SS · 2018
Nolan Fontana
- Age
- 27
- B/T
- L/R
- Height
- 5' 11"
- Weight
- 195 lb
- Born
- June 6, 1991 in Winter Garden, FL, USA
- MLB debut
- May 22, 2017
- dbWAR
- -.3 2 season(s)
- PA
- 12
- AVG
- .091
- OBP
- .167
- SLG
- .364
- wRC+
- 38 100 = avg
Nolan Fontana is a shortstop for the Los Angeles Angels. In 2018 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 1 RBI, notching 1 hit across 12 plate appearances in 6 games. His batting average was .091, 63.3% lower than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .167 clip and slugged .364, for an OPS of .530, 27.1% lower than the league mark of .728. He averaged 92.0 mph off the bat, hit 60.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 20.0% of them and made contact on 68.4% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 38 wRC+ puts his offence 62% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -0.9 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, +0.1 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, 2018.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2018. These four terms sum to -0.4 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 6 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | .091 | .167 | .364 | .273 | .000 | 8.3% | 50.0% | .229 | -0.9 | 38 | -0.0 | |
| 2017 | 10 | 23 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | .050 | .174 | .200 | .150 | .000 | 13.0% | 34.8% | .179 | -2.8 | 1 | -0.2 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 100.0% |
| vs RHP | 8 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | .143 | .250 | .571 | .343 | 25.0% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2018.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 5 tracked batted balls in 2018. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 20.0% 1 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 92.0 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 101.5 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 60.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 20.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 35.6° 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, 2018.
Situational hitting
How Nolan Fontana 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 | 12 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .091 | .167 | .364 | .229 |
| Bases empty · thin | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | .250 | .250 | 1.000 | .510 |
| Runner on first · thin | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 8 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | .000 | .125 | .000 | .088 |
| RISP · thin | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .000 | .200 | .000 | .141 |
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, 2018.
Head to head
Put Nolan Fontana beside up to three others.
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.