P · 2015
Eric Stults
- Age
- 36
- B/T
- L/L
- Height
- 6' 2"
- Weight
- 220 lb
- Number
- #50
- Born
- December 9, 1979 in Plymouth, IN, USA
- MLB debut
- September 5, 2006
- dbWAR
- -.6 2 season(s)
- PA
- 16
- AVG
- .077
- OBP
- .077
- SLG
- .077
- wRC+
- -77 100 = avg
Eric Stults is a pitcher for the Atlanta Braves. In 2015 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 16 plate appearances in 9 games. His batting average was .077, 69.8% lower than the league average of .254. He reached base at a .077 clip and slugged .077, for an OPS of .154, 78.7% lower than the league mark of .721. He averaged 70.2 mph off the bat and made contact on 65.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -77 wRC+ puts his offence 177% below average. That comes to -0.3 dbWAR — -3.2 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, 2015.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2015. These four terms sum to -2.6 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | .077 | .077 | .077 | .000 | .167 | 0.0% | 43.8% | .068 | -3.2 | -77 | -0.3 | — |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | 8 | 47.2 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 48 | 31 | 31 | 13 | 5.85 | 5.38 | 1.28 | 5.9 | 2.5 | 148 | 136 | -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 LHP | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 33.3% |
| vs RHP | 10 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | .125 | .125 | .125 | .110 | 50.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 51 | 47 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 4 | .255 | .286 | .426 | .308 | 7.8% |
| vs RHB | 145 | 132 | 36 | 9 | 11 | 27 | .273 | .326 | .553 | .374 | 18.6% |
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 6 tracked batted balls in 2015. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 70.2 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 90.1 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 16.7% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -21.2° 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 Eric Stults 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 | 16 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .077 | .077 | .077 | .068 |
| Bases empty · thin | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runner on first · thin | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | .881 |
| Runners on · thin | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .500 | .500 | .500 | .441 |
| RISP · thin | 2 | 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 Eric Stults 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.
| Four-Seam Fastball | 235 | 88.5 | 2,190 | 44.7% | 20.0% | |
| Slider | 192 | 81.5 | 652 | 46.9% | 10.8% | |
| Changeup | 149 | 80.0 | 1,505 | 45.6% | 23.9% | |
| Sinker | 145 | 85.3 | 2,000 | 45.5% | 7.3% | |
| Curveball | 29 | 69.5 | 1,109 | 37.9% | 12.5% |
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.