Players · B · C · 2025

Rob Brantly

Age: 36
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 190 lb

Born: July 14, 1989 in San Diego, CA, United States
MLB debut: August 14, 2012
Drafted: 2008, round 46
College: UC Riverside
High school: Chaparral

dbWAR: -.3
PA: 7
AVG: .429
OBP: .429
SLG: .429
wRC+: 152

Rob Brantly was 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 for the ballpark, -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.

wRC+152

wOBA.380

ISO.000

BB%0.0%

WAR.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2025. These terms sum to +0.7 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2025	MIA	3	7	3	0	1	0	1	.429	.429	.429	.000	.500	0.0%	14.3%	.380	+0.4	152	0.1
2024	TB	3	9	1	0	0	0	2	.111	.111	.111	.000	.143	0.0%	22.2%	.099	-1.6	-50	-0.1
2022	NYY	1	3	1	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.667	.333	.333	0.0%	0.0%	.426	+0.3	181	0.0
2021	NYY	6	21	3	0	0	0	4	.150	.190	.200	.050	.188	0.0%	19.0%	.179	-2.4	4	-0.1
2020	SF	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.8	-119	-0.1
2019	PHI	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.3	-117	-0.0
2017	CWS	12	36	9	2	5	3	14	.290	.389	.516	.226	.467	8.3%	38.9%	.391	+2.0	146	0.3
2015	CWS	12	36	4	1	6	2	8	.121	.167	.242	.121	.120	5.6%	22.2%	.182	-3.8	5	-0.2

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2017	CWS	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	9.00	16.16	1.00	0.0	0.0	207	371	-0.1	—

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2025. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
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%
Exit velocity: 79.6
Max exit velo: 95.1
Hard hit: 16.7%
Sweet spot: 33.3%
Launch angle: 26.2°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity79.6 mph

Hard hit rate16.7%

Contact rate53.3%

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.

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 .245.

Situational hitting

How Rob Brantly 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.
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.

Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.


Curveball	100.0%	12	65.7	1,626	25.0%	0.0%	4	—	—

Rob Brantly'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. BAA and OPS are what hitters did against each pitch, credited to the one that ended the plate appearance, and are left blank under 15 at-bats.

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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.