P · 2019
Homer Bailey
- Age
- 34
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 4"
- Weight
- 223 lb
- Born
- May 3, 1986 in La Grange, TX, USA
- MLB debut
- June 8, 2007
Age shown as of the 2020 season.
- dbWAR
- 1.5 11 season(s)
- PA
- 5
- AVG
- .400
- OBP
- .400
- SLG
- .400
- wRC+
- 122 100 = avg
Homer Bailey is a pitcher for the Oakland Athletics. In 2019 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 1 RBI, notching 2 hits across 5 plate appearances in 3 games. His batting average was .400, 58.6% higher than the league average of .252. He reached base at a .400 clip and slugged .400, for an OPS of .800, 5.6% higher than the league mark of .758. He averaged 75.0 mph off the bat and made contact on 88.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 122 wRC+ puts his offence 22% above average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — +0.1 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, 2019.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2019. These four terms sum to +0.3 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .400 | .400 | .400 | .000 | .500 | 0.0% | 20.0% | .349 | +0.1 | 122 | 0.0 | |
| 2018 | 19 | 34 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13 | .115 | .148 | .115 | .000 | .231 | 2.9% | 38.2% | .124 | -5.3 | -33 | -0.4 | |
| 2017 | 17 | 35 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | .250 | .250 | .321 | .071 | .412 | 0.0% | 31.4% | .247 | -2.3 | 47 | -0.1 | |
| 2016 | 6 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .100 | .182 | .100 | .000 | .111 | 9.1% | 9.1% | .143 | -1.6 | -21 | -0.1 | |
| 2015 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 25.0% | .000 | -1.0 | -119 | -0.1 |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 2 | 2 | 8.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 3.38 | 4.57 | 1.13 | 7.9 | 3.4 | 76 | 103 | 0.1 | |
| 2019 | 31 | 31 | 163.1 | 13 | 9 | 0 | 162 | 83 | 149 | 53 | 4.57 | 4.11 | 1.32 | 8.2 | 2.9 | 102 | 91 | 2.2 | |
| 2018 | 20 | 20 | 106.1 | 1 | 14 | 0 | 141 | 72 | 75 | 33 | 6.09 | 5.55 | 1.64 | 6.3 | 2.8 | 147 | 134 | -0.6 | |
| 2017 | 18 | 18 | 91.0 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 112 | 65 | 67 | 42 | 6.43 | 4.90 | 1.69 | 6.6 | 4.2 | 148 | 113 | 0.3 | |
| 2016 | 6 | 6 | 23.0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 35 | 17 | 27 | 7 | 6.65 | 3.10 | 1.83 | 10.6 | 2.7 | 159 | 74 | 0.5 | |
| 2015 | 2 | 2 | 11.1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 5.56 | 7.10 | 1.76 | 2.4 | 3.2 | 140 | 179 | -0.3 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 50.0% |
| vs RHP | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .667 | .667 | .667 | .581 | 0.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 359 | 328 | 71 | 12 | 27 | 82 | .216 | .277 | .375 | .279 | 22.8% |
| vs RHB | 337 | 304 | 91 | 9 | 26 | 67 | .299 | .357 | .434 | .341 | 19.9% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2019.
Loading 4 batted balls…
Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 4 tracked batted balls in 2019. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 75.0 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 94.6 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 50.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -11.5° average
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.
Situational hitting
How Homer Bailey hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.
| Situation | PA | AB | H | HR | RBI | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All situations | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .400 | .400 | .400 | .349 |
| Bases empty · thin | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .500 | .436 |
| Runner on first · thin | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .291 |
| RISP · thin | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | .872 |
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, 2019.
Pitch sequencing
What Homer Bailey throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.
Select a count to see exactly what Homer Bailey throws in it.
Pitch arsenal
What he throws, how hard, and how often it misses in 2019.
| Four-Seam Fastball | 1,348 | 93.0 | 2,092 | 50.0% | 15.6% | |
| Splitter | 738 | 84.1 | 1,119 | 44.4% | 38.2% | |
| Slider | 399 | 87.3 | 1,837 | 41.6% | 25.9% | |
| Knuckle Curve | 249 | 78.4 | 1,925 | 50.2% | 26.9% | |
| Sinker | 68 | 92.7 | 2,030 | 45.6% | 13.2% | |
| Unknown | 31 | — | — | 58.1% | 21.4% |
Head to head
Put Homer Bailey beside up to three others.
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.