P · 2016
Williams Pérez
- Age
- 25
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 0"
- Weight
- 240 lb
- Born
- May 21, 1991 in Acarigua, Venezuela
- MLB debut
- May 8, 2015
- dbWAR
- -.8 4 season(s)
- PA
- 19
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .000
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- -115 100 = avg
Williams Pérez is a pitcher for the Atlanta Braves. In 2016 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 19 plate appearances in 10 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 89.2 mph off the bat and made contact on 73.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -115 wRC+ puts his offence 215% below average. That comes to -0.4 dbWAR — -4.9 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 -4.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 10 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 26.3% | .000 | -4.9 | -115 | -0.4 | |
| 2015 | 17 | 34 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 13 | .071 | .133 | .071 | .000 | .133 | 5.9% | 38.2% | .106 | -5.7 | -49 | -0.5 |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 11 | 11 | 53.2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 57 | 36 | 27 | 15 | 6.04 | 4.79 | 1.34 | 4.5 | 2.5 | 144 | 114 | 0.2 | |
| 2015 | 23 | 20 | 116.2 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 130 | 62 | 73 | 51 | 4.78 | 4.87 | 1.55 | 5.6 | 3.9 | 121 | 123 | -0.1 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 13 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 23.1% |
| vs RHP | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 33.3% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 115 | 104 | 31 | 4 | 9 | 16 | .298 | .357 | .462 | .349 | 13.9% |
| vs RHB | 118 | 106 | 26 | 3 | 6 | 11 | .245 | .289 | .396 | .295 | 9.3% |
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 8 tracked batted balls in 2016. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 89.2 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 94.7 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 12.5% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 1.1° 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 Williams Pérez 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 | 19 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Bases empty · thin | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runner on first · thin | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 9 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| RISP · thin | 6 | 5 | 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, 2016.
Pitch sequencing
What Williams Pérez 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 | 631 | 91.1 | 2,141 | 43.7% | 11.5% | |
| Curveball | 132 | 76.8 | 1,102 | 35.6% | 27.5% | |
| Changeup | 85 | 78.9 | 1,240 | 48.2% | 22.2% | |
| Intentional Ball | 10 | 76.2 | 1,550 | 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.