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Brayan Peña

St. Louis Cardinals National League CentralC

Age: 34
B/T: S/R
Height: 5' 9"
Weight: 240 lb
Number: #3

Born: January 7, 1982 in Havana, Cuba
MLB debut: May 23, 2005

dbWAR: 1.9
PA: 14
AVG: .154
OBP: .214
SLG: .231
wRC+: 20

Brayan Peña was a catcher for the St. Louis Cardinals. In 2016 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 2 hits across 14 plate appearances in 8 games. His batting average was .154, 39.8% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .214 clip and slugged .231, for an OPS of .445, 39.8% lower than the league mark of .739. He averaged 82.2 mph off the bat, hit 11.1% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 75.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 20 wRC+ puts his offence 80% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -1.3 runs with the bat, +0.0 for the ballpark, -0.0 on the bases, +0.7 on double plays, +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, 2016 regular season.

wRC+20

wOBA.203

ISO.077

BB%7.1%

WAR-.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2016. These terms sum to -0.2 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	STL	8	14	2	0	0	0	1	2	.154	.214	.231	.077	.182	7.1%	14.3%	.203	-1.3	20	-0.0
2015	CIN	107	367	91	0	18	2	29	34	.273	.334	.324	.051	.303	7.9%	9.3%	.297	-5.6	84	0.9
2014	CIN	114	372	88	5	26	2	20	42	.253	.291	.353	.101	.273	5.4%	11.3%	.287	-7.5	82	0.0
2013	DET	69	243	68	4	22	0	6	26	.297	.315	.397	.100	.315	2.5%	10.7%	.314	-0.6	94	0.9
2012	KC	67	226	50	2	25	0	9	24	.236	.262	.321	.085	.253	4.0%	10.6%	.257	-11.0	57	-0.4
2011	KC	68	240	55	3	24	0	12	24	.248	.287	.338	.090	.261	5.0%	10.0%	.280	-7.5	72	0.3
2010	KC	58	174	40	1	19	2	12	27	.253	.306	.335	.082	.295	6.9%	15.5%	.292	-4.7	77	0.2
2009	KC	62	183	45	6	18	0	12	18	.273	.318	.442	.170	.273	6.6%	9.8%	.331	-0.3	95	0.4
2008	ATL	14	15	4	0	0	0	1	2	.286	.333	.357	.071	.333	6.7%	13.3%	.314	-0.2	85	-0.0
2007	ATL	16	33	7	1	3	0	0	3	.212	.212	.303	.091	.207	0.0%	9.1%	.225	-3.1	26	-0.2
2006	ATL	21	43	11	1	5	0	2	5	.268	.302	.390	.122	.286	4.7%	11.6%	.306	-1.1	81	0.0
2005	ATL	16	40	7	0	4	0	1	7	.179	.200	.231	.051	.219	2.5%	17.5%	.180	-4.9	-2	-0.3

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 Brayan Peña'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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2013 Post	DET	ALCS	1	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667

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	1	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	.439	0.0%
vs RHP	12	11	1	0	1	2	.091	.167	.182	.164	16.7%

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 9 tracked batted balls in 2016. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 82.2
Max exit velo: 95.0
Hard hit: 11.1%
Sweet spot: 33.3%
Launch angle: -10.7°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity82.2 mph

Hard hit rate11.1%

Contact rate75.0%

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.

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 .255.

Situational hitting

How Brayan Peña 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	14	—	—	—	—	—	—	.154	.214	.231	.203
Bases empty · thin	6	5	1	0	0	1	2	.200	.333	.400	.327
Runner on first · thin	6	6	1	0	0	0	0	.167	.167	.167	.146
Runners on · thin	8	8	1	0	0	0	0	.125	.125	.125	.110
RISP · thin	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	.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, 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.