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P · 2017

Edinson Volquez

Age
37
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 0"
Weight
220 lb
Number
#36
Born
July 3, 1983 in Barahona, Dominican Republic
MLB debut
August 30, 2005

Age shown as of the 2020 season.

dbWAR
3.7
8 season(s)
PA
30
AVG
.192
OBP
.214
SLG
.192
wRC+
2
100 = avg

Edinson Volquez is a pitcher for the Miami Marlins. In 2017 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 1 RBI, notching 5 hits across 30 plate appearances in 15 games. His batting average was .192, 24.6% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .214 clip and slugged .192, for an OPS of .407, 45.8% lower than the league mark of .750. He averaged 77.7 mph off the bat, hit 8.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 58.8% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 2 wRC+ puts his offence 98% below average. That comes to -0.3 dbWAR — -3.6 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, 2017.

wRC+2
wOBA.182
ISO.000
BB%3.3%
WAR-.3

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2017. These four terms sum to -2.6 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting-3.6Baserunning-0.0Position+0.0Replacement+1.0
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

0.0-0.1-0.3151617

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
201715305010111.192.214.192.000.3133.3%36.7%.182-3.62-0.3
201625000003.000.000.000.000.0000.0%60.0%.000-1.3-112-0.1
201536000004.000.000.000.000.0000.0%66.7%.000-1.5-122-0.1

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2020705.221064326.353.721.414.83.2143840.1
201911416.0010201210126.756.652.005.66.8150148-0.3
2017171792.1480784381534.194.351.427.95.2961000.9
20163434189.110110217113139765.374.571.556.63.61281091.1
20153433200.1139019079155723.553.821.317.03.290962.4

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

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.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP770006.000.000.000.00085.7%
vs RHP23195015.263.286.263.24221.7%
Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2017. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB2141734653441.266.382.428.35219.2%
vs RHB1831593231840.201.289.321.27521.9%

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

Barrel rate
0.0%
0 barrels
Exit velocity
77.7
mph average
Max exit velo
99.3
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
8.3%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
8.3%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
2.3°
average
Barrel rate0.0%
Exit velocity77.7 mph
Hard hit rate8.3%
Contact rate58.8%

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.

3 AB2 AB6 AB2 AB0 AB4 AB3 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 .254.

Situational hitting

How Edinson Volquez 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 situations30.192.214.192.182
Bases empty · thin161540015.267.313.267.263
Runner on first · thin5400002.000.000.000.000
Runners on · thin141110106.091.083.091.073
RISP · thin9710104.143.125.143.109

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.

Pitch sequencing

What Edinson Volquez throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

ShowBatter
SinkerChangeupKnuckle curveFour-seamUnknown

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, and how often it misses in 2017.

Sinker44.0%66693.12,26343.2%11.9%
Changeup24.9%37783.71,25247.2%34.0%
Knuckle Curve17.2%26181.02,78942.9%27.3%
Four-Seam Fastball12.6%19193.62,29236.1%18.8%
Unknown1.3%1957.9%30.0%
Edinson Volquez'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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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.