P · 2016
Paul Clemens
- Age
- 28
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 3"
- Weight
- 215 lb
- Number
- #56
- Born
- February 14, 1988 in Columbia, SC, USA
- MLB debut
- April 9, 2013
- dbWAR
- -1.0 2 season(s)
- PA
- 23
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .045
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- -96 100 = avg
Paul Clemens is a pitcher for the San Diego Padres. In 2016 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 23 plate appearances in 14 games. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .045 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .045, 93.8% lower than the league mark of .739. He averaged 77.2 mph off the bat and made contact on 61.4% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -96 wRC+ puts his offence 196% below average. That comes to -0.5 dbWAR — -5.3 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, 2016.
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
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 14 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11 | .000 | .045 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 4.3% | 47.8% | .032 | -5.3 | -96 | -0.5 | — |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 18 | 14 | 71.1 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 72 | 32 | 53 | 31 | 4.04 | 5.68 | 1.44 | 6.7 | 3.9 | 96 | 136 | -0.6 | — |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 66.7% |
| vs RHP | 20 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | .000 | .053 | .000 | .037 | 45.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 131 | 112 | 21 | 4 | 17 | 29 | .188 | .305 | .357 | .299 | 22.1% |
| vs RHB | 183 | 163 | 51 | 10 | 14 | 24 | .313 | .368 | .558 | .395 | 13.1% |
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 6 tracked batted balls in 2016. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 77.2 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 93.0 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 3.3° 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 Paul Clemens 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 | 23 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .000 | .045 | .000 | .032 |
| Bases empty · thin | 14 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | .000 | .071 | .000 | .050 |
| Runner on first · thin | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 9 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| RISP · thin | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .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.
Pitch sequencing
What Paul Clemens 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 2016.
| Sinker | 744 | 91.8 | 2,414 | 45.3% | 14.4% | |
| Curveball | 371 | 74.2 | 1,893 | 38.0% | 26.8% | |
| Changeup | 50 | 83.5 | 1,653 | 24.0% | 12.5% | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 31 | 91.9 | 2,314 | 54.8% | 7.1% |
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.