P · 2019

Jeff Samardzija

San Francisco Giants National League WestP

Age: 35
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 233 lb

Born: January 23, 1985 in Merrillville, IN, USA
MLB debut: July 25, 2008

Age shown as of the 2020 season.

dbWAR: 6.4
PA: 56
AVG: .120
OBP: .120
SLG: .160
wRC+: -41

Jeff Samardzija is a pitcher for the San Francisco Giants. In 2019 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 1 RBI, notching 6 hits across 56 plate appearances in 29 games. His batting average was .120, 52.4% lower than the league average of .252. He reached base at a .120 clip and slugged .160, for an OPS of .280, 63.0% lower than the league mark of .758. He averaged 82.9 mph off the bat, hit 35.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 56.1% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -41 wRC+ puts his offence 141% below average. That comes to -0.7 dbWAR — -9.8 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+-41

wOBA.118

ISO.040

BB%0.0%

WAR-.7

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2019. These four terms sum to -7.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2019	29	56	6	0	1	0	30	.120	.120	.160	.040	.300	0.0%	53.6%	.118	-9.8	-41	-0.7
2018	7	11	1	0	0	0	6	.100	.100	.100	.000	.250	0.0%	54.5%	.088	-2.1	-59	-0.2
2017	31	67	6	1	2	0	25	.094	.094	.172	.078	.132	0.0%	37.3%	.112	-11.9	-48	-0.9
2016	31	69	10	0	9	1	28	.156	.164	.234	.078	.263	1.4%	40.6%	.170	-8.3	-2	-0.6
2015	1	2	1	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	.000	1.000	0.0%	50.0%	.441	+0.2	192	0.0

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2020	4	4	16.2	0	2	21	18	6	4	9.72	9.01	1.50	3.2	2.2	218	202	-0.7
2019	32	32	181.1	11	12	152	71	140	49	3.52	4.59	1.11	6.9	2.4	78	102	1.5
2018	10	10	44.2	1	5	47	31	30	26	6.25	5.44	1.63	6.0	5.2	151	131	-0.2
2017	32	32	207.2	9	15	204	102	205	32	4.42	3.61	1.14	8.9	1.4	101	83	3.7
2016	32	32	203.1	12	11	190	86	167	54	3.81	3.85	1.20	7.4	2.4	91	92	2.8
2015	32	32	214.0	11	13	228	118	163	49	4.96	4.23	1.29	6.9	2.1	125	107	1.6

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	13	12	1	0	0	5	.083	.083	.167	.101	38.5%
vs RHP	43	38	5	0	0	25	.132	.132	.158	.124	58.1%

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	377	339	79	17	32	75	.233	.303	.454	.317	19.9%
vs RHB	363	338	73	11	17	65	.216	.258	.367	.265	17.9%

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 17 tracked batted balls in 2019. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 82.9
Max exit velo: 107.6
Hard hit: 35.3%
Sweet spot: 29.4%
Launch angle: -0.6°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity82.9 mph

Hard hit rate35.3%

Contact rate56.1%

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 Jeff Samardzija 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	56	—	—	—	—	—	—	.120	.120	.160	.118
Bases empty	30	30	4	0	0	0	19	.133	.133	.200	.139
Runner on first · thin	13	9	1	0	0	0	4	.111	.111	.111	.097
Runners on	26	20	2	0	1	0	11	.100	.100	.100	.087
RISP · thin	13	11	1	0	1	0	7	.091	.091	.091	.079

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 Jeff Samardzija 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	27.6%	830	91.6	2,570	50.8%	20.5%
Cutter	24.8%	746	88.8	2,607	46.0%	16.1%
Sinker	19.3%	579	92.2	2,479	40.4%	11.7%
Slider	18.0%	542	84.6	2,449	46.9%	26.9%
Splitter	7.7%	230	82.3	1,451	42.2%	41.7%
Knuckle Curve	2.5%	74	76.3	2,497	33.8%	17.6%

Jeff Samardzija'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.