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Tomás Telis headshot

PH · 2018

Tomás Telis

Age
27
B/T
S/R
Height
5' 8"
Weight
220 lb
Number
#6
Born
June 18, 1991 in El Tigre, Venezuela
MLB debut
August 25, 2014
dbWAR
-.7
4 season(s)
PA
31
AVG
.207
OBP
.258
SLG
.241
wRC+
41
100 = avg

Tomás Telis is a position player for the Miami Marlins. In 2018 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 1 RBI, notching 6 hits across 31 plate appearances in 22 games. His batting average was .207, 16.6% lower than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .258 clip and slugged .241, for an OPS of .499, 31.4% lower than the league mark of .728. He averaged 85.2 mph off the bat, hit 15.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 85.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 41 wRC+ puts his offence 59% below average. That comes to -0.2 dbWAR — -2.2 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, -0.5 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, 2018.

wRC+41
wOBA.228
ISO.034
BB%6.5%
WAR-.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2018. These four terms sum to -1.8 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting-2.2Baserunning-0.0Position-0.5Replacement+1.0
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

0.1-0.1-0.415161718

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
20182231601028.207.258.241.034.2866.5%25.8%.228-2.241-0.2
20174711125090310.240.279.346.106.2632.7%9.0%.274-4.768-0.3
2016913414002.308.308.538.231.3000.0%15.4%.362+0.41340.1
20152241602014.158.220.158.000.1762.4%9.8%.169-4.8-4-0.4

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2018. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP660002.000.000.000.00033.3%
vs RHP25236026.261.320.304.28324.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2018.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 20 tracked batted balls in 2018. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate
0.0%
0 barrels
Exit velocity
85.2
mph average
Max exit velo
96.9
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
15.0%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
30.0%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
8.8°
average
Barrel rate0.0%
Exit velocity85.2 mph
Hard hit rate15.0%
Contact rate85.2%

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, 2018.

.1252 AB1 AB3 AB2 AB2 AB1 AB2 AB1 AB
Below averageLeague averageAbove average
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 .247.

Situational hitting

How Tomás Telis 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.
SituationPAABHHRRBIBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBA
All situations31.207.258.241.228
Bases empty · thin171630014.188.235.250.220
Runner on first · thin4410002.250.250.250.220
Runners on · thin141330114.231.286.231.239
RISP · thin10920112.222.300.222.246

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, 2018.

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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.