P · 2018
Justin Miller
- Age
- 34
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 3"
- Weight
- 225 lb
- Born
- June 13, 1987 in Bakersfield, CA, USA
- MLB debut
- April 18, 2014
Age shown as of the 2021 season.
- dbWAR
- .1 8 season(s)
- PA
- 1
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .000
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- -116 100 = avg
Justin Miller is a pitcher for the Washington Nationals. In 2018 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 1 plate appearances in 1 game. 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 66.0 mph off the bat and made contact on 100.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -116 wRC+ puts his offence 216% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -0.3 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, 2018.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2018. These four terms sum to -0.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 0.0% | .000 | -0.3 | -116 | -0.0 | |
| 2016 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | — | 0.0% | 100.0% | .000 | -0.3 | -106 | -0.0 | |
| 2015 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | — | 0.0% | 66.7% | .000 | -0.8 | -109 | -0.1 |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 23 | 0 | 19.0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 13 | 13 | 6 | 6.16 | 6.49 | 1.37 | 6.2 | 2.8 | 144 | 152 | -0.4 | |
| 2019 | 17 | 0 | 15.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 7 | 11 | 4 | 4.02 | 7.11 | 1.28 | 6.3 | 2.3 | 89 | 158 | -0.3 | |
| 2018 | 51 | 0 | 52.1 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 42 | 21 | 60 | 17 | 3.61 | 4.44 | 1.13 | 10.3 | 2.9 | 87 | 107 | 0.1 | |
| 2016 | 40 | 0 | 42.2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 50 | 27 | 45 | 20 | 5.70 | 4.41 | 1.64 | 9.5 | 4.2 | 136 | 105 | 0.1 | |
| 2015 | 34 | 0 | 33.1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 21 | 15 | 38 | 11 | 4.05 | 2.62 | 0.96 | 10.3 | 3.0 | 102 | 66 | 0.7 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs RHP | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 86 | 73 | 17 | 5 | 9 | 19 | .233 | .329 | .493 | .350 | 22.1% |
| vs RHB | 129 | 120 | 25 | 5 | 8 | 41 | .208 | .256 | .375 | .275 | 31.8% |
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 1 tracked batted balls in 2018. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 66.0 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 66.0 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -3.0° 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, 2018.
Situational hitting
How Justin Miller 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 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runner on first · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .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 Justin Miller 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 | 558 | 93.9 | 2,447 | 53.0% | 29.5% | |
| Slider | 241 | 86.1 | 2,636 | 50.2% | 25.2% | |
| Sinker | 70 | 94.3 | 2,280 | 44.3% | 11.8% | |
| Changeup | 16 | 89.5 | 2,013 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
Head to head
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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.