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CF · 2022

Odúbel Herrera

Age
31
B/T
L/R
Height
5' 11"
Weight
205 lb
Number
#37
Born
December 29, 1991 in Zulia, Venezuela
MLB debut
April 6, 2015
dbWAR
12.9
7 season(s)
PA
197
AVG
.238
OBP
.279
SLG
.378
wRC+
82
100 = avg

Odúbel Herrera is a center fielder for the Philadelphia Phillies. In 2022 he hit 5 home runs and knocked in 21 RBIs, notching 44 hits across 197 plate appearances in 62 games. His batting average was .238, 2.0% lower than the league average of .243. He reached base at a .279 clip and slugged .378, for an OPS of .658, 6.9% lower than the league mark of .706 — 10th of 14 on his team, and 287th of 469 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 86.3 mph off the bat, hit 38.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 5.0% of them and made contact on 76.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 82 wRC+ puts his offence 18% below average. That comes to 0.4 dbWAR — -3.7 runs with the bat, +1.0 on the bases, -0.2 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, 2022.

wRC+82
wOBA.288
ISO.141
BB%5.6%
WAR.4

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2022. These four terms sum to +3.7 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting-3.7Baserunning+1.0Position-0.2Replacement+6.6
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

3.61.8-0.115161718192122

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2022621974452161142.238.279.378.141.2815.6%21.3%.288-3.7820.4
2021124492117135162977.260.310.416.156.2855.9%15.7%.314-1.1991.6
2019391392811621133.222.288.341.119.2907.9%23.7%.275-5.766-0.1
20181475971402271538122.255.310.420.165.2906.4%20.4%.318-0.2982.1
20171375631481456831126.281.325.452.171.3455.5%22.4%.333+3.91032.3
201615865616715492563134.286.361.420.134.3499.6%20.4%.341+10.01183.6
20151455371478411628129.297.344.418.121.3875.2%24.0%.336+8.41133.0

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2022. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP444012046.300.364.375.33213.6%
vs RHP153145325736.221.255.379.27523.5%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2022.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 141 tracked batted balls in 2022. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate
5.0%
7 barrels
Exit velocity
86.3
mph average
Max exit velo
111.2
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
38.3%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
25.5%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
3.1°
average
Barrel rate5.0%
Exit velocity86.3 mph
Hard hit rate38.3%
Contact rate76.0%

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, 2022.

.190.143.0007 AB.38513 AB5 AB.40015 AB.12516 AB.23113 AB.29417 AB.33321 AB7 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 .242.

Situational hitting

How Odúbel Herrera 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 situations197.238.279.378.288
Bases empty104982733620.276.317.418.322
Runner on first49461127311.239.286.457.322
Runners on938717218522.195.237.333.250
RISP44416011211.146.182.195.170

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2022.

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Nearest 2022 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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.