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Wil Myers

Cincinnati Reds National League CentralRF

Age: 33
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 207 lb
Number: #4

Born: December 10, 1990 in Thomasville, NC, United States
MLB debut: June 18, 2013

dbWAR: 13.2
PA: 141
AVG: .189
OBP: .257
SLG: .283
wRC+: 48

Wil Myers was a right fielder for the Cincinnati Reds. In 2023 he hit 3 home runs and knocked in 12 RBIs, notching 24 hits across 141 plate appearances in 36 games. His batting average was .189, 23.9% lower than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .257 clip and slugged .283, for an OPS of .541, 26.4% lower than the league mark of .734 — the worst on his team, and 443rd of 461 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 86.9 mph off the bat, hit 30.4% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 5.1% of them and made contact on 63.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 48 wRC+ puts his offence 52% below average. That comes to -0.7 dbWAR — -9.0 runs with the bat, +0.0 for the ballpark, -0.3 on the bases, -0.1 on double plays, -1.6 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 regular season.

wRC+48

wOBA.244

ISO.094

BB%8.5%

WAR-.7

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2023. These terms sum to -6.6 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2023	CIN	36	141	24	3	12	2	12	48	.189	.257	.283	.094	.273	8.5%	34.0%	.244	-9.0	48	-0.7
2022	SD	77	286	68	7	41	2	21	86	.261	.315	.398	.138	.357	7.3%	30.1%	.313	+0.2	107	0.9
2021	SD	146	500	113	17	63	8	54	141	.256	.334	.434	.179	.333	10.8%	28.2%	.333	+6.9	114	1.5
2020	SD	55	218	57	15	40	2	18	56	.288	.353	.606	.318	.331	8.3%	25.7%	.401	+14.8	156	2.1
2019	SD	149	490	104	18	53	16	51	168	.239	.321	.418	.179	.344	10.4%	34.3%	.319	-1.4	102	1.0
2018	SD	83	343	79	11	39	13	30	94	.253	.318	.446	.192	.327	8.7%	27.4%	.332	+3.8	108	1.3
2017	SD	155	649	138	30	74	20	70	180	.243	.328	.464	.220	.297	10.8%	27.7%	.339	+8.0	116	2.0
2016	SD	157	676	155	28	94	28	68	160	.259	.336	.461	.202	.305	10.1%	23.7%	.346	+13.0	116	2.7
2015	SD	59	253	57	8	29	5	27	55	.253	.336	.427	.173	.302	10.7%	21.7%	.339	+4.4	118	1.3
2014	TB	87	361	72	6	35	6	34	90	.222	.294	.320	.098	.286	9.4%	24.9%	.278	-9.7	75	-0.5
2013	TB	88	373	98	13	53	5	33	91	.293	.354	.478	.185	.362	8.8%	24.4%	.361	+12.5	133	2.1

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.

																				Trend
2022	SD	4	0	3.2	0	0	0	4	3	0	0	7.36	14.57	1.09	0.0	0.0	186	367	-0.4	—

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason batting

Postseason Wil Myers's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2022 Post	SD	Postseason total	9	30	29	1	3	0	1	1	1	13	0	.103	.133	.207	.340
		Wild Card	2	8	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLDS	4	16	15	1	2	0	1	1	1	6	0	.133	.188	.333	.521
		NLCS	3	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	3	0	.167	.167	.167	.333
2020 Post	SD	Postseason total	6	26	22	4	5	1	2	5	4	8	1	.227	.346	.545	.892
		Wild Card	3	14	12	2	4	0	2	4	2	3	0	.333	.429	.833	1.262
		NLDS	3	12	10	2	1	1	0	1	2	5	1	.100	.250	.200	.450
2013 Post	TB	Postseason total	5	21	20	0	2	0	0	0	1	7	0	.100	.143	.100	.243
		Wild Card	1	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	3	0	.250	.250	.250	.500
		ALDS	4	17	16	0	1	0	0	0	1	4	0	.063	.118	.063	.180
Career		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	20	77	71	5	10	1	3	6	6	28	1	.141	.208	.282	.489

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2023. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHP	36	35	6	1	0	15	.171	.167	.286	.188	41.7%
vs RHP	105	92	18	2	12	33	.196	.288	.283	.263	31.4%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2023.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 79 tracked batted balls in 2023. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 5.1%
Exit velocity: 86.9
Max exit velo: 105.8
Hard hit: 30.4%
Sweet spot: 31.6%
Launch angle: 9.9°

Barrel rate5.1%

Exit velocity86.9 mph

Hard hit rate30.4%

Contact rate63.2%

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.

Below averageLeague averageAbove average

Batting average by location of the pitch that ended each plate appearance, catcher's view. The bordered square is the strike zone; the outer band is chase territory. Cells with fewer than 8 at-bats are left grey rather than shown as signal. League average on the same attribution is .248.

Situational hitting

How Wil Myers hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.

Split by

By who is on base when he comes up. The season line is repeated as the baseline.
Situation	PA	AB	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
All situations	141	—	—	—	—	—	—	.189	.257	.283	.244
Bases empty	79	71	16	2	2	8	26	.225	.304	.324	.283
Runner on first · thin	22	21	3	0	0	1	7	.143	.182	.190	.170
Runners on	62	56	8	1	10	4	22	.143	.197	.232	.193
RISP	40	35	5	1	10	3	15	.143	.205	.257	.206

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.

Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.


Fastball	88.4%	38	60.4	1,670	42.1%	4.8%	12	—	—

Wil Myers's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters. BAA and OPS are what hitters did against each pitch, credited to the one that ended the plate appearance, and are left blank under 15 at-bats.

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Nearest 2023 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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wRC+: 35
HR: 2
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WAR: -0.5

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wRC+: 46
HR: 3
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WAR: -0.5

Brett BatyNYM

wRC+: 65
HR: 9
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wRC+: 40
HR: 4
AVG: .201
WAR: -1.1

How these are computed

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.