SS · 2020
Yadiel Rivera
- Age
- 28
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 3"
- Weight
- 190 lb
- Born
- May 2, 1992 in Caguas, Puerto Rico
- MLB debut
- September 22, 2015
- dbWAR
- -1.8 6 season(s)
- PA
- 5
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .000
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- -119 100 = avg
Yadiel Rivera is a shortstop for the Texas Rangers. In 2020 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 5 plate appearances in 2 games. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .245. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .740. He averaged 91.4 mph off the bat, hit 50.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 61.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -119 wRC+ puts his offence 219% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -1.4 runs with the bat, +0.2 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 -1.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 20.0% | .000 | -1.4 | -119 | -0.1 | |
| 2019 | 33 | 66 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 20 | .183 | .258 | .217 | .033 | .275 | 9.1% | 30.3% | .220 | -5.8 | 30 | -0.3 | |
| 2018 | 85 | 160 | 24 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 19 | 51 | .173 | .269 | .216 | .043 | .258 | 11.9% | 31.9% | .221 | -12.5 | 35 | -0.8 | |
| 2017 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 50.0% | .000 | -0.5 | -120 | -0.0 | |
| 2016 | 29 | 71 | 14 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 20 | .212 | .235 | .273 | .061 | .304 | 2.8% | 28.2% | .224 | -5.5 | 34 | -0.3 | |
| 2015 | 5 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .071 | .071 | .071 | .000 | .100 | 0.0% | 26.7% | .063 | -3.0 | -76 | -0.3 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% |
| vs RHP | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 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 4 tracked batted balls in 2020. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 91.4 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 103.8 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 50.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 50.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 5.0° 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 Yadiel Rivera 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 | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Bases empty · thin | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| RISP · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .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.