P · 2019

Félix Hernández

Age: 33
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 220 lb
Number: #34

Born: April 8, 1986 in Valencia, Venezuela
MLB debut: August 4, 2005

dbWAR: 2.6
PA: 3
AVG: .000
OBP: .000
SLG: .000
wRC+: -121

Félix Hernández is a pitcher for the Seattle Mariners. In 2019 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 3 plate appearances in 2 games. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .252. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .758. He averaged 95.9 mph off the bat, hit 100.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 55.6% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -121 wRC+ puts his offence 221% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -0.8 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.

wRC+-121

wOBA.000

ISO.000

BB%0.0%

WAR-.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2019. These four terms sum to -0.7 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2019	2	3	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	66.7%	.000	-0.8	-121	-0.1
2018	2	4	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-1.0	-126	-0.1
2016	3	8	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	37.5%	.000	-2.0	-119	-0.2
2015	1	3	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	33.3%	.000	-0.8	-127	-0.1

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2019	15	15	71.2	1	8	85	51	57	25	6.40	6.00	1.53	7.2	3.1	142	133	-0.4
2018	29	28	155.2	8	14	159	96	125	59	5.55	5.18	1.40	7.2	3.4	134	125	-0.3
2017	16	16	86.2	6	5	86	42	78	26	4.36	5.02	1.29	8.1	2.7	100	115	0.2
2016	25	25	153.1	11	8	138	65	122	65	3.82	4.63	1.32	7.2	3.8	91	111	0.8
2015	31	31	201.2	18	9	180	79	191	58	3.53	3.72	1.18	8.5	2.6	89	94	2.7

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2019. 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	1	1	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	100.0%
vs RHP	2	2	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	50.0%

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2019. 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	134	119	35	6	14	27	.294	.373	.546	.387	20.1%
vs RHB	191	173	50	11	11	30	.289	.347	.555	.376	15.7%

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 1 tracked batted balls in 2019. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 95.9
Max exit velo: 95.9
Hard hit: 100.0%
Sweet spot: 0.0%
Launch angle: -18.0°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity95.9 mph

Hard hit rate100.0%

Contact rate55.6%

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.

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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 .252.

Situational hitting

How Félix Hernández 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	3	—	—	—	—	—	—	.000	.000	.000	.000
Bases empty · thin	3	3	0	0	0	0	2	.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, 2019.

Pitch sequencing

What Félix Hernández 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.


Curveball	35.2%	428	79.3	2,441	50.2%	27.2%
Sinker	32.2%	391	89.4	2,059	41.9%	11.8%
Changeup	16.2%	197	84.7	1,733	32.5%	23.2%
Slider	9.0%	109	83.8	2,316	43.1%	31.5%
Four-Seam Fastball	7.5%	91	89.9	2,150	44.0%	17.2%

Félix Hernández'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.