P · 2017

Jake Buchanan

Cincinnati Reds National League CentralP

Age: 28
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 232 lb
Number: #58

Born: September 24, 1989 in Charlotte, NC, USA
MLB debut: June 21, 2014

dbWAR: -.1
PA: 3
AVG: .500
OBP: .667
SLG: .500
wRC+: 238

Jake Buchanan is a pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds. In 2017 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 1 RBI, notching 1 hit across 3 plate appearances in 2 games. His batting average was .500, 96.1% higher than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .667 clip and slugged .500, for an OPS of 1.167, 55.5% higher than the league mark of .750. He averaged 74.3 mph off the bat and made contact on 100.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 238 wRC+ puts his offence 138% above average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — +0.5 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.

wRC+238

wOBA.528

ISO.000

BB%33.3%

WAR.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2017. These four terms sum to +0.6 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2017	2	3	1	0	1	0	1	1	.500	.667	.500	.000	1.000	33.3%	33.3%	.528	+0.5	238	0.1
2016	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.3	-122	-0.0

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2017	5	0	14.1	0	24	13	4	7	8.16	5.60	2.16	2.5	4.4	187	128	-0.1
2016	2	1	6.0	1	3	1	4	1	1.50	4.48	0.67	6.0	1.5	36	107	0.0
2015	5	0	9.0	0	5	2	5	4	2.00	5.13	1.00	5.0	4.0	50	130	-0.1

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2017. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHP	1	0	0	0	1	0	—	1.000	—	.710	0.0%
vs RHP	2	2	1	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	.437	50.0%

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2017. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHB	32	25	10	0	6	2	.400	.516	.520	.440	6.3%
vs RHB	45	39	14	1	1	2	.359	.409	.487	.387	4.4%

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%
Exit velocity: 74.3
Max exit velo: 74.3
Hard hit: 0.0%
Sweet spot: 100.0%
Launch angle: 15.0°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity74.3 mph

Hard hit rate0.0%

Contact rate100.0%

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.

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Batting average by location of the pitch that ended each plate appearance, catcher's view. The bordered square is the strike zone; the outer band is chase territory. Cells with fewer than 8 at-bats are left grey rather than shown as signal. League average on the same attribution is .254.

Situational hitting

How Jake Buchanan hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.

Split by

By who is on base when he comes up. The season line is repeated as the baseline.
Situation	PA	AB	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
All situations	3	—	—	—	—	—	—	.500	.667	.500	.528
Bases empty · thin	2	1	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.500	.000	.355
Runners on · thin	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	.874
RISP · thin	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	.874

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 Jake Buchanan 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.


Four-Seam Fastball	42.0%	95	89.2	1,906	33.7%	0.0%
Slider	27.0%	61	83.7	2,255	42.6%	20.0%
Curveball	11.5%	26	76.9	1,787	34.6%	6.7%
Sinker	9.7%	22	88.1	1,858	50.0%	18.2%
Changeup	9.7%	22	82.0	1,188	40.9%	25.0%

Jake Buchanan's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters.

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How these are computed

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.