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Brian McCann

Age: 35
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 225 lb
Number: #16

Born: February 20, 1984 in Athens, GA, United States
MLB debut: June 10, 2005

dbWAR: 39.2
PA: 316
AVG: .249
OBP: .323
SLG: .412
wRC+: 94

Brian McCann was a catcher for the Atlanta Braves. In 2019 he hit 12 home runs and knocked in 45 RBIs, notching 69 hits across 316 plate appearances in 85 games. His batting average was .249, 1.3% lower than the league average of .252. He reached base at a .323 clip and slugged .412, for an OPS of .734, 3.1% lower than the league mark of .758 — 11th of 14 on his team, and 257th of 451 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 89.1 mph off the bat, hit 37.7% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 6.0% of them and made contact on 81.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 94 wRC+ puts his offence 6% below average. That comes to 1.1 dbWAR — -2.2 runs with the bat, -0.0 for the ballpark, -0.2 on the bases, -0.9 on double plays, +5.3 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, 2019 regular season.

wRC+94

wOBA.314

ISO.162

BB%9.8%

WAR1.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2019. These terms sum to +11.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2019	ATL	85	316	69	12	45	0	31	53	.249	.323	.412	.162	.261	9.8%	16.8%	.314	-2.2	94	1.1
2018	HOU	63	216	40	7	23	0	19	40	.212	.301	.339	.127	.229	8.8%	18.5%	.288	-5.3	79	0.3
2017	HOU	97	399	84	18	62	1	38	58	.241	.323	.436	.195	.237	9.5%	14.5%	.326	+0.5	106	1.9
2016	NYY	129	492	104	20	58	1	54	99	.242	.335	.413	.170	.269	11.0%	20.1%	.330	+3.2	104	1.7
2015	NYY	135	535	108	26	94	0	52	97	.232	.320	.437	.204	.235	9.7%	18.1%	.331	+6.0	109	2.9
2014	NYY	140	538	115	23	75	0	32	77	.232	.286	.406	.174	.231	5.9%	14.3%	.309	-1.7	99	1.6
2013	ATL	102	402	91	20	57	0	39	66	.256	.336	.461	.205	.261	9.7%	16.4%	.351	+10.3	125	2.9
2012	ATL	121	487	101	20	67	3	44	76	.230	.300	.399	.169	.234	9.0%	15.6%	.305	-5.5	89	1.5
2011	ATL	128	527	126	24	71	3	57	89	.270	.351	.466	.195	.287	10.8%	16.9%	.355	+13.9	125	3.8
2010	ATL	143	566	129	21	77	5	74	98	.269	.375	.453	.184	.297	13.1%	17.3%	.367	+18.6	128	4.5
2009	ATL	138	551	137	21	94	4	49	83	.281	.349	.486	.205	.297	8.9%	15.1%	.365	+14.2	125	3.8
2008	ATL	145	573	153	23	87	5	57	64	.301	.373	.523	.222	.306	9.9%	11.2%	.392	+27.6	138	5.2
2007	ATL	139	552	136	18	92	0	35	74	.270	.320	.452	.183	.282	6.3%	13.4%	.334	-0.6	102	2.1
2006	ATL	129	492	147	24	93	2	41	54	.333	.388	.572	.240	.332	8.3%	11.0%	.407	+29.0	149	5.1
2005	ATL	59	204	50	5	23	1	18	26	.278	.345	.400	.122	.300	8.8%	12.7%	.325	-1.0	94	0.8

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason batting

Postseason Brian McCann's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2019 Post	ATL	NLDS	5	17	16	1	3	1	0	0	1	2	.188	.235	.250	.485
2018 Post	HOU	Postseason total	4	8	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000
		ALDS	1	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000
		ALCS	3	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
2017 Post	HOU	Postseason total	17	65	57	3	10	2	1	7	4	17	.175	.277	.263	.540
		ALDS	4	17	16	0	2	0	0	2	0	4	.125	.176	.125	.301
		ALCS	6	20	16	1	3	2	0	3	3	5	.188	.350	.313	.662
		World Series	7	28	25	2	5	0	1	2	1	8	.200	.286	.320	.606
2015 Post	NYY	Wild Card	1	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
2013 Post	ATL	NLDS	4	16	13	0	0	0	0	1	3	6	.000	.188	.000	.188
2012 Post	ATL	Wild Card	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	—	1.000	—	—
2010 Post	ATL	NLDS	4	16	14	2	6	1	1	3	1	4	.429	.438	.714	1.152
2005 Post	ATL	NLDS	3	16	16	2	3	0	2	5	0	6	.188	.188	.563	.750
Career		Postseason total · 8 Octobers	39	143	128	8	22	4	4	16	10	38	.172	.252	.297	.549

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2019. 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	41	35	6	0	5	7	.171	.268	.229	.231	17.1%
vs RHP	275	242	63	12	26	46	.260	.331	.438	.327	16.7%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2019.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 215 tracked batted balls in 2019. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 6.0%
Exit velocity: 89.1
Max exit velo: 108.2
Hard hit: 37.7%
Sweet spot: 34.4%
Launch angle: 9.0°

Barrel rate6.0%

Exit velocity89.1 mph

Hard hit rate37.7%

Contact rate81.0%

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, 2019.

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 .252.

Situational hitting

How Brian McCann 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	316	—	—	—	—	—	—	.249	.323	.412	.314
Bases empty	160	145	37	6	6	14	25	.255	.325	.421	.322
Runner on first	80	71	17	5	11	9	14	.239	.325	.465	.337
Runners on	156	132	32	6	39	17	28	.242	.321	.402	.307
RISP	76	61	15	1	28	8	14	.246	.316	.328	.274

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2019.

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Similar players

Nearest 2019 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

DJ StewartBAL

wRC+: 84
HR: 4
AVG: .238
WAR: -0.1

Very close

Jesús AguilarMIL

wRC+: 92
HR: 12
AVG: .236
WAR: -0.1

Ryan ZimmermanWSH

wRC+: 93
HR: 6
AVG: .257
WAR: 0.1

Travis d'ArnaudTB

wRC+: 99
HR: 16
AVG: .251
WAR: 1.4

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.