C · 2015
Carson Blair
- Age
- 26
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 2"
- Weight
- 210 lb
- Born
- October 18, 1989 in Carrollton, TX, USA
- MLB debut
- September 6, 2015
- dbWAR
- -.1 1 season(s)
- PA
- 35
- AVG
- .129
- OBP
- .229
- SLG
- .226
- wRC+
- 30 100 = avg
Carson Blair is a catcher for the Oakland Athletics. In 2015 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 3 RBIs, notching 4 hits across 35 plate appearances in 11 games. His batting average was .129, 49.3% lower than the league average of .254. He reached base at a .229 clip and slugged .226, for an OPS of .454, 37.0% lower than the league mark of .721. He averaged 90.2 mph off the bat, hit 33.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 11.1% of them and made contact on 56.1% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 30 wRC+ puts his offence 70% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -2.8 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, +0.7 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 -0.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | 35 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 18 | .129 | .229 | .226 | .097 | .250 | 11.4% | 51.4% | .217 | -2.8 | 30 | -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 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | .091 | .231 | .364 | .270 | 46.2% |
| vs RHP | 22 | 20 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 12 | .150 | .227 | .150 | .185 | 54.5% |
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 9 tracked batted balls in 2015. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 11.1% 1 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 90.2 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 105.6 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 33.3% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 44.4% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -0.4° 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, 2015.
Situational hitting
How Carson Blair 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 | 35 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .129 | .229 | .226 | .217 |
| Bases empty · thin | 24 | 22 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 14 | .091 | .167 | .227 | .183 |
| Runner on first · thin | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .000 | .200 | .000 | .142 |
| Runners on · thin | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | .222 | .364 | .222 | .290 |
| RISP · thin | 6 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | .400 | .500 | .400 | .412 |
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.