
Players · C · RF · 2016 regular season
Collin Cowgill
- Age
- 30
- B/T
- R/L
- Height
- 5' 9"
- Weight
- 190 lb
- Number
- #7
- Born
- May 22, 1986 in Lexington, KY, United States
- MLB debut
- July 26, 2011
- dbWAR
- .1 Regular season, 6 season(s)
- PA
- 14
- AVG
- .083
- OBP
- .214
- SLG
- .083
- wRC+
- -7 100 = avg
Collin Cowgill was a right fielder for the Cleveland Indians. In 2016 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 14 plate appearances in 6 games. His batting average was .083, 67.4% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .214 clip and slugged .083, for an OPS of .298, 59.7% lower than the league mark of .739. He averaged 79.3 mph off the bat and made contact on 65.4% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -7 wRC+ puts his offence 107% below average. That comes to -0.2 dbWAR — -1.8 runs with the bat, -0.0 for the ballpark, -0.0 on the bases, -0.3 on double plays, -0.1 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 regular season.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2016. These terms sum to -1.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.
WAR by season
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | CLE | 6 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | .083 | .214 | .083 | .000 | .200 | 14.3% | 50.0% | .162 | -1.8 | -7 | -0.2 | |
| 2015 | LAA | 37 | 74 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 19 | .188 | .233 | .290 | .101 | .245 | 5.4% | 25.7% | .233 | -4.9 | 43 | -0.4 | |
| 2014 | LAA | 88 | 293 | 65 | 5 | 21 | 4 | 26 | 74 | .250 | .330 | .354 | .104 | .331 | 8.9% | 25.3% | .314 | +0.1 | 103 | 0.9 | |
| 2013 | LAA/NYM | 53 | 162 | 32 | 4 | 16 | 1 | 7 | 42 | .211 | .245 | .349 | .138 | .264 | 4.3% | 25.9% | .264 | -6.6 | 63 | -0.2 | |
| 2012 | OAK | 32 | 116 | 28 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 11 | 27 | .269 | .336 | .317 | .048 | .351 | 9.5% | 23.3% | .298 | -1.9 | 88 | 0.1 | |
| 2011 | AZ | 34 | 100 | 22 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 8 | 28 | .239 | .300 | .304 | .065 | .333 | 8.0% | 28.0% | .273 | -3.6 | 65 | -0.1 |
Separate from the regular season
Postseason Postseason
Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.
Postseason batting
| Season | Team | Round | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | AVG | OBP | SLG | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 Post | AZ | NLDS | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 2.000 |
Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 10 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | .000 | .100 | .000 | .070 | 50.0% |
| vs RHP | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .333 | .500 | .333 | .394 | 50.0% |
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 5 tracked batted balls in 2016. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 79.3 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 88.9 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 60.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 7.2° 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 Collin Cowgill 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 | 14 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .083 | .214 | .083 | .162 |
| Bases empty · thin | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | .143 | .250 | .143 | .197 |
| Runner on first · thin | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | .000 | .167 | .000 | .116 |
| RISP · thin | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .000 | .250 | .000 | .174 |
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.
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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.