P · 2017

Ricky Nolasco

Los Angeles Angels American League WestP

Age: 35
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 235 lb
Number: #47

Born: December 13, 1982 in Corona, CA, USA
MLB debut: April 5, 2006

dbWAR: 2.8
PA: 7
AVG: .000
OBP: .286
SLG: .000
wRC+: 17

Ricky Nolasco is a pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels. In 2017 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 7 plate appearances in 3 games. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .286 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .286, 61.9% lower than the league mark of .750. He averaged 89.4 mph off the bat and made contact on 64.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 17 wRC+ puts his offence 83% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -0.7 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.

wRC+17

wOBA.203

ISO.000

BB%28.6%

WAR-.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2017. These four terms sum to -0.5 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2017	3	7	2	2	.000	.286	.000	.000	.000	28.6%	28.6%	.203	-0.7	17	-0.0
2016	2	5	2	1	.000	.400	.000	.000	.000	40.0%	20.0%	.279	-0.2	70	-0.0
2015	1	3	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.8	-123	-0.1

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2017	33	33	181.0	6	15	205	99	143	58	4.92	5.10	1.45	7.1	2.9	113	117	0.3
2016	32	32	197.2	8	14	202	97	144	44	4.42	4.14	1.24	6.6	2.0	105	99	2.1
2015	9	8	37.1	5	2	50	28	35	14	6.75	3.51	1.71	8.4	3.4	170	89	0.6

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2017. 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	3	2	0	0	1	0	.000	.333	.000	.237	0.0%
vs RHP	4	3	0	0	1	2	.000	.250	.000	.178	50.0%

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2017. 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 LHB	392	354	97	13	32	56	.274	.338	.452	.340	14.3%
vs RHB	395	362	108	22	26	87	.298	.344	.564	.383	22.0%

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 3 tracked batted balls in 2017. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 89.4
Max exit velo: 92.8
Hard hit: 0.0%
Sweet spot: 66.7%
Launch angle: 34.3°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity89.4 mph

Hard hit rate0.0%

Contact rate64.3%

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.

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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 .254.

Situational hitting

How Ricky Nolasco 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	7	—	—	—	—	—	—	.000	.286	.000	.203
Bases empty · thin	6	4	0	0	0	2	2	.000	.333	.000	.237
Runner on first · thin	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
Runners on · thin	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	.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, 2017.

Pitch sequencing

What Ricky Nolasco 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.


Sinker	29.1%	897	90.8	2,008	40.4%	12.8%
Slider	27.3%	843	81.0	2,318	45.0%	33.8%
Four-Seam Fastball	19.2%	594	91.0	2,124	43.4%	14.9%
Splitter	15.0%	462	80.9	1,379	43.5%	42.2%
Knuckle Curve	9.3%	287	73.6	2,544	38.7%	33.0%

Ricky Nolasco's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters.

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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.