C · 2018
Miguel Montero
- Age
- 35
- B/T
- L/R
- Height
- 5' 11"
- Weight
- 221 lb
- Number
- #26
- Born
- July 9, 1983 in Caracas, Venezuela
- MLB debut
- September 6, 2006
- dbWAR
- 4.0 6 season(s)
- PA
- 13
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .154
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- -77 100 = avg
Miguel Montero is a catcher for the Washington Nationals. In 2018 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 13 plate appearances in 4 games. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .154 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .154, 78.9% lower than the league mark of .728. He averaged 82.3 mph off the bat and made contact on 75.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -77 wRC+ puts his offence 177% below average. That comes to -0.2 dbWAR — -2.7 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, +0.3 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.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2018. These four terms sum to -2.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 4 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | .000 | .154 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 15.4% | 23.1% | .059 | -2.7 | -77 | -0.2 | |
| 2017 | 75 | 213 | 40 | 6 | 16 | 1 | 23 | 47 | .216 | .310 | .346 | .130 | .254 | 10.8% | 22.1% | .292 | -5.8 | 75 | 0.5 | |
| 2016 | 84 | 284 | 52 | 8 | 33 | 1 | 38 | 58 | .216 | .327 | .357 | .141 | .249 | 13.4% | 20.4% | .302 | -4.5 | 90 | 1.0 | |
| 2015 | 113 | 403 | 86 | 15 | 53 | 1 | 49 | 103 | .248 | .345 | .409 | .161 | .306 | 12.2% | 25.6% | .333 | +5.1 | 113 | 2.8 |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.00 | 9.16 | 2.00 | 0.0 | 18.0 | 0 | 210 | -0.0 | |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6.75 | 5.40 | 3.00 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 161 | 129 | -0.0 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .000 | .250 | .000 | .177 | 25.0% |
| vs RHP | 9 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .000 | .111 | .000 | .000 | 22.2% |
No pitching splits recorded for 2018.
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2018.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 5 tracked batted balls in 2018. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 82.3 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 94.0 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 20.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 6.0° 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, 2018.
Situational hitting
How Miguel Montero 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 | 13 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .000 | .154 | .000 | .059 |
| Bases empty · thin | 8 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .000 | .125 | .000 | .088 |
| Runner on first · thin | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .000 | .200 | .000 | .000 |
| RISP · thin | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 | .500 | .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.
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.