CF · 2018

Paulo Orlando

Kansas City Royals American League CentralCF

Age: 33
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 215 lb
Number: #16

Born: November 1, 1985 in Sao Paulo, Brazil
MLB debut: April 9, 2015

dbWAR: .3
PA: 93
AVG: .167
OBP: .194
SLG: .200
wRC+: 2

Paulo Orlando was a center fielder for the Kansas City Royals. In 2018 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 5 RBIs, notching 15 hits across 93 plate appearances in 24 games. His batting average was .167, 32.8% lower than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .194 clip and slugged .200, for an OPS of .394, 45.9% lower than the league mark of .728. He averaged 88.5 mph off the bat, hit 36.8% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 1.8% of them and made contact on 72.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 2 wRC+ puts his offence 98% below average. That comes to -0.8 dbWAR — -10.6 runs with the bat, -0.0 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, 2018.

wRC+2

wOBA.177

ISO.033

BB%3.2%

WAR-.8

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2018. These four terms sum to -8.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2018	24	93	15	0	5	0	3	25	.167	.194	.200	.033	.231	3.2%	26.9%	.177	-10.6	2	-0.8
2017	30	90	17	2	6	1	1	20	.198	.225	.302	.105	.234	1.1%	22.2%	.230	-7.1	36	-0.5
2016	123	484	138	5	43	14	13	105	.302	.329	.405	.103	.380	2.7%	21.7%	.319	-1.0	94	1.3
2015	74	251	60	7	27	3	5	53	.249	.269	.444	.195	.291	2.0%	21.1%	.306	-2.0	92	0.3

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2018. 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	37	37	7	0	0	11	.189	.189	.243	.188	29.7%
vs RHP	56	53	8	0	3	14	.151	.196	.170	.170	25.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2018.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 57 tracked batted balls in 2018. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 1.8%
Exit velocity: 88.5
Max exit velo: 108.6
Hard hit: 36.8%
Sweet spot: 26.8%
Launch angle: 13.7°

Barrel rate1.8%

Exit velocity88.5 mph

Hard hit rate36.8%

Contact rate72.0%

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, 2018.

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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 .247.

Situational hitting

How Paulo Orlando 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	93	—	—	—	—	—	—	.167	.194	.200	.177
Bases empty	45	44	7	0	0	1	13	.159	.178	.182	.161
Runner on first	26	25	4	0	0	1	7	.160	.192	.200	.178
Runners on	48	46	8	0	5	2	12	.174	.208	.217	.192
RISP · thin	22	21	4	0	5	1	5	.190	.227	.238	.210

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, 2018.

Head to head

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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.