C · 2016
Brayan Peña
- 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
- 1.3 2 season(s)
- PA
- 14
- AVG
- .154
- OBP
- .214
- SLG
- .231
- wRC+
- 20 100 = avg
Brayan Peña is 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 -0.1 dbWAR — -1.3 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, 2016.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2016. These four terms sum to -0.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 8 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .154 | .214 | .231 | .077 | .182 | 7.1% | 14.3% | .203 | -1.3 | 20 | -0.1 | |
| 2015 | 107 | 367 | 91 | 0 | 18 | 2 | 29 | 34 | .273 | .334 | .324 | .051 | .303 | 7.9% | 9.3% | .297 | -5.6 | 84 | 1.4 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| 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% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 82.2 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 95.0 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 11.1% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 33.3% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -10.7° 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, 2016.
Situational hitting
How Brayan Peña 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 | 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.
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.