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RF · 2015

Garrett Jones

Age
34
B/T
L/L
Height
6' 5"
Weight
235 lb
Number
#46
Born
June 21, 1981 in Harvey, IL, USA
MLB debut
May 15, 2007
dbWAR
-.4
2 season(s)
PA
152
AVG
.215
OBP
.257
SLG
.361
wRC+
68
100 = avg

Garrett Jones is a right fielder for the New York Yankees. In 2015 he hit 5 home runs and knocked in 17 RBIs, notching 31 hits across 152 plate appearances in 56 games. His batting average was .215, 15.4% lower than the league average of .254. He reached base at a .257 clip and slugged .361, for an OPS of .618, 14.4% lower than the league mark of .721 — the second worst on his team, and 368th of 445 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 88.8 mph off the bat, hit 41.7% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 4.2% of them and made contact on 74.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 68 wRC+ puts his offence 32% below average. That comes to -0.3 dbWAR — -5.4 runs with the bat, -0.1 on the bases, -2.6 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, 2015.

wRC+68
wOBA.272
ISO.146
BB%5.3%
WAR-.3

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2015. These four terms sum to -3.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting-5.4Baserunning-0.1Position-2.6Replacement+5.1
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
201556152315170837.215.257.361.146.2555.3%24.3%.272-5.468-0.3

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2015100.200000010.0012.131.500.013.50306-0.1

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2015. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP25233125.130.200.304.22720.0%
vs RHP127121284632.231.268.372.28125.2%
Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2015. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB210000.000.500.000.3660.0%
vs RHB210010.000.500.000.3560.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2015.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 72 tracked batted balls in 2015. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate
4.2%
3 barrels
Exit velocity
88.8
mph average
Max exit velo
106.1
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
41.7%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
31.9%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
10.2°
average
Barrel rate4.2%
Exit velocity88.8 mph
Hard hit rate41.7%
Contact rate74.9%

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, 2015.

.182.214.0002 AB3 AB3 AB.06715 AB.45511 AB7 AB.30020 AB.24025 AB2 AB
Below averageLeague averageAbove average
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 .254.

Situational hitting

How Garrett Jones hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.

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By who is on base when he comes up. The season line is repeated as the baseline.
SituationPAABHHRRBIBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBA
All situations152.215.257.361.272
Bases empty84821522224.183.202.317.226
Runner on first3733101248.303.378.394.348
Runners on686216315613.258.324.419.329
RISP3129621325.207.258.448.307

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2015.

Pitch sequencing

What Garrett Jones 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 2015.

Changeup76.5%1375.81,93830.8%33.3%
Garrett Jones'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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Similar players

Nearest 2015 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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.