P · 2021
Josh Tomlin
- Age
- 37
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 190 lb
- Born
- October 19, 1984 in Tyler, TX, USA
- MLB debut
- July 27, 2010
- dbWAR
- 1.3 11 season(s)
- PA
- 5
- AVG
- .333
- OBP
- .500
- SLG
- .333
- wRC+
- 153 100 = avg
Josh Tomlin is a pitcher for the Atlanta Braves. In 2021 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 5 plate appearances in 5 games. His batting average was .333, 36.7% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .500 clip and slugged .333, for an OPS of .833, 14.5% higher than the league mark of .728. He averaged 70.2 mph off the bat and made contact on 66.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 153 wRC+ puts his offence 53% above average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — +0.3 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, 2021.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2021. These four terms sum to +0.5 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .333 | .500 | .333 | .000 | .500 | 20.0% | 20.0% | .400 | +0.3 | 153 | 0.1 | |
| 2019 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 50.0% | .000 | -1.7 | -119 | -0.1 | |
| 2017 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .143 | .143 | .143 | .000 | .250 | 0.0% | 42.9% | .125 | -1.2 | -37 | -0.1 | |
| 2016 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .400 | .400 | .600 | .200 | .667 | 0.0% | 33.3% | .428 | +0.5 | 163 | 0.1 |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 35 | 0 | 49.1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 69 | 36 | 37 | 5 | 6.57 | 4.67 | 1.50 | 6.8 | 0.9 | 154 | 109 | 0.0 | |
| 2020 | 17 | 5 | 39.2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 40 | 21 | 36 | 8 | 4.76 | 4.02 | 1.21 | 8.2 | 1.8 | 107 | 90 | 0.4 | |
| 2019 | 51 | 1 | 79.1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 82 | 33 | 51 | 7 | 3.74 | 4.49 | 1.12 | 5.8 | 0.8 | 83 | 100 | 0.4 | |
| 2018 | 32 | 9 | 70.1 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 92 | 48 | 46 | 12 | 6.14 | 7.16 | 1.48 | 5.9 | 1.5 | 148 | 172 | -1.9 | |
| 2017 | 26 | 26 | 141.0 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 166 | 78 | 109 | 14 | 4.98 | 4.12 | 1.28 | 7.0 | 0.9 | 114 | 94 | 1.7 | |
| 2016 | 30 | 29 | 174.0 | 13 | 9 | 0 | 187 | 85 | 118 | 20 | 4.40 | 4.88 | 1.19 | 6.1 | 1.0 | 105 | 116 | 0.4 | |
| 2015 | 10 | 10 | 65.2 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 47 | 22 | 57 | 8 | 3.02 | 4.43 | 0.84 | 7.8 | 1.1 | 76 | 112 | 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% |
| vs RHP | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .500 | .667 | .500 | .534 | 33.3% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 85 | 82 | 25 | 2 | 2 | 15 | .305 | .329 | .463 | .340 | 17.6% |
| vs RHB | 133 | 129 | 44 | 8 | 3 | 22 | .341 | .353 | .605 | .401 | 16.5% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2021.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 3 tracked batted balls in 2021. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 70.2 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 91.5 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -19.3° 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, 2021.
Situational hitting
How Josh Tomlin 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 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .333 | .500 | .333 | .400 |
| Bases empty · thin | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .500 | .667 | .500 | .534 |
| Runner on first · thin | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .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, 2021.
Pitch sequencing
What Josh Tomlin 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 2021.
| Cutter | 381 | 86.0 | 2,556 | 46.5% | 20.8% | |
| Curveball | 233 | 76.4 | 2,687 | 47.6% | 37.1% | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 182 | 88.9 | 2,311 | 47.3% | 12.1% | |
| Changeup | 12 | 84.7 | 1,720 | 8.3% | 0.0% |
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.