1B · 2018
Jarrod Saltalamacchia
- Age
- 33
- B/T
- S/R
- Height
- 6' 4"
- Weight
- 235 lb
- Number
- #39
- Born
- May 2, 1985 in West Palm Beach, FL, USA
- MLB debut
- May 2, 2007
- dbWAR
- 1.1 4 season(s)
- PA
- 8
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .125
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- -60 100 = avg
Jarrod Saltalamacchia is a first baseman for the Detroit Tigers. In 2018 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 8 plate appearances in 4 games. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .125 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .125, 82.8% lower than the league mark of .728. He averaged 83.8 mph off the bat and made contact on 41.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -60 wRC+ puts his offence 160% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -1.5 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, -0.2 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.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2018. These four terms sum to -1.4 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | .000 | .125 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 12.5% | 50.0% | .088 | -1.5 | -60 | -0.1 | |
| 2017 | 8 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16 | .040 | .077 | .040 | .000 | .111 | 3.8% | 61.5% | .061 | -5.7 | -81 | -0.4 | |
| 2016 | 88 | 292 | 42 | 12 | 38 | 0 | 41 | 104 | .171 | .284 | .346 | .175 | .222 | 14.0% | 35.6% | .281 | -9.4 | 72 | 0.4 | |
| 2015 | 78 | 227 | 45 | 9 | 24 | 0 | 23 | 69 | .225 | .310 | .435 | .210 | .293 | 10.1% | 30.4% | .329 | +2.1 | 106 | 1.3 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 33.3% |
| vs RHP | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | .000 | .200 | .000 | .141 | 60.0% |
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 2 tracked batted balls in 2018. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 83.8 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 89.3 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 50.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 0.0° 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, 2018.
Situational hitting
How Jarrod Saltalamacchia 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 | 8 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .000 | .125 | .000 | .088 |
| Bases empty · thin | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runner on first · thin | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .000 | .333 | .000 | .235 |
| RISP · thin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 1.000 | — | .706 |
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.
Head to head
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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.