SS · 2017

Mike Aviles

Age: 36
B/T: R/R
Height: 5' 10"
Weight: 205 lb
Number: #4

Born: March 13, 1981 in New York, NY, USA
MLB debut: May 29, 2008

dbWAR: -1.1
PA: 97
AVG: .233
OBP: .298
SLG: .291
wRC+: 57

Mike Aviles is a shortstop for the Miami Marlins. In 2017 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 8 RBIs, notching 20 hits across 97 plate appearances in 37 games. His batting average was .233, 8.8% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .298 clip and slugged .291, for an OPS of .589, 21.6% lower than the league mark of .750. He averaged 81.7 mph off the bat, hit 17.5% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 86.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 57 wRC+ puts his offence 43% below average. That comes to -0.2 dbWAR — -5.4 runs with the bat, -0.1 on the bases, +0.4 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+57

wOBA.258

ISO.058

BB%6.2%

WAR-.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2017. These four terms sum to -1.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2017	37	97	20	1	8	0	6	15	.233	.298	.291	.058	.271	6.2%	15.5%	.258	-5.4	57	-0.2
2016	59	181	35	1	6	2	9	27	.210	.258	.269	.060	.245	5.0%	14.9%	.238	-12.1	43	-0.8
2015	92	317	67	5	17	3	20	38	.231	.282	.317	.086	.250	6.3%	12.0%	.269	-12.0	62	-0.1

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	35	31	8	0	1	5	.258	.303	.258	.241	14.3%
vs RHP	62	55	12	1	5	10	.218	.295	.309	.266	16.1%

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

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 81.7
Max exit velo: 103.3
Hard hit: 17.5%
Sweet spot: 28.6%
Launch angle: 6.6°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity81.7 mph

Hard hit rate17.5%

Contact rate86.2%

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 Mike Aviles 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	97	—	—	—	—	—	—	.233	.298	.291	.258
Bases empty	52	49	12	0	0	1	8	.245	.288	.265	.251
Runner on first · thin	17	15	1	0	0	0	5	.067	.067	.067	.058
Runners on	45	37	8	1	8	5	7	.216	.310	.324	.266
RISP	28	22	7	1	8	5	2	.318	.444	.500	.391

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.

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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.