P · 2017

Ubaldo Jiménez

Age: 33
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 5"
Weight: 221 lb
Number: #38

Born: January 22, 1984 in Nagua, Dominican Republic
MLB debut: September 26, 2006

dbWAR: 2.0
PA: 5
AVG: .200
OBP: .200
SLG: .200
wRC+: -2

Ubaldo Jiménez was a pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles. In 2017 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 5 plate appearances in 3 games. His batting average was .200, 21.6% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .200 clip and slugged .200, for an OPS of .400, 46.7% lower than the league mark of .750. He averaged 92.3 mph off the bat and made contact on 87.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -2 wRC+ puts his offence 102% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -0.6 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, 2017.

wRC+-2

wOBA.175

ISO.000

BB%0.0%

WAR-.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2017. These four terms sum to -0.5 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

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WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2017	3	5	1	0	3	.200	.200	.200	.000	.500	0.0%	60.0%	.175	-0.6	-2	-0.0
2016	2	4	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	25.0%	.000	-1.0	-119	-0.1
2015	4	8	2	2	4	.250	.250	.250	.000	.500	0.0%	50.0%	.220	-0.6	30	-0.0

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2017	31	25	142.2	6	11	0	169	108	139	58	6.81	5.54	1.59	8.8	3.7	156	127	-0.6
2016	30	25	142.1	8	12	1	150	86	125	72	5.44	4.43	1.56	7.9	4.6	130	106	0.9
2015	32	32	184.0	12	10	0	182	84	168	68	4.11	4.01	1.36	8.2	3.3	104	101	1.8

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2017. 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	3	3	1	0	0	2	.333	.333	.333	.291	66.7%
vs RHP	2	2	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	50.0%

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2017. 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	304	271	80	20	29	70	.295	.366	.605	.408	23.0%
vs RHB	344	309	89	13	29	69	.288	.352	.489	.361	20.1%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2017.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 1 tracked batted balls in 2017. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 92.3
Max exit velo: 92.3
Hard hit: 0.0%
Sweet spot: 100.0%
Launch angle: 8.0°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity92.3 mph

Hard hit rate0.0%

Contact rate87.5%

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, 2017.

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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 .254.

Situational hitting

How Ubaldo Jiménez 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	5	—	—	—	—	—	—	.200	.200	.200	.175
Bases empty · thin	3	3	1	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.291
Runner on first · thin	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
Runners on · thin	2	2	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000
RISP · thin	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	.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, 2017.

Pitch sequencing

What Ubaldo Jiménez 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 2017.


Sinker	35.8%	926	90.4	2,138	43.4%	10.0%
Splitter	20.0%	518	83.9	1,331	45.4%	30.0%
Slider	20.0%	517	82.4	2,394	43.1%	29.2%
Four-Seam Fastball	18.9%	489	90.8	2,224	42.7%	19.6%
Curveball	4.3%	110	74.9	2,638	43.6%	23.3%
Cutter	0.8%	21	89.3	2,308	19.0%	20.0%

Ubaldo Jiménez'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.