P · 2016
Brett Oberholtzer
- Age
- 27
- B/T
- L/L
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 225 lb
- Number
- #39
- Born
- July 1, 1989 in Christiana, DE, USA
- MLB debut
- April 21, 2013
- dbWAR
- -1.0 4 season(s)
- PA
- 7
- AVG
- .143
- OBP
- .143
- SLG
- .143
- wRC+
- -34 100 = avg
Brett Oberholtzer is a pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies. In 2016 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 7 plate appearances in 7 games. His batting average was .143, 44.1% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .143 clip and slugged .143, for an OPS of .286, 61.3% lower than the league mark of .739. He averaged 84.8 mph off the bat, hit 25.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 80.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -34 wRC+ puts his offence 134% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -1.1 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 -0.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .143 | .143 | .143 | .000 | .200 | 0.0% | 28.6% | .125 | -1.1 | -34 | -0.1 | |
| 2015 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 1.000 | — | — | — | 33.3% | 0.0% | .712 | +0.9 | 386 | 0.1 |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 37 | 2 | 70.1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 85 | 46 | 54 | 29 | 5.89 | 6.22 | 1.62 | 6.9 | 3.7 | 140 | 148 | -1.2 | |
| 2015 | 8 | 8 | 38.1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 44 | 19 | 27 | 17 | 4.46 | 4.49 | 1.59 | 6.3 | 4.0 | 113 | 113 | 0.2 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% |
| vs RHP | 6 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .167 | .167 | .167 | .146 | 33.3% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 108 | 101 | 28 | 6 | 7 | 20 | .277 | .324 | .505 | .357 | 18.5% |
| vs RHB | 213 | 188 | 57 | 12 | 22 | 34 | .303 | .377 | .574 | .405 | 16.0% |
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 4 tracked batted balls in 2016. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 84.8 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 102.4 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 25.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -30.0° 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, 2016.
Situational hitting
How Brett Oberholtzer 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 | 7 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .143 | .143 | .143 | .125 |
| Bases empty · thin | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runner on first · thin | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | .877 |
| Runners on · thin | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .500 | .500 | .500 | .439 |
| RISP · 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, 2016.
Pitch sequencing
What Brett Oberholtzer 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 | 389 | 89.1 | 2,288 | 48.3% | 9.5% | |
| Changeup | 343 | 79.9 | 1,625 | 46.6% | 30.0% | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 317 | 89.0 | 2,241 | 46.7% | 10.6% | |
| Slider | 86 | 81.7 | 1,138 | 34.9% | 29.7% | |
| Knuckle Curve | 79 | 78.4 | 403 | 39.2% | 20.7% |
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.