P · 2019
Oliver Drake
- Age
- 33
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 4"
- Weight
- 220 lb
- Born
- January 13, 1987 in Worcester, MA, USA
- MLB debut
- May 23, 2015
Age shown as of the 2020 season.
- dbWAR
- 2.3 8 season(s)
- PA
- 1
- AVG
- 1.000
- OBP
- 1.000
- SLG
- 1.000
- wRC+
- 488 100 = avg
Oliver Drake is a pitcher for the Tampa Bay Rays. In 2019 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 1 RBI, notching 1 hit across 1 plate appearances in 1 game. His batting average was 1.000, 296.4% higher than the league average of .252. He reached base at a 1.000 clip and slugged 1.000, for an OPS of 2.000, 164.0% higher than the league mark of .758. He averaged 96.2 mph off the bat, hit 100.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 100.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 488 wRC+ puts his offence 388% above average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — +0.5 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 +0.5 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | .000 | 1.000 | 0.0% | 0.0% | .872 | +0.5 | 488 | 0.0 | |
| 2016 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | — | 0.0% | 100.0% | .000 | -0.3 | -119 | -0.0 |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 11 | 0 | 11.0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 5.73 | 5.92 | 1.18 | 5.7 | 4.9 | 129 | 133 | -0.1 | |
| 2019 | 50 | 0 | 56.0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 36 | 20 | 70 | 19 | 3.21 | 3.87 | 0.98 | 11.3 | 3.1 | 71 | 86 | 0.6 | |
| 2018 | 44 | 0 | 47.2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 52 | 28 | 51 | 17 | 5.29 | 3.24 | 1.45 | 9.6 | 3.2 | 127 | 78 | 0.7 | |
| 2017 | 64 | 0 | 56.0 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 63 | 29 | 62 | 25 | 4.66 | 3.68 | 1.57 | 10.0 | 4.0 | 107 | 84 | 0.7 | |
| 2016 | 14 | 0 | 18.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 8 | 21 | 7 | 4.00 | 3.42 | 1.00 | 10.5 | 3.5 | 95 | 82 | 0.2 | |
| 2015 | 13 | 0 | 15.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 5 | 17 | 9 | 2.87 | 3.52 | 1.60 | 9.8 | 5.2 | 73 | 89 | 0.2 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | .872 | 0.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 104 | 102 | 15 | 1 | 2 | 33 | .147 | .163 | .196 | .156 | 31.7% |
| vs RHB | 115 | 97 | 21 | 8 | 17 | 37 | .216 | .339 | .526 | .361 | 32.2% |
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 1 tracked batted balls in 2019. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 96.2 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 96.2 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 100.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -1.0° 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 Oliver Drake 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 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | .872 |
| Runners on · thin | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | .872 |
| RISP · thin | 1 | 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 Oliver Drake 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.
| Splitter | 559 | 84.0 | 1,089 | 52.4% | 37.5% | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 381 | 93.5 | 2,145 | 50.9% | 33.5% |
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.