P · 2021

Stephen Strasburg

Washington Nationals National League EastP

Age: 34
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 5"
Weight: 239 lb
Number: #37

Born: July 20, 1988 in San Diego, CA, USA
MLB debut: June 8, 2010

Age shown as of the 2022 season.

dbWAR: 15.5
PA: 7
AVG: .200
OBP: .333
SLG: .400
wRC+: 111

Stephen Strasburg is a pitcher for the Washington Nationals. In 2021 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 7 plate appearances in 5 games. His batting average was .200, 18.0% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .333 clip and slugged .400, for an OPS of .733, 0.8% higher than the league mark of .728. He averaged 98.2 mph off the bat, hit 66.7% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 83.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 111 wRC+ puts his offence 11% above average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — +0.1 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, 2021.

wRC+111

wOBA.329

ISO.200

BB%14.3%

WAR.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2021. These four terms sum to +0.3 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2021	5	7	1	0	0	1	2	.200	.333	.400	.200	.333	14.3%	28.6%	.329	+0.1	111	0.0
2019	33	80	12	1	10	3	25	.167	.200	.222	.056	.239	3.8%	31.3%	.187	-9.3	8	-0.6
2018	21	51	5	0	1	2	12	.122	.163	.122	.000	.172	3.9%	23.5%	.135	-7.6	-26	-0.6
2017	25	60	7	2	3	2	14	.130	.161	.241	.111	.132	3.3%	23.3%	.175	-7.5	-2	-0.5
2016	22	57	10	0	2	2	11	.208	.240	.229	.021	.270	3.5%	19.3%	.211	-5.0	26	-0.3
2015	20	46	5	0	0	2	17	.132	.175	.132	.000	.238	4.3%	37.0%	.146	-6.2	-20	-0.5

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2022	1	1	4.2	0	1	8	7	5	2	13.50	5.68	2.14	9.6	3.9	340	143	-0.0
2021	5	5	21.2	1	2	16	11	21	14	4.57	5.71	1.38	8.7	5.8	107	134	-0.1
2020	2	2	5.0	0	1	8	6	2	1	10.80	5.59	1.80	3.6	1.8	243	126	-0.0
2019	33	33	209.0	18	6	161	77	251	56	3.32	3.25	1.04	10.8	2.4	74	72	4.7
2018	22	22	130.0	10	7	118	54	156	38	3.74	3.62	1.20	10.8	2.6	90	87	2.1
2017	28	28	175.1	15	4	131	49	204	47	2.52	2.72	1.02	10.5	2.4	58	62	4.8
2016	24	24	147.2	15	4	119	59	183	44	3.60	2.92	1.10	11.2	2.7	86	70	3.6
2015	23	23	127.1	11	7	115	49	155	26	3.46	2.81	1.11	11.0	1.8	87	71	3.1

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2021. 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	1	1	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	100.0%
vs RHP	6	4	1	0	1	1	.250	.400	.500	.395	16.7%

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2021. 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	41	34	10	1	6	8	.294	.415	.471	.384	19.5%
vs RHB	54	46	6	3	8	13	.130	.259	.326	.258	24.1%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2021.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 3 tracked batted balls in 2021. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 98.2
Max exit velo: 104.0
Hard hit: 66.7%
Sweet spot: 66.7%
Launch angle: 7.7°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity98.2 mph

Hard hit rate66.7%

Contact rate83.3%

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, 2021.

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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 .243.

Situational hitting

How Stephen Strasburg 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	7	—	—	—	—	—	—	.200	.333	.400	.329
Bases empty · thin	4	4	1	0	0	0	1	.250	.250	.500	.313
Runners on · thin	3	1	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.500	.000	.362
RISP · thin	3	1	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.500	.000	.362

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, 2021.

Pitch sequencing

What Stephen Strasburg 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 2021.


Curveball	30.1%	109	79.4	2,718	45.0%	30.6%
Four-Seam Fastball	29.8%	108	91.9	2,079	44.4%	25.6%
Sinker	24.0%	87	91.7	2,079	28.7%	15.6%
Changeup	16.0%	58	86.5	1,556	32.8%	50.0%

Stephen Strasburg'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.