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3B · 2015

Pedro Ciriaco

Age
30
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 0"
Weight
180 lb
Number
#3
Born
September 27, 1985 in San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic
MLB debut
September 8, 2010
dbWAR
-.1
1 season(s)
PA
151
AVG
.261
OBP
.275
SLG
.352
wRC+
70
100 = avg

Pedro Ciriaco is a third baseman for the Atlanta Braves. In 2015 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 15 RBIs, notching 37 hits across 151 plate appearances in 79 games. His batting average was .261, 2.4% higher than the league average of .254. He reached base at a .275 clip and slugged .352, for an OPS of .627, 13.0% lower than the league mark of .721 — 13th of 17 on his team, and 359th of 445 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 81.1 mph off the bat, hit 17.6% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 3.5% of them and made contact on 74.1% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 70 wRC+ puts his offence 30% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -5.3 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, -0.6 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+70
wOBA.272
ISO.092
BB%1.3%
WAR-.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2015. These four terms sum to -0.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting-5.3Baserunning-0.0Position-0.6Replacement+5.0
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
201579151371154238.261.275.352.092.3401.3%25.2%.272-5.370-0.1

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.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP474390214.209.261.256.23629.8%
vs RHP10499281024.283.282.394.28923.1%

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 85 tracked batted balls in 2015. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate
3.5%
3 barrels
Exit velocity
81.1
mph average
Max exit velo
108.8
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
17.6%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
49.4%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
10.0°
average
Barrel rate3.5%
Exit velocity81.1 mph
Hard hit rate17.6%
Contact rate74.1%

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.

.154.278.4003 AB4 AB7 AB.3339 AB.10010 AB.08312 AB7 AB.18816 AB.27818 AB
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 .254.

Situational hitting

How Pedro Ciriaco 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.
SituationPAABHHRRBIBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBA
All situations151.261.275.352.272
Bases empty76731911219.260.289.384.295
Runner on first · thin242480008.333.333.375.310
Runners on756918014019.261.260.319.249
RISP514510014011.222.224.289.219

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.

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Nearest 2015 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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.