C · 2025
Rob Brantly
- Age
- 36
- B/T
- L/R
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 190 lb
- Born
- July 14, 1989 in San Diego, CA, USA
- MLB debut
- August 14, 2012
- Drafted
- 2008, round 46
- College
- UC Riverside
- High school
- Chaparral
- dbWAR
- -.0 2 season(s)
- PA
- 7
- AVG
- .429
- OBP
- .429
- SLG
- .429
- wRC+
- 152 100 = avg
Rob Brantly is a catcher for the Miami Marlins. In 2025 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 1 RBI, notching 3 hits across 7 plate appearances in 3 games. His batting average was .429, 74.8% higher than the league average of .245. He reached base at a .429 clip and slugged .429, for an OPS of .857, 19.2% higher than the league mark of .719. He averaged 79.6 mph off the bat, hit 16.7% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 53.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 152 wRC+ puts his offence 52% above average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — +0.4 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, +0.1 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, 2025.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2025. These four terms sum to +0.7 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 7 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .429 | .429 | .429 | .380 | 14.3% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2025.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 6 tracked batted balls in 2025. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 79.6 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 95.1 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 16.7% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 33.3% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 26.2° 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, 2025.
Situational hitting
How Rob Brantly 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 | 7 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .429 | .429 | .429 | .380 |
| Bases empty · thin | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .500 | .500 | .500 | .443 |
| Runner on first · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .295 |
| RISP · thin | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .500 | .443 |
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, 2025.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .429 | .429 | .429 | .000 | .500 | 0.0% | 14.3% | .380 | +0.4 | 152 | 0.1 | |
| 2024 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .111 | .111 | .111 | .000 | .143 | 0.0% | 22.2% | .099 | -1.6 | -50 | -0.1 |
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.