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Brent Morel
- Age
- 28
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 2"
- Weight
- 230 lb
- Number
- #22
- Born
- April 21, 1987 in Bakersfield, CA, United States
- MLB debut
- September 7, 2010
- dbWAR
- -.5 Regular season, 6 season(s)
- PA
- 7
- AVG
- .286
- OBP
- .286
- SLG
- .429
- wRC+
- 96 100 = avg
Brent Morel was a third baseman for the Pittsburgh Pirates. In 2015 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 1 RBI, notching 2 hits across 7 plate appearances in 3 games. His batting average was .286, 12.3% higher than the league average of .254. He reached base at a .286 clip and slugged .429, for an OPS of .714, 1.0% lower than the league mark of .721. He averaged 101.6 mph off the bat, hit 100.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 25.0% of them and made contact on 53.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 96 wRC+ puts his offence 4% below average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — -0.0 runs with the bat, +0.0 for the ballpark, -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, 2015 regular season.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2015. These terms sum to +0.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.
WAR by season
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | PIT | 3 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .286 | .286 | .429 | .143 | .500 | 0.0% | 42.9% | .308 | -0.0 | 96 | 0.0 | |
| 2014 | PIT | 21 | 41 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 9 | .179 | .220 | .231 | .051 | .233 | 4.9% | 22.0% | .194 | -3.7 | 16 | -0.3 | |
| 2013 | CWS | 11 | 30 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | .200 | .333 | .200 | .000 | .278 | 16.7% | 23.3% | .266 | -1.2 | 64 | -0.1 | |
| 2012 | CWS | 31 | 125 | 20 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 39 | .177 | .225 | .195 | .018 | .270 | 5.6% | 31.2% | .195 | -12.1 | 14 | -0.9 | |
| 2011 | CWS | 118 | 444 | 101 | 10 | 41 | 5 | 22 | 57 | .245 | .287 | .366 | .121 | .262 | 5.0% | 12.8% | .293 | -9.5 | 81 | 0.7 | |
| 2010 | CWS | 21 | 70 | 15 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 17 | .231 | .271 | .415 | .185 | .261 | 5.7% | 24.3% | .303 | -1.3 | 81 | 0.2 |
Separate from the regular season
Postseason Postseason
Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.
Postseason batting
| Season | Team | Round | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | AVG | OBP | SLG | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 Post | PIT | Wild Card | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.
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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 2.000 | 1.275 | 0.0% |
| vs RHP | 6 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .167 | .167 | .167 | .147 | 50.0% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2015.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 4 tracked batted balls in 2015. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 25.0% 1 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 101.6 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 104.7 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 100.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 25.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 5.5° 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, 2015.
Situational hitting
How Brent Morel 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 | 7 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .286 | .286 | .429 | .308 |
| Bases empty · thin | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runner on first · thin | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.500 | 1.078 |
| Runners on · thin | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .667 | .667 | 1.000 | .719 |
| RISP · 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, 2015.
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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.