P · 2016
Rob Whalen
- Age
- 24
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 2"
- Weight
- 220 lb
- Born
- January 31, 1994 in Stroudsburg, PA, USA
- MLB debut
- August 3, 2016
Age shown as of the 2018 season.
- dbWAR
- -.1 4 season(s)
- PA
- 11
- AVG
- .200
- OBP
- .200
- SLG
- .200
- wRC+
- 1 100 = avg
Rob Whalen is a pitcher for the Atlanta Braves. In 2016 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 2 hits across 11 plate appearances in 6 games. His batting average was .200, 21.7% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .200 clip and slugged .200, for an OPS of .400, 45.9% lower than the league mark of .739. He averaged 80.6 mph off the bat, hit 33.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 72.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 1 wRC+ puts his offence 99% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -1.3 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, 2016.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2016. These four terms sum to -0.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 6 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .200 | .200 | .200 | .000 | .286 | 0.0% | 27.3% | .175 | -1.3 | 1 | -0.1 | — |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 4.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.00 | 3.91 | 0.50 | 0.0 | 2.3 | 0 | 94 | 0.0 | |
| 2017 | 2 | 1 | 7.1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 6.14 | 6.02 | 1.23 | 2.5 | 2.5 | 141 | 138 | -0.1 | |
| 2016 | 5 | 5 | 24.2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 20 | 18 | 25 | 12 | 6.57 | 5.05 | 1.30 | 9.1 | 4.4 | 157 | 121 | 0.0 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% |
| vs RHP | 8 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .219 | 37.5% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 43 | 37 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 10 | .189 | .279 | .486 | .323 | 23.3% |
| vs RHB | 67 | 55 | 13 | 2 | 7 | 15 | .236 | .354 | .436 | .350 | 22.4% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2016.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 6 tracked batted balls in 2016. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 80.6 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 99.1 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 33.3% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 16.7% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -11.0° 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, 2016.
Situational hitting
How Rob Whalen 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 | 11 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .200 | .200 | .200 | .175 |
| Bases empty · thin | 6 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .292 |
| Runner on first · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| RISP · thin | 4 | 3 | 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, 2016.
Pitch sequencing
What Rob Whalen 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 2016.
| Four-Seam Fastball | 196 | 89.2 | 1,256 | 52.0% | 14.8% | |
| Sinker | 101 | 88.9 | 1,666 | 39.6% | 30.4% | |
| Slider | 101 | 80.7 | 1,002 | 40.6% | 38.9% | |
| Changeup | 38 | 82.2 | 1,088 | 39.5% | 35.3% | |
| Curveball | 13 | 74.6 | 1,407 | 38.5% | 40.0% |
Head to head
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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.