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Jarrod Saltalamacchia

Detroit Tigers American League CentralDH

Age: 33
B/T: S/R
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 235 lb
Number: #39

Born: May 2, 1985 in West Palm Beach, FL, United States
MLB debut: May 2, 2007

dbWAR: 11.2
PA: 8
AVG: .000
OBP: .125
SLG: .000
wRC+: -60

Jarrod Saltalamacchia was a designated hitter 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 for the ballpark, -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 regular season.

wRC+-60

wOBA.088

ISO.000

BB%12.5%

WAR-.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2018. These terms sum to -1.4 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.


2018	DET	4	8	0	0	0	0	1	4	.000	.125	.000	.000	.000	12.5%	50.0%	.088	-1.5	-60	-0.1
2017	TOR	8	26	1	0	0	0	1	16	.040	.077	.040	.000	.111	3.8%	61.5%	.061	-5.7	-81	-0.5
2016	DET	88	292	42	12	38	0	41	104	.171	.284	.346	.175	.222	14.0%	35.6%	.281	-9.4	72	0.2
2015	AZ/MIA	78	227	45	9	24	0	23	69	.225	.310	.435	.210	.293	10.1%	30.4%	.329	+2.1	106	1.0
2014	MIA	114	435	82	11	44	0	55	143	.220	.320	.362	.142	.317	12.6%	32.9%	.308	-1.7	96	1.5
2013	BOS	117	470	116	14	65	4	43	139	.273	.338	.466	.193	.372	9.1%	29.6%	.354	+13.0	127	3.7
2012	BOS	121	448	90	25	59	0	38	139	.222	.288	.454	.232	.265	8.5%	31.0%	.324	+1.9	98	1.9
2011	BOS	101	386	84	16	56	1	24	119	.235	.288	.450	.215	.304	6.2%	30.8%	.325	+1.3	98	1.8
2010	BOS/TEX	11	30	4	0	2	0	6	5	.167	.333	.292	.125	.211	20.0%	16.7%	.303	-0.5	83	0.1
2009	TEX	82	310	66	9	34	0	22	97	.233	.290	.371	.138	.320	7.1%	31.3%	.295	-9.5	73	0.3
2008	TEX	60	230	50	3	26	0	31	74	.253	.352	.364	.111	.385	13.5%	32.2%	.329	-0.8	93	0.7
2007	TEX/ATL	92	329	82	11	33	0	19	75	.266	.310	.422	.156	.318	5.8%	22.8%	.323	-3.6	92	0.7

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 Jarrod Saltalamacchia'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	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2013 Post	BOS	Postseason total	10	35	32	1	6	1	5	3	19	.188	.257	.219	.476
		ALDS	3	11	10	1	3	1	3	1	7	.300	.364	.400	.764
		ALCS	5	16	16	0	3	0	2	0	8	.188	.188	.188	.375
		World Series	2	8	6	0	0	0	0	2	4	.000	.250	.000	.250

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, 2018. 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	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%
Exit velocity: 83.8
Max exit velo: 89.3
Hard hit: 0.0%
Sweet spot: 50.0%
Launch angle: 0.0°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity83.8 mph

Hard hit rate0.0%

Contact rate41.2%

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.

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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 .247.

Situational hitting

How Jarrod Saltalamacchia 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	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.

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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.