C · 2019

Chris Herrmann

Age: 32
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 200 lb
Number: #12

Born: November 24, 1987 in Tomball, TX, USA
MLB debut: September 16, 2012

dbWAR: 1.5
PA: 94
AVG: .202
OBP: .280
SLG: .274
wRC+: 53

Chris Herrmann is a catcher for the Oakland Athletics. In 2019 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 8 RBIs, notching 17 hits across 94 plate appearances in 28 games. His batting average was .202, 19.8% lower than the league average of .252. He reached base at a .280 clip and slugged .274, for an OPS of .553, 27.0% lower than the league mark of .758. He averaged 89.1 mph off the bat, hit 35.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 5.9% of them and made contact on 70.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 53 wRC+ puts his offence 47% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -5.8 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, +1.8 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.

wRC+53

wOBA.251

ISO.071

BB%9.6%

WAR-.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2019. These four terms sum to -0.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2019	28	94	17	1	8	0	9	29	.202	.280	.274	.071	.296	9.6%	30.9%	.251	-5.8	53	-0.1
2018	31	87	18	2	7	0	10	24	.237	.322	.421	.184	.314	11.5%	27.6%	.327	+0.6	111	0.5
2017	102	256	41	10	27	5	29	67	.181	.273	.345	.164	.207	11.3%	26.2%	.275	-10.5	63	-0.0
2016	56	166	42	6	28	4	16	44	.284	.352	.493	.209	.364	9.6%	26.5%	.362	+5.4	120	1.4
2015	38	113	15	2	10	0	7	37	.146	.214	.272	.126	.203	6.2%	32.7%	.221	-8.5	33	-0.3

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2019. 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	10	10	2	0	0	2	.200	.200	.200	.174	20.0%
vs RHP	84	74	15	1	9	27	.203	.289	.284	.260	32.1%

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 51 tracked batted balls in 2019. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 5.9%
Exit velocity: 89.1
Max exit velo: 105.0
Hard hit: 35.3%
Sweet spot: 33.3%
Launch angle: 6.6°

Barrel rate5.9%

Exit velocity89.1 mph

Hard hit rate35.3%

Contact rate70.5%

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.

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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 .252.

Situational hitting

How Chris Herrmann 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	94	—	—	—	—	—	—	.202	.280	.274	.251
Bases empty	46	40	8	0	0	6	15	.200	.304	.250	.259
Runner on first	28	25	5	0	1	2	8	.200	.259	.240	.227
Runners on	48	44	9	1	8	3	14	.205	.255	.295	.243
RISP · thin	20	19	4	1	7	1	6	.211	.250	.368	.264

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.

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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.