C · 2017
Anthony Recker
- Age
- 34
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 2"
- Weight
- 240 lb
- Number
- #20
- Born
- August 29, 1983 in Allentown, PA, USA
- MLB debut
- August 25, 2011
- dbWAR
- .6 3 season(s)
- PA
- 7
- AVG
- .143
- OBP
- .143
- SLG
- .143
- wRC+
- -37 100 = avg
Anthony Recker is 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 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, 2017.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2017. These four terms sum to -0.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .143 | .143 | .143 | .000 | .167 | 0.0% | 14.3% | .125 | -1.2 | -37 | -0.1 | |
| 2016 | 33 | 112 | 25 | 2 | 15 | 1 | 16 | 22 | .278 | .394 | .433 | .156 | .343 | 14.3% | 19.6% | .364 | +3.8 | 127 | 1.0 | |
| 2015 | 29 | 92 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 11 | 35 | .125 | .239 | .212 | .087 | .186 | 12.0% | 38.0% | .208 | -7.9 | 25 | -0.3 |
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.
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.