P · 2017

Austin Bibens-Dirkx

Age: 33
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 210 lb

Born: April 29, 1985 in Salem, OR, USA
MLB debut: May 17, 2017

Age shown as of the 2018 season.

dbWAR: -1.0
PA: 3
AVG: .000
OBP: .000
SLG: .000
wRC+: -115

Austin Bibens-Dirkx is a pitcher for the Texas Rangers. In 2017 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 3 plate appearances in 2 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 .750. He made contact on 71.4% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -115 wRC+ puts his offence 215% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -0.8 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, 2017.

wRC+-115

wOBA.000

ISO.000

BB%0.0%

WAR-.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2017. These four terms sum to -0.7 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2017	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.8	-115	-0.1	—

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																			Trend
2018	13	6	45.0	2	3	0	56	31	33	14	6.20	5.56	1.56	6.6	2.8	149	134	-0.4
2017	24	6	69.1	5	2	0	74	36	38	20	4.67	5.68	1.36	4.9	2.6	107	130	-0.6

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2017. 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 RHP	3	3	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	100.0%

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2017. 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	134	119	30	6	12	10	.252	.328	.454	.338	7.5%
vs RHB	165	155	44	8	8	28	.284	.321	.497	.348	17.0%

Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2017.

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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 .254.

Situational hitting

How Austin Bibens-Dirkx 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	3	—	—	—	—	—	—	.000	.000	.000	.000
Bases empty · thin	2	2	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000
Runner on first · thin	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
Runners on · 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.

Pitch sequencing

What Austin Bibens-Dirkx throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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SliderFour-seamChangeupCurveballSinker

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, and how often it misses in 2017.


Slider	29.4%	344	86.6	2,234	43.6%	27.1%
Four-Seam Fastball	28.9%	339	90.5	2,110	36.9%	11.7%
Changeup	16.0%	187	84.6	1,723	34.2%	26.1%
Curveball	13.3%	156	79.7	2,619	40.4%	22.2%
Sinker	12.4%	145	90.0	2,045	37.9%	13.3%

Austin Bibens-Dirkx'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.