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Nick Markakis

Age: 37
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 210 lb
Number: #21

Born: November 17, 1983 in Woodstock, GA, United States
MLB debut: April 3, 2006

dbWAR: 32.4
PA: 141
AVG: .254
OBP: .312
SLG: .392
wRC+: 90

Nick Markakis was a right fielder for the Atlanta Braves. In 2020 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 15 RBIs, notching 33 hits across 141 plate appearances in 36 games. His batting average was .254, 3.8% higher than the league average of .245. He reached base at a .312 clip and slugged .392, for an OPS of .704, 4.8% lower than the league mark of .740 — 9th of 11 on his team, and 198th of 310 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 89.0 mph off the bat, hit 42.5% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 0.9% of them and made contact on 87.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 90 wRC+ puts his offence 10% below average. That comes to 0.2 dbWAR — -1.6 runs with the bat, -0.1 for the ballpark, -0.5 on the bases, +1.0 on double plays, -1.3 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, 2020 regular season.

wRC+90

wOBA.309

ISO.138

BB%7.1%

WAR.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2020. These terms sum to +2.1 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.


2020	ATL	36	141	33	1	15	0	10	23	.254	.312	.392	.138	.302	7.1%	16.3%	.309	-1.6	90	0.2
2019	ATL	116	469	118	9	62	2	47	59	.285	.356	.420	.135	.310	10.0%	12.6%	.335	+4.9	108	1.4
2018	ATL	162	705	185	14	93	1	72	80	.297	.366	.440	.143	.318	10.2%	11.3%	.348	+17.2	117	3.1
2017	ATL	160	670	163	8	76	0	68	110	.275	.354	.384	.110	.324	10.1%	16.4%	.324	-0.1	101	1.2
2016	ATL	158	684	161	13	89	0	71	101	.269	.346	.397	.129	.300	10.4%	14.8%	.324	+1.1	100	1.1
2015	ATL	156	686	181	3	53	2	70	83	.296	.370	.376	.080	.338	10.2%	12.1%	.330	+7.4	112	2.0
2014	BAL	155	710	177	14	50	4	62	84	.276	.342	.386	.111	.299	8.7%	11.8%	.329	+8.0	113	2.1
2013	BAL	159	700	172	10	59	1	55	76	.271	.329	.356	.085	.291	7.9%	10.9%	.308	-5.4	92	0.7
2012	BAL	104	471	125	13	54	1	42	51	.298	.363	.471	.174	.310	8.9%	10.8%	.364	+16.6	125	2.3
2011	BAL	160	716	182	15	73	12	62	75	.284	.351	.406	.122	.300	8.7%	10.5%	.337	+9.2	112	2.3
2010	BAL	160	709	187	12	60	7	73	93	.297	.370	.436	.138	.331	10.3%	13.1%	.357	+18.0	118	3.1
2009	BAL	161	711	188	18	101	6	56	98	.293	.347	.453	.160	.317	7.9%	13.8%	.354	+11.9	113	2.6
2008	BAL	157	697	182	20	87	10	99	113	.306	.406	.491	.185	.350	14.2%	16.2%	.398	+37.3	142	5.1
2007	BAL	160	710	191	23	112	18	61	112	.300	.362	.485	.185	.331	8.6%	15.8%	.371	+21.0	120	3.2
2006	BAL	137	542	143	16	62	2	43	72	.291	.351	.448	.157	.314	7.9%	13.3%	.350	+6.3	110	1.7

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 Nick Markakis'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	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2020 Post	ATL	Postseason total	11	38	37	2	8	2	1	0	0	1	13	0	.216	.237	.324	.561
		Wild Card	2	9	9	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	.222	.222	.222	.444
		NLDS	3	12	12	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	3	0	.167	.167	.250	.417
		NLCS	6	17	16	2	4	1	1	0	0	1	6	0	.250	.294	.438	.732
2019 Post	ATL	NLDS	5	22	21	1	3	1	0	0	0	1	4	0	.143	.182	.190	.372
2018 Post	ATL	NLDS	4	15	12	1	1	0	0	0	0	3	2	0	.083	.267	.083	.350
2014 Post	BAL	Postseason total	7	32	31	4	8	1	0	1	3	1	3	1	.258	.281	.387	.668
		ALDS	3	13	12	3	3	0	0	1	3	1	2	0	.250	.308	.500	.808
		ALCS	4	19	19	1	5	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	.263	.263	.316	.579
Career		Postseason total · 4 Octobers	27	107	101	8	20	4	1	1	3	6	22	1	.198	.243	.287	.530

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, 2020. 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	18	16	6	0	2	3	.375	.444	.438	.395	16.7%
vs RHP	123	114	27	1	8	20	.237	.293	.386	.296	16.3%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2020.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 106 tracked batted balls in 2020. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.9%
Exit velocity: 89.0
Max exit velo: 106.1
Hard hit: 42.5%
Sweet spot: 40.6%
Launch angle: 9.5°

Barrel rate0.9%

Exit velocity89.0 mph

Hard hit rate42.5%

Contact rate87.3%

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, 2020.

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 .244.

Situational hitting

How Nick Markakis 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	141	—	—	—	—	—	—	.254	.312	.392	.309
Bases empty	71	66	18	1	1	4	13	.273	.324	.409	.321
Runner on first	29	28	6	0	2	1	3	.214	.241	.321	.245
Runners on	70	64	15	0	14	6	10	.234	.300	.375	.297
RISP	41	36	9	0	12	5	7	.250	.341	.417	.334

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2020.

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Similar players

Nearest 2020 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Howie KendrickWSH

wRC+: 86
HR: 2
AVG: .275
WAR: -0.1

Very close

Josh ReddickHOU

wRC+: 92
HR: 4
AVG: .245
WAR: 0.1

Tommy EdmanSTL

wRC+: 88
HR: 5
AVG: .250
WAR: 0.4

Kurt SuzukiWSH

wRC+: 107
HR: 2
AVG: .270
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.