P · 2016
Lucas Harrell
- Age
- 32
- B/T
- S/R
- Height
- 6' 2"
- Weight
- 205 lb
- Number
- #64
- Born
- June 3, 1985 in Springfield, MO, USA
- MLB debut
- July 30, 2010
Age shown as of the 2017 season.
- dbWAR
- .1 3 season(s)
- PA
- 8
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .000
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- -115 100 = avg
Lucas Harrell is a pitcher for the Atlanta Braves. In 2016 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 8 plate appearances in 4 games. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .739. He averaged 71.5 mph off the bat, hit 25.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 80.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -115 wRC+ puts his offence 215% below average. That comes to -0.2 dbWAR — -2.0 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, 2016.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2016. These four terms sum to -1.8 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 25.0% | .000 | -2.0 | -115 | -0.2 | — |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 4 | 0 | 6.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 7.11 | 5.21 | 2.21 | 8.5 | 5.7 | 163 | 120 | -0.0 | |
| 2016 | 9 | 9 | 47.0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 46 | 22 | 36 | 25 | 4.21 | 4.57 | 1.51 | 6.9 | 4.8 | 101 | 109 | 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 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% |
| vs RHP | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 28.6% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 96 | 84 | 19 | 3 | 11 | 20 | .226 | .313 | .393 | .311 | 20.8% |
| vs RHB | 112 | 91 | 27 | 1 | 14 | 16 | .297 | .409 | .396 | .362 | 14.3% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2016.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 4 tracked batted balls in 2016. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 71.5 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 97.4 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 25.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 25.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -13.0° 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, 2016.
Situational hitting
How Lucas Harrell 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 | 8 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Bases empty · thin | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runner on first · thin | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| RISP · thin | 2 | 2 | 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, 2016.
Pitch sequencing
What Lucas Harrell 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 2016.
| Sinker | 390 | 91.5 | 2,038 | 40.5% | 16.0% | |
| Slider | 162 | 86.7 | 888 | 35.2% | 23.5% | |
| Curveball | 120 | 81.2 | 1,624 | 40.0% | 34.0% | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 92 | 91.6 | 2,099 | 48.9% | 14.3% | |
| Changeup | 69 | 84.0 | 1,640 | 27.5% | 16.0% |
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.