P · 2016
Hisashi Iwakuma
- Age
- 36
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 3"
- Weight
- 210 lb
- Number
- #18
- Born
- April 12, 1981 in Tokyo, Japan
- MLB debut
- April 20, 2012
Age shown as of the 2017 season.
- dbWAR
- 3.0 5 season(s)
- PA
- 3
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .000
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- -119 100 = avg
Hisashi Iwakuma is a pitcher for the Seattle Mariners. In 2016 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 3 plate appearances in 2 games. 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 .739. He averaged 40.7 mph off the bat and made contact on 60.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -119 wRC+ puts his offence 219% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -0.8 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 -0.7 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 33.3% | .000 | -0.8 | -119 | -0.1 | |
| 2015 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | — | 0.0% | 66.7% | .000 | -0.8 | -127 | -0.1 |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 6 | 6 | 31.0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 27 | 15 | 16 | 12 | 4.35 | 6.42 | 1.26 | 4.6 | 3.5 | 100 | 147 | -0.4 | |
| 2016 | 33 | 33 | 199.0 | 16 | 12 | 0 | 218 | 91 | 147 | 46 | 4.12 | 4.27 | 1.33 | 6.6 | 2.1 | 98 | 102 | 1.8 | |
| 2015 | 20 | 20 | 129.2 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 117 | 51 | 111 | 21 | 3.54 | 3.74 | 1.06 | 7.7 | 1.5 | 89 | 94 | 1.7 |
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% |
| vs RHP | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 50.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 383 | 359 | 104 | 11 | 17 | 65 | .290 | .323 | .443 | .331 | 17.0% |
| vs RHB | 453 | 413 | 114 | 17 | 29 | 82 | .276 | .325 | .460 | .337 | 18.1% |
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 1 tracked batted balls in 2016. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 40.7 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 40.7 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -74.0° 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 Hisashi Iwakuma 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 | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runner on first · thin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| Runners on · thin | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| RISP · thin | 2 | 2 | 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 Hisashi Iwakuma 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.
| Sinker | 775 | 87.5 | 1,874 | 44.9% | 8.2% | |
| Splitter | 572 | 83.1 | 1,420 | 37.9% | 28.4% | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 556 | 88.3 | 1,824 | 51.6% | 15.4% | |
| Slider | 547 | 81.2 | 778 | 48.8% | 20.4% | |
| Curveball | 268 | 71.0 | 1,438 | 41.8% | 20.8% | |
| Cutter | 250 | 85.5 | 1,066 | 49.2% | 15.4% | |
| Intentional Ball | 12 | 54.9 | 1,128 | 0.0% | — |
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.