P · 2015

C.J. Wilson

Los Angeles Angels American League WestP

Age: 35
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 210 lb
Number: #36

Born: November 18, 1980 in Newport Beach, CA, USA
MLB debut: June 10, 2005

dbWAR: 1.3
PA: 6
AVG: .333
OBP: .333
SLG: .333
wRC+: 87

C.J. Wilson is a pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels. In 2015 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 2 hits across 6 plate appearances in 2 games. His batting average was .333, 31.0% higher than the league average of .254. He reached base at a .333 clip and slugged .333, for an OPS of .667, 7.6% lower than the league mark of .721. He averaged 91.1 mph off the bat, hit 50.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 91.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 87 wRC+ puts his offence 13% below average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — -0.1 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, 2015.

wRC+87

wOBA.294

ISO.000

BB%0.0%

WAR.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2015. These four terms sum to +0.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2015	2	6	2	0	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.000	.400	0.0%	16.7%	.294	-0.1	87	0.0	—

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																			Trend
2015	21	21	132.0	8	8	0	118	57	110	46	3.89	4.02	1.24	7.5	3.1	98	101	1.3	—

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2015. 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 RHP	6	6	2	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.294	16.7%

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2015. 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 LHB	130	117	29	4	8	26	.248	.310	.419	.321	20.0%
vs RHB	424	375	89	9	38	84	.237	.317	.349	.299	19.8%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2015.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 4 tracked batted balls in 2015. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 91.1
Max exit velo: 98.1
Hard hit: 50.0%
Sweet spot: 0.0%
Launch angle: 2.8°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity91.1 mph

Hard hit rate50.0%

Contact rate91.7%

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, 2015.

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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 C.J. Wilson 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	6	—	—	—	—	—	—	.333	.333	.333	.294
Bases empty · thin	4	4	2	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	.441
Runners on · thin	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
RISP · thin	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	.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, 2015.

Pitch sequencing

What C.J. Wilson 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 2015.


Sinker	30.9%	654	90.2	2,243	41.1%	11.5%
Four-Seam Fastball	22.5%	477	90.3	2,009	45.3%	13.5%
Changeup	14.8%	313	84.9	1,926	48.6%	18.2%
Slider	12.7%	268	82.8	476	41.8%	41.9%
Curveball	9.8%	207	77.2	1,199	39.1%	44.9%
Cutter	9.0%	190	87.2	826	36.8%	28.9%

C.J. Wilson'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.