P · 2019
Parker Markel
- Age
- 32
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 5"
- Weight
- 240 lb
- Born
- September 15, 1990 in Newport Beach, CA, USA
- MLB debut
- May 12, 2019
Age shown as of the 2022 season.
- dbWAR
- -.7 3 season(s)
- PA
- 3
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .000
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- -119 100 = avg
Parker Markel is a pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates. In 2019 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 3 plate appearances in 3 games. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .252. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .758. He averaged 77.0 mph off the bat and made contact on 40.0% 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, 2019.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2019. These four terms sum to -0.7 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 33.3% | .000 | -0.8 | -119 | -0.1 | — |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3 | 0 | 3.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0.00 | 6.11 | 2.00 | 9.0 | 15.0 | 0 | 154 | -0.1 | |
| 2019 | 20 | 0 | 22.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 26 | 19 | 24 | 17 | 7.77 | 7.30 | 1.95 | 9.8 | 7.0 | 173 | 162 | -0.5 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% |
| vs RHP | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 100.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 52 | 43 | 12 | 3 | 8 | 15 | .279 | .404 | .581 | .408 | 28.8% |
| vs RHB | 58 | 47 | 14 | 3 | 9 | 9 | .298 | .431 | .553 | .420 | 15.5% |
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 2 tracked batted balls in 2019. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 77.0 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 83.8 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -45.0° 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, 2019.
Situational hitting
How Parker Markel 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 |
| Bases empty · thin | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .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, 2019.
Pitch sequencing
What Parker Markel 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 2019.
| Slider | 234 | 83.1 | 2,705 | 47.4% | 37.3% | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 186 | 95.6 | 2,400 | 43.5% | 16.7% | |
| Sinker | 34 | 95.3 | 2,310 | 29.4% | 9.1% |
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.