1B · 2018
Efren Navarro
- Age
- 32
- B/T
- L/L
- Height
- 6' 0"
- Weight
- 210 lb
- Number
- #19
- Born
- May 14, 1986 in Lynwood, CA, USA
- MLB debut
- September 2, 2011
- dbWAR
- -.5 3 season(s)
- PA
- 6
- AVG
- .167
- OBP
- .167
- SLG
- .167
- wRC+
- -19 100 = avg
Efren Navarro is a first baseman for the Chicago Cubs. In 2018 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 6 plate appearances in 4 games. His batting average was .167, 32.8% lower than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .167 clip and slugged .167, for an OPS of .333, 54.2% lower than the league mark of .728. He averaged 95.2 mph off the bat, hit 100.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 60.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -19 wRC+ puts his offence 119% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -0.8 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, -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, 2018.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2018. These four terms sum to -0.8 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .167 | .167 | .167 | .000 | .500 | 0.0% | 66.7% | .146 | -0.8 | -19 | -0.1 | |
| 2017 | 21 | 69 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 21 | .230 | .319 | .377 | .148 | .316 | 11.6% | 30.4% | .303 | -1.2 | 81 | -0.1 | |
| 2015 | 33 | 88 | 21 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 16 | .253 | .295 | .301 | .048 | .313 | 5.7% | 18.2% | .264 | -3.7 | 65 | -0.3 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs RHP | 6 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .167 | .167 | .167 | .146 | 66.7% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2018.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 1 tracked batted balls in 2018. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 95.2 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 95.2 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 100.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 100.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 21.0° 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, 2018.
Situational hitting
How Efren Navarro 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 | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .167 | .167 | .167 | .146 |
| Bases empty · thin | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .500 | .500 | .500 | .439 |
| Runner on first · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| RISP · thin | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .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.
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.