P · 2019

Chris Archer

Pittsburgh Pirates National League CentralP

Age: 34
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 195 lb
Number: #35

Born: September 26, 1988 in Raleigh, NC, USA
MLB debut: June 20, 2012

Age shown as of the 2022 season.

dbWAR: 14.1
PA: 41
AVG: .114
OBP: .184
SLG: .114
wRC+: -19

Chris Archer is a pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates. In 2019 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 2 RBIs, notching 4 hits across 41 plate appearances in 21 games. His batting average was .114, 54.7% lower than the league average of .252. He reached base at a .184 clip and slugged .114, for an OPS of .298, 60.6% lower than the league mark of .758. He averaged 83.4 mph off the bat, hit 11.1% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 60.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -19 wRC+ puts his offence 119% below average. That comes to -0.4 dbWAR — -6.1 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, 2019.

wRC+-19

wOBA.148

ISO.000

BB%7.3%

WAR-.4

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2019. These four terms sum to -4.8 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2019	21	41	4	2	3	19	.114	.184	.114	.000	.250	7.3%	46.3%	.148	-6.1	-19	-0.4
2018	9	17	2	0	0	6	.118	.118	.176	.059	.182	0.0%	35.3%	.127	-2.6	-34	-0.2
2017	3	8	2	1	0	3	.250	.250	.250	.000	.400	0.0%	37.5%	.219	-0.7	28	-0.0
2016	3	8	0	0	1	3	.000	.125	.000	.000	.000	12.5%	37.5%	.087	-1.5	-60	-0.1
2015	2	5	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	60.0%	.000	-1.3	-124	-0.1

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2022	25	25	102.2	2	8	87	52	84	48	4.56	4.49	1.31	7.4	4.2	115	113	0.5
2021	6	5	19.1	1	1	18	10	21	8	4.66	4.26	1.34	9.8	3.7	109	100	0.2
2019	23	23	119.2	3	9	114	69	143	55	5.19	5.02	1.41	10.8	4.1	115	111	0.5
2018	27	27	148.1	6	8	155	71	162	49	4.31	3.75	1.38	9.8	3.0	104	90	2.2
2017	34	34	201.0	10	12	193	91	249	60	4.07	3.40	1.26	11.1	2.7	93	78	4.0
2016	33	33	201.1	9	19	183	90	233	67	4.02	3.81	1.24	10.4	3.0	96	91	2.9
2015	34	34	212.0	12	13	175	76	252	66	3.23	2.90	1.14	10.7	2.8	81	73	4.9

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2019. 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	4	3	1	0	1	0	.333	.500	.333	.396	0.0%
vs RHP	37	33	3	0	2	19	.091	.143	.091	.115	51.4%

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2019. 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	234	204	48	12	27	66	.235	.333	.466	.340	28.2%
vs RHB	292	254	66	13	28	77	.260	.332	.457	.334	26.4%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2019.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 9 tracked batted balls in 2019. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 83.4
Max exit velo: 103.6
Hard hit: 11.1%
Sweet spot: 33.3%
Launch angle: 2.6°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity83.4 mph

Hard hit rate11.1%

Contact rate60.0%

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, 2019.

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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 .252.

Situational hitting

How Chris Archer 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	41	—	—	—	—	—	—	.114	.184	.114	.148
Bases empty · thin	20	18	2	0	0	2	10	.111	.200	.111	.158
Runner on first · thin	7	6	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000
Runners on · thin	21	18	2	0	2	1	9	.111	.158	.111	.129
RISP · thin	14	12	2	0	2	1	5	.167	.231	.167	.189

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, 2019.

Pitch sequencing

What Chris Archer 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 2019.


Four-Seam Fastball	39.6%	831	94.1	2,263	48.4%	18.7%
Slider	35.6%	746	88.7	2,613	51.1%	42.7%
Changeup	12.1%	253	87.7	1,641	38.3%	29.5%
Sinker	10.7%	225	93.9	2,239	43.6%	10.3%
Curveball	2.0%	42	82.3	2,677	52.4%	28.6%

Chris Archer'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.