P · 2017
Alex Meyer
- Age
- 27
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 9"
- Weight
- 225 lb
- Number
- #51
- Born
- January 3, 1990 in Greensburg, IN, USA
- MLB debut
- June 26, 2015
- dbWAR
- .7 4 season(s)
- PA
- 2
- AVG
- .500
- OBP
- .500
- SLG
- .500
- wRC+
- 180 100 = avg
Alex Meyer is a pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels. In 2017 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 2 plate appearances in 1 game. His batting average was .500, 96.1% higher than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .500 clip and slugged .500, for an OPS of 1.000, 33.3% higher than the league mark of .750. He averaged 70.8 mph off the bat and made contact on 60.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 180 wRC+ puts his offence 80% above average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — +0.2 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, 2017.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2017. These four terms sum to +0.3 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .500 | .500 | .500 | .000 | 1.000 | 0.0% | 50.0% | .437 | +0.2 | 180 | 0.0 | — |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 13 | 13 | 67.1 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 48 | 28 | 75 | 42 | 3.74 | 4.14 | 1.34 | 10.0 | 5.6 | 86 | 95 | 0.8 | |
| 2016 | 7 | 6 | 25.1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 25 | 16 | 29 | 17 | 5.68 | 4.41 | 1.66 | 10.3 | 6.0 | 136 | 105 | 0.2 | |
| 2015 | 2 | 0 | 2.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 16.88 | 14.01 | 2.63 | 10.1 | 10.1 | 426 | 354 | -0.3 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs RHP | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .500 | .500 | .500 | .437 | 50.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 149 | 123 | 28 | 4 | 23 | 38 | .228 | .356 | .382 | .332 | 25.5% |
| vs RHB | 143 | 121 | 20 | 2 | 19 | 37 | .165 | .289 | .264 | .261 | 25.9% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2017.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 1 tracked batted balls in 2017. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 70.8 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 70.8 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 100.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 16.0° 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, 2017.
Situational hitting
How Alex Meyer 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 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .500 | .500 | .500 | .437 |
| Bases empty · thin | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | .874 |
| Runner on first · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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, 2017.
Pitch sequencing
What Alex Meyer 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 2017.
| Curveball | 426 | 85.1 | 2,477 | 49.5% | 44.8% | |
| Sinker | 356 | 95.3 | 2,327 | 38.2% | 13.2% | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 315 | 96.1 | 2,358 | 45.4% | 23.3% | |
| Slider | 38 | 85.5 | 2,478 | 39.5% | 18.2% | |
| Unknown | 18 | — | — | 44.4% | 25.0% | |
| Changeup | 16 | 90.0 | 2,017 | 31.3% | 16.7% |
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.