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Miguel Montero

Washington Nationals National League EastC

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: 20.6
PA: 13
AVG: .000
OBP: .154
SLG: .000
wRC+: -77

Miguel Montero was 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 for the ballpark, -0.0 on the bases, +0.2 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 regular season.

wRC+-77

wOBA.059

ISO.000

BB%15.4%

WAR-.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2018. These terms sum to -2.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2018	WSH	4	13	0	0	0	0	2	3	.000	.154	.000	.000	.000	15.4%	23.1%	.059	-2.7	-77	-0.2
2017	CHC/TOR	75	213	40	6	16	1	23	47	.216	.310	.346	.130	.254	10.8%	22.1%	.292	-5.8	75	0.2
2016	CHC	84	284	52	8	33	1	38	58	.216	.327	.357	.141	.249	13.4%	20.4%	.302	-4.5	90	0.9
2015	CHC	113	403	86	15	53	1	49	103	.248	.345	.409	.161	.306	12.2%	25.6%	.333	+5.1	113	2.3
2014	AZ	136	560	119	13	72	0	56	97	.243	.329	.370	.127	.275	10.0%	17.3%	.311	-1.2	94	2.0
2013	AZ	116	475	95	11	42	0	51	110	.230	.318	.344	.114	.282	10.7%	23.2%	.299	-6.9	87	1.2
2012	AZ	141	573	139	15	88	0	73	130	.286	.391	.438	.152	.362	12.7%	22.7%	.368	+21.8	127	4.5
2011	AZ	140	553	139	18	86	1	47	97	.282	.351	.469	.187	.317	8.5%	17.5%	.358	+15.8	120	4.0
2010	AZ	84	331	79	9	43	0	29	71	.266	.332	.438	.172	.318	8.8%	21.5%	.340	+3.8	109	1.7
2009	AZ	127	470	125	16	59	1	38	78	.294	.355	.478	.184	.327	8.1%	16.6%	.364	+12.0	115	3.1
2008	AZ	69	207	47	5	18	0	19	49	.255	.330	.435	.179	.321	9.2%	23.7%	.336	+0.5	98	0.9
2007	AZ	82	244	48	10	37	0	20	35	.224	.292	.397	.173	.217	8.2%	14.3%	.301	-7.1	74	0.2
2006	AZ	6	17	4	0	3	0	1	3	.250	.294	.313	.063	.308	5.9%	17.6%	.275	-0.9	56	-0.0

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.

																				Trend
2017	CHC	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	CHC	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

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason batting

Postseason Miguel Montero's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2016 Post	CHC	Postseason total	9	12	12	1	2	0	1	5	0	3	.167	.167	.417	.583
		NLDS	2	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLCS	3	4	4	1	1	0	1	4	0	1	.250	.250	1.000	1.250
		World Series	4	4	4	0	1	0	0	1	0	2	.250	.250	.250	.500
2015 Post	CHC	Postseason total	8	25	21	1	2	0	0	1	4	10	.095	.240	.095	.335
		Wild Card	1	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500
		NLDS	3	12	9	1	0	0	0	1	3	6	.000	.250	.000	.250
		NLCS	4	9	8	0	1	0	0	0	1	4	.125	.222	.125	.347
2011 Post	AZ	NLDS	5	22	20	3	6	2	0	2	2	6	.300	.364	.400	.764
2007 Post	AZ	Postseason total	4	8	7	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	.286	.375	.286	.661
		NLDS	1	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.333	.000	.333
		NLCS	3	5	5	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	.400	.400	.400	.800
Career		Postseason total · 4 Octobers	26	67	60	6	12	2	1	8	7	19	.200	.284	.283	.567

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

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 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%

Season

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%
Exit velocity: 82.3
Max exit velo: 94.0
Hard hit: 0.0%
Sweet spot: 20.0%
Launch angle: 6.0°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity82.3 mph

Hard hit rate0.0%

Contact rate75.0%

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, 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 Miguel Montero 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	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.

Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Season


Four-Seam Fastball	64.0%	16	79.7	1,902	31.3%	0.0%	3	—	—

Miguel Montero'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. BAA and OPS are what hitters did against each pitch, credited to the one that ended the plate appearance, and are left blank under 15 at-bats.

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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.