3B · 2016

Casey McGehee

Detroit Tigers American League Central3B

Age: 34
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 220 lb
Number: #14

Born: October 12, 1982 in Santa Cruz, CA, USA
MLB debut: September 2, 2008

dbWAR: -1.3
PA: 96
AVG: .228
OBP: .260
SLG: .239
wRC+: 35

Casey McGehee was a third baseman for the Detroit Tigers. In 2016 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 1 RBI, notching 21 hits across 96 plate appearances in 27 games. His batting average was .228, 10.6% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .260 clip and slugged .239, for an OPS of .500, 32.4% lower than the league mark of .739. He averaged 89.9 mph off the bat, hit 38.1% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 3.2% of them and made contact on 84.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 35 wRC+ puts his offence 65% below average. That comes to -0.4 dbWAR — -7.4 runs with the bat, -0.1 on the bases, +0.3 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.

wRC+35

wOBA.225

ISO.011

BB%3.1%

WAR-.4

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2016. These four terms sum to -3.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2016	27	96	21	0	1	0	3	14	.228	.260	.239	.011	.269	3.1%	14.6%	.225	-7.4	35	-0.4
2015	108	258	47	2	20	1	21	50	.198	.264	.274	.076	.243	8.1%	19.4%	.246	-14.4	51	-0.9

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	30	27	8	0	2	4	.296	.367	.333	.317	13.3%
vs RHP	66	65	13	0	1	10	.200	.212	.200	.183	15.2%

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

Barrel rate: 3.2%
Exit velocity: 89.9
Max exit velo: 108.1
Hard hit: 38.1%
Sweet spot: 36.5%
Launch angle: 10.1°

Barrel rate3.2%

Exit velocity89.9 mph

Hard hit rate38.1%

Contact rate84.7%

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 Casey McGehee 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	96	—	—	—	—	—	—	.228	.260	.239	.225
Bases empty	48	44	11	0	0	3	8	.250	.313	.250	.260
Runner on first	31	31	8	0	1	0	3	.258	.258	.290	.239
Runners on	48	48	10	0	1	0	6	.208	.208	.229	.191
RISP · thin	17	17	2	0	0	0	3	.118	.118	.118	.103

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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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.