P · 2016

Chris Young

Kansas City Royals American League CentralP

Age: 38
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 10"
Weight: 255 lb
Number: #32

Born: May 25, 1979 in Dallas, TX, USA
MLB debut: August 24, 2004

Age shown as of the 2017 season.

dbWAR: -2.0
PA: 1
AVG: .000
OBP: .000
SLG: .000
wRC+: -112

Chris Young is a pitcher for the Kansas City Royals. In 2016 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 1 plate appearances in 1 game. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .739. He made contact on 50.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -112 wRC+ puts his offence 212% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -0.3 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.

wRC+-112

wOBA.000

ISO.000

BB%0.0%

WAR-.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2016. These four terms sum to -0.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

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WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2016	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.3	-112	-0.0
2015	2	4	2	0	3	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	.000	.667	0.0%	25.0%	.441	+0.4	186	0.1

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2017	14	2	30.0	0	0	0	47	25	22	14	7.50	6.22	2.03	6.6	4.2	172	143	-0.4
2016	34	13	88.2	3	9	1	104	61	94	43	6.19	6.62	1.66	9.5	4.4	148	158	-1.8
2015	34	18	123.1	11	6	0	91	42	83	43	3.06	4.52	1.09	6.1	3.1	77	114	0.2

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 RHP	1	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 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 LHB	196	162	55	17	31	44	.340	.441	.722	.483	22.4%
vs RHB	210	195	49	11	12	50	.251	.295	.456	.324	23.8%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2016.

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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 Chris Young 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	1	—	—	—	—	—	—	.000	.000	.000	.000
Bases empty · thin	1	1	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.

Pitch sequencing

What Chris Young 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 2016.


Slider	49.8%	835	82.0	1,171	47.9%	31.3%
Four-Seam Fastball	48.0%	806	87.7	2,449	44.4%	21.4%
Changeup	2.0%	33	81.4	1,390	30.3%	18.2%

Chris Young'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.

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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.