2B · 2021

Adrián Sanchez

Washington Nationals National League East2B

Age: 31
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 197 lb
Number: #9

Born: August 16, 1990 in Maracaibo, VEN
MLB debut: June 30, 2017

dbWAR: -.3
PA: 38
AVG: .257
OBP: .316
SLG: .314
wRC+: 70

Adrián Sanchez is a second baseman for the Washington Nationals. In 2021 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 1 RBI, notching 9 hits across 38 plate appearances in 13 games. His batting average was .257, 5.5% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .316 clip and slugged .314, for an OPS of .630, 13.4% lower than the league mark of .728. He averaged 79.7 mph off the bat, hit 19.4% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 84.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 70 wRC+ puts his offence 30% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -1.4 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, 2021.

wRC+70

wOBA.273

ISO.057

BB%7.9%

WAR-.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2021. These four terms sum to -0.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2021	13	38	9	1	3	4	.257	.316	.314	.057	.290	7.9%	10.5%	.273	-1.4	70	-0.0
2019	25	32	7	1	1	10	.226	.250	.226	.000	.333	3.1%	31.3%	.213	-3.0	25	-0.2
2018	26	59	16	3	1	8	.276	.288	.345	.069	.320	1.7%	13.6%	.278	-1.9	69	-0.0
2017	30	75	19	11	1	25	.268	.288	.366	.099	.413	1.3%	33.3%	.285	-2.5	72	-0.1

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2021. 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 LHP	10	8	1	0	2	1	.125	.300	.125	.178	10.0%
vs RHP	29	28	8	0	1	4	.286	.310	.357	.293	13.8%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2021.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 31 tracked batted balls in 2021. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 79.7
Max exit velo: 104.9
Hard hit: 19.4%
Sweet spot: 32.3%
Launch angle: 10.3°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity79.7 mph

Hard hit rate19.4%

Contact rate84.7%

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, 2021.

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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 .243.

Situational hitting

How Adrián Sanchez 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	38	—	—	—	—	—	—	.257	.316	.314	.273
Bases empty · thin	24	24	6	0	0	0	4	.250	.250	.333	.250
Runner on first · thin	10	8	3	0	0	2	0	.375	.500	.375	.408
Runners on · thin	15	12	3	0	1	3	1	.250	.400	.250	.291
RISP · thin	5	4	0	0	1	1	1	.000	.200	.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, 2021.

Head to head

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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.