P · 2018
Brad Hand
- Age
- 33
- B/T
- L/L
- Height
- 6' 3"
- Weight
- 224 lb
- Number
- #52
- Born
- March 20, 1990 in Minneapolis, MN, USA
- MLB debut
- June 7, 2011
Age shown as of the 2023 season.
- dbWAR
- 7.1 13 season(s)
- PA
- 1
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .000
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- -119 100 = avg
Brad Hand is a pitcher for the San Diego Padres. In 2018 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 1 plate appearances in 1 game. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .728. He averaged 97.1 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 -119 wRC+ puts his offence 219% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -0.3 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, 2018.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2018. These four terms sum to -0.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 0.0% | .000 | -0.3 | -119 | -0.0 | |
| 2017 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 0.0% | .000 | -0.5 | -128 | -0.0 | |
| 2016 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 20.0% | .000 | -1.3 | -117 | -0.1 | |
| 2015 | 12 | 23 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | .118 | .118 | .118 | .000 | .167 | 0.0% | 21.7% | .104 | -3.9 | -51 | -0.3 |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 60 | 0 | 53.2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 54 | 33 | 59 | 22 | 5.53 | 4.02 | 1.42 | 9.9 | 3.7 | 128 | 93 | 0.4 | |
| 2022 | 55 | 0 | 45.0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 37 | 14 | 38 | 23 | 2.80 | 3.93 | 1.33 | 7.6 | 4.6 | 71 | 99 | 0.3 | |
| 2021 | 68 | 0 | 64.2 | 6 | 7 | 21 | 56 | 28 | 61 | 26 | 3.90 | 4.58 | 1.27 | 8.5 | 3.6 | 91 | 107 | 0.1 | |
| 2020 | 23 | 0 | 22.0 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 13 | 5 | 29 | 4 | 2.05 | 1.37 | 0.77 | 11.9 | 1.6 | 46 | 31 | 0.8 | |
| 2019 | 60 | 0 | 57.1 | 6 | 4 | 34 | 53 | 21 | 84 | 18 | 3.30 | 2.80 | 1.24 | 13.2 | 2.8 | 73 | 62 | 1.3 | |
| 2018 | 69 | 0 | 72.0 | 2 | 5 | 32 | 52 | 22 | 106 | 28 | 2.75 | 3.20 | 1.11 | 13.3 | 3.5 | 66 | 77 | 1.1 | |
| 2017 | 72 | 0 | 79.1 | 3 | 4 | 21 | 54 | 19 | 104 | 20 | 2.16 | 3.03 | 0.93 | 11.8 | 2.3 | 49 | 70 | 1.5 | |
| 2016 | 82 | 0 | 89.1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 63 | 29 | 111 | 36 | 2.92 | 3.07 | 1.11 | 11.2 | 3.6 | 70 | 73 | 1.6 | |
| 2015 | 38 | 12 | 93.1 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 107 | 55 | 67 | 32 | 5.30 | 4.08 | 1.49 | 6.5 | 3.1 | 134 | 103 | 0.5 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 112 | 103 | 16 | 3 | 7 | 48 | .155 | .216 | .320 | .238 | 42.9% |
| vs RHB | 189 | 159 | 36 | 5 | 21 | 58 | .226 | .346 | .384 | .326 | 30.7% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2018.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 1 tracked batted balls in 2018. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 97.1 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 97.1 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 100.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -26.0° 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, 2018.
Situational hitting
How Brad Hand 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 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| RISP · thin | 1 | 1 | 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, 2018.
Pitch sequencing
What Brad Hand 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 2018.
| Sweeper | 636 | 82.0 | 2,584 | 53.3% | 40.5% | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 352 | 93.8 | 2,477 | 52.8% | 27.2% | |
| Sinker | 184 | 93.3 | 2,333 | 38.0% | 19.2% | |
| Unknown | 37 | — | — | 64.9% | 38.9% |
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.