P · 2018

Clayton Richard

Age: 36
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 5"
Weight: 240 lb
Number: #33

Born: September 12, 1983 in Lafayette, IN, USA
MLB debut: July 23, 2008

Age shown as of the 2019 season.

dbWAR: 1.8
PA: 51
AVG: .095
OBP: .156
SLG: .190
wRC+: -9

Clayton Richard is a pitcher for the San Diego Padres. In 2018 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 3 RBIs, notching 4 hits across 51 plate appearances in 26 games. His batting average was .095, 61.6% lower than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .156 clip and slugged .190, for an OPS of .346, 52.4% lower than the league mark of .728. He averaged 80.6 mph off the bat, hit 23.5% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 5.9% of them and made contact on 58.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -9 wRC+ puts his offence 109% below average. That comes to -0.5 dbWAR — -6.5 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, 2018.

wRC+-9

wOBA.160

ISO.095

BB%3.9%

WAR-.5

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2018. These four terms sum to -4.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

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WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2018	26	51	4	1	3	2	24	.095	.156	.190	.095	.176	3.9%	47.1%	.160	-6.5	-9	-0.5
2017	31	68	7	1	4	1	31	.123	.167	.193	.070	.240	1.5%	45.6%	.163	-9.1	-11	-0.7
2016	10	21	1	0	1	1	9	.059	.111	.059	.000	.125	4.8%	42.9%	.087	-3.9	-58	-0.3
2015	7	15	2	0	3	1	6	.143	.200	.286	.143	.250	6.7%	40.0%	.217	-1.2	31	-0.1

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2019	10	10	45.1	1	5	0	53	30	22	18	5.96	6.28	1.57	4.4	3.6	132	139	-0.4
2018	27	27	158.2	7	11	0	159	94	108	60	5.33	4.68	1.38	6.1	3.4	128	113	0.7
2017	32	32	197.1	8	15	0	240	105	151	59	4.79	4.23	1.52	6.9	2.7	110	97	2.2
2016	36	9	67.2	3	4	1	81	25	41	31	3.33	4.17	1.66	5.5	4.1	79	99	0.4
2015	23	3	42.1	4	2	0	47	18	22	7	3.83	3.58	1.28	4.7	1.5	97	90	0.4

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	7	5	0	0	1	3	.000	.167	.000	.118	42.9%
vs RHP	44	37	4	1	1	21	.108	.154	.216	.167	47.7%

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 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 LHB	145	128	31	2	10	28	.242	.319	.344	.299	19.3%
vs RHB	537	476	128	17	50	80	.269	.343	.456	.349	14.9%

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 17 tracked batted balls in 2018. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 5.9%
Exit velocity: 80.6
Max exit velo: 108.3
Hard hit: 23.5%
Sweet spot: 35.3%
Launch angle: -5.5°

Barrel rate5.9%

Exit velocity80.6 mph

Hard hit rate23.5%

Contact rate58.7%

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, 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 Clayton Richard 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	51	—	—	—	—	—	—	.095	.156	.190	.160
Bases empty · thin	24	23	3	0	0	1	12	.130	.167	.174	.156
Runner on first · thin	15	9	0	0	0	1	7	.000	.182	.000	.130
Runners on	27	19	1	1	3	1	12	.053	.143	.211	.165
RISP · thin	12	10	1	1	3	0	5	.100	.100	.400	.204

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.

Pitch sequencing

What Clayton Richard 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 2018.


Sinker	55.8%	1,331	90.0	2,137	42.7%	11.6%
Slider	28.3%	675	80.8	2,285	44.3%	34.1%
Four-Seam Fastball	10.1%	241	90.3	2,243	36.9%	16.7%
Changeup	5.6%	133	84.3	1,673	25.6%	22.2%

Clayton Richard'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.