
P · 2017
Miguel Socolovich
- Age
- 32
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 205 lb
- Number
- #47
- Born
- July 24, 1986 in Caracas, Venezuela
- MLB debut
- July 14, 2012
Age shown as of the 2018 season.
- dbWAR
- .7 6 season(s)
- PA
- 1
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .000
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- -126 100 = avg
Miguel Socolovich is a pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals. In 2017 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 .255. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .750. He averaged 79.7 mph off the bat and made contact on 100.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -126 wRC+ puts his offence 226% 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, 2017.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2017. These four terms sum to -0.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 0.0% | .000 | -0.3 | -126 | -0.0 | |
| 2015 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 0.0% | .000 | -0.3 | -125 | -0.0 |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 4 | 0 | 5.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 10.80 | 2.76 | 2.00 | 7.2 | 3.6 | 260 | 67 | 0.1 | |
| 2017 | 15 | 0 | 18.2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 27 | 18 | 14 | 4 | 8.68 | 5.41 | 1.66 | 6.8 | 1.9 | 199 | 124 | -0.1 | |
| 2016 | 15 | 0 | 18.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 16 | 5 | 2.00 | 3.65 | 0.56 | 8.0 | 2.5 | 48 | 87 | 0.2 | |
| 2015 | 28 | 0 | 29.2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 25 | 6 | 27 | 10 | 1.82 | 2.76 | 1.18 | 8.2 | 3.0 | 46 | 70 | 0.6 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 36 | 32 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 3 | .406 | .472 | .750 | .513 | 8.3% |
| vs RHB | 51 | 48 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 11 | .292 | .314 | .542 | .358 | 21.6% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2017.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 1 tracked batted balls in 2017. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 79.7 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 79.7 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -2.0° 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, 2017.
Situational hitting
How Miguel Socolovich 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 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| RISP · 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, 2017.
Pitch sequencing
What Miguel Socolovich 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 2017.
| Four-Seam Fastball | 140 | 91.5 | 1,988 | 39.3% | 8.5% | |
| Changeup | 117 | 82.9 | 1,612 | 50.4% | 30.3% | |
| Slider | 66 | 83.4 | 2,097 | 51.5% | 40.9% |
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.