2B · 2021
Wilfredo Tovar
- Age
- 30
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 5' 7"
- Weight
- 180 lb
- Born
- August 11, 1991 in Santa Teresa del Tuy, Venezuela
- MLB debut
- September 22, 2013
- dbWAR
- -.4 2 season(s)
- PA
- 12
- AVG
- .182
- OBP
- .250
- SLG
- .182
- wRC+
- 25 100 = avg
Wilfredo Tovar is a second baseman for the New York Mets. In 2021 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 1 RBI, notching 2 hits across 12 plate appearances in 6 games. His batting average was .182, 25.4% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .250 clip and slugged .182, for an OPS of .432, 40.7% lower than the league mark of .728. He averaged 69.7 mph off the bat and made contact on 62.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 25 wRC+ puts his offence 75% 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, 2021.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2021. 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 6 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | .182 | .250 | .182 | .000 | .286 | 8.3% | 33.3% | .206 | -1.1 | 25 | -0.1 | |
| 2019 | 27 | 88 | 16 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 15 | .193 | .239 | .253 | .060 | .235 | 5.7% | 17.0% | .218 | -7.8 | 29 | -0.4 |
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 | 11 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | .200 | .273 | .200 | .225 | 36.4% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2021.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 7 tracked batted balls in 2021. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 69.7 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 92.6 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 28.6% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -14.4° 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, 2021.
Situational hitting
How Wilfredo Tovar 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 | 12 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .182 | .250 | .182 | .206 |
| Bases empty · thin | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .143 | .250 | .143 | .200 |
| Runner on first · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .219 |
| RISP · thin | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .292 |
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, 2021.
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.