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Chris Iannetta

Age: 36
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 230 lb
Number: #20

Born: April 8, 1983 in Providence, RI, United States
MLB debut: August 27, 2006

dbWAR: 21.9
PA: 164
AVG: .222
OBP: .311
SLG: .417
wRC+: 79

Chris Iannetta was a catcher for the Colorado Rockies. In 2019 he hit 6 home runs and knocked in 21 RBIs, notching 32 hits across 164 plate appearances in 52 games. His batting average was .222, 11.9% lower than the league average of .252. He reached base at a .311 clip and slugged .417, for an OPS of .728, 3.9% lower than the league mark of .758 — 8th of 13 on his team, and 266th of 451 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 92.3 mph off the bat, hit 52.8% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 14.6% of them and made contact on 65.4% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 79 wRC+ puts his offence 21% below average. That comes to 0.2 dbWAR — -2.4 runs with the bat, -1.2 for the ballpark, -0.1 on the bases, -1.6 on double plays, +2.4 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, 2019 regular season.

wRC+79

wOBA.306

ISO.194

BB%11.0%

WAR.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2019. These terms sum to +1.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2019	COL	52	164	32	6	21	0	18	54	.222	.311	.417	.194	.306	11.0%	32.9%	.306	-2.4	79	0.2
2018	COL	107	360	67	11	36	0	50	87	.224	.345	.385	.161	.275	13.9%	24.2%	.323	+1.5	96	1.2
2017	AZ	88	316	69	17	43	0	37	87	.254	.354	.511	.257	.308	11.7%	27.5%	.372	+12.5	125	2.5
2016	SEA	89	338	62	7	24	0	38	83	.210	.303	.329	.119	.266	11.2%	24.6%	.285	-9.8	77	0.6
2015	LAA	91	317	51	10	34	0	41	83	.188	.293	.335	.147	.225	12.9%	26.2%	.285	-7.9	81	0.4
2014	LAA	106	373	77	7	43	3	54	91	.252	.373	.392	.141	.329	14.5%	24.4%	.347	+9.5	127	2.9
2013	LAA	114	399	73	11	39	0	68	100	.225	.358	.372	.148	.284	17.0%	25.1%	.334	+5.1	113	2.3
2012	LAA	75	253	53	9	26	1	29	60	.240	.332	.398	.158	.288	11.5%	23.7%	.327	+1.7	112	1.3
2011	COL	112	426	82	14	55	6	70	89	.238	.370	.414	.177	.276	16.4%	20.9%	.353	+10.8	111	2.8
2010	COL	58	223	37	9	27	1	30	48	.197	.318	.383	.186	.212	13.5%	21.5%	.319	-1.2	86	0.7
2009	COL	93	350	66	16	52	0	43	75	.228	.344	.460	.232	.245	12.3%	21.4%	.353	+5.7	106	2.0
2008	COL	103	407	88	18	65	0	56	92	.264	.390	.505	.240	.311	13.8%	22.6%	.399	+21.9	140	4.0
2007	COL	66	234	43	4	27	0	29	58	.218	.330	.350	.132	.285	12.4%	24.8%	.309	-5.2	78	0.5
2006	COL	21	93	20	2	10	0	13	17	.260	.370	.390	.130	.305	14.0%	18.3%	.337	+0.1	96	0.5

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason batting

Postseason Chris Iannetta's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2018 Post	COL	Postseason total	4	9	9	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000
		Wild Card	1	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLDS	3	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
2017 Post	AZ	NLDS	2	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000
2014 Post	LAA	ALDS	3	11	10	1	1	1	1	1	2	.100	.182	.400	.582
Career		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	9	25	24	1	1	1	1	1	8	.042	.080	.167	.247

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2019. 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	73	58	11	2	14	23	.190	.342	.345	.300	31.5%
vs RHP	92	87	21	4	4	31	.241	.283	.460	.307	33.7%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2019.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 89 tracked batted balls in 2019. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 14.6%
Exit velocity: 92.3
Max exit velo: 113.2
Hard hit: 52.8%
Sweet spot: 37.1%
Launch angle: 8.2°

Barrel rate14.6%

Exit velocity92.3 mph

Hard hit rate52.8%

Contact rate65.4%

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, 2019.

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 .252.

Situational hitting

How Chris Iannetta 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	164	—	—	—	—	—	—	.222	.311	.417	.306
Bases empty	99	86	18	4	4	13	37	.209	.313	.407	.313
Runner on first	32	30	6	2	5	1	7	.200	.250	.433	.287
Runners on	66	59	14	2	17	5	17	.237	.303	.424	.290
RISP	34	29	8	0	12	4	10	.276	.353	.414	.292

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2019.

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Nearest 2019 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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wRC+: 93
HR: 11
AVG: .229
WAR: 1.1

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wRC+: 85
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wRC+: 97
HR: 8
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wRC+: 92
HR: 7
AVG: .228
WAR: 0.7

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.