
P · 2019
Tyler Skaggs
- Age
- 28
- B/T
- L/L
- Height
- 6' 4"
- Weight
- 225 lb
- Number
- #45
- Born
- July 13, 1991 in Woodland Hills, CA, USA
- MLB debut
- August 22, 2012
- dbWAR
- 4.5 6 season(s)
- PA
- 3
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .333
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- 42 100 = avg
Tyler Skaggs is a pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels. In 2019 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 3 plate appearances in 2 games. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .252. He reached base at a .333 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .333, 56.0% lower than the league mark of .758. He averaged 95.6 mph off the bat, hit 100.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 75.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 42 wRC+ puts his offence 58% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -0.2 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 -0.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .000 | .333 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 33.3% | 33.3% | .237 | -0.2 | 42 | -0.0 | |
| 2017 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | — | 0.0% | 100.0% | .000 | -0.3 | -124 | -0.0 |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 15 | 15 | 79.2 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 73 | 38 | 78 | 28 | 4.29 | 3.85 | 1.27 | 8.8 | 3.2 | 95 | 86 | 1.3 | |
| 2018 | 24 | 24 | 125.1 | 8 | 10 | 0 | 127 | 56 | 129 | 40 | 4.02 | 3.63 | 1.33 | 9.3 | 2.9 | 97 | 88 | 2.0 | |
| 2017 | 16 | 16 | 85.0 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 90 | 43 | 76 | 28 | 4.55 | 4.56 | 1.39 | 8.0 | 3.0 | 104 | 105 | 0.6 | |
| 2016 | 10 | 10 | 49.2 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 51 | 23 | 50 | 23 | 4.17 | 3.95 | 1.49 | 9.1 | 4.2 | 99 | 94 | 0.6 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 100.0% |
| vs RHP | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 | .500 | .000 | .356 | 0.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 81 | 75 | 16 | 2 | 5 | 18 | .213 | .272 | .333 | .265 | 22.2% |
| vs RHB | 254 | 227 | 57 | 7 | 23 | 60 | .251 | .320 | .396 | .310 | 23.6% |
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 1 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
- 95.6 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 100.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -36.0° 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 Tyler Skaggs 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 | .333 | .000 | .237 |
| Bases empty · thin | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runner on first · thin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 1.000 | — | .712 |
| Runners on · thin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 1.000 | — | .712 |
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 Tyler Skaggs 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.
| Four-Seam Fastball | 699 | 91.3 | 2,192 | 49.4% | 17.0% | |
| Curveball | 467 | 75.1 | 2,608 | 48.2% | 27.0% | |
| Changeup | 220 | 83.8 | 1,699 | 37.3% | 26.4% |
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.