P · 2016

Zach Neal

Age: 35
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 220 lb

Born: November 9, 1988 in Columbia, SC, USA
MLB debut: May 11, 2016

Age shown as of the 2023 season.

dbWAR: -.8
PA: 2
AVG: .000
OBP: .000
SLG: .000
wRC+: -123

Zach Neal is a pitcher for the Oakland Athletics. In 2016 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 2 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 .739. He averaged 78.8 mph off the bat and made contact on 100.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -123 wRC+ puts his offence 223% below average. That comes to -0.0 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, 2016.

wRC+-123

wOBA.000

ISO.000

BB%0.0%

WAR-.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2016. These four terms sum to -0.4 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

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2016	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.5	-123	-0.0	—

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2023	14	2	27.0	1	1	0	30	20	25	14	6.67	7.03	1.63	8.3	4.7	154	162	-0.6
2018	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	9.00	16.16	2.00	0.0	0.0	217	389	-0.1
2017	6	0	14.2	0	0	0	19	13	10	1	7.98	6.43	1.36	6.1	0.6	183	148	-0.3
2016	24	6	70.0	2	4	2	72	33	27	6	4.24	4.35	1.11	3.5	0.8	101	104	0.3

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2016. 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 RHP	2	2	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2016. 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	141	136	32	5	4	6	.235	.255	.412	.286	4.3%
vs RHB	140	136	40	4	2	21	.294	.307	.471	.333	15.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2016.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 1 tracked batted balls in 2016. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 78.8
Max exit velo: 78.8
Hard hit: 0.0%
Sweet spot: 0.0%
Launch angle: -14.0°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity78.8 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, 2016.

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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 .255.

Situational hitting

How Zach Neal 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	2	—	—	—	—	—	—	.000	.000	.000	.000
Runner on first · thin	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
Runners on · thin	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
RISP · 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, 2016.

Pitch sequencing

What Zach Neal 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 2016.


Sinker	40.9%	386	89.7	1,489	42.2%	14.0%
Cutter	21.7%	205	85.6	408	39.5%	36.1%
Four-Seam Fastball	20.6%	194	90.1	1,437	37.1%	4.2%
Changeup	13.9%	131	81.9	1,207	45.8%	23.9%
Curveball	2.0%	19	73.5	910	36.8%	0.0%

Zach Neal'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.