1B · 2016
Chris Parmelee
- Age
- 28
- B/T
- L/L
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 220 lb
- Number
- #27
- Born
- February 24, 1988 in Long Beach, CA, USA
- MLB debut
- September 6, 2011
- dbWAR
- .3 2 season(s)
- PA
- 8
- AVG
- .500
- OBP
- .500
- SLG
- 1.375
- wRC+
- 410 100 = avg
Chris Parmelee is a first baseman for the New York Yankees. In 2016 he hit 2 home runs and knocked in 4 RBIs, notching 4 hits across 8 plate appearances in 2 games. His batting average was .500, 95.8% higher than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .500 clip and slugged 1.375, for an OPS of 1.875, 153.7% higher than the league mark of .739. He averaged 97.7 mph off the bat, hit 80.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 40.0% of them and made contact on 72.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 410 wRC+ puts his offence 310% above average. That comes to 0.3 dbWAR — +3.0 runs with the bat, -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, 2016.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2016. These four terms sum to +3.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .500 | .500 | 1.375 | .875 | .667 | 0.0% | 37.5% | .786 | +3.0 | 410 | 0.3 | |
| 2015 | 28 | 102 | 21 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 26 | .216 | .255 | .433 | .216 | .254 | 3.9% | 25.5% | .298 | -1.5 | 83 | -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 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 4.000 | 2.075 | 0.0% |
| vs RHP | 7 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3 | .429 | .429 | 1.000 | .602 | 42.9% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2016.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 5 tracked batted balls in 2016. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 40.0% 2 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 97.7 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 108.2 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 80.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 40.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 19.2° 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, 2016.
Situational hitting
How Chris Parmelee 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 | 8 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .500 | .500 | 1.375 | .786 |
| Bases empty · thin | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .667 | .667 | 2.000 | 1.113 |
| Runner on first · thin | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 4.000 | 2.075 |
| Runners on · thin | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | .400 | .400 | 1.000 | .590 |
| RISP · thin | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .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, 2016.
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.