P · 2021

Mike Minor

Kansas City Royals American League CentralP

Age: 35
B/T: R/L
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 210 lb

Born: December 26, 1987 in Chapel Hill, TN, USA
MLB debut: August 9, 2010

Age shown as of the 2022 season.

dbWAR: 5.5
PA: 7
AVG: .000
OBP: .000
SLG: .000
wRC+: -115

Mike Minor was a pitcher for the Kansas City Royals. In 2021 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 7 plate appearances in 3 games. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .728. He averaged 85.4 mph off the bat, hit 66.7% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 45.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -115 wRC+ puts his offence 215% below average. That comes to -0.2 dbWAR — -1.9 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, 2021.

wRC+-115

wOBA.000

ISO.000

BB%0.0%

WAR-.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2021. These four terms sum to -1.6 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2021	3	7	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	57.1%	.000	-1.9	-115	-0.2
2019	4	10	0	6	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	60.0%	.000	-2.8	-111	-0.2
2018	1	3	1	1	.333	.333	.667	.333	.500	0.0%	33.3%	.426	+0.3	158	0.0

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2022	19	19	98.0	4	12	0	120	66	76	40	6.06	6.18	1.63	7.0	3.7	153	156	-1.5
2021	28	28	158.2	8	12	0	156	89	149	41	5.05	4.29	1.24	8.5	2.3	118	101	1.5
2020	12	11	56.2	1	6	0	50	35	62	20	5.56	4.64	1.24	9.8	3.2	125	104	0.4
2019	32	32	208.1	14	10	0	190	83	200	68	3.59	4.25	1.24	8.6	2.9	80	94	2.5
2018	28	28	157.0	12	8	0	138	73	132	38	4.18	4.43	1.12	7.6	2.2	101	107	1.1
2017	65	0	77.2	6	6	6	57	22	88	22	2.55	2.62	1.02	10.2	2.5	58	60	1.8

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2021. 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	2	2	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	50.0%
vs RHP	5	5	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	60.0%

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2021. 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	100	91	23	2	5	26	.253	.313	.396	.312	26.0%
vs RHB	570	529	133	24	36	123	.251	.301	.456	.324	21.6%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2021.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 3 tracked batted balls in 2021. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 85.4
Max exit velo: 103.0
Hard hit: 66.7%
Sweet spot: 33.3%
Launch angle: -1.3°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity85.4 mph

Hard hit rate66.7%

Contact rate45.5%

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, 2021.

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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 .243.

Situational hitting

How Mike Minor 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	7	—	—	—	—	—	—	.000	.000	.000	.000
Bases empty · thin	6	6	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000
Runners on · thin	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
RISP · thin	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	.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, 2021.

Pitch sequencing

What Mike Minor 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 2021.


Four-Seam Fastball	42.8%	1,123	90.9	2,544	49.2%	18.9%
Slider	21.9%	573	85.6	2,722	48.5%	26.0%
Changeup	19.5%	510	85.2	2,236	42.5%	30.9%
Knuckle Curve	15.7%	411	80.4	2,493	43.1%	29.8%

Mike Minor'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.