C · 2023
Manny Piña
- Age
- 36
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 0"
- Weight
- 222 lb
- Number
- #9
- Born
- June 5, 1987 in Barquisimeto, Venezuela
- MLB debut
- August 3, 2011
- dbWAR
- 5.6 8 season(s)
- PA
- 12
- AVG
- .250
- OBP
- .250
- SLG
- .500
- wRC+
- 98 100 = avg
Manny Piña is a catcher for the Oakland Athletics. In 2023 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 1 RBI, notching 3 hits across 12 plate appearances in 4 games. His batting average was .250, 0.7% higher than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .250 clip and slugged .500, for an OPS of .750, 2.1% higher than the league mark of .734. He averaged 85.1 mph off the bat, hit 22.2% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 87.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 98 wRC+ puts his offence 2% below average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — -0.1 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, -0.1 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, 2023.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2023. 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 4 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .250 | .250 | .500 | .250 | .250 | 0.0% | 25.0% | .313 | -0.1 | 98 | 0.0 | |
| 2022 | 5 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .143 | .235 | .143 | .000 | .143 | 5.9% | 5.9% | .189 | -1.7 | 14 | -0.1 | |
| 2021 | 73 | 208 | 34 | 13 | 33 | 0 | 22 | 38 | .189 | .293 | .439 | .250 | .162 | 10.6% | 18.3% | .318 | +0.2 | 99 | 1.1 | |
| 2020 | 15 | 45 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 11 | .231 | .333 | .410 | .179 | .269 | 6.7% | 24.4% | .331 | +0.3 | 106 | 0.3 | |
| 2019 | 72 | 179 | 36 | 7 | 25 | 0 | 16 | 50 | .228 | .313 | .411 | .184 | .284 | 8.9% | 27.9% | .311 | -1.8 | 92 | 0.6 | |
| 2018 | 95 | 337 | 77 | 9 | 28 | 2 | 21 | 62 | .252 | .307 | .395 | .144 | .285 | 6.2% | 18.4% | .304 | -3.8 | 90 | 1.5 | |
| 2017 | 104 | 359 | 92 | 9 | 43 | 2 | 20 | 79 | .279 | .327 | .424 | .145 | .339 | 5.6% | 22.0% | .326 | +0.4 | 99 | 1.9 | |
| 2016 | 32 | 81 | 18 | 2 | 12 | 0 | 10 | 15 | .254 | .346 | .394 | .141 | .296 | 12.3% | 18.5% | .330 | +0.5 | 106 | 0.4 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 9 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | .222 | .222 | .556 | .319 | 33.3% |
| vs RHP | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .295 | 0.0% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2023.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 9 tracked batted balls in 2023. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 85.1 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 102.5 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 22.2% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 33.3% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 1.0° 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, 2023.
Situational hitting
How Manny Piña 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 | 12 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .250 | .250 | .500 | .313 |
| Bases empty · thin | 8 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | .375 | .375 | .750 | .469 |
| Runner on first · thin | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| RISP · thin | 2 | 2 | 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, 2023.
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.