P · 2017

A.J. Schugel

Pittsburgh Pirates National League CentralP

Age: 28
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 195 lb
Number: #65

Born: June 27, 1989 in Winter Haven, FL, USA
MLB debut: April 12, 2015

dbWAR: .8
PA: 2
AVG: .000
OBP: .500
SLG: .000
wRC+: 123

A.J. Schugel is a pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates. In 2017 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 2 plate appearances in 2 games. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .500 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .500, 33.4% lower than the league mark of .750. He averaged 95.2 mph off the bat, hit 100.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 100.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 123 wRC+ puts his offence 23% above average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — +0.1 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, 2017.

wRC+123

wOBA.355

ISO.000

BB%50.0%

WAR.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2017. These four terms sum to +0.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2017	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.500	.000	.000	.000	50.0%	0.0%	.355	+0.1	123	0.0
2016	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	33.3%	.000	-0.8	-117	-0.1

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2017	32	32.0	4	0	0	31	7	27	14	1.97	4.00	1.41	7.6	3.9	45	92	0.3
2016	36	52.0	2	2	1	41	21	46	13	3.63	3.18	1.04	8.0	2.3	87	76	0.8
2015	5	9.0	0	0	0	17	5	5	5	5.00	6.58	2.44	5.0	5.0	126	166	-0.2

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2017. 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 RHP	2	1	0	0	1	0	.000	.500	.000	.355	0.0%

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2017. 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	54	44	11	1	9	5	.250	.370	.409	.339	9.3%
vs RHB	82	76	20	2	5	22	.263	.309	.382	.297	26.8%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2017.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 1 tracked batted balls in 2017. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 95.2
Max exit velo: 95.2
Hard hit: 100.0%
Sweet spot: 0.0%
Launch angle: -3.0°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity95.2 mph

Hard hit rate100.0%

Contact rate100.0%

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, 2017.

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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 .254.

Situational hitting

How A.J. Schugel 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	2	—	—	—	—	—	—	.000	.500	.000	.355
Bases empty · thin	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	—	1.000	—	.710
Runners on · thin	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
RISP · thin	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	.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, 2017.

Pitch sequencing

What A.J. Schugel 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 2017.


Sinker	46.6%	231	91.8	2,148	43.3%	10.3%
Changeup	36.5%	181	81.1	1,841	44.8%	29.2%
Four-Seam Fastball	8.3%	41	91.9	2,139	36.6%	11.8%
Curveball	5.0%	25	76.1	2,442	52.0%	20.0%
Unknown	3.6%	18	—	—	50.0%	25.0%

A.J. Schugel'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.