C · 2020
José Briceño
- Age
- 28
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 225 lb
- Born
- September 19, 1992 in Caracas, Venezuela
- MLB debut
- May 26, 2018
- dbWAR
- .5 2 season(s)
- PA
- 6
- AVG
- .200
- OBP
- .333
- SLG
- .200
- wRC+
- 61 100 = avg
José Briceño is a catcher for the Los Angeles Angels. In 2020 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 6 plate appearances in 2 games. His batting average was .200, 18.2% lower than the league average of .245. He reached base at a .333 clip and slugged .200, for an OPS of .533, 27.9% lower than the league mark of .740. He averaged 76.1 mph off the bat, hit 25.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 60.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 61 wRC+ puts his offence 39% below average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — -0.3 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, 2020.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2020. These four terms sum to +0.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .200 | .333 | .200 | .000 | .250 | 16.7% | 16.7% | .267 | -0.3 | 61 | 0.0 | |
| 2018 | 42 | 128 | 28 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 8 | 35 | .239 | .299 | .385 | .145 | .299 | 6.3% | 27.3% | .302 | -1.7 | 89 | 0.5 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| 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 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .250 | .400 | .250 | .321 | 20.0% |
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
- 76.1 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 97.7 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 25.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 25.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -1.3° 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 José Briceño 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 | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .200 | .333 | .200 | .267 |
| Bases empty · thin | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .500 | .667 | .500 | .535 |
| Runner on first · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| RISP · thin | 2 | 2 | 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, 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.