P · 2017
Alec Asher
- Age
- 27
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 4"
- Weight
- 240 lb
- Born
- October 4, 1991 in Lakeland, FL, USA
- MLB debut
- August 30, 2015
Age shown as of the 2018 season.
- dbWAR
- -.4 7 season(s)
- PA
- 1
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .000
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- -121 100 = avg
Alec Asher is a pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles. In 2017 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 1 plate appearances in 1 game. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .750. He averaged 70.4 mph off the bat and made contact on 100.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -121 wRC+ puts his offence 221% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -0.3 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, 2017.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2017. These four terms sum to -0.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 0.0% | .000 | -0.3 | -121 | -0.0 | |
| 2016 | 5 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | .091 | .091 | .091 | .000 | .200 | 0.0% | 54.5% | .080 | -2.1 | -67 | -0.2 | |
| 2015 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .333 | .333 | .500 | .167 | .667 | 0.0% | 50.0% | .359 | +0.2 | 129 | 0.0 |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 2 | 0 | 3.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0.00 | 2.83 | 1.00 | 6.0 | 3.0 | 0 | 68 | 0.1 | |
| 2017 | 24 | 6 | 60.0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 61 | 35 | 47 | 23 | 5.25 | 5.26 | 1.40 | 7.0 | 3.5 | 120 | 121 | -0.2 | |
| 2016 | 5 | 5 | 27.2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 22 | 7 | 13 | 4 | 2.28 | 3.33 | 0.94 | 4.2 | 1.3 | 54 | 79 | 0.5 | |
| 2015 | 7 | 7 | 29.0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 42 | 30 | 16 | 10 | 9.31 | 6.75 | 1.79 | 5.0 | 3.1 | 235 | 170 | -0.6 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs RHP | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 125 | 109 | 24 | 3 | 13 | 28 | .220 | .306 | .376 | .298 | 22.4% |
| vs RHB | 140 | 123 | 37 | 7 | 10 | 19 | .301 | .379 | .512 | .381 | 13.6% |
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 1 tracked batted balls in 2017. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 70.4 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 70.4 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 82.0° 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, 2017.
Situational hitting
How Alec Asher 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 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Bases empty · 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, 2017.
Pitch sequencing
What Alec Asher 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 2017.
| Sinker | 467 | 90.7 | 2,369 | 48.2% | 16.6% | |
| Cutter | 187 | 88.0 | 2,507 | 37.4% | 22.8% | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 169 | 89.5 | 2,475 | 41.4% | 11.5% | |
| Curveball | 153 | 79.1 | 2,597 | 43.8% | 34.8% | |
| Changeup | 89 | 82.7 | 1,850 | 34.8% | 36.8% |
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.