P · 2016
Nate Karns
- Age
- 32
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 3"
- Weight
- 225 lb
- Number
- #57
- Born
- November 25, 1987 in Franklin, PA, USA
- MLB debut
- May 28, 2013
Age shown as of the 2019 season.
- dbWAR
- 2.8 6 season(s)
- PA
- 1
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .000
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- -119 100 = avg
Nate Karns is a pitcher for the Seattle Mariners. In 2016 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 1 plate appearances in 1 game. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .739. He averaged 71.0 mph off the bat and made contact on 100.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -119 wRC+ puts his offence 219% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -0.3 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.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2016. These four terms sum to -0.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 0.0% | .000 | -0.3 | -119 | -0.0 | |
| 2015 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .250 | .250 | 1.000 | .750 | — | 0.0% | 60.0% | .522 | +0.8 | 246 | 0.1 |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 4 | 2 | 5.1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0.00 | 3.59 | 1.88 | 8.4 | 5.1 | 0 | 80 | 0.1 | |
| 2017 | 9 | 8 | 45.1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 41 | 21 | 51 | 13 | 4.17 | 4.48 | 1.19 | 10.1 | 2.6 | 96 | 103 | 0.4 | |
| 2016 | 22 | 15 | 94.1 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 95 | 54 | 101 | 45 | 5.15 | 4.05 | 1.48 | 9.6 | 4.3 | 123 | 97 | 0.9 | |
| 2015 | 27 | 26 | 147.0 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 132 | 60 | 145 | 56 | 3.67 | 4.09 | 1.28 | 8.9 | 3.4 | 93 | 103 | 1.3 |
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 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 197 | 170 | 35 | 4 | 25 | 54 | .206 | .305 | .324 | .284 | 27.4% |
| vs RHB | 220 | 197 | 60 | 7 | 20 | 47 | .305 | .377 | .497 | .379 | 21.4% |
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 1 tracked batted balls in 2016. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 71.0 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 71.0 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -27.0° 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, 2016.
Situational hitting
How Nate Karns 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 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Bases empty · 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, 2016.
Pitch sequencing
What Nate Karns 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 | 886 | 92.9 | 2,038 | 45.6% | 20.8% | |
| Knuckle Curve | 610 | 81.4 | 1,538 | 47.7% | 30.8% | |
| Changeup | 178 | 86.2 | 1,616 | 42.1% | 35.8% |
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.