PH · 2015

Rico Noel

Age: 26
B/T: R/R
Height: 5' 8"
Weight: 170 lb

Born: January 11, 1989 in Lawton, OK, USA
MLB debut: September 2, 2015

dbWAR: .0
PA: 2
AVG: .500
OBP: .500
SLG: .500
wRC+: 186

Rico Noel is a position player for the New York Yankees. In 2015 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 2 plate appearances in 13 games. His batting average was .500, 96.5% higher than the league average of .254. He reached base at a .500 clip and slugged .500, for an OPS of 1.000, 38.6% higher than the league mark of .721. He made contact on 100.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 186 wRC+ puts his offence 86% above average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — +0.2 runs with the bat, +0.2 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, 2015.

wRC+186

wOBA.441

ISO.000

BB%0.0%

WAR.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2015. These four terms sum to +0.4 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

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Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2015	13	2	1	0	0	5	0	0	.500	.500	.500	.000	.500	0.0%	0.0%	.441	+0.2	186	0.0	—

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2015. 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	1	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%
vs RHP	1	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	.881	0.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2015.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2015.

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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 .254.

Situational hitting

How Rico Noel 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	—	—	—	—	—	—	.500	.500	.500	.441
Bases empty · thin	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	.441

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, 2015.

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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.