Players · D · 1B · 2016 regular season
Ike Davis
- Age
- 29
- B/T
- L/L
- Height
- 6' 4"
- Weight
- 220 lb
- Number
- #29
- Born
- March 22, 1987 in Edina, MN, United States
- MLB debut
- April 19, 2010
- dbWAR
- 5.5 Regular season, 8 season(s)
- PA
- 15
- AVG
- .214
- OBP
- .267
- SLG
- .214
- wRC+
- 32 100 = avg
Ike Davis was a first baseman for the New York Yankees. In 2016 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 1 RBI, notching 3 hits across 15 plate appearances in 6 games. His batting average was .214, 16.1% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .267 clip and slugged .214, for an OPS of .481, 34.9% lower than the league mark of .739. He averaged 85.3 mph off the bat, hit 33.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 66.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 32 wRC+ puts his offence 68% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -1.2 runs with the bat, -0.0 for the ballpark, -0.0 on the bases, -0.3 on double plays, -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 regular season.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2016. These terms sum to -1.3 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.
WAR by season
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | NYY | 6 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | .214 | .267 | .214 | .000 | .333 | 6.7% | 33.3% | .222 | -1.2 | 32 | -0.1 | |
| 2015 | OAK | 71 | 239 | 49 | 3 | 20 | 0 | 23 | 44 | .229 | .301 | .350 | .121 | .272 | 9.6% | 18.4% | .292 | -4.6 | 84 | -0.2 | |
| 2014 | PIT/NYM | 142 | 427 | 84 | 11 | 51 | 0 | 63 | 78 | .233 | .344 | .378 | .144 | .265 | 14.8% | 18.3% | .328 | +4.8 | 111 | 0.9 | |
| 2013 | NYM | 100 | 377 | 65 | 9 | 33 | 4 | 57 | 101 | .205 | .326 | .334 | .129 | .268 | 15.1% | 26.8% | .302 | -4.7 | 92 | 0.1 | |
| 2012 | NYM | 155 | 584 | 118 | 32 | 90 | 0 | 61 | 141 | .227 | .308 | .462 | .235 | .246 | 10.4% | 24.1% | .336 | +8.0 | 116 | 1.7 | |
| 2011 | NYM | 36 | 149 | 39 | 7 | 25 | 0 | 17 | 31 | .302 | .383 | .543 | .240 | .344 | 11.4% | 20.8% | .399 | +9.0 | 158 | 1.1 | |
| 2010 | NYM | 147 | 601 | 138 | 19 | 71 | 3 | 72 | 138 | .264 | .351 | .440 | .176 | .321 | 12.0% | 23.0% | .351 | +12.4 | 122 | 2.1 |
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | OAK | 2 | 0 | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.00 | 3.63 | 1.00 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 0 | 92 | 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 100.0% |
| vs RHP | 14 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | .231 | .286 | .231 | .238 | 28.6% |
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 9 tracked batted balls in 2016. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 85.3 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 109.0 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 33.3% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 22.2% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 0.7° 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 Ike Davis 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 | 15 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .214 | .267 | .214 | .222 |
| Bases empty · thin | 9 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | .222 | .222 | .222 | .195 |
| Runner on first · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .200 | .333 | .200 | .262 |
| RISP · thin | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .250 | .400 | .250 | .315 |
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.
Pitch arsenal
What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.
| Changeup | 14 | 85.3 | 2,367 | 50.0% | 71.4% | 0 | — | — |
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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.