CF · 2017
Billy Burns
- Age
- 28
- B/T
- S/R
- Height
- 5' 9"
- Weight
- 170 lb
- Number
- #1
- Born
- August 30, 1989 in Atlanta, GA, USA
- MLB debut
- July 28, 2014
- dbWAR
- 1.8 3 season(s)
- PA
- 6
- AVG
- .167
- OBP
- .167
- SLG
- .167
- wRC+
- -23 100 = avg
Billy Burns is a center fielder for the Kansas City Royals. In 2017 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 6 plate appearances in 5 games. His batting average was .167, 34.6% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .167 clip and slugged .167, for an OPS of .333, 55.6% lower than the league mark of .750. He averaged 70.3 mph off the bat and made contact on 85.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -23 wRC+ puts his offence 123% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -0.9 runs with the bat, -0.4 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, 2017.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2017. These four terms sum to -1.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .167 | .167 | .167 | .000 | .200 | 0.0% | 16.7% | .146 | -0.9 | -23 | -0.1 | |
| 2016 | 89 | 332 | 73 | 0 | 13 | 17 | 10 | 37 | .235 | .271 | .296 | .061 | .264 | 3.0% | 11.1% | .248 | -19.4 | 53 | -0.6 | |
| 2015 | 124 | 555 | 153 | 5 | 42 | 26 | 26 | 81 | .294 | .334 | .392 | .098 | .339 | 4.7% | 14.6% | .320 | +1.3 | 104 | 2.5 |
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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 50.0% |
| vs RHP | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .219 | 0.0% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2017.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 5 tracked batted balls in 2017. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 70.3 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 84.2 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 26.4° 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, 2017.
Situational hitting
How Billy Burns 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 | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .167 | .167 | .167 | .146 |
| Bases empty · thin | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .291 |
| Runner on first · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| RISP · thin | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
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, 2017.
Head to head
Put Billy Burns beside up to three others.
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.