C · 2019
Steven Baron
- Age
- 29
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 0"
- Weight
- 205 lb
- Born
- December 7, 1990 in Miami, FL, USA
- MLB debut
- September 9, 2015
- dbWAR
- -.3 3 season(s)
- PA
- 10
- AVG
- .200
- OBP
- .200
- SLG
- .300
- wRC+
- 23 100 = avg
Steven Baron is a catcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates. In 2019 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 1 RBI, notching 2 hits across 10 plate appearances in 6 games. His batting average was .200, 20.7% lower than the league average of .252. He reached base at a .200 clip and slugged .300, for an OPS of .500, 34.0% lower than the league mark of .758. He averaged 95.6 mph off the bat, hit 50.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 62.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 23 wRC+ puts his offence 77% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -1.0 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, +0.1 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, 2019.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2019. These four terms sum to -0.5 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 6 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | .200 | .200 | .300 | .100 | .500 | 0.0% | 60.0% | .209 | -1.0 | 23 | -0.0 | |
| 2018 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .200 | .200 | .200 | .000 | .333 | 0.0% | 40.0% | .176 | -0.6 | 1 | -0.0 | |
| 2015 | 4 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 18.2% | .000 | -2.8 | -127 | -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 LHP | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .218 | 50.0% |
| vs RHP | 6 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .167 | .167 | .333 | .203 | 66.7% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2019.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 4 tracked batted balls in 2019. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 95.6 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 107.9 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 50.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 50.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -1.5° 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, 2019.
Situational hitting
How Steven Baron 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 | 10 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .200 | .200 | .300 | .209 |
| Bases empty · thin | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runner on first · thin | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .500 | .500 | .500 | .436 |
| Runners on · thin | 5 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | .400 | .400 | .600 | .418 |
| RISP · thin | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | .333 | .333 | .667 | .405 |
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, 2019.
Head to head
Put Steven Baron beside up to three others.
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.