DH · 2017
Steve Selsky
- Age
- 28
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 0"
- Weight
- 213 lb
- Born
- July 20, 1989 in Manhattan Beach, CA, USA
- MLB debut
- May 20, 2016
- dbWAR
- .1 2 season(s)
- PA
- 9
- AVG
- .111
- OBP
- .111
- SLG
- .222
- wRC+
- -25 100 = avg
Steve Selsky is a designated hitter for the Boston Red Sox. In 2017 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 9 plate appearances in 6 games. His batting average was .111, 56.4% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .111 clip and slugged .222, for an OPS of .333, 55.6% lower than the league mark of .750. He averaged 87.4 mph off the bat, hit 75.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 25.0% of them and made contact on 66.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -25 wRC+ puts his offence 125% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -1.4 runs with the bat, +0.0 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, 2017.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2017. These four terms sum to -1.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 6 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | .111 | .111 | .222 | .111 | .250 | 0.0% | 55.6% | .141 | -1.4 | -25 | -0.1 | |
| 2016 | 23 | 54 | 16 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 22 | .314 | .340 | .471 | .157 | .519 | 3.7% | 40.7% | .351 | +1.3 | 120 | 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 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .143 | .143 | .286 | .181 | 57.1% |
| vs RHP | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 50.0% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2017.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 4 tracked batted balls in 2017. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 25.0% 1 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 87.4 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 103.9 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 75.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 25.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 5.8° 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, 2017.
Situational hitting
How Steve Selsky 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 | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .111 | .111 | .222 | .141 |
| Bases empty · thin | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .250 | .250 | .500 | .317 |
| Runner on first · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| RISP · thin | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .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, 2017.
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.