P · 2016

Chris Hatcher

Los Angeles Dodgers National League WestP

Age: 33
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 200 lb
Number: #39

Born: January 12, 1985 in Kinston, NC, USA
MLB debut: September 19, 2010

Age shown as of the 2018 season.

dbWAR: .2
PA: 3
AVG: .333
OBP: .333
SLG: .333
wRC+: 85

Chris Hatcher is a pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2016 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 1 RBI, notching 1 hit across 3 plate appearances in 3 games. His batting average was .333, 30.5% higher than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .333 clip and slugged .333, for an OPS of .667, 9.8% lower than the league mark of .739. He averaged 81.8 mph off the bat, hit 50.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 83.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 85 wRC+ puts his offence 15% below average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — -0.1 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, 2016.

wRC+85

wOBA.292

ISO.000

BB%0.0%

WAR.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2016. These four terms sum to +0.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2016	3	3	1	0	1	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.000	.333	0.0%	0.0%	.292	-0.1	85	0.0
2015	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.3	-126	-0.0

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2018	34	36.1	3	3	0	43	20	30	17	4.95	5.50	1.65	7.4	4.2	119	133	-0.4
2017	49	59.2	1	2	1	58	28	63	21	4.22	4.28	1.32	9.5	3.2	97	98	0.3
2016	37	40.2	5	4	0	40	25	43	21	5.53	5.21	1.50	9.5	4.6	132	124	-0.3
2015	49	39.0	3	5	4	35	16	45	13	3.69	3.39	1.23	10.4	3.0	93	86	0.5

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	1	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%
vs RHP	2	2	1	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	.439	0.0%

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 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 LHB	71	60	9	1	11	16	.150	.282	.200	.216	22.5%
vs RHB	110	98	31	7	10	27	.316	.385	.643	.433	24.5%

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

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 81.8
Max exit velo: 101.6
Hard hit: 50.0%
Sweet spot: 0.0%
Launch angle: -18.0°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity81.8 mph

Hard hit rate50.0%

Contact rate83.3%

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 Chris Hatcher 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	3	—	—	—	—	—	—	.333	.333	.333	.292
Bases empty · thin	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
Runners on · thin	2	2	1	0	1	0	0	.500	.500	.500	.439
RISP · thin	2	2	1	0	1	0	0	.500	.500	.500	.439

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.

Pitch sequencing

What Chris Hatcher 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 2016.


Four-Seam Fastball	56.6%	436	95.7	2,356	52.5%	22.5%
Slider	20.1%	155	85.5	712	43.2%	19.0%
Splitter	14.8%	114	86.8	1,408	41.2%	33.3%
Cutter	6.1%	47	91.9	1,217	27.7%	25.0%
Intentional Ball	1.3%	10	76.7	1,744	0.0%	—

Chris Hatcher'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.