Players · C · PH · 2023 regular season
Charlie Culberson
- Age
- 34
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 200 lb
- Number
- #11
- Born
- April 10, 1989 in Rome, GA, United States
- MLB debut
- May 13, 2012
- dbWAR
- 1.3 Regular season, 16 season(s)
- PA
- 1
- AVG
- 1.000
- OBP
- 1.000
- SLG
- 1.000
- wRC+
- 481 100 = avg
Charlie Culberson was a position player for the Atlanta Braves. In 2023 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 1 plate appearances in 1 game. His batting average was 1.000, 302.6% higher than the league average of .248. He reached base at a 1.000 clip and slugged 1.000, for an OPS of 2.000, 172.4% higher than the league mark of .734. He averaged 80.8 mph off the bat and made contact on 33.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 481 wRC+ puts his offence 381% above average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — +0.5 runs with the bat, -0.0 for the ballpark, -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, 2023 regular season.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2023. These terms sum to +0.5 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 | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | ATL | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | .000 | 1.000 | 0.0% | 0.0% | .884 | +0.5 | 481 | 0.0 | |
| 2022 | TEX | 57 | 124 | 29 | 2 | 12 | 2 | 5 | 31 | .252 | .283 | .357 | .104 | .329 | 4.0% | 25.0% | .282 | -3.0 | 78 | -0.0 | |
| 2021 | TEX | 87 | 271 | 60 | 5 | 22 | 7 | 17 | 64 | .243 | .296 | .381 | .138 | .307 | 6.3% | 23.6% | .294 | -5.2 | 85 | 0.6 | |
| 2020 | ATL | 6 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .143 | .143 | .286 | .143 | .333 | 0.0% | 57.1% | .177 | -0.9 | 1 | -0.1 | |
| 2019 | ATL | 91 | 144 | 35 | 5 | 20 | 0 | 6 | 44 | .259 | .294 | .437 | .178 | .345 | 4.2% | 30.6% | .308 | -1.8 | 90 | 0.1 | |
| 2018 | ATL | 112 | 322 | 80 | 12 | 45 | 4 | 21 | 85 | .270 | .326 | .466 | .196 | .340 | 6.5% | 26.4% | .338 | +5.3 | 110 | 1.4 | |
| 2017 | LAD | 9 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | .154 | .267 | .231 | .077 | .222 | 13.3% | 26.7% | .238 | -1.1 | 41 | -0.1 | |
| 2016 | LAD | 32 | 68 | 20 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 13 | .299 | .309 | .388 | .090 | .358 | 1.5% | 19.1% | .303 | -1.0 | 92 | 0.2 | |
| 2014 | COL | 88 | 233 | 41 | 3 | 24 | 2 | 12 | 62 | .195 | .253 | .290 | .095 | .259 | 5.2% | 26.6% | .245 | -12.1 | 45 | -0.9 | |
| 2013 | COL | 44 | 104 | 29 | 2 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 23 | .293 | .317 | .404 | .111 | .360 | 3.8% | 22.1% | .315 | -0.2 | 91 | 0.2 | |
| 2012 | SF | 6 | 23 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | .136 | .136 | .136 | .000 | .200 | 0.0% | 30.4% | .121 | -3.6 | -39 | -0.2 |
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 Post | ATL | NLCS | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .667 | .667 | .667 | 1.333 |
| 2018 Post | ATL | NLDS | 4 | 13 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | .167 | .231 | .167 | .397 |
| 2017 Post | LAD | Postseason total | 9 | 18 | 16 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .500 | .471 | .938 | 1.408 |
| NLCS | 4 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .455 | .417 | .818 | 1.235 | ||
| World Series | 5 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .600 | .600 | 1.200 | 1.800 | ||
| 2016 Post | LAD | NLDS | 4 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Career | Postseason total · 4 Octobers | 19 | 41 | 38 | 5 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 0 | .316 | .325 | .500 | .825 |
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 RHP | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | .884 | 0.0% |
No pitching splits recorded for 2023.
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2023.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 1 tracked batted balls in 2023. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 80.8 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 80.8 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -20.0° 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, 2023.
Situational hitting
How Charlie Culberson 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 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | .884 |
| Bases empty · thin | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | .884 |
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, 2023.
Pitch arsenal
What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.
| Fastball | 26 | 89.6 | 2,450 | 38.5% | 8.3% | 6 | — | — |
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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.