PH · 2017
Chad Huffman
- Age
- 32
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 215 lb
- Number
- #24
- Born
- April 29, 1985 in Houston, TX, USA
- MLB debut
- June 13, 2010
- dbWAR
- .0 1 season(s)
- PA
- 15
- AVG
- .286
- OBP
- .333
- SLG
- .429
- wRC+
- 107 100 = avg
Chad Huffman is a position player for the St. Louis Cardinals. In 2017 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 4 hits across 15 plate appearances in 12 games. His batting average was .286, 12.1% higher than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .333 clip and slugged .429, for an OPS of .762, 1.5% higher than the league mark of .750. He averaged 84.0 mph off the bat, hit 14.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 72.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 107 wRC+ puts his offence 7% above average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — +0.1 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, -0.4 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, 2017.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2017. These four terms sum to +0.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 12 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | .286 | .333 | .429 | .143 | .500 | 6.7% | 40.0% | .330 | +0.1 | 107 | 0.0 | — |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 6 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .333 | .333 | .667 | .415 | 33.3% |
| vs RHP | 9 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | .250 | .333 | .250 | .273 | 44.4% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2017.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 7 tracked batted balls in 2017. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 84.0 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 104.1 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 14.3% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 42.9% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 7.0° 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, 2017.
Situational hitting
How Chad Huffman 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 | 15 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .286 | .333 | .429 | .330 |
| Bases empty · thin | 11 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | .400 | .455 | .600 | .450 |
| Runner on first · thin | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .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, 2017.
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.