C · 2020
Caleb Joseph
- Age
- 34
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 3"
- Weight
- 205 lb
- Born
- June 18, 1986 in Nashville, TN, USA
- MLB debut
- May 7, 2014
- dbWAR
- 1.7 7 season(s)
- PA
- 9
- AVG
- .125
- OBP
- .222
- SLG
- .500
- wRC+
- 82 100 = avg
Caleb Joseph is a catcher for the Toronto Blue Jays. In 2020 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 2 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 9 plate appearances in 3 games. His batting average was .125, 48.9% lower than the league average of .245. He reached base at a .222 clip and slugged .500, for an OPS of .722, 2.3% lower than the league mark of .740. He averaged 83.4 mph off the bat, hit 42.9% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 14.3% of them and made contact on 100.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 82 wRC+ puts his offence 18% below average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — -0.2 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, +0.2 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, 2020.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2020. These four terms sum to +0.3 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .125 | .222 | .500 | .375 | .000 | 11.1% | 11.1% | .298 | -0.2 | 82 | 0.0 | |
| 2019 | 18 | 41 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 10 | .211 | .250 | .263 | .053 | .286 | 2.4% | 24.4% | .228 | -3.3 | 36 | -0.1 | |
| 2018 | 80 | 280 | 58 | 3 | 17 | 2 | 10 | 68 | .219 | .254 | .321 | .102 | .282 | 3.6% | 24.3% | .254 | -14.5 | 56 | 0.0 | |
| 2017 | 80 | 266 | 65 | 8 | 28 | 0 | 10 | 72 | .256 | .287 | .413 | .157 | .328 | 3.8% | 27.1% | .301 | -5.1 | 84 | 0.9 | |
| 2016 | 44 | 141 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 28 | .174 | .216 | .197 | .023 | .221 | 5.0% | 19.9% | .189 | -14.9 | 10 | -0.8 | |
| 2015 | 100 | 355 | 75 | 11 | 49 | 0 | 27 | 72 | .234 | .299 | .394 | .159 | .269 | 7.6% | 20.3% | .305 | -3.4 | 87 | 1.6 |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 2 | 0 | 1.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 3.21 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 71 | 0.0 | — |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .000 | .250 | .000 | .180 | 25.0% |
| vs RHP | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .200 | .800 | .392 | 0.0% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2020.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 7 tracked batted balls in 2020. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 14.3% 1 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 83.4 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 100.4 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 42.9% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 28.6% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 12.4° 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, 2020.
Situational hitting
How Caleb Joseph 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 | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .125 | .222 | .500 | .298 |
| Bases empty · thin | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .333 | .500 | 1.333 | .669 |
| Runner on first · thin | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| RISP · thin | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .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, 2020.
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.