P · 2019
Brad Brach
- Age
- 35
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 6"
- Weight
- 215 lb
- Number
- #58
- Born
- April 12, 1986 in Freehold, NJ, USA
- MLB debut
- August 31, 2011
Age shown as of the 2021 season.
- dbWAR
- 4.3 8 season(s)
- PA
- 5
- AVG
- .250
- OBP
- .250
- SLG
- .250
- wRC+
- 30 100 = avg
Brad Brach is a pitcher for the Chicago Cubs. In 2019 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 1 RBI, notching 1 hit across 5 plate appearances in 5 games. His batting average was .250, 0.9% lower than the league average of .252. He reached base at a .250 clip and slugged .250, for an OPS of .500, 34.0% lower than the league mark of .758. He averaged 88.9 mph off the bat, hit 33.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 62.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 30 wRC+ puts his offence 70% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -0.4 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, 2019.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2019. These four terms sum to -0.3 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .000 | .333 | 0.0% | 20.0% | .218 | -0.4 | 30 | -0.0 | — |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 35 | 0 | 30.0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 30 | 21 | 33 | 18 | 6.30 | 5.04 | 1.60 | 9.9 | 5.4 | 148 | 118 | -0.1 | |
| 2020 | 14 | 0 | 12.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 14 | 14 | 5.84 | 6.68 | 1.78 | 10.2 | 10.2 | 131 | 150 | -0.2 | |
| 2019 | 58 | 0 | 54.1 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 57 | 33 | 60 | 31 | 5.47 | 3.73 | 1.62 | 9.9 | 5.1 | 121 | 83 | 0.7 | |
| 2018 | 69 | 0 | 62.2 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 72 | 25 | 60 | 28 | 3.59 | 3.67 | 1.60 | 8.6 | 4.0 | 87 | 88 | 0.7 | |
| 2017 | 67 | 0 | 68.0 | 4 | 5 | 18 | 51 | 24 | 70 | 26 | 3.18 | 3.58 | 1.13 | 9.3 | 3.4 | 73 | 82 | 0.9 | |
| 2016 | 71 | 0 | 79.0 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 57 | 18 | 92 | 25 | 2.05 | 2.92 | 1.04 | 10.5 | 2.8 | 49 | 70 | 1.5 | |
| 2015 | 62 | 0 | 79.1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 57 | 24 | 89 | 38 | 2.72 | 3.47 | 1.20 | 10.1 | 4.3 | 69 | 88 | 0.9 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 50.0% |
| vs RHP | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .291 | 0.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 86 | 72 | 29 | 2 | 13 | 8 | .403 | .500 | .639 | .476 | 9.3% |
| vs RHB | 156 | 133 | 28 | 2 | 18 | 52 | .211 | .297 | .278 | .258 | 33.3% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2019.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 3 tracked batted balls in 2019. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 88.9 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 95.3 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 33.3% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 66.7% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 7.0° 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, 2019.
Situational hitting
How Brad Brach 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 | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .250 | .250 | .250 | .218 |
| Bases empty · thin | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runner on first · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .500 | .436 |
| RISP · thin | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | .872 |
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, 2019.
Pitch sequencing
What Brad Brach throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.
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Pitch arsenal
What he throws, how hard, and how often it misses in 2019.
| Four-Seam Fastball | 475 | 94.1 | 2,209 | 53.7% | 25.3% | |
| Slider | 193 | 85.4 | 2,509 | 39.4% | 32.0% | |
| Changeup | 188 | 86.6 | 1,870 | 44.1% | 28.4% | |
| Cutter | 79 | 91.0 | 2,389 | 51.9% | 30.2% | |
| Sinker | 62 | 92.5 | 2,117 | 35.5% | 17.4% |
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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.