P · 2017
Junichi Tazawa
- Age
- 32
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 5' 11"
- Weight
- 200 lb
- Number
- #63
- Born
- June 6, 1986 in Yokohama, Japan
- MLB debut
- August 7, 2009
Age shown as of the 2018 season.
- dbWAR
- .6 5 season(s)
- PA
- 1
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .000
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- -127 100 = avg
Junichi Tazawa is a pitcher for the Miami Marlins. In 2017 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 1 plate appearances in 1 game. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .750. He averaged 90.6 mph off the bat and made contact on 100.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -127 wRC+ puts his offence 227% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -0.3 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, 2017.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2017. These four terms sum to -0.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 0.0% | .000 | -0.3 | -127 | -0.0 | — |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 31 | 0 | 28.0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 35 | 22 | 28 | 16 | 7.07 | 6.12 | 1.82 | 9.0 | 5.1 | 170 | 148 | -0.5 | |
| 2017 | 55 | 0 | 55.1 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 55 | 35 | 38 | 22 | 5.69 | 4.96 | 1.39 | 6.2 | 3.6 | 131 | 114 | -0.1 | |
| 2016 | 53 | 0 | 49.2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 47 | 23 | 54 | 14 | 4.17 | 4.23 | 1.23 | 9.8 | 2.5 | 99 | 101 | 0.2 | |
| 2015 | 61 | 0 | 58.2 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 65 | 27 | 56 | 13 | 4.14 | 3.05 | 1.33 | 8.6 | 2.0 | 105 | 77 | 0.9 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 118 | 105 | 26 | 4 | 11 | 16 | .248 | .319 | .400 | .312 | 13.6% |
| vs RHB | 120 | 106 | 29 | 4 | 11 | 22 | .274 | .350 | .462 | .343 | 18.3% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2017.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 1 tracked batted balls in 2017. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 90.6 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 90.6 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 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, 2017.
Situational hitting
How Junichi Tazawa 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 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Bases empty · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .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, 2017.
Pitch sequencing
What Junichi Tazawa 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 2017.
| Four-Seam Fastball | 544 | 92.8 | 2,268 | 47.1% | 12.4% | |
| Forkball | 247 | 87.2 | 1,635 | 39.7% | 32.6% | |
| Curveball | 169 | 76.5 | 2,657 | 42.6% | 21.3% |
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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.