P · 2021

Mike Foltynewicz

Age: 30
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 195 lb

Born: October 7, 1991 in Sterling, IL, USA
MLB debut: August 2, 2014

dbWAR: .7
PA: 2
AVG: .000
OBP: .000
SLG: .000
wRC+: -121

Mike Foltynewicz is a pitcher for the Texas Rangers. In 2021 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 2 plate appearances in 2 games. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .728. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -121 wRC+ puts his offence 221% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -0.5 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, 2021.

wRC+-121

wOBA.000

ISO.000

BB%0.0%

WAR-.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2021. These four terms sum to -0.5 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2021	2	2	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.5	-121	-0.0
2019	19	38	2	1	0	19	.057	.057	.057	.000	.125	0.0%	50.0%	.050	-8.9	-85	-0.7
2018	30	66	3	4	0	41	.052	.052	.069	.017	.176	0.0%	62.1%	.052	-14.2	-81	-1.2
2017	27	49	2	0	0	27	.048	.048	.048	.000	.133	0.0%	55.1%	.042	-11.6	-94	-1.0
2016	19	42	5	1	1	19	.139	.162	.167	.028	.294	2.4%	45.2%	.148	-5.8	-17	-0.4
2015	14	30	2	3	0	19	.071	.069	.107	.036	.200	0.0%	63.3%	.074	-5.8	-72	-0.5

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2021	28	24	139.0	2	12	139	84	97	36	5.44	6.02	1.26	6.3	2.3	127	141	-1.4
2020	1	1	3.1	0	1	4	6	3	4	16.20	16.69	2.40	8.1	10.8	364	375	-0.4
2019	21	21	117.0	8	6	109	59	105	37	4.54	4.97	1.25	8.1	2.8	101	110	0.5
2018	31	31	183.0	13	10	130	58	202	68	2.85	3.37	1.08	9.9	3.3	69	81	3.4
2017	29	28	154.0	10	13	169	82	143	59	4.79	4.33	1.48	8.4	3.4	110	99	1.5
2016	22	22	123.1	9	5	125	59	111	35	4.31	4.24	1.30	8.1	2.6	103	101	1.2
2015	18	15	86.2	4	6	112	55	77	29	5.71	5.05	1.63	8.0	3.0	144	127	-0.3

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2021. 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	2	2	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	100.0%

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2021. 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 LHB	278	247	67	18	23	40	.271	.337	.571	.381	14.4%
vs RHB	308	288	72	17	13	57	.250	.296	.490	.334	18.5%

Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2021.

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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 .243.

Situational hitting

How Mike Foltynewicz 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	2	—	—	—	—	—	—	.000	.000	.000	.000
Bases empty · thin	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
Runners on · thin	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
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, 2021.

Pitch sequencing

What Mike Foltynewicz 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 2021.


Four-Seam Fastball	29.6%	661	93.8	2,155	45.7%	11.2%
Slider	23.7%	530	83.2	2,426	50.2%	28.2%
Sinker	21.6%	483	93.1	2,096	39.5%	7.8%
Changeup	12.7%	283	85.2	1,778	41.3%	33.1%
Curveball	12.5%	279	76.7	2,315	44.8%	22.1%

Mike Foltynewicz's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters.

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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.