P · 2016
Mike Bolsinger
- Age
- 29
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 215 lb
- Number
- #46
- Born
- January 29, 1988 in McKinney, TX, USA
- MLB debut
- April 14, 2014
Age shown as of the 2017 season.
- dbWAR
- -.6 5 season(s)
- PA
- 9
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .000
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- -124 100 = avg
Mike Bolsinger is a pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2016 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 9 plate appearances in 5 games. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .739. He averaged 88.6 mph off the bat and made contact on 66.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -124 wRC+ puts his offence 224% below average. That comes to -0.2 dbWAR — -2.3 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, 2016.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2016. These four terms sum to -2.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 77.8% | .000 | -2.3 | -124 | -0.2 | |
| 2015 | 21 | 40 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | .026 | .026 | .053 | .026 | .067 | 0.0% | 57.5% | .034 | -9.0 | -102 | -0.8 |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 11 | 5 | 41.1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 48 | 29 | 39 | 27 | 6.31 | 6.28 | 1.81 | 8.5 | 5.9 | 145 | 144 | -0.6 | |
| 2016 | 6 | 6 | 27.2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 33 | 21 | 25 | 9 | 6.83 | 5.82 | 1.52 | 8.1 | 2.9 | 163 | 139 | -0.2 | |
| 2015 | 21 | 21 | 109.1 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 104 | 44 | 98 | 45 | 3.62 | 3.91 | 1.36 | 8.1 | 3.7 | 91 | 99 | 1.2 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 50.0% |
| vs RHP | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 85.7% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 46 | 39 | 13 | 2 | 5 | 10 | .333 | .422 | .538 | .411 | 21.7% |
| vs RHB | 76 | 70 | 20 | 5 | 4 | 15 | .286 | .333 | .543 | .376 | 19.7% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2016.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 1 tracked batted balls in 2016. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 88.6 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 88.6 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -11.0° 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, 2016.
Situational hitting
How Mike Bolsinger 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 | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Bases empty · thin | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runner on first · thin | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| RISP · thin | 2 | 2 | 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, 2016.
Pitch sequencing
What Mike Bolsinger 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 2016.
| Slider | 130 | 79.7 | 959 | 47.7% | 33.3% | |
| Curveball | 129 | 78.9 | 1,249 | 48.8% | 23.7% | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 102 | 87.8 | 1,719 | 46.1% | 12.0% | |
| Cutter | 97 | 87.5 | 1,643 | 37.1% | 18.5% |
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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.