P · 2018

Sam Freeman

Age: 33
B/T: R/L
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 180 lb
Number: #71

Born: June 24, 1987 in Houston, TX, USA
MLB debut: June 1, 2012

Age shown as of the 2020 season.

dbWAR: .9
PA: 1
AVG: .000
OBP: .000
SLG: .000
wRC+: -116

Sam Freeman is a pitcher for the Atlanta Braves. In 2018 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 1 plate appearances in 1 game. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .728. He made contact on 66.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -116 wRC+ puts his offence 216% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -0.3 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, 2018.

wRC+-116

wOBA.000

ISO.000

BB%0.0%

WAR-.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2018. These four terms sum to -0.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2018	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.3	-116	-0.0
2017	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-0.5	-123	-0.0

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2020	7	5.0	0	0	2	1	6	7	1.80	4.99	1.80	10.8	12.6	40	112	-0.0
2019	1	2.0	0	0	3	1	0	2	4.50	12.71	2.50	0.0	9.0	100	282	-0.2
2018	63	50.1	3	5	41	24	58	32	4.29	3.66	1.45	10.4	5.7	103	88	0.5
2017	58	60.0	2	0	48	17	59	27	2.55	3.34	1.25	8.8	4.0	59	77	0.9
2016	7	7.2	0	0	13	11	8	9	12.91	7.97	2.87	9.4	10.6	308	190	-0.3
2015	54	38.1	0	0	31	13	40	25	3.05	4.59	1.46	9.4	5.9	77	116	-0.1

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2018. 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	1	1	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	100.0%

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2018. 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 LHB	89	73	17	2	14	27	.233	.360	.370	.331	30.3%
vs RHB	127	106	24	1	18	31	.226	.341	.283	.286	24.4%

Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2018.

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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 .247.

Situational hitting

How Sam Freeman 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	1	—	—	—	—	—	—	.000	.000	.000	.000
Bases empty · thin	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	.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, 2018.

Pitch sequencing

What Sam Freeman 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 2018.


Four-Seam Fastball	38.0%	337	95.2	2,126	46.9%	17.5%
Splitter	24.5%	217	86.0	1,310	46.1%	56.9%
Sinker	22.5%	200	95.0	2,035	43.0%	28.6%
Curveball	14.9%	132	83.1	2,608	51.5%	24.0%

Sam Freeman's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters.

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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.