts his offence 72% below average. That comes to -0.3 dbWAR — -2.6 runs with the bat, +0.1 for the ballpark, -0.0 on the bases, -0.6 on double plays, -0.4 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, 2016 regular season.

wRC+28

wOBA.213

ISO.148

BB%6.7%

WAR-.3

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2016. These terms sum to -2.7 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.


2016	MIA	11	30	4	0	3	0	2	5	.148	.200	.296	.148	.174	6.7%	16.7%	.213	-2.6	28	-0.3
2015	MIA	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.3	-125	-0.0
2014	DET	69	185	40	0	7	6	20	29	.245	.332	.288	.043	.299	10.8%	15.7%	.289	-3.5	82	-0.0
2013	DET	101	251	48	6	23	2	27	28	.222	.309	.343	.120	.226	10.8%	11.2%	.295	-4.3	81	0.2
2012	DET	53	127	21	1	7	2	14	22	.186	.276	.248	.062	.222	11.0%	17.3%	.245	-7.3	48	-0.5
2011	DET	94	281	63	7	28	2	14	32	.245	.291	.381	.136	.256	5.0%	11.4%	.301	-4.2	85	0.1
2010	DET	91	251	58	9	27	3	8	42	.244	.272	.374	.130	.259	3.2%	16.7%	.287	-7.6	74	-0.1
2009	DET	25	62	14	0	3	1	4	10	.250	.311	.339	.089	.304	6.5%	16.1%	.296	-1.9	74	-0.0
2007	PIT	23	32	4	0	0	0	3	3	.148	.281	.148	.000	.167	9.4%	9.4%	.227	-2.9	27	-0.2

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.

																				Trend
2011	DET	1	0	0.1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	3.03	0.00	0.0	0.0	0	77	0.0	—

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 Don Kelly'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
2014 Post	DET	ALDS	1	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000
2013 Post	DET	Postseason total	6	14	11	0	2	0	0	0	3	3	0	.182	.357	.182	.539
		ALDS	2	7	5	0	2	0	0	0	2	1	0	.400	.571	.400	.971
		ALCS	4	7	6	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	.000	.143	.000	.143
2012 Post	DET	Postseason total	3	2	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
		ALDS	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	—	.000	—	—
		ALCS	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—
		World Series	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
2011 Post	DET	Postseason total	9	20	20	3	6	1	1	2	0	4	0	.300	.300	.500	.800
		ALDS	4	11	11	3	4	0	1	2	0	4	0	.364	.364	.636	1.000
		ALCS	5	9	9	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	.222	.222	.333	.556
Career		Postseason total · 4 Octobers	19	38	34	5	9	1	1	3	3	9	1	.265	.316	.382	.698

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, 2016. 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%
vs RHP	28	25	4	0	2	4	.160	.214	.320	.228	14.3%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2016.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 20 tracked batted balls in 2016. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 84.0
Max exit velo: 104.2
Hard hit: 10.0%
Sweet spot: 45.0%
Launch angle: 6.1°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity84.0 mph

Hard hit rate10.0%

Contact rate90.6%

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, 2016.

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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 .255.

Situational hitting

How Don Kelly 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	30	—	—	—	—	—	—	.148	.200	.296	.213
Bases empty · thin	15	14	3	0	0	1	2	.214	.267	.357	.271
Runner on first · thin	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
Runners on · thin	15	13	1	0	3	1	3	.077	.133	.231	.154
RISP · thin	11	9	1	0	3	1	3	.111	.182	.333	.210

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, 2016.

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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.