P · 2015
Tsuyoshi Wada
- Age
- 34
- B/T
- L/L
- Height
- 5' 11"
- Weight
- 180 lb
- Number
- #18
- Born
- February 21, 1981 in Izumo, Japan
- MLB debut
- July 8, 2014
- dbWAR
- .0 2 season(s)
- PA
- 9
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .111
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- -68 100 = avg
Tsuyoshi Wada is a pitcher for the Chicago Cubs. In 2015 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 9 plate appearances in 6 games. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .254. He reached base at a .111 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .111, 84.6% lower than the league mark of .721. He averaged 68.6 mph off the bat and made contact on 55.6% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -68 wRC+ puts his offence 168% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -1.7 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, 2015.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2015. These four terms sum to -1.4 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | .000 | .111 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 11.1% | 55.6% | .079 | -1.7 | -68 | -0.1 | — |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | 7 | 32.1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 30 | 13 | 31 | 11 | 3.62 | 4.34 | 1.27 | 8.6 | 3.1 | 91 | 110 | 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 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | .000 | .125 | .000 | .089 | 50.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 30 | 26 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 5 | .308 | .379 | .577 | .402 | 16.7% |
| vs RHB | 106 | 96 | 22 | 4 | 8 | 26 | .229 | .292 | .427 | .314 | 24.5% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2015.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 3 tracked batted balls in 2015. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 68.6 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 87.6 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 66.7% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 27.3° 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, 2015.
Situational hitting
How Tsuyoshi Wada 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 | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .000 | .111 | .000 | .079 |
| Bases empty · thin | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | .000 | .200 | .000 | .142 |
| Runner on first · thin | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| RISP · 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, 2015.
Pitch sequencing
What Tsuyoshi Wada 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 2015.
| Four-Seam Fastball | 266 | 88.5 | 2,204 | 53.4% | 16.9% | |
| Changeup | 74 | 81.3 | 1,243 | 24.3% | 17.9% | |
| Slider | 68 | 81.9 | 665 | 57.4% | 21.9% | |
| Sinker | 55 | 87.7 | 2,238 | 36.4% | 19.0% | |
| Curveball | 37 | 73.2 | 551 | 51.4% | 15.4% | |
| Cutter | 28 | 85.3 | 1,612 | 46.4% | 8.3% |
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.