P · 2017

A.J. Griffin

Age: 29
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 5"
Weight: 230 lb
Number: #64

Born: January 28, 1988 in El Cajon, CA, USA
MLB debut: June 24, 2012

dbWAR: -1.9
PA: 6
AVG: .000
OBP: .167
SLG: .000
wRC+: -39

A.J. Griffin is a pitcher for the Texas Rangers. In 2017 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 6 plate appearances in 2 games. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .167 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .167, 77.8% lower than the league mark of .750. He made contact on 75.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -39 wRC+ puts his offence 139% 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, 2017.

wRC+-39

wOBA.118

ISO.000

BB%16.7%

WAR-.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2017. These four terms sum to -0.8 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

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WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2017	2	6	0	0	0	0	1	5	.000	.167	.000	.000	—	16.7%	83.3%	.118	-1.0	-39	-0.1
2016	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.5	-112	-0.0

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																			Trend
2017	18	15	77.1	6	6	0	76	51	61	28	5.94	6.26	1.34	7.1	3.3	136	144	-0.9
2016	23	23	119.0	7	4	0	116	67	107	46	5.07	5.74	1.36	8.1	3.5	121	137	-0.9

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2017. 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	6	5	0	0	1	5	.000	.167	.000	.118	83.3%

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2017. 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	140	120	29	7	17	21	.242	.343	.467	.351	15.0%
vs RHB	198	180	47	13	11	40	.261	.313	.567	.367	20.2%

Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2017.

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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 .254.

Situational hitting

How A.J. Griffin 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	6	—	—	—	—	—	—	.000	.167	.000	.118
Bases empty · thin	3	2	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.333	.000	.237
Runner on first · thin	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
Runners on · thin	3	3	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000
RISP · thin	2	2	0	0	0	0	2	.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, 2017.

Pitch sequencing

What A.J. Griffin 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 2017.


Four-Seam Fastball	51.7%	683	87.3	2,252	47.9%	13.6%
Curveball	30.3%	401	66.1	2,586	47.1%	31.8%
Changeup	11.0%	146	80.0	1,778	36.3%	25.7%
Cutter	5.7%	75	82.5	2,229	41.3%	11.5%
Sinker	1.1%	15	86.6	2,212	26.7%	0.0%

A.J. Griffin'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.