C · 2015
Jackson Williams
- Age
- 29
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 5' 10"
- Weight
- 200 lb
- Number
- #15
- Born
- May 14, 1986 in Tulsa, OK, USA
- MLB debut
- August 27, 2014
- dbWAR
- .1 1 season(s)
- PA
- 14
- AVG
- .200
- OBP
- .429
- SLG
- .300
- wRC+
- 135 100 = avg
Jackson Williams is a catcher for the San Francisco Giants. In 2015 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 1 RBI, notching 2 hits across 14 plate appearances in 5 games. His batting average was .200, 21.4% lower than the league average of .254. He reached base at a .429 clip and slugged .300, for an OPS of .729, 1.0% higher than the league mark of .721. He averaged 83.1 mph off the bat, hit 16.7% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 82.4% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 135 wRC+ puts his offence 35% above average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — +0.5 runs with the bat, +0.2 on the bases, +0.3 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, 2015.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2015. These four terms sum to +1.4 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | .200 | .429 | .300 | .100 | .222 | 28.6% | 7.1% | .357 | +0.5 | 135 | 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 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 33.3% |
| vs RHP | 11 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | .286 | .545 | .429 | .455 | 0.0% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2015.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 6 tracked batted balls in 2015. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 83.1 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 100.5 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 16.7% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 16.7% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 6.5° 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, 2015.
Situational hitting
How Jackson Williams 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 | 14 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .200 | .429 | .300 | .357 |
| Bases empty · thin | 8 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | .167 | .375 | .333 | .337 |
| Runner on first · thin | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 | .333 | .000 | .237 |
| Runners on · thin | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | .250 | .500 | .250 | .384 |
| RISP · thin | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .500 | .667 | .500 | .531 |
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, 2015.
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.