P · 2019
Cole Hamels
- Age
- 37
- B/T
- L/L
- Height
- 6' 4"
- Weight
- 205 lb
- Number
- #35
- Born
- December 27, 1983 in San Diego, CA, USA
- MLB debut
- May 12, 2006
Age shown as of the 2020 season.
- dbWAR
- 8.9 11 season(s)
- PA
- 46
- AVG
- .143
- OBP
- .178
- SLG
- .167
- wRC+
- -13 100 = avg
Cole Hamels is a pitcher for the Chicago Cubs. In 2019 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 4 RBIs, notching 6 hits across 46 plate appearances in 23 games. His batting average was .143, 43.4% lower than the league average of .252. He reached base at a .178 clip and slugged .167, for an OPS of .344, 54.5% lower than the league mark of .758. He averaged 84.8 mph off the bat, hit 22.2% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 70.1% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -13 wRC+ puts his offence 113% below average. That comes to -0.5 dbWAR — -6.6 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, 2019.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2019. These four terms sum to -5.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 23 | 46 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 15 | .143 | .178 | .167 | .024 | .214 | 2.2% | 32.6% | .156 | -6.6 | -13 | -0.5 | |
| 2018 | 12 | 27 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 12 | .120 | .154 | .240 | .120 | .167 | 3.7% | 44.4% | .173 | -3.2 | -0 | -0.2 | |
| 2017 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 33.3% | .000 | -0.8 | -115 | -0.1 | |
| 2016 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .125 | .125 | .125 | .000 | .143 | 0.0% | 12.5% | .110 | -1.3 | -41 | -0.1 | |
| 2015 | 20 | 46 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | .167 | .167 | .190 | .024 | .280 | 0.0% | 37.0% | .156 | -5.8 | -13 | -0.5 |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 1 | 1 | 3.1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8.10 | 2.89 | 1.20 | 5.4 | 2.7 | 182 | 65 | 0.1 | |
| 2019 | 27 | 27 | 141.2 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 141 | 60 | 143 | 56 | 3.81 | 4.09 | 1.39 | 9.1 | 3.6 | 85 | 91 | 1.9 | |
| 2018 | 32 | 32 | 190.2 | 9 | 12 | 0 | 176 | 80 | 188 | 65 | 3.78 | 4.49 | 1.26 | 8.9 | 3.1 | 91 | 108 | 1.2 | |
| 2017 | 24 | 24 | 148.0 | 11 | 6 | 0 | 125 | 69 | 105 | 53 | 4.20 | 4.62 | 1.20 | 6.4 | 3.2 | 96 | 106 | 1.0 | |
| 2016 | 32 | 32 | 200.2 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 185 | 74 | 200 | 77 | 3.32 | 3.98 | 1.31 | 9.0 | 3.5 | 79 | 95 | 2.5 | |
| 2015 | 32 | 32 | 212.1 | 13 | 8 | 0 | 190 | 86 | 215 | 62 | 3.65 | 3.47 | 1.19 | 9.1 | 2.6 | 92 | 88 | 3.5 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 7 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .143 | .143 | .143 | .125 | 42.9% |
| vs RHP | 39 | 35 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 12 | .143 | .184 | .171 | .162 | 30.8% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 131 | 117 | 31 | 3 | 10 | 26 | .265 | .331 | .368 | .307 | 19.8% |
| vs RHB | 486 | 425 | 110 | 14 | 46 | 117 | .259 | .335 | .416 | .324 | 24.1% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2019.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 27 tracked batted balls in 2019. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 84.8 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 103.9 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 22.2% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 44.4% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 1.6° 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, 2019.
Situational hitting
How Cole Hamels 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 | 46 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .143 | .178 | .167 | .156 |
| Bases empty · thin | 22 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | .050 | .136 | .100 | .121 |
| Runner on first · thin | 12 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .218 |
| Runners on · thin | 24 | 22 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 6 | .227 | .217 | .227 | .190 |
| RISP · thin | 12 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | .200 | .182 | .200 | .159 |
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, 2019.
Pitch sequencing
What Cole Hamels 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 2019.
| Four-Seam Fastball | 849 | 91.4 | 2,058 | 49.7% | 22.4% | |
| Changeup | 511 | 83.3 | 1,713 | 49.5% | 43.5% | |
| Cutter | 446 | 87.6 | 1,994 | 45.1% | 18.3% | |
| Curveball | 299 | 78.0 | 2,039 | 39.5% | 35.0% | |
| Sinker | 289 | 91.1 | 2,033 | 40.1% | 12.9% |
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.