P · 2018

Phil Hughes

Age: 32
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 5"
Weight: 240 lb
Number: #65

Born: June 24, 1986 in Mission Viejo, CA, USA
MLB debut: April 26, 2007

dbWAR: -.8
PA: 1
AVG: .000
OBP: .000
SLG: .000
wRC+: -119

Phil Hughes is a pitcher for the San Diego Padres. In 2018 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 1 plate appearances in 1 game. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .728. He made contact on 100.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -119 wRC+ puts his offence 219% below average. That comes to -0.0 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, 2018.

wRC+-119

wOBA.000

ISO.000

BB%0.0%

WAR-.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2018. These four terms sum to -0.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2018	1	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.3	-119	-0.0
2016	1	2	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.5	-116	-0.0
2015	1	3	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.8	-123	-0.1

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2018	23	2	32.2	0	0	44	23	32	10	6.34	6.59	1.65	8.8	2.8	153	159	-0.7
2017	14	9	53.2	4	3	72	35	38	13	5.87	5.43	1.58	6.4	2.2	135	125	-0.2
2016	12	11	59.0	1	7	76	39	34	13	5.95	5.08	1.51	5.2	2.0	142	121	-0.0
2015	27	25	155.1	11	9	184	76	94	16	4.40	4.70	1.29	5.4	0.9	111	119	0.2

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 RHP	1	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 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 LHB	70	60	19	4	8	16	.317	.400	.567	.409	22.9%
vs RHB	82	80	25	7	2	16	.313	.329	.625	.404	19.5%

Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2018.

Below averageLeague averageAbove average

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 Phil Hughes 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	1	—	—	—	—	—	—	.000	.000	.000	.000
Runner on first · thin	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
Runners on · thin	1	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, 2018.

Pitch sequencing

What Phil Hughes 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 2018.


Four-Seam Fastball	55.5%	312	90.6	2,076	49.0%	25.0%
Knuckle Curve	17.6%	99	78.4	2,385	40.4%	25.0%
Cutter	16.2%	91	87.2	2,084	49.5%	18.8%
Sinker	10.1%	57	89.8	2,044	42.1%	9.4%

Phil Hughes'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.