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P · 2021

Richard Bleier

Age
36
B/T
L/L
Height
6' 3"
Weight
238 lb
Born
April 16, 1987 in Miami Beach, FL, USA
MLB debut
May 30, 2016

Age shown as of the 2023 season.

dbWAR
4.0
9 season(s)
PA
1
AVG
OBP
SLG
wRC+
100 = avg

Richard Bleier is a pitcher for the Miami Marlins. In 2021 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 1 plate appearances in 1 game. He averaged 54.4 mph off the bat and made contact on 100.0% of his swings. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — +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.

BB%0.0%
WAR.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2021. These four terms sum to +0.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting+0.0Baserunning+0.0Position+0.0Replacement+0.0
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2021110000000.0%0.0%0.0

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
202327030.210037181655.285.111.374.71.5122118-0.1
202255150.2221632032103.553.271.445.71.890820.7
202168058.032051194462.953.010.986.80.969711.1
202021016.21101441142.162.771.085.92.249620.4
201953155.130465333085.374.191.324.91.3119930.4
201831032.23003671541.932.701.224.11.146650.7
201757063.1210621426131.994.371.183.71.8461000.3
201623023.00002051341.962.671.045.11.647640.5

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2021. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP1000000.0%
Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2021. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB9490191123.211.215.267.20724.5%
vs RHB131122323521.262.305.385.29216.0%

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 1 tracked batted balls in 2021. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate
0.0%
0 barrels
Exit velocity
54.4
mph average
Max exit velo
54.4
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
0.0%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
0.0%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
-77.0°
average
Barrel rate0.0%
Exit velocity54.4 mph
Hard hit rate0.0%
Contact rate100.0%

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.

0 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 .243.

Situational hitting

How Richard Bleier 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 situations1
Runner on first · thin1000000
Runners on · thin1000000

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.

Pitch sequencing

What Richard Bleier throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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SinkerCutterSliderChangeupFour-seam

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, and how often it misses in 2021.

Sinker61.6%42290.01,99049.5%14.6%
Cutter23.2%15987.21,95954.7%24.0%
Slider12.6%8678.92,01438.4%45.0%
Richard Bleier's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters.

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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.