P · 2019
Derek Holland
- Age
- 35
- B/T
- S/L
- Height
- 6' 2"
- Weight
- 223 lb
- Number
- #49
- Born
- October 9, 1986 in Newark, OH, USA
- MLB debut
- April 22, 2009
Age shown as of the 2021 season.
- dbWAR
- -1.7 11 season(s)
- PA
- 16
- AVG
- .071
- OBP
- .133
- SLG
- .071
- wRC+
- -50 100 = avg
Derek Holland is a pitcher for the San Francisco Giants. In 2019 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 16 plate appearances in 12 games. His batting average was .071, 71.7% lower than the league average of .252. He reached base at a .133 clip and slugged .071, for an OPS of .205, 73.0% lower than the league mark of .758. He averaged 64.9 mph off the bat and made contact on 44.4% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -50 wRC+ puts his offence 150% below average. That comes to -0.2 dbWAR — -3.0 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, 2019.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2019. These four terms sum to -2.4 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 12 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10 | .071 | .133 | .071 | .000 | .250 | 6.3% | 62.5% | .106 | -3.0 | -50 | -0.2 | |
| 2018 | 29 | 56 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 33 | .057 | .074 | .075 | .019 | .150 | 1.8% | 58.9% | .069 | -11.3 | -72 | -1.0 | |
| 2017 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | .000 | 1.000 | 0.0% | 0.0% | .874 | +0.5 | 476 | 0.0 | |
| 2016 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .500 | .500 | .500 | .000 | 1.000 | 0.0% | 50.0% | .439 | +0.2 | 171 | 0.0 |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 39 | 1 | 49.2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 58 | 28 | 51 | 20 | 5.07 | 3.96 | 1.57 | 9.2 | 3.6 | 119 | 93 | 0.4 | |
| 2020 | 12 | 5 | 40.2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 42 | 31 | 45 | 15 | 6.86 | 6.14 | 1.40 | 10.0 | 3.3 | 154 | 138 | -0.5 | |
| 2019 | 51 | 8 | 84.1 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 82 | 57 | 82 | 45 | 6.08 | 6.10 | 1.51 | 8.8 | 4.8 | 135 | 135 | -0.9 | |
| 2018 | 36 | 30 | 171.1 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 154 | 68 | 169 | 67 | 3.57 | 3.87 | 1.29 | 8.9 | 3.5 | 86 | 93 | 2.1 | |
| 2017 | 29 | 26 | 135.0 | 7 | 14 | 0 | 156 | 93 | 104 | 75 | 6.20 | 6.45 | 1.71 | 6.9 | 5.0 | 142 | 148 | -1.8 | |
| 2016 | 22 | 20 | 107.1 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 116 | 59 | 67 | 35 | 4.95 | 4.75 | 1.41 | 5.6 | 2.9 | 118 | 113 | 0.4 | |
| 2015 | 10 | 10 | 58.2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 59 | 32 | 41 | 17 | 4.91 | 5.30 | 1.30 | 6.3 | 2.6 | 124 | 134 | -0.3 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 71.4% |
| vs RHP | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | .125 | .222 | .125 | .176 | 55.6% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 114 | 99 | 19 | 1 | 12 | 22 | .192 | .286 | .242 | .246 | 19.3% |
| vs RHB | 262 | 219 | 63 | 19 | 33 | 60 | .288 | .385 | .612 | .410 | 22.9% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2019.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 3 tracked batted balls in 2019. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 64.9 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 83.5 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 15.7° 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, 2019.
Situational hitting
How Derek Holland 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 | 16 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .071 | .133 | .071 | .106 |
| Bases empty · thin | 9 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | .000 | .111 | .000 | .079 |
| Runner on first · thin | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .291 |
| Runners on · thin | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .167 | .167 | .167 | .145 |
| RISP · thin | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .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, 2019.
Pitch sequencing
What Derek Holland 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 2019.
| Sinker | 914 | 92.3 | 2,386 | 46.9% | 18.4% | |
| Slider | 436 | 81.1 | 2,242 | 46.8% | 41.6% | |
| Knuckle Curve | 63 | 77.7 | 2,097 | 54.0% | 33.3% | |
| Changeup | 60 | 83.8 | 1,863 | 26.7% | 22.7% | |
| Unknown | 14 | — | — | 42.9% | 50.0% |
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.