LF · 2018
Darnell Sweeney
- Age
- 27
- B/T
- S/R
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 205 lb
- Born
- February 1, 1991 in Hollywood, FL, USA
- MLB debut
- August 20, 2015
- dbWAR
- -.0 2 season(s)
- PA
- 4
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .500
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- 126 100 = avg
Darnell Sweeney is a left fielder for the Toronto Blue Jays. In 2018 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 4 plate appearances in 1 game. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .500 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .500, 31.3% lower than the league mark of .728. He averaged 82.4 mph off the bat and made contact on 83.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 126 wRC+ puts his offence 26% above average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — +0.1 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, 2018.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2018. These four terms sum to +0.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .000 | .500 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 50.0% | 0.0% | .353 | +0.1 | 126 | 0.0 | |
| 2015 | 36 | 98 | 15 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 13 | 27 | .176 | .286 | .353 | .176 | .218 | 13.3% | 27.6% | .290 | -2.1 | 80 | -0.0 |
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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 | .500 | .000 | .353 | 0.0% |
| vs RHP | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 | .500 | .000 | .353 | 0.0% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2018.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 2 tracked batted balls in 2018. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 82.4 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 87.2 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 50.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 30.5° 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, 2018.
Situational hitting
How Darnell Sweeney 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 | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .000 | .500 | .000 | .353 |
| Bases empty · thin | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 | .500 | .000 | .353 |
| Runner on first · thin | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 | .500 | .000 | .353 |
| Runners on · thin | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 | .500 | .000 | .353 |
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, 2018.
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.