P · 2018

Fernando Salas

Arizona Diamondbacks National League WestP

Age: 34
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 200 lb
Number: #59

Born: May 30, 1985 in Huatabampo, Sonora, Mexico
MLB debut: May 28, 2010

Age shown as of the 2019 season.

dbWAR: 1.9
PA: 1
AVG: .000
OBP: .000
SLG: .000
wRC+: -118

Fernando Salas is a pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks. In 2018 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 1 plate appearances in 1 game. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .728. He averaged 87.0 mph off the bat and made contact on 100.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -118 wRC+ puts his offence 218% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -0.3 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, 2018.

wRC+-118

wOBA.000

ISO.000

BB%0.0%

WAR-.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2018. These four terms sum to -0.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2018	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.3	-118	-0.0
2017	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	.000	1.000	0.0%	50.0%	.437	+0.2	185	0.0

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2019	3	2.2	0	0	0	8	2	3	0	6.75	5.84	3.00	10.1	0.0	150	130	-0.0
2018	41	40.0	4	4	0	40	20	30	13	4.50	4.34	1.32	6.8	2.9	108	104	0.1
2017	61	58.2	2	2	0	67	34	56	22	5.22	3.92	1.52	8.6	3.4	120	90	0.6
2016	75	73.2	3	7	6	63	32	64	19	3.91	4.30	1.11	7.8	2.3	93	103	0.3
2015	72	63.2	5	2	0	61	30	74	12	4.24	3.15	1.15	10.5	1.7	107	79	0.9

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 RHP	1	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 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 LHB	56	49	19	2	7	5	.388	.464	.551	.422	8.9%
vs RHB	114	102	21	3	6	25	.206	.252	.333	.257	21.9%

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 1 tracked batted balls in 2018. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 87.0
Max exit velo: 87.0
Hard hit: 0.0%
Sweet spot: 0.0%
Launch angle: -25.0°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity87.0 mph

Hard hit rate0.0%

Contact rate100.0%

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.

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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 .247.

Situational hitting

How Fernando Salas 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	1	—	—	—	—	—	—	.000	.000	.000	.000
Bases empty · thin	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	.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, 2018.

Pitch sequencing

What Fernando Salas 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 2018.


Four-Seam Fastball	59.0%	391	90.5	2,196	51.2%	20.7%
Changeup	25.0%	166	86.4	1,792	34.9%	17.6%
Knuckle Curve	16.0%	106	81.5	2,167	50.0%	38.9%

Fernando Salas'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.

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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.