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LF · 2017

Cameron Perkins

Age
27
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 5"
Weight
225 lb
Born
September 27, 1990 in Indianapolis, IN, USA
MLB debut
June 20, 2017
dbWAR
-.6
1 season(s)
PA
97
AVG
.182
OBP
.237
SLG
.273
wRC+
33
100 = avg

Cameron Perkins was a left fielder for the Philadelphia Phillies. In 2017 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 8 RBIs, notching 16 hits across 97 plate appearances in 42 games. His batting average was .182, 28.7% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .237 clip and slugged .273, for an OPS of .510, 32.1% lower than the league mark of .750. He averaged 88.1 mph off the bat, hit 43.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 1.7% of them and made contact on 75.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 33 wRC+ puts his offence 67% below average. That comes to -0.6 dbWAR — -7.8 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, -1.2 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, 2017.

wRC+33
wOBA.228
ISO.091
BB%5.2%
WAR-.6

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2017. These four terms sum to -5.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting-7.8Baserunning-0.0Position-1.2Replacement+3.2
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2017429716180523.182.237.273.091.2275.2%23.7%.228-7.833-0.6

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2017. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP484210138.238.292.357.28216.7%
vs RHP494660215.130.184.196.17530.6%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2017.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 60 tracked batted balls in 2017. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate
1.7%
1 barrels
Exit velocity
88.1
mph average
Max exit velo
111.4
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
43.3%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
30.0%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
4.8°
average
Barrel rate1.7%
Exit velocity88.1 mph
Hard hit rate43.3%
Contact rate75.5%

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, 2017.

.182.0774 AB5 AB2 AB4 AB.25012 AB.20010 AB7 AB.25012 AB5 AB
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 .254.

Situational hitting

How Cameron Perkins 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.
SituationPAABHHRRBIBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBA
All situations97.182.237.273.228
Bases empty5755811216.145.175.273.195
Runner on first · thin181420023.143.333.143.257
Runners on403380737.242.325.273.275
RISP · thin221960714.316.318.368.289

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, 2017.

Head to head

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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.