P · 2017
Josh Smoker
- Age
- 30
- B/T
- L/L
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 232 lb
- Born
- November 26, 1988 in Calhoun, GA, USA
- MLB debut
- August 19, 2016
Age shown as of the 2018 season.
- dbWAR
- -.4 5 season(s)
- PA
- 3
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .000
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- -127 100 = avg
Josh Smoker is a pitcher for the New York Mets. In 2017 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 3 plate appearances in 2 games. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .750. He averaged 88.4 mph off the bat and made contact on 62.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -127 wRC+ puts his offence 227% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -0.8 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.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2017. These four terms sum to -0.7 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 66.7% | .000 | -0.8 | -127 | -0.1 | |
| 2016 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | — | 0.0% | 100.0% | .000 | -0.3 | -118 | -0.0 |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 8 | 0 | 7.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 8.59 | 8.48 | 2.45 | 4.9 | 8.6 | 207 | 204 | -0.3 | |
| 2017 | 54 | 0 | 56.1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 64 | 32 | 68 | 32 | 5.11 | 4.92 | 1.70 | 10.9 | 5.1 | 117 | 113 | -0.1 | |
| 2016 | 20 | 0 | 15.1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 8 | 25 | 4 | 4.70 | 4.26 | 1.30 | 14.7 | 2.3 | 112 | 102 | 0.1 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 100.0% |
| vs RHP | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 132 | 114 | 32 | 4 | 14 | 34 | .281 | .366 | .482 | .365 | 25.8% |
| vs RHB | 135 | 113 | 32 | 6 | 18 | 34 | .283 | .381 | .487 | .359 | 25.2% |
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% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 88.4 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 88.4 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -5.0° 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, 2017.
Situational hitting
How Josh Smoker 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 | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Bases empty · 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, 2017.
Pitch sequencing
What Josh Smoker 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.
| Four-Seam Fastball | 585 | 94.6 | 2,192 | 52.5% | 27.0% | |
| Slider | 286 | 80.7 | 2,298 | 40.6% | 37.0% | |
| Splitter | 171 | 84.2 | 1,636 | 43.9% | 36.0% | |
| Sinker | 14 | 93.9 | 2,125 | 28.6% | 0.0% |
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.