P · 2019
Jeremy Hellickson
- Age
- 32
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 190 lb
- Number
- #58
- Born
- April 8, 1987 in Des Moines, IA, USA
- MLB debut
- August 2, 2010
- dbWAR
- .9 10 season(s)
- PA
- 13
- AVG
- .111
- OBP
- .273
- SLG
- .111
- wRC+
- 22 100 = avg
Jeremy Hellickson is a pitcher for the Washington Nationals. In 2019 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 13 plate appearances in 8 games. His batting average was .111, 56.0% lower than the league average of .252. He reached base at a .273 clip and slugged .111, for an OPS of .384, 49.3% lower than the league mark of .758. He averaged 76.6 mph off the bat, hit 20.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 88.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 22 wRC+ puts his offence 78% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -1.3 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, 2019.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2019. These four terms sum to -0.8 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 8 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | .111 | .273 | .111 | .000 | .200 | 15.4% | 30.8% | .209 | -1.3 | 22 | -0.1 | |
| 2018 | 17 | 35 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 13 | .063 | .063 | .094 | .031 | .105 | 0.0% | 37.1% | .067 | -7.1 | -71 | -0.6 | |
| 2017 | 20 | 39 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 9 | .091 | .167 | .182 | .091 | .125 | 7.7% | 23.1% | .164 | -5.2 | -10 | -0.4 | |
| 2016 | 30 | 66 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 24 | .167 | .224 | .185 | .019 | .300 | 6.1% | 36.4% | .191 | -6.9 | 12 | -0.5 | |
| 2015 | 24 | 49 | 9 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 14 | .220 | .283 | .220 | .000 | .321 | 4.1% | 28.6% | .235 | -3.2 | 42 | -0.2 |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 9 | 8 | 39.0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 47 | 27 | 30 | 20 | 6.23 | 6.29 | 1.72 | 6.9 | 4.6 | 138 | 140 | -0.4 | |
| 2018 | 19 | 19 | 91.1 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 78 | 35 | 65 | 20 | 3.45 | 4.22 | 1.07 | 6.4 | 2.0 | 83 | 102 | 0.8 | |
| 2017 | 30 | 30 | 164.0 | 8 | 11 | 0 | 160 | 99 | 96 | 47 | 5.43 | 5.77 | 1.26 | 5.3 | 2.6 | 125 | 132 | -0.9 | |
| 2016 | 32 | 32 | 189.0 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 173 | 78 | 154 | 45 | 3.71 | 3.98 | 1.15 | 7.3 | 2.1 | 89 | 95 | 2.3 | |
| 2015 | 27 | 27 | 146.0 | 9 | 12 | 0 | 151 | 75 | 121 | 43 | 4.62 | 4.44 | 1.33 | 7.5 | 2.7 | 117 | 112 | 0.7 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 50.0% |
| vs RHP | 11 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | .125 | .300 | .125 | .229 | 27.3% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 83 | 73 | 24 | 6 | 9 | 11 | .329 | .398 | .658 | .429 | 13.3% |
| vs RHB | 100 | 87 | 23 | 3 | 11 | 19 | .264 | .354 | .414 | .336 | 19.0% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2019.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 5 tracked batted balls in 2019. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 76.6 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 98.1 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 20.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -12.0° 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, 2019.
Situational hitting
How Jeremy Hellickson 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 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .111 | .273 | .111 | .209 |
| Bases empty · thin | 9 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | .143 | .333 | .143 | .255 |
| Runner on first · thin | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| Runners on · thin | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| RISP · thin | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .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, 2019.
Pitch sequencing
What Jeremy Hellickson 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 2019.
| Sinker | 279 | 88.7 | 2,117 | 39.8% | 7.8% | |
| Changeup | 174 | 79.8 | 1,860 | 40.8% | 24.2% | |
| Cutter | 115 | 85.7 | 2,426 | 39.1% | 14.3% | |
| Knuckle Curve | 90 | 73.7 | 2,845 | 52.2% | 19.4% | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 17 | 88.6 | 2,126 | 41.2% | 33.3% |
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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.