P · 2018

Jason Hammel

Kansas City Royals American League CentralP

Age: 36
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 6"
Weight: 225 lb
Number: #46

Born: September 2, 1982 in Greenville, SC, USA
MLB debut: April 11, 2006

dbWAR: 4.4
PA: 3
AVG: .000
OBP: .000
SLG: .000
wRC+: -118

Jason Hammel is a pitcher for the Kansas City Royals. In 2018 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 3 plate appearances in 1 game. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .728. He averaged 59.5 mph off the bat and made contact on 60.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -118 wRC+ puts his offence 218% 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, 2018.

wRC+-118

wOBA.000

ISO.000

BB%0.0%

WAR-.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2018. 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.


2018	1	3	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	66.7%	.000	-0.8	-118	-0.1
2017	3	9	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	22.2%	.000	-2.4	-125	-0.2
2016	35	69	16	7	1	24	.246	.258	.292	.046	.390	1.4%	34.8%	.241	-4.4	47	-0.2
2015	30	70	11	4	1	18	.169	.179	.185	.015	.229	1.4%	25.7%	.161	-8.6	-10	-0.7

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2018	39	18	127.0	4	14	168	85	92	39	6.02	4.55	1.63	6.5	2.8	145	110	0.4
2017	32	32	180.1	8	13	209	106	145	48	5.29	4.37	1.43	7.2	2.4	121	100	1.7
2016	30	30	166.2	15	10	148	71	144	53	3.83	4.48	1.21	7.8	2.9	92	107	1.1
2015	31	31	170.2	10	7	158	71	172	40	3.74	3.68	1.16	9.1	2.1	95	93	2.4

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2018. 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	3	3	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	66.7%

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2018. 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	274	249	64	7	23	45	.257	.319	.414	.319	16.4%
vs RHB	309	284	104	11	16	47	.366	.401	.585	.419	15.2%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2018.

Loading 1 batted balls…

Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 1 tracked batted balls in 2018. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 59.5
Max exit velo: 59.5
Hard hit: 0.0%
Sweet spot: 0.0%
Launch angle: -4.0°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity59.5 mph

Hard hit rate0.0%

Contact rate60.0%

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, 2018.

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 .247.

Situational hitting

How Jason Hammel 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	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
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, 2018.

Pitch sequencing

What Jason Hammel throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

ShowBatter

SinkerSliderFour-seamCurveballChangeup

Select a count to see exactly what Jason Hammel throws in it.

Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, and how often it misses in 2018.


Sinker	38.7%	803	91.7	2,036	40.8%	11.1%
Slider	37.6%	780	85.1	2,526	47.1%	30.8%
Four-Seam Fastball	12.8%	265	91.9	2,093	47.9%	21.5%
Curveball	6.6%	136	77.0	2,345	43.4%	17.6%
Changeup	4.1%	85	84.7	1,657	30.6%	18.9%

Jason Hammel'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.

Head to head

Put Jason Hammel beside up to three others.

Compare — add up to 3 more players

Jason Hammel

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.