P · 2016

John Lamb

Cincinnati Reds National League CentralP

Age: 28
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 205 lb

Born: July 10, 1990 in La Palma, CA, USA
MLB debut: August 14, 2015

Age shown as of the 2018 season.

dbWAR: -.8
PA: 22
AVG: .050
OBP: .095
SLG: .050
wRC+: -67

John Lamb is a pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds. In 2016 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 22 plate appearances in 12 games. His batting average was .050, 80.4% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .095 clip and slugged .050, for an OPS of .145, 80.3% lower than the league mark of .739. He averaged 82.0 mph off the bat and made contact on 70.8% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -67 wRC+ puts his offence 167% below average. That comes to -0.4 dbWAR — -4.3 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, 2016.

wRC+-67

wOBA.075

ISO.000

BB%4.5%

WAR-.4

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2016. These four terms sum to -3.6 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2016	12	22	1	0	0	0	1	12	.050	.095	.050	.000	.125	4.5%	54.5%	.075	-4.3	-67	-0.4
2015	9	16	1	0	1	0	0	8	.063	.063	.125	.063	.125	0.0%	50.0%	.080	-3.0	-65	-0.3

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2018	3	3	10.0	0	1	15	8	11	4	7.20	7.36	1.90	9.9	3.6	174	177	-0.3
2016	14	14	70.0	1	7	84	50	58	31	6.43	5.46	1.64	7.5	4.0	153	130	-0.3
2015	10	10	49.2	1	5	58	32	58	19	5.80	4.16	1.55	10.5	3.4	146	105	0.4

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2016. 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	5	5	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	40.0%
vs RHP	17	15	1	0	1	10	.067	.125	.067	.098	58.8%

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2016. 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 LHB	77	68	19	2	7	14	.279	.355	.382	.330	18.2%
vs RHB	241	209	65	12	24	44	.311	.380	.555	.401	18.3%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2016.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 4 tracked batted balls in 2016. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 82.0
Max exit velo: 90.1
Hard hit: 0.0%
Sweet spot: 25.0%
Launch angle: -7.0°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity82.0 mph

Hard hit rate0.0%

Contact rate70.8%

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, 2016.

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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 .255.

Situational hitting

How John Lamb 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	22	—	—	—	—	—	—	.050	.095	.050	.075
Bases empty · thin	13	12	1	0	0	1	7	.083	.154	.083	.121
Runner on first · thin	4	3	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000
Runners on · thin	9	8	0	0	0	0	5	.000	.000	.000	.000
RISP · thin	5	5	0	0	0	0	3	.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, 2016.

Pitch sequencing

What John Lamb 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 2016.


Four-Seam Fastball	54.6%	688	89.3	2,194	44.9%	14.7%
Changeup	16.9%	213	74.4	1,472	49.3%	31.2%
Cutter	15.3%	193	84.5	753	35.8%	12.5%
Curveball	13.1%	165	67.6	1,145	47.3%	28.9%

John Lamb's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters.

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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.