P · 2017
Aaron Blair
- Age
- 25
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 5"
- Weight
- 220 lb
- Born
- May 26, 1992 in Las Vegas, NV, USA
- MLB debut
- April 24, 2016
- dbWAR
- -1.4 4 season(s)
- PA
- 2
- AVG
- 1.000
- OBP
- 1.000
- SLG
- 1.000
- wRC+
- 423 100 = avg
Aaron Blair is a pitcher for the Atlanta Braves. In 2017 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 2 plate appearances in 1 game. His batting average was 1.000, 292.2% higher than the league average of .255. He reached base at a 1.000 clip and slugged 1.000, for an OPS of 2.000, 166.5% higher than the league mark of .750. He averaged 106.8 mph off the bat, hit 100.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 100.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 423 wRC+ puts his offence 323% above average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — +0.8 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 +0.8 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | .000 | 1.000 | 50.0% | 0.0% | .792 | +0.8 | 423 | 0.1 | |
| 2016 | 14 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | .048 | .048 | .048 | .000 | .083 | 0.0% | 39.1% | .042 | -5.1 | -88 | -0.4 |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 | 1 | 3.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 15.00 | 10.49 | 3.33 | 9.0 | 15.0 | 344 | 241 | -0.2 | |
| 2016 | 15 | 15 | 70.0 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 82 | 59 | 46 | 34 | 7.59 | 6.15 | 1.66 | 5.9 | 4.4 | 181 | 147 | -0.8 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | .792 | 0.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 11 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | .571 | .600 | 1.286 | .678 | 0.0% |
| vs RHB | 8 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | .200 | .500 | .400 | .425 | 37.5% |
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
- 106.8 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 106.8 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 100.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -3.0° 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 Aaron Blair 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 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | .792 |
| Bases empty · thin | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | .874 |
| Runner on first · thin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 1.000 | — | .710 |
| Runners on · thin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 1.000 | — | .710 |
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 Aaron Blair 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 | 34 | 91.6 | 2,053 | 35.3% | 23.1% | |
| Slider | 18 | 81.5 | 2,011 | 66.7% | 77.8% |
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.