P · 2021
Adrian Sampson
- Age
- 31
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 2"
- Weight
- 210 lb
- Born
- October 7, 1991 in Redmond, WA, USA
- MLB debut
- June 18, 2016
Age shown as of the 2022 season.
- dbWAR
- -.5 7 season(s)
- PA
- 11
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .000
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- -118 100 = avg
Adrian Sampson is a pitcher for the Chicago Cubs. In 2021 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 11 plate appearances in 7 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. He averaged 36.2 mph off the bat and made contact on 60.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -118 wRC+ puts his offence 218% below average. That comes to -0.3 dbWAR — -2.9 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.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2021. These four terms sum to -2.6 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 7 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | — | 0.0% | 63.6% | .000 | -2.9 | -118 | -0.3 | |
| 2019 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 50.0% | .000 | -0.6 | -111 | -0.0 |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 21 | 19 | 104.1 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 101 | 36 | 73 | 27 | 3.11 | 3.79 | 1.23 | 6.3 | 2.3 | 78 | 96 | 1.3 | |
| 2021 | 10 | 5 | 35.1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 30 | 11 | 28 | 8 | 2.80 | 5.72 | 1.08 | 7.1 | 2.0 | 66 | 134 | -0.3 | |
| 2019 | 35 | 15 | 125.1 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 156 | 82 | 101 | 36 | 5.89 | 5.69 | 1.53 | 7.3 | 2.6 | 131 | 126 | -0.7 | |
| 2018 | 5 | 4 | 23.0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 24 | 11 | 15 | 4 | 4.30 | 6.03 | 1.22 | 5.9 | 1.6 | 104 | 145 | -0.3 | |
| 2016 | 2 | 1 | 4.2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7.71 | 8.50 | 1.93 | 3.9 | 1.9 | 184 | 203 | -0.2 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 66.7% |
| vs RHP | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 60.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 70 | 62 | 14 | 3 | 6 | 15 | .226 | .304 | .435 | .322 | 21.4% |
| vs RHB | 75 | 68 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 13 | .235 | .307 | .485 | .341 | 17.3% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2021.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 4 tracked batted balls in 2021. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 36.2 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 42.6 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 25.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -45.0° 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, 2021.
Situational hitting
How Adrian Sampson 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 | 11 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Bases empty · thin | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runner on first · thin | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| RISP · thin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
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 Adrian Sampson 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.
| Sinker | 209 | 91.6 | 1,928 | 43.1% | 10.5% | |
| Changeup | 135 | 85.4 | 1,712 | 40.0% | 38.0% | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 118 | 92.2 | 2,027 | 52.5% | 15.4% | |
| Slider | 72 | 83.5 | 2,540 | 44.4% | 25.0% | |
| Cutter | 20 | 85.7 | 2,402 | 40.0% | 33.3% |
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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.