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1B · 2019

Mark Reynolds

Age
36
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 2"
Weight
220 lb
Number
#27
Born
August 3, 1983 in Pikeville, KY, USA
MLB debut
May 16, 2007
dbWAR
4.9
7 season(s)
PA
162
AVG
.170
OBP
.290
SLG
.311
wRC+
58
100 = avg

Mark Reynolds is a first baseman for the Colorado Rockies. In 2019 he hit 4 home runs and knocked in 20 RBIs, notching 23 hits across 162 plate appearances in 78 games. His batting average was .170, 32.5% lower than the league average of .252. He reached base at a .290 clip and slugged .311, for an OPS of .601, 20.6% lower than the league mark of .758 — the second worst on his team, and 414th of 451 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 89.5 mph off the bat, hit 40.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 5.3% of them and made contact on 61.6% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 58 wRC+ puts his offence 42% below average. That comes to -0.5 dbWAR — -7.2 runs with the bat, +0.3 on the bases, -3.7 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.

wRC+58
wOBA.271
ISO.141
BB%13.6%
WAR-.5

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2019. These four terms sum to -5.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting-7.2Baserunning+0.3Position-3.7Replacement+5.4
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

2.41.0-0.51516171819

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2019781622342022257.170.290.311.141.24713.6%35.2%.271-7.258-0.5
20188523551134002464.248.328.476.228.28810.2%27.2%.345+5.11140.9
20171475931393097269175.267.352.487.219.34311.6%29.5%.361+18.21142.4
20161174411111453142112.282.356.450.168.3619.5%25.4%.352+10.71091.6
2015137432881348244121.230.315.398.168.30010.2%28.0%.316-0.31010.6

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2019101.0000220118.009.213.000.09.0400205-0.0
2018100.100000000.003.160.000.00.00760.0

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

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.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP84711221229.169.286.324.27234.5%
vs RHP78641121028.172.295.297.26935.9%
Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2019. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB431010.333.500.333.3960.0%
vs RHB321000.500.667.500.5340.0%

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 75 tracked batted balls in 2019. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate
5.3%
4 barrels
Exit velocity
89.5
mph average
Max exit velo
109.1
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
40.0%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
36.0%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
13.8°
average
Barrel rate5.3%
Exit velocity89.5 mph
Hard hit rate40.0%
Contact rate61.6%

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.

.143.1362 AB6 AB5 AB.2508 AB.11817 AB7 AB.08312 AB.13023 AB.46213 AB
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 Mark Reynolds 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.
SituationPAABHHRRBIBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBA
All situations162.170.290.311.271
Bases empty84761222734.158.238.276.231
Runner on first3831300713.097.263.097.200
Runners on7859112181523.186.346.356.315
RISP40288218810.286.425.643.423

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

Pitch sequencing

What Mark Reynolds 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 2019.

Four-Seam Fastball90.5%1979.02,16426.3%0.0%
Mark Reynolds'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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Similar players

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

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.