1B · 2016
Blake Lalli
- Age
- 33
- B/T
- L/R
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 210 lb
- Number
- #50
- Born
- May 12, 1983 in Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- MLB debut
- May 18, 2012
- dbWAR
- -.2 1 season(s)
- PA
- 13
- AVG
- .154
- OBP
- .154
- SLG
- .231
- wRC+
- -6 100 = avg
Blake Lalli is a first baseman for the Atlanta Braves. In 2016 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 1 RBI, notching 2 hits across 13 plate appearances in 10 games. His batting average was .154, 39.8% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .154 clip and slugged .231, for an OPS of .385, 48.0% lower than the league mark of .739. He averaged 90.6 mph off the bat, hit 62.5% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 84.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -6 wRC+ puts his offence 106% below average. That comes to -0.2 dbWAR — -1.6 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, -0.3 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 -1.5 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 10 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .154 | .154 | .231 | .077 | .200 | 0.0% | 23.1% | .165 | -1.6 | -6 | -0.2 | — |
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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .500 | .439 | 0.0% |
| vs RHP | 11 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .091 | .091 | .182 | .115 | 27.3% |
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 8 tracked batted balls in 2016. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 90.6 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 104.8 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 62.5% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 37.5% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 1.8° 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 Blake Lalli 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 | 13 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .154 | .154 | .231 | .165 |
| Bases empty · thin | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .250 | .250 | .500 | .316 |
| Runner on first · thin | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .500 | .500 | .500 | .439 |
| Runners on · thin | 9 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | .111 | .111 | .111 | .097 |
| RISP · thin | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 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.
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.