P · 2016
Steven Wright
- Age
- 35
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 2"
- Weight
- 215 lb
- Number
- #35
- Born
- August 30, 1984 in Torrance, CA, USA
- MLB debut
- April 23, 2013
Age shown as of the 2019 season.
- dbWAR
- 1.1 7 season(s)
- PA
- 4
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .000
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- -111 100 = avg
Steven Wright is a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. In 2016 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 4 plate appearances in 1 game. 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 59.2 mph off the bat and made contact on 66.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -111 wRC+ puts his offence 211% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -1.0 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 -0.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 75.0% | .000 | -1.0 | -111 | -0.1 | |
| 2015 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 0.0% | .000 | -0.5 | -117 | -0.0 |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 6 | 0 | 6.1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 8.53 | 10.16 | 2.37 | 7.1 | 5.7 | 189 | 226 | -0.3 | |
| 2018 | 20 | 4 | 53.2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 41 | 16 | 42 | 26 | 2.68 | 4.37 | 1.25 | 7.0 | 4.4 | 65 | 105 | 0.2 | |
| 2017 | 5 | 5 | 24.0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 40 | 22 | 13 | 5 | 8.25 | 7.82 | 1.88 | 4.9 | 1.9 | 189 | 180 | -0.7 | |
| 2016 | 24 | 24 | 156.2 | 13 | 6 | 0 | 138 | 58 | 127 | 57 | 3.33 | 3.77 | 1.24 | 7.3 | 3.3 | 80 | 90 | 2.3 | |
| 2015 | 16 | 9 | 72.2 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 67 | 33 | 52 | 27 | 4.09 | 5.01 | 1.29 | 6.4 | 3.3 | 103 | 126 | -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 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 66.7% |
| vs RHP | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 100.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 277 | 249 | 52 | 6 | 23 | 50 | .209 | .286 | .321 | .274 | 18.1% |
| vs RHB | 379 | 338 | 86 | 6 | 34 | 77 | .254 | .328 | .358 | .305 | 20.3% |
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 1 tracked batted balls in 2016. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 59.2 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 59.2 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 100.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 19.0° 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 Steven Wright 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 | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Bases empty · thin | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runner on first · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| RISP · thin | 1 | 1 | 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, 2016.
Pitch sequencing
What Steven Wright 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.
| Knuckle Ball | 1,726 | 74.3 | 911 | 43.3% | 27.4% | |
| Curveball | 400 | 67.2 | 890 | 42.5% | 28.2% | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 368 | 83.3 | 1,726 | 52.4% | 11.5% |
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.