RF · 2020
César Puello
- Age
- 29
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 2"
- Weight
- 220 lb
- Number
- #75
- Born
- April 1, 1991 in La Romana, Dominican Republic
- MLB debut
- August 9, 2017
- dbWAR
- .4 3 season(s)
- PA
- 11
- AVG
- .375
- OBP
- .500
- SLG
- .375
- wRC+
- 154 100 = avg
César Puello was a right fielder for the Boston Red Sox. In 2020 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 3 hits across 11 plate appearances in 5 games. His batting average was .375, 53.3% higher than the league average of .245. He reached base at a .500 clip and slugged .375, for an OPS of .875, 18.3% higher than the league mark of .740. He averaged 82.8 mph off the bat, hit 42.9% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 85.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 154 wRC+ puts his offence 54% above 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, 2020.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2020. These four terms sum to +1.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 5 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | .375 | .500 | .375 | .000 | .500 | 18.2% | 18.2% | .410 | +0.8 | 154 | 0.1 | |
| 2019 | 43 | 147 | 31 | 4 | 18 | 0 | 10 | 38 | .248 | .356 | .384 | .136 | .325 | 6.8% | 25.9% | .328 | +0.6 | 101 | 0.4 | |
| 2017 | 15 | 39 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 12 | .206 | .308 | .206 | .000 | .318 | 10.3% | 30.8% | .249 | -2.5 | 49 | -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 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 66.7% |
| vs RHP | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .600 | .714 | .600 | .585 | 0.0% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2020.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 7 tracked batted balls in 2020. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 82.8 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 106.9 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 42.9% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -21.7° 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, 2020.
Situational hitting
How César Puello 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 | 11 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .375 | .500 | .375 | .410 |
| Bases empty · thin | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .400 | .500 | .400 | .415 |
| Runner on first · thin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 1.000 | — | .720 |
| Runners on · thin | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .333 | .500 | .333 | .401 |
| RISP · thin | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .295 |
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, 2020.
Head to head
Put César Puello beside up to three others.
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.