1B · 2016

Xavier Scruggs

Age: 29
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 215 lb
Number: #59

Born: September 23, 1987 in Whittier, CA, USA
MLB debut: September 4, 2014

dbWAR: -.3
PA: 69
AVG: .210
OBP: .290
SLG: .306
wRC+: 69

Xavier Scruggs is a first baseman for the Miami Marlins. In 2016 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 5 RBIs, notching 13 hits across 69 plate appearances in 24 games. His batting average was .210, 17.9% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .290 clip and slugged .306, for an OPS of .596, 19.3% lower than the league mark of .739. He averaged 91.8 mph off the bat, hit 54.5% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 6.1% of them and made contact on 70.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 69 wRC+ puts his offence 31% below average. That comes to -0.2 dbWAR — -2.8 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, -1.4 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.

wRC+69

wOBA.271

ISO.097

BB%7.2%

WAR-.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2016. These four terms sum to -1.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

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WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2016	24	69	13	1	5	0	5	20	.210	.290	.306	.097	.293	7.2%	29.0%	.271	-2.8	69	-0.2
2015	17	43	11	0	7	1	0	10	.262	.279	.310	.048	.344	0.0%	23.3%	.261	-1.9	62	-0.1

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2016. 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 LHP	9	9	2	0	0	2	.222	.222	.222	.195	22.2%
vs RHP	60	53	11	1	5	18	.208	.300	.321	.282	30.0%

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 33 tracked batted balls in 2016. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 6.1%
Exit velocity: 91.8
Max exit velo: 110.7
Hard hit: 54.5%
Sweet spot: 45.5%
Launch angle: 11.4°

Barrel rate6.1%

Exit velocity91.8 mph

Hard hit rate54.5%

Contact rate70.5%

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.

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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 .255.

Situational hitting

How Xavier Scruggs 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	69	—	—	—	—	—	—	.210	.290	.306	.271
Bases empty	38	34	6	0	0	3	10	.176	.263	.176	.213
Runner on first · thin	15	13	3	0	0	2	4	.231	.333	.231	.268
Runners on	31	28	7	1	5	2	10	.250	.323	.464	.343
RISP · thin	16	15	4	1	5	0	6	.267	.313	.667	.412

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.

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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.