P · 2021

Daniel Bard

Age: 38
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 215 lb
Number: #52

Born: June 25, 1985 in Houston, TX, USA
MLB debut: May 13, 2009

Age shown as of the 2023 season.

dbWAR: 1.1
PA: 1
AVG: 1.000
OBP: 1.000
SLG: 1.000
wRC+: 453

Daniel Bard is a pitcher for the Colorado Rockies. In 2021 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 1 plate appearances in 1 game. His batting average was 1.000, 310.1% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a 1.000 clip and slugged 1.000, for an OPS of 2.000, 174.8% higher than the league mark of .728. He averaged 99.9 mph off the bat, hit 100.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 100.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 453 wRC+ puts his offence 353% above average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — +0.5 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, 2021.

wRC+453

wOBA.876

ISO.000

BB%0.0%

WAR.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2021. These four terms sum to +0.5 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2021	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	.000	1.000	0.0%	0.0%	.876	+0.5	453	0.0	—

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2023	50	49.1	4	2	1	35	25	47	49	4.56	6.13	1.70	8.6	8.9	105	142	-0.7
2022	57	60.1	6	4	34	35	12	69	25	1.79	2.86	0.99	10.3	3.7	45	72	1.1
2021	67	65.2	7	8	20	69	38	80	36	5.21	4.28	1.60	11.0	4.9	122	100	0.3
2020	23	24.2	4	2	6	22	10	27	10	3.65	3.64	1.30	9.9	3.6	82	82	0.3

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2021. 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	1	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	.876	0.0%

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2021. 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	156	135	43	7	18	40	.319	.406	.600	.426	25.6%
vs RHB	148	125	26	1	18	40	.208	.331	.248	.280	27.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2021.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 1 tracked batted balls in 2021. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 99.9
Max exit velo: 99.9
Hard hit: 100.0%
Sweet spot: 100.0%
Launch angle: 11.0°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity99.9 mph

Hard hit rate100.0%

Contact rate100.0%

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, 2021.

Situational hitting

How Daniel Bard 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	1	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.000	1.000	1.000	.876
Bases empty · thin	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	.876

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, 2021.

Pitch sequencing

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

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SliderFour-seamSinkerChangeup

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, and how often it misses in 2021.


Slider	46.1%	561	87.1	2,909	55.3%	40.8%
Four-Seam Fastball	33.3%	405	97.5	2,731	47.9%	23.7%
Sinker	15.4%	188	97.1	2,583	36.7%	9.0%
Changeup	5.2%	63	89.9	2,146	23.8%	16.7%

Daniel Bard'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.