C · 2020
Óscar Hernández
- Age
- 27
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 230 lb
- Number
- #23
- Born
- July 9, 1993 in Punto de Fijo, Venezuela
- MLB debut
- July 12, 2015
- dbWAR
- -.0 3 season(s)
- PA
- 4
- AVG
- .500
- OBP
- .500
- SLG
- .500
- wRC+
- 181 100 = avg
Óscar Hernández is a catcher for the Kansas City Royals. In 2020 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 2 hits across 4 plate appearances in 3 games. His batting average was .500, 104.4% higher than the league average of .245. He reached base at a .500 clip and slugged .500, for an OPS of 1.000, 35.2% higher than the league mark of .740. He averaged 91.9 mph off the bat, hit 66.7% 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 181 wRC+ puts his offence 81% above average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — +0.4 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, 2020.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2020. These four terms sum to +0.6 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .500 | .500 | .500 | .000 | .667 | 0.0% | 25.0% | .443 | +0.4 | 181 | 0.1 | |
| 2016 | 3 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .182 | .182 | .455 | .273 | .100 | 0.0% | 0.0% | .268 | -0.5 | 60 | 0.0 | |
| 2015 | 17 | 36 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 15 | .161 | .257 | .194 | .032 | .313 | 8.3% | 41.7% | .219 | -2.8 | 31 | -0.1 |
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 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% |
| vs RHP | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .667 | .667 | .667 | .590 | 33.3% |
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 3 tracked batted balls in 2020. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 91.9 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 100.4 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 66.7% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 33.3% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 6.3° 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, 2020.
Situational hitting
How Óscar Hernández 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 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .500 | .500 | .500 | .443 |
| Bases empty · thin | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | .885 |
| Runner on first · thin | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .500 | .443 |
| Runners on · thin | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .295 |
| RISP · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
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.
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.