P · 2015
Wandy Rodriguez
- Age
- 36
- B/T
- S/L
- Height
- 5' 10"
- Weight
- 195 lb
- Number
- #51
- Born
- January 18, 1979 in Santiago Rodriguez, Dominican Republic
- MLB debut
- May 23, 2005
- dbWAR
- .5 2 season(s)
- PA
- 2
- AVG
- .500
- OBP
- .500
- SLG
- .500
- wRC+
- 180 100 = avg
Wandy Rodriguez is a pitcher for the Texas Rangers. In 2015 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 2 plate appearances in 1 game. His batting average was .500, 96.5% higher than the league average of .254. He reached base at a .500 clip and slugged .500, for an OPS of 1.000, 38.6% higher than the league mark of .721. He averaged 71.3 mph off the bat and made contact on 100.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 180 wRC+ puts his offence 80% above average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — +0.2 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, 2015.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2015. These four terms sum to +0.3 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .500 | .000 | .500 | 0.0% | 0.0% | .441 | +0.2 | 180 | 0.0 | — |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 17 | 15 | 86.1 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 99 | 47 | 72 | 36 | 4.90 | 4.33 | 1.56 | 7.5 | 3.8 | 124 | 109 | 0.5 | — |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .500 | .441 | 0.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 94 | 85 | 25 | 3 | 6 | 15 | .294 | .344 | .494 | .363 | 16.0% |
| vs RHB | 298 | 262 | 74 | 7 | 30 | 57 | .282 | .356 | .424 | .342 | 19.1% |
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 2 tracked batted balls in 2015. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 71.3 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 74.2 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 50.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 9.0° average
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.
Situational hitting
How Wandy Rodriguez hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.
| Situation | PA | AB | H | HR | RBI | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All situations | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .500 | .500 | .500 | .441 |
| Bases empty · thin | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .500 | .441 |
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, 2015.
Pitch sequencing
What Wandy Rodriguez 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.
| Curveball | 546 | 74.5 | 1,381 | 44.3% | 24.2% | |
| Sinker | 535 | 88.2 | 2,520 | 42.4% | 7.7% | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 431 | 88.4 | 2,517 | 48.3% | 10.7% | |
| Changeup | 77 | 81.8 | 2,147 | 48.1% | 32.4% |
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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.