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P · 2021

Trevor Bauer

Age
30
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 1"
Weight
205 lb
Number
#47
Born
January 17, 1991 in North Hollywood, CA, USA
MLB debut
June 28, 2012
dbWAR
15.4
13 season(s)
PA
34
AVG
.033
OBP
.065
SLG
.033
wRC+
-85
100 = avg

Trevor Bauer is a pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2021 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 1 RBI, notching 1 hit across 34 plate appearances in 14 games. His batting average was .033, 86.3% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .065 clip and slugged .033, for an OPS of .098, 86.6% lower than the league mark of .728. He averaged 73.7 mph off the bat and made contact on 70.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -85 wRC+ puts his offence 185% below average. That comes to -0.6 dbWAR — -7.6 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+-85
wOBA.052
ISO.000
BB%2.9%
WAR-.6

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2021. These four terms sum to -6.5 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting-7.6Baserunning-0.0Position+0.0Replacement+1.1
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

0.0-0.3-0.6151617181921

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
202114341010111.033.065.033.000.0532.9%32.4%.052-7.6-85-0.6
201911223000212.158.238.158.000.4299.1%54.5%.192-2.411-0.2
201813000001.000.000.000.000.0000.0%33.3%.000-0.8-116-0.1
201723000001.000.000.000.000.0000.0%33.3%.000-0.8-123-0.1
201636000005.000.000.000.0000.0%83.3%.000-1.5-111-0.1
201537100011.167.286.167.000.20014.3%14.3%.228-0.535-0.0

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
20211717107.28507131137372.594.031.0011.53.161951.3
2020111173.05404114100171.732.880.7912.32.139651.9
20193434213.011130184106253824.484.341.2510.73.599962.4
20182827175.1126113443221572.212.441.0911.32.953595.1
20173231176.1179018182196604.193.881.3710.03.196892.6
20163528190.0128017990168704.263.991.318.03.3102952.1
20153130176.01112015289170794.554.331.318.74.01151091.1

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

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.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP19171014.059.111.059.08921.1%
vs RHP15130007.000.000.000.00046.7%
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.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB21219142121858.220.290.476.32627.4%
vs RHB2201992971979.146.227.276.22935.9%

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 22 tracked batted balls in 2021. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate
0.0%
0 barrels
Exit velocity
73.7
mph average
Max exit velo
92.1
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
0.0%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
27.3%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
-17.0°
average
Barrel rate0.0%
Exit velocity73.7 mph
Hard hit rate0.0%
Contact rate70.5%

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.

1 AB5 AB5 AB2 AB4 AB4 AB1 AB
Below averageLeague averageAbove average
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 Trevor Bauer 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.
SituationPAABHHRRBIBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBA
All situations34.033.065.033.052
Bases empty · thin232210019.045.087.045.070
Runner on first · thin2100000.000.000.000.000
Runners on · thin11800102.000.000.000.000
RISP · thin9700102.000.000.000.000

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, 2021.

Pitch sequencing

What Trevor Bauer throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

ShowBatter
Four-seamCutterSweeperKnuckle curveSinkerChangeup

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, and how often it misses in 2021.

Four-Seam Fastball40.1%71693.92,78351.3%25.1%
Cutter21.6%38685.32,87152.6%32.7%
Sweeper18.6%33280.82,96246.1%41.5%
Knuckle Curve11.2%20079.63,01336.5%33.3%
Sinker5.9%10694.42,55661.3%15.8%
Changeup2.6%4788.11,83036.2%40.0%
Trevor Bauer'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.