RF · 2023
Billy Hamilton
- Age
- 33
- B/T
- S/R
- Height
- 6' 0"
- Weight
- 160 lb
- Number
- #0
- Born
- September 9, 1990 in Taylorsville, MS, USA
- MLB debut
- September 3, 2013
- dbWAR
- 2.1 9 season(s)
- PA
- 2
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .000
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- -121 100 = avg
Billy Hamilton is a right fielder for the Chicago White Sox. In 2023 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 2 plate appearances in 3 games. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .734. He averaged 36.2 mph off the bat and made contact on 25.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -121 wRC+ puts his offence 221% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -0.5 runs with the bat, +0.4 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, 2023.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2023. These four terms sum to -0.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 50.0% | .000 | -0.5 | -121 | -0.0 | |
| 2022 | 26 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 12 | .050 | .136 | .050 | .000 | .125 | 8.7% | 52.2% | .104 | -3.8 | -45 | -0.2 | |
| 2021 | 61 | 135 | 28 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 47 | .220 | .242 | .378 | .157 | .329 | 3.0% | 34.8% | .264 | -6.0 | 63 | 0.0 | |
| 2020 | 24 | 36 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 7 | .125 | .171 | .219 | .094 | .120 | 5.6% | 19.4% | .173 | -4.6 | -1 | -0.3 | |
| 2019 | 108 | 353 | 69 | 0 | 15 | 22 | 32 | 87 | .218 | .289 | .275 | .057 | .299 | 9.1% | 24.6% | .253 | -20.9 | 52 | -0.6 | |
| 2018 | 150 | 556 | 119 | 4 | 29 | 34 | 46 | 132 | .236 | .299 | .327 | .091 | .309 | 8.3% | 23.7% | .282 | -16.4 | 72 | 0.7 | |
| 2017 | 139 | 633 | 144 | 4 | 38 | 59 | 44 | 133 | .247 | .299 | .335 | .088 | .313 | 7.0% | 21.0% | .281 | -22.9 | 70 | 0.6 | |
| 2016 | 116 | 460 | 107 | 3 | 17 | 58 | 36 | 93 | .260 | .321 | .343 | .083 | .329 | 7.8% | 20.2% | .296 | -9.4 | 83 | 1.6 | |
| 2015 | 113 | 454 | 93 | 4 | 28 | 57 | 28 | 75 | .226 | .274 | .289 | .063 | .264 | 6.2% | 16.5% | .254 | -22.7 | 54 | 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 50.0% |
Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 1 tracked batted balls in 2023. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 36.2 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 36.2 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 83.0° 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, 2023.
Situational hitting
How Billy Hamilton 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 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runner on first · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| RISP · 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, 2023.
Head to head
Put Billy Hamilton 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.