1B · 2017

Scott Van Slyke

Los Angeles Dodgers National League West1B

Age: 31
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 215 lb
Number: #33

Born: July 24, 1986 in Chesterfield, MO, USA
MLB debut: May 9, 2012

dbWAR: -.2
PA: 48
AVG: .122
OBP: .250
SLG: .293
wRC+: 42

Scott Van Slyke is a first baseman for the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2017 he hit 2 home runs and knocked in 3 RBIs, notching 5 hits across 48 plate appearances in 28 games. His batting average was .122, 52.2% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .250 clip and slugged .293, for an OPS of .543, 27.7% lower than the league mark of .750. He averaged 86.8 mph off the bat, hit 47.8% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 8.7% of them and made contact on 76.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 42 wRC+ puts his offence 58% below average. That comes to -0.2 dbWAR — -3.4 runs with the bat, +0.2 on the bases, -0.9 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.

wRC+42

wOBA.240

ISO.171

BB%14.6%

WAR-.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2017. These four terms sum to -2.5 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2017	28	48	5	2	3	1	7	15	.122	.250	.293	.171	.125	14.6%	31.3%	.240	-3.4	42	-0.2
2016	48	113	23	1	7	1	5	24	.225	.292	.314	.088	.282	4.4%	21.2%	.269	-4.7	68	-0.3
2015	92	253	53	6	30	3	23	62	.239	.317	.383	.144	.299	9.1%	24.5%	.309	-1.5	97	0.4

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2017. 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	34	29	4	1	5	11	.138	.265	.276	.238	32.4%
vs RHP	14	12	1	1	2	4	.083	.214	.333	.244	28.6%

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 23 tracked batted balls in 2017. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 8.7%
Exit velocity: 86.8
Max exit velo: 107.7
Hard hit: 47.8%
Sweet spot: 43.5%
Launch angle: 16.5°

Barrel rate8.7%

Exit velocity86.8 mph

Hard hit rate47.8%

Contact rate76.3%

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.

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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 Scott Van Slyke 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	48	—	—	—	—	—	—	.122	.250	.293	.240
Bases empty · thin	23	22	3	2	2	1	6	.136	.174	.455	.259
Runner on first · thin	11	9	1	0	0	2	6	.111	.273	.111	.209
Runners on	25	19	2	0	1	6	9	.105	.320	.105	.221
RISP · thin	14	10	1	0	1	4	3	.100	.357	.100	.231

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.

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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.