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Anthony Recker
- Age
- 34
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 2"
- Weight
- 240 lb
- Number
- #20
- Born
- August 29, 1983 in Allentown, PA, United States
- MLB debut
- August 25, 2011
- dbWAR
- 1.0 Regular season, 8 season(s)
- PA
- 7
- AVG
- .143
- OBP
- .143
- SLG
- .143
- wRC+
- -37 100 = avg
Anthony Recker was a catcher for the Atlanta Braves. In 2017 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 7 plate appearances in 4 games. His batting average was .143, 44.0% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .143 clip and slugged .143, for an OPS of .286, 61.9% lower than the league mark of .750. He averaged 93.5 mph off the bat, hit 50.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 70.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -37 wRC+ puts his offence 137% 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, +0.0 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, 2017 regular season.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2017. These terms sum to -1.2 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 | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | ATL | 4 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .143 | .143 | .143 | .000 | .167 | 0.0% | 14.3% | .125 | -1.2 | -37 | -0.1 | |
| 2016 | ATL | 33 | 112 | 25 | 2 | 15 | 1 | 16 | 22 | .278 | .394 | .433 | .156 | .343 | 14.3% | 19.6% | .364 | +3.8 | 127 | 0.9 | |
| 2015 | NYM | 29 | 92 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 11 | 35 | .125 | .239 | .212 | .087 | .186 | 12.0% | 38.0% | .208 | -7.9 | 25 | -0.4 | |
| 2014 | NYM | 54 | 189 | 35 | 7 | 27 | 1 | 10 | 64 | .201 | .246 | .374 | .172 | .267 | 5.3% | 33.9% | .276 | -5.4 | 77 | 0.3 | |
| 2013 | NYM | 48 | 151 | 29 | 6 | 19 | 0 | 13 | 49 | .215 | .280 | .400 | .185 | .280 | 8.6% | 32.5% | .299 | -2.1 | 91 | 0.6 | |
| 2012 | OAK/CHC | 21 | 58 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 15 | .143 | .263 | .245 | .102 | .182 | 10.3% | 25.9% | .243 | -3.5 | 49 | -0.1 | |
| 2011 | OAK | 5 | 21 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 7 | .176 | .333 | .235 | .059 | .300 | 19.0% | 33.3% | .282 | -0.6 | 74 | 0.1 |
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | NYM | 1 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 18.00 | 19.05 | 2.00 | 0.0 | 9.0 | 466 | 493 | -0.2 | — |
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 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .167 | .167 | .146 | 0.0% |
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 4 tracked batted balls in 2017. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 93.5 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 107.0 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 50.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 25.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 7.3° 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, 2017.
Situational hitting
How Anthony Recker 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 | 7 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .143 | .143 | .143 | .125 |
| Bases empty · thin | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runner on first · thin | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .291 |
| Runners on · thin | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .291 |
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.
Pitch arsenal
What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.
| Changeup | 13 | 84.1 | 1,838 | 7.7% | 0.0% | 4 | — | — |
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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.