P · 2017
Héctor Rondón
- Age
- 32
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 3"
- Weight
- 225 lb
- Number
- #56
- Born
- February 26, 1988 in Guatire, Venezuela
- MLB debut
- April 3, 2013
Age shown as of the 2020 season.
- dbWAR
- 3.3 8 season(s)
- PA
- 2
- AVG
- .500
- OBP
- .500
- SLG
- .500
- wRC+
- 171 100 = avg
Héctor Rondón is a pitcher for the Chicago Cubs. In 2017 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 2 plate appearances in 2 games. His batting average was .500, 96.1% higher than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .500 clip and slugged .500, for an OPS of 1.000, 33.3% higher than the league mark of .750. He averaged 39.0 mph off the bat and made contact on 87.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 171 wRC+ puts his offence 71% 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, 2017.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2017. These four terms sum to +0.3 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .500 | .000 | .500 | 0.0% | 0.0% | .437 | +0.2 | 171 | 0.0 | |
| 2016 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | — | 0.0% | 100.0% | .000 | -0.3 | -122 | -0.0 |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 23 | 0 | 20.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 17 | 23 | 11 | 7.65 | 6.59 | 1.80 | 10.3 | 5.0 | 172 | 148 | -0.4 | |
| 2019 | 62 | 1 | 60.2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 56 | 25 | 48 | 20 | 3.71 | 4.96 | 1.25 | 7.1 | 3.0 | 82 | 110 | 0.0 | |
| 2018 | 63 | 0 | 59.0 | 2 | 5 | 15 | 58 | 21 | 67 | 20 | 3.20 | 2.79 | 1.32 | 10.2 | 3.1 | 77 | 67 | 1.2 | |
| 2017 | 61 | 0 | 57.1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 50 | 27 | 69 | 20 | 4.24 | 4.12 | 1.22 | 10.8 | 3.1 | 97 | 94 | 0.4 | |
| 2016 | 54 | 0 | 51.0 | 2 | 3 | 18 | 42 | 20 | 58 | 8 | 3.53 | 3.50 | 0.98 | 10.2 | 1.4 | 84 | 84 | 0.6 | |
| 2015 | 72 | 0 | 70.0 | 6 | 4 | 30 | 55 | 13 | 69 | 15 | 1.67 | 2.68 | 1.00 | 8.9 | 1.9 | 42 | 68 | 1.4 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | .874 | 0.0% |
| vs RHP | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 86 | 74 | 17 | 4 | 12 | 23 | .230 | .337 | .473 | .351 | 26.7% |
| vs RHB | 151 | 141 | 33 | 6 | 8 | 46 | .234 | .280 | .397 | .293 | 30.5% |
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% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 39.0 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 39.0 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -7.0° 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, 2017.
Situational hitting
How Héctor Rondón 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 | .437 |
| Bases empty · thin | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .500 | .437 |
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 Héctor Rondón 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.
| Four-Seam Fastball | 520 | 96.4 | 2,136 | 52.7% | 18.0% | |
| Slider | 357 | 85.8 | 2,381 | 49.0% | 41.1% | |
| Sinker | 93 | 96.4 | 2,052 | 43.0% | 18.9% | |
| Changeup | 28 | 90.4 | 1,908 | 32.1% | 27.3% |
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.