P · 2018

Héctor Santiago

Chicago White Sox American League CentralP

Age: 34
B/T: R/L
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 215 lb

Born: December 16, 1987 in Newark, NJ, USA
MLB debut: July 6, 2011

Age shown as of the 2021 season.

dbWAR: -1.3
PA: 4
AVG: .000
OBP: .000
SLG: .000
wRC+: -122

Héctor Santiago is a pitcher for the Chicago White Sox. In 2018 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 4 plate appearances in 3 games. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .728. He averaged 75.6 mph off the bat and made contact on 87.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -122 wRC+ puts his offence 222% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -1.0 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, 2018.

wRC+-122

wOBA.000

ISO.000

BB%0.0%

WAR-.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2018. These four terms sum to -0.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

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WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2018	3	4	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-1.0	-122	-0.1
2016	2	3	1	1	.333	.333	.333	.000	.500	0.0%	33.3%	.292	-0.1	82	0.0
2015	3	5	1	3	.200	.200	.200	.000	.500	0.0%	60.0%	.176	-0.6	1	-0.0

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2021	13	1	26.1	1	1	0	27	10	30	11	3.42	3.13	1.44	10.3	3.8	80	73	0.5
2019	19	2	33.2	1	1	0	42	25	40	22	6.68	5.89	1.90	10.7	5.9	148	131	-0.3
2018	49	7	102.0	6	3	2	101	50	103	60	4.41	5.09	1.58	9.1	5.3	106	123	-0.5
2017	15	14	70.1	4	8	0	70	44	51	31	5.63	6.02	1.44	6.5	4.0	129	138	-0.6
2016	33	33	182.0	13	10	0	169	95	144	79	4.70	5.31	1.36	7.1	3.9	112	127	-0.4
2015	33	32	180.2	9	9	0	156	72	162	71	3.59	4.77	1.26	8.1	3.5	91	120	0.2

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2018. 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	4	4	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	50.0%

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2018. 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	105	29	2	28	24	.276	.433	.371	.372	17.9%
vs RHB	326	286	72	14	32	79	.252	.332	.472	.346	24.2%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2018.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 2 tracked batted balls in 2018. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 75.6
Max exit velo: 79.4
Hard hit: 0.0%
Sweet spot: 0.0%
Launch angle: 20.0°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity75.6 mph

Hard hit rate0.0%

Contact rate87.5%

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, 2018.

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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 .247.

Situational hitting

How Héctor Santiago 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	4	—	—	—	—	—	—	.000	.000	.000	.000
Bases empty · thin	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
Runners on · thin	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	.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, 2018.

Pitch sequencing

What Héctor Santiago 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 2018.


Four-Seam Fastball	65.0%	1,275	90.8	2,123	50.9%	22.7%
Changeup	18.5%	363	82.4	1,952	41.6%	18.3%
Curveball	7.4%	145	74.7	2,077	31.7%	12.2%
Slider	3.7%	73	83.5	2,074	31.5%	30.8%
Sinker	3.4%	66	89.0	2,043	54.5%	10.7%
Screwball	1.9%	37	77.5	1,946	40.5%	14.3%

Héctor Santiago'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.