
P · 2018
Christian Bergman
- Age
- 30
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 195 lb
- Number
- #36
- Born
- May 4, 1988 in Glendale, CA, USA
- MLB debut
- June 9, 2014
- dbWAR
- -.9 8 season(s)
- PA
- 2
- AVG
- .500
- OBP
- .500
- SLG
- .500
- wRC+
- 193 100 = avg
Christian Bergman is a pitcher for the Seattle Mariners. In 2018 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 1 RBI, notching 1 hit across 2 plate appearances in 1 game. His batting average was .500, 101.7% higher than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .500 clip and slugged .500, for an OPS of 1.000, 37.4% higher than the league mark of .728. He averaged 57.9 mph off the bat and made contact on 100.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 193 wRC+ puts his offence 93% above average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — +0.2 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, 2018.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2018. These four terms sum to +0.3 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .500 | .000 | .500 | 0.0% | 0.0% | .439 | +0.2 | 193 | 0.0 | |
| 2017 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 0.0% | .000 | -0.3 | -125 | -0.0 | |
| 2016 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .000 | .333 | 0.0% | 0.0% | .292 | -0.1 | 73 | 0.0 | |
| 2015 | 11 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | .167 | .231 | .167 | .000 | .250 | 6.7% | 26.7% | .190 | -1.5 | 10 | -0.1 |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 3 | 2 | 14.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 5.79 | 6.52 | 1.07 | 4.5 | 1.9 | 139 | 157 | -0.3 | |
| 2017 | 13 | 8 | 54.0 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 61 | 30 | 33 | 15 | 5.00 | 5.82 | 1.41 | 5.5 | 2.5 | 115 | 134 | -0.4 | |
| 2016 | 15 | 1 | 24.2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 39 | 23 | 22 | 6 | 8.39 | 5.78 | 1.82 | 8.0 | 2.2 | 200 | 138 | -0.3 | |
| 2015 | 30 | 4 | 68.1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 82 | 36 | 37 | 15 | 4.74 | 4.23 | 1.42 | 4.9 | 2.0 | 120 | 107 | 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 RHP | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .500 | .439 | 0.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 32 | 29 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 7 | .138 | .219 | .345 | .250 | 21.9% |
| vs RHB | 25 | 23 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .348 | .333 | .739 | .438 | 0.0% |
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 2 tracked batted balls in 2018. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 57.9 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 85.2 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 19.5° 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 Christian Bergman 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 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .500 | .500 | .500 | .439 |
| Runner on first · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .500 | .439 |
| RISP · thin | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | .879 |
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.
Pitch sequencing
What Christian Bergman 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 2018.
| Sinker | 92 | 88.5 | 2,061 | 45.7% | 17.9% | |
| Changeup | 51 | 78.3 | 1,922 | 35.3% | 24.0% | |
| Curveball | 31 | 76.7 | 2,219 | 35.5% | 0.0% | |
| Slider | 26 | 85.3 | 2,040 | 38.5% | 7.7% |
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.