P · 2015
Scott Baker
- Age
- 34
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 4"
- Weight
- 215 lb
- Number
- #30
- Born
- September 19, 1981 in Shreveport, LA, USA
- MLB debut
- May 7, 2005
- dbWAR
- -.4 2 season(s)
- PA
- 4
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .000
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- -126 100 = avg
Scott Baker is a pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2015 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 4 plate appearances in 2 games. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .254. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .721. He averaged 85.2 mph off the bat and made contact on 72.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -126 wRC+ puts his offence 226% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -1.0 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 -0.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2015 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 25.0% | .000 | -1.0 | -126 | -0.1 | — |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2 | 2 | 11.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 5.73 | 7.22 | 1.27 | 6.5 | 2.5 | 145 | 182 | -0.3 | — |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs RHP | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 25.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 14 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | .308 | .357 | .615 | .417 | 7.1% |
| vs RHB | 31 | 29 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 7 | .241 | .290 | .655 | .400 | 22.6% |
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 1 tracked batted balls in 2015. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 85.2 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 85.2 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -29.0° 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 Scott Baker 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 | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Bases empty · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runner on first · thin | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .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, 2015.
Pitch sequencing
What Scott Baker 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.
| Sinker | 107 | 89.2 | 2,070 | 52.3% | 9.4% | |
| Slider | 57 | 80.5 | 363 | 50.9% | 29.0% | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 11 | 89.3 | 2,221 | 63.6% | 20.0% | |
| Changeup | 10 | 83.1 | 962 | 10.0% | 0.0% |
Head to head
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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.