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LF · 2016

Jimmy Paredes

Age
28
B/T
S/R
Height
6' 3"
Weight
230 lb
Number
#41
Born
November 25, 1988 in Haina, Dominican Republic
MLB debut
August 1, 2011
dbWAR
-.2
2 season(s)
PA
167
AVG
.222
OBP
.253
SLG
.367
wRC+
68
100 = avg

Jimmy Paredes is a left fielder for the Philadelphia Phillies. In 2016 he hit 5 home runs and knocked in 19 RBIs, notching 35 hits across 167 plate appearances in 83 games. His batting average was .222, 13.2% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .253 clip and slugged .367, for an OPS of .620, 16.1% lower than the league mark of .739 — 12th of 14 on his team, and 371st of 438 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 90.5 mph off the bat, hit 43.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 7.5% of them and made contact on 65.1% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 68 wRC+ puts his offence 32% below average. That comes to -0.5 dbWAR — -7.0 runs with the bat, -0.5 on the bases, -2.6 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.

wRC+68
wOBA.269
ISO.146
BB%4.2%
WAR-.5

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2016. These four terms sum to -4.5 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting-7.0Baserunning-0.5Position-2.6Replacement+5.6
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

0.3-0.1-0.51516

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
201683167355190748.222.253.367.146.2834.2%28.7%.269-7.068-0.5
20151013841001042419111.275.310.416.140.3694.9%28.9%.317+0.2950.3

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2016. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP44407038.175.227.175.18718.2%
vs RHP123118285440.237.262.432.29932.5%

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 93 tracked batted balls in 2016. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate
7.5%
7 barrels
Exit velocity
90.5
mph average
Max exit velo
110.4
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
43.0%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
30.1%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
6.9°
average
Barrel rate7.5%
Exit velocity90.5 mph
Hard hit rate43.0%
Contact rate65.1%

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.

.233.2145 AB5 AB.25012 AB.30813 AB2 AB.26715 AB.20015 AB.16712 AB
Below averageLeague averageAbove average
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 .255.

Situational hitting

How Jimmy Paredes 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.
SituationPAABHHRRBIBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBA
All situations167.222.253.367.269
Bases empty96931733328.183.208.312.227
Runner on first3431600312.194.265.258.239
Runners on716518216420.277.314.446.327
RISP37341221618.353.361.618.411

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2016.

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Similar players

Nearest 2016 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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.