2B · 2020

Adeiny Hechavarría

Age: 31
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 195 lb
Number: #3

Born: April 15, 1989 in Santiago De Cuba, Cuba
MLB debut: August 4, 2012

dbWAR: 3.1
PA: 63
AVG: .254
OBP: .302
SLG: .305
wRC+: 66

Adeiny Hechavarría is a second baseman for the Atlanta Braves. In 2020 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 2 RBIs, notching 15 hits across 63 plate appearances in 24 games. His batting average was .254, 3.9% higher than the league average of .245. He reached base at a .302 clip and slugged .305, for an OPS of .607, 18.0% lower than the league mark of .740. He averaged 82.9 mph off the bat, hit 23.4% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 79.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 66 wRC+ puts his offence 34% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -2.6 runs with the bat, -0.1 on the bases, +0.2 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, 2020.

wRC+66

wOBA.273

ISO.051

BB%6.3%

WAR-.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2020. These four terms sum to -0.4 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2020	24	63	15	0	2	0	4	12	.254	.302	.305	.051	.319	6.3%	19.0%	.273	-2.6	66	-0.0
2019	81	221	49	9	33	3	14	48	.241	.299	.443	.202	.272	6.3%	21.7%	.314	-1.6	97	0.6
2018	89	321	73	6	31	2	16	58	.247	.279	.345	.098	.280	5.0%	18.1%	.269	-12.7	68	0.2
2017	96	348	86	8	30	4	13	67	.261	.289	.406	.145	.304	3.7%	19.3%	.298	-7.8	84	0.8
2016	147	547	120	3	38	1	33	73	.236	.283	.311	.075	.269	6.0%	13.3%	.258	-27.7	60	-0.3
2015	129	499	132	5	48	7	23	78	.281	.315	.374	.094	.325	4.6%	15.6%	.300	-6.6	89	1.8

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2020. 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	11	11	3	0	0	2	.273	.273	.364	.274	18.2%
vs RHP	52	48	12	0	4	10	.250	.308	.292	.273	19.2%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2020.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 47 tracked batted balls in 2020. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 82.9
Max exit velo: 105.1
Hard hit: 23.4%
Sweet spot: 23.4%
Launch angle: 11.2°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity82.9 mph

Hard hit rate23.4%

Contact rate79.7%

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, 2020.

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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 .244.

Situational hitting

How Adeiny Hechavarría 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	63	—	—	—	—	—	—	.254	.302	.305	.273
Bases empty	27	26	10	0	0	1	4	.385	.407	.462	.381
Runner on first · thin	15	14	3	0	0	1	4	.214	.267	.286	.249
Runners on	36	33	5	0	2	3	8	.152	.222	.182	.193
RISP · thin	21	19	2	0	2	2	4	.105	.190	.105	.153

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, 2020.

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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.