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Nick Swisher

Age: 35
B/T: S/L
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 195 lb
Number: #33

Born: November 25, 1980 in Columbus, OH, United States
MLB debut: September 3, 2004

dbWAR: 23.0
PA: 260
AVG: .196
OBP: .312
SLG: .320
wRC+: 83

Nick Swisher was a designated hitter for the Atlanta Braves. In 2015 he hit 6 home runs and knocked in 25 RBIs, notching 43 hits across 260 plate appearances in 76 games. His batting average was .196, 22.8% lower than the league average of .254. He reached base at a .312 clip and slugged .320, for an OPS of .631, 12.5% lower than the league mark of .721 — 12th of 17 on his team, and 353rd of 445 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 87.0 mph off the bat, hit 32.4% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 2.0% of them and made contact on 73.8% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 83 wRC+ puts his offence 17% below average. That comes to -0.4 dbWAR — -5.5 runs with the bat, +0.3 for the ballpark, -0.1 on the bases, -1.1 on double plays, -4.2 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 regular season.

wRC+83

wOBA.290

ISO.123

BB%13.5%

WAR-.4

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2015. These terms sum to -3.7 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. Seasons on file run 2005–2015; his career began in 2004, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2015	ATL/CLE	76	260	43	6	25	0	35	54	.196	.312	.320	.123	.228	13.5%	20.8%	.290	-5.5	83	-0.4
2014	CLE	97	401	75	8	42	0	36	111	.208	.278	.331	.122	.273	9.0%	27.7%	.277	-11.2	75	-0.9
2013	CLE	145	634	135	22	63	1	77	138	.246	.341	.423	.177	.288	12.1%	21.8%	.341	+11.3	119	2.1
2012	NYY	148	624	146	24	93	2	77	141	.272	.364	.473	.201	.324	12.3%	22.6%	.368	+23.9	134	3.5
2011	NYY	150	635	137	23	85	2	95	125	.260	.374	.449	.188	.295	15.0%	19.7%	.366	+22.1	126	3.0
2010	NYY	149	635	163	29	89	1	58	139	.288	.359	.511	.223	.335	9.1%	21.9%	.385	+29.9	134	3.8
2009	NYY	147	607	124	29	82	0	97	126	.249	.371	.498	.249	.272	16.0%	20.8%	.382	+24.3	135	3.5
2008	CWS	151	588	109	24	69	3	82	135	.219	.332	.410	.191	.249	13.9%	23.0%	.332	-0.3	96	0.8
2007	OAK	148	659	141	22	78	3	100	131	.262	.381	.455	.193	.301	15.2%	19.9%	.368	+17.9	128	3.4
2006	OAK	155	672	141	35	95	1	97	152	.254	.372	.493	.239	.283	14.4%	22.6%	.376	+22.2	129	3.3
2005	OAK	130	522	109	21	74	0	55	110	.236	.322	.446	.210	.265	10.5%	21.1%	.338	+3.1	103	1.1

Pitching Regular season

																				Trend
2009	NYY	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	0.00	4.10	2.00	9.0	9.0	0	95	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 Nick Swisher'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	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2013 Post	CLE	Wild Card	1	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000
2012 Post	NYY	Postseason total	8	34	30	0	5	2	0	2	3	10	.167	.235	.233	.469
		ALDS	5	21	18	0	2	0	0	1	2	5	.111	.190	.111	.302
		ALCS	3	13	12	0	3	2	0	1	1	5	.250	.308	.417	.724
2011 Post	NYY	ALDS	5	20	19	1	4	0	1	1	1	5	.211	.250	.368	.618
2010 Post	NYY	Postseason total	9	38	34	6	6	3	2	2	4	8	.176	.263	.441	.704
		ALDS	3	13	12	3	4	2	1	1	1	1	.333	.385	.750	1.135
		ALCS	6	25	22	3	2	1	1	1	3	7	.091	.200	.273	.473
2009 Post	NYY	Postseason total	14	56	47	5	6	2	1	2	7	15	.128	.255	.234	.489
		ALDS	3	12	12	0	1	1	0	1	0	4	.083	.083	.167	.250
		ALCS	6	25	20	2	3	0	0	0	3	7	.150	.292	.150	.442
		World Series	5	19	15	3	2	1	1	1	4	4	.133	.316	.400	.716
2008 Post	CWS	ALDS	2	6	4	1	1	0	0	0	2	1	.250	.500	.250	.750
2006 Post	OAK	Postseason total	7	27	20	3	4	2	0	1	7	7	.200	.407	.300	.707
		ALDS	3	12	10	3	3	2	0	1	2	2	.300	.417	.500	.917
		ALCS	4	15	10	0	1	0	0	0	5	5	.100	.400	.100	.500
2005–2015		Postseason total · 7 Octobers	46	185	158	16	26	9	4	8	24	48	.165	.277	.297	.575

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, 2015. 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	92	80	18	3	8	9	.225	.304	.412	.315	9.8%
vs RHP	168	139	25	3	27	45	.180	.315	.266	.276	26.8%

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

Barrel rate: 2.0%
Exit velocity: 87.0
Max exit velo: 106.0
Hard hit: 32.4%
Sweet spot: 33.1%
Launch angle: 7.3°

Barrel rate2.0%

Exit velocity87.0 mph

Hard hit rate32.4%

Contact rate73.8%

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.

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 Nick Swisher 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	260	—	—	—	—	—	—	.196	.312	.320	.290
Bases empty	140	122	24	2	2	18	27	.197	.300	.287	.274
Runner on first	48	38	6	1	2	10	14	.158	.333	.263	.292
Runners on	120	97	19	4	23	17	27	.196	.325	.361	.309
RISP	72	59	13	3	21	7	13	.220	.319	.424	.320

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

Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.


Changeup	95.5%	21	75.3	2,256	42.9%	16.7%	4	—	—

Nick Swisher'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. BAA and OPS are what hitters did against each pitch, credited to the one that ended the plate appearance, and are left blank under 15 at-bats.

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Nearest 2015 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Chris IannettaLAA

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HR: 10
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wRC+: 69
HR: 2
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WAR: 0.0

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wRC+: 72
HR: 2
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HR: 5
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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.