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RF · 2021

Josh Reddick

Age
34
B/T
L/R
Height
6' 2"
Weight
197 lb
Born
February 19, 1987 in Savannah, GA, USA
MLB debut
July 31, 2009
dbWAR
7.7
8 season(s)
PA
158
AVG
.258
OBP
.285
SLG
.371
wRC+
76
100 = avg

Josh Reddick is a right fielder for the Arizona Diamondbacks. In 2021 he hit 2 home runs and knocked in 21 RBIs, notching 39 hits across 158 plate appearances in 54 games. His batting average was .258, 5.9% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .285 clip and slugged .371, for an OPS of .656, 9.9% lower than the league mark of .728 — 12th of 16 on his team, and 338th of 463 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 85.1 mph off the bat, hit 32.2% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 1.7% of them and made contact on 79.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 76 wRC+ puts his offence 24% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -4.4 runs with the bat, -0.1 on the bases, -1.9 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, 2021.

wRC+76
wOBA.284
ISO.113
BB%3.8%
WAR-.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2021. These four terms sum to -1.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting-4.4Baserunning-0.1Position-1.9Replacement+5.3
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

2.71.3-0.115161718192021

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
202154158392210631.258.285.371.113.3113.8%19.6%.284-4.476-0.1
2020562104642312042.245.316.378.133.2949.5%20.0%.306-2.8920.1
2019140550138145653666.275.319.409.134.2886.5%12.0%.310-6.0890.5
2018130487105174774977.242.318.400.157.25810.1%15.8%.315-1.4980.9
2017132540150138274372.314.363.484.170.3398.0%13.3%.361+16.71322.7
2016113439112103783956.281.345.405.123.3068.9%12.8%.326+1.61081.1
20151495821432077104965.272.333.449.177.2788.4%11.2%.342+11.71202.6

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2021100.2000210113.5027.174.500.013.5316637-0.2

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2021. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP504990111.184.200.245.19522.0%
vs RHP108102302520.294.324.431.32518.5%
Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2021. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB110000.000.000.000.0000.0%
vs RHB432110.667.7502.000.9910.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2021.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 121 tracked batted balls in 2021. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate
1.7%
2 barrels
Exit velocity
85.1
mph average
Max exit velo
104.8
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
32.2%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
40.5%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
16.8°
average
Barrel rate1.7%
Exit velocity85.1 mph
Hard hit rate32.2%
Contact rate79.0%

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, 2021.

.125.125.182.1114 AB.2229 AB4 AB.30813 AB.30813 AB.26715 AB.16712 AB.28025 AB.38513 AB
Below averageLeague averageAbove average
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 .243.

Situational hitting

How Josh Reddick 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.
SituationPAABHHRRBIBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBA
All situations158.258.285.371.284
Bases empty90852000515.235.278.329.268
Runner on first · thin242481605.333.333.542.370
Runners on686619221116.288.294.424.305
RISP444211115111.262.273.357.269

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, 2021.

Pitch sequencing

What Josh Reddick 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 2021.

Fastball94.1%1663.51,23843.8%0.0%
Josh Reddick'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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Nearest 2021 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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.