RF · 2018

Lonnie Chisenhall

Cleveland Indians American League CentralRF

Age: 30
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 190 lb
Number: #8

Born: October 4, 1988 in Morehead City, NC, USA
MLB debut: June 27, 2011

dbWAR: 3.9
PA: 95
AVG: .321
OBP: .394
SLG: .452
wRC+: 132

Lonnie Chisenhall is a right fielder for the Cleveland Indians. In 2018 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 9 RBIs, notching 27 hits across 95 plate appearances in 28 games. His batting average was .321, 29.6% higher than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .394 clip and slugged .452, for an OPS of .846, 16.3% higher than the league mark of .728. He averaged 84.9 mph off the bat, hit 30.9% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 3.0% of them and made contact on 80.6% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 132 wRC+ puts his offence 32% above average. That comes to 0.6 dbWAR — +4.1 runs with the bat, +0.1 on the bases, -1.2 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, 2018.

wRC+132

wOBA.371

ISO.131

BB%8.4%

WAR.6

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2018. These four terms sum to +6.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2018	28	95	27	1	9	1	8	12	.321	.394	.452	.131	.366	8.4%	12.6%	.371	+4.1	132	0.6
2017	81	270	68	12	53	2	25	55	.288	.360	.521	.233	.326	9.3%	20.4%	.373	+10.9	134	1.6
2016	120	418	110	8	57	6	23	70	.286	.328	.439	.153	.328	5.5%	16.7%	.330	+2.8	100	1.3
2015	106	362	82	7	44	4	23	69	.246	.294	.372	.126	.288	6.4%	19.1%	.291	-7.4	76	0.4

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2018. 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	8	7	2	0	1	2	.286	.375	.429	.358	25.0%
vs RHP	87	77	25	1	7	10	.325	.395	.455	.372	11.5%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2018.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 68 tracked batted balls in 2018. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 3.0%
Exit velocity: 84.9
Max exit velo: 107.5
Hard hit: 30.9%
Sweet spot: 40.3%
Launch angle: 20.7°

Barrel rate3.0%

Exit velocity84.9 mph

Hard hit rate30.9%

Contact rate80.6%

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, 2018.

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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 .247.

Situational hitting

How Lonnie Chisenhall 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	95	—	—	—	—	—	—	.321	.394	.452	.371
Bases empty	56	52	20	1	1	3	7	.385	.429	.538	.422
Runner on first · thin	16	13	2	0	0	2	2	.154	.313	.308	.293
Runners on	39	32	7	0	8	5	5	.219	.342	.313	.294
RISP · thin	23	19	5	0	8	3	3	.263	.364	.316	.295

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, 2018.

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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.