P · 2021
Aaron Sanchez
- Age
- 30
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 4"
- Weight
- 212 lb
- Number
- #45
- Born
- July 1, 1992 in Barstow, CA, USA
- MLB debut
- July 23, 2014
Age shown as of the 2022 season.
- dbWAR
- 3.7 11 season(s)
- PA
- 10
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .000
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- -121 100 = avg
Aaron Sanchez is a pitcher for the San Francisco Giants. In 2021 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 10 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 72.5 mph off the bat and made contact on 57.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -121 wRC+ puts his offence 221% below average. That comes to -0.2 dbWAR — -2.7 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 -2.3 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 7 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 70.0% | .000 | -2.7 | -121 | -0.2 | |
| 2019 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 0.0% | .000 | -0.6 | -118 | -0.0 | |
| 2018 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 0.0% | .000 | -0.3 | -122 | -0.0 | |
| 2016 | 3 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | .000 | .100 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 10.0% | 50.0% | .070 | -2.0 | -67 | -0.2 |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 15 | 10 | 60.0 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 78 | 44 | 41 | 15 | 6.60 | 4.48 | 1.55 | 6.2 | 2.3 | 166 | 113 | 0.2 | |
| 2021 | 9 | 7 | 35.1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 32 | 12 | 26 | 15 | 3.06 | 4.05 | 1.33 | 6.6 | 3.8 | 72 | 95 | 0.4 | |
| 2019 | 27 | 27 | 131.1 | 5 | 14 | 0 | 145 | 86 | 115 | 68 | 5.89 | 5.25 | 1.62 | 7.9 | 4.7 | 131 | 116 | 0.2 | |
| 2018 | 20 | 20 | 105.0 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 106 | 57 | 86 | 58 | 4.89 | 4.74 | 1.56 | 7.4 | 5.0 | 118 | 114 | 0.4 | |
| 2017 | 8 | 8 | 36.0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 42 | 17 | 24 | 20 | 4.25 | 5.74 | 1.72 | 6.0 | 5.0 | 98 | 132 | -0.2 | |
| 2016 | 30 | 30 | 192.0 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 161 | 64 | 161 | 63 | 3.00 | 3.55 | 1.17 | 7.5 | 3.0 | 72 | 85 | 3.3 | |
| 2015 | 41 | 11 | 92.1 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 74 | 33 | 61 | 44 | 3.22 | 4.61 | 1.28 | 5.9 | 4.3 | 81 | 116 | -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 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 66.7% |
| vs RHP | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 71.4% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 69 | 60 | 13 | 2 | 8 | 11 | .217 | .319 | .367 | .309 | 15.9% |
| vs RHB | 87 | 77 | 19 | 0 | 7 | 15 | .247 | .333 | .299 | .293 | 17.2% |
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 3 tracked batted balls in 2021. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 72.5 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 80.5 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -8.0° 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 Aaron Sanchez 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 | 10 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Bases empty · thin | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runner on first · thin | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .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 Aaron Sanchez 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.
| Curveball | 182 | 74.2 | 2,484 | 42.3% | 32.1% | |
| Sinker | 182 | 89.8 | 2,030 | 42.9% | 9.8% | |
| Changeup | 120 | 83.3 | 1,489 | 40.0% | 21.2% | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 111 | 90.1 | 2,016 | 38.7% | 16.2% |
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.