P · 2015

Mike Pelfrey

Minnesota Twins American League CentralP

Age: 33
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 7"
Weight: 240 lb
Number: #34

Born: January 14, 1984 in Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, USA
MLB debut: July 8, 2006

Age shown as of the 2017 season.

dbWAR: -.0
PA: 3
AVG: .667
OBP: .667
SLG: .667
wRC+: 291

Mike Pelfrey is a pitcher for the Minnesota Twins. In 2015 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 2 hits across 3 plate appearances in 2 games. His batting average was .667, 162.0% higher than the league average of .254. He reached base at a .667 clip and slugged .667, for an OPS of 1.333, 84.8% higher than the league mark of .721. He averaged 92.2 mph off the bat and made contact on 60.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 291 wRC+ puts his offence 191% above average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — +0.6 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, 2015.

wRC+291

wOBA.587

ISO.000

BB%0.0%

WAR.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2015. These four terms sum to +0.7 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2015	2	3	2	0	0	0	0	1	.667	.667	.667	.000	1.000	0.0%	33.3%	.587	+0.6	291	0.1	—

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2017	34	21	120.0	3	12	127	79	79	62	5.92	6.35	1.57	5.9	4.7	136	146	-1.6
2016	24	22	119.0	4	10	160	67	56	46	5.07	5.15	1.73	4.2	3.5	121	123	-0.1
2015	30	30	164.2	6	11	198	78	86	45	4.26	4.00	1.48	4.7	2.5	108	101	1.7

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2015. 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	2	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	.881	0.0%
vs RHP	1	1	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	100.0%

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2015. 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	345	298	93	6	40	41	.312	.398	.436	.371	11.9%
vs RHB	369	353	105	5	5	45	.297	.322	.394	.315	12.2%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2015.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 1 tracked batted balls in 2015. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 92.2
Max exit velo: 92.2
Hard hit: 0.0%
Sweet spot: 0.0%
Launch angle: -16.0°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity92.2 mph

Hard hit rate0.0%

Contact rate60.0%

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, 2015.

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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 Mike Pelfrey 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	3	—	—	—	—	—	—	.667	.667	.667	.587
Bases empty · thin	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	.881
Runner on first · thin	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
Runners on · thin	2	2	1	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	.441
RISP · thin	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	.881

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, 2015.

Pitch sequencing

What Mike Pelfrey 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 2015.


Sinker	61.5%	1,639	93.3	1,930	42.3%	10.2%
Splitter	14.1%	376	80.8	919	36.4%	18.5%
Four-Seam Fastball	11.6%	308	92.9	1,980	44.5%	15.2%
Slider	9.1%	243	83.7	695	39.1%	34.7%
Curveball	3.4%	91	73.0	1,084	42.9%	26.3%

Mike Pelfrey'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.