P · 2016

Josh A. Smith

Cincinnati Reds National League CentralP

Age: 33
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 210 lb

Born: August 7, 1987 in Margate, FL, USA
MLB debut: June 23, 2015

Age shown as of the 2020 season.

dbWAR: -1.0
PA: 11
AVG: .182
OBP: .182
SLG: .273
wRC+: 14

Josh A. Smith is a pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds. In 2016 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 2 hits across 11 plate appearances in 10 games. His batting average was .182, 28.8% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .182 clip and slugged .273, for an OPS of .455, 38.5% lower than the league mark of .739. He averaged 92.6 mph off the bat, hit 40.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 65.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 14 wRC+ puts his offence 86% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -1.1 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+14

wOBA.195

ISO.091

BB%0.0%

WAR-.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2016. These four terms sum to -0.7 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

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WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2016	10	11	2	0	0	0	0	4	.182	.182	.273	.091	.286	0.0%	36.4%	.195	-1.1	14	-0.1
2015	8	10	2	0	0	0	0	4	.222	.222	.444	.222	.400	0.0%	40.0%	.279	-0.3	71	-0.0

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2020	16	1	26.1	1	1	1	33	20	18	11	6.84	4.67	1.67	6.2	3.8	153	105	0.1
2019	18	2	31.0	0	3	1	36	20	29	8	5.81	6.60	1.42	8.4	2.3	129	147	-0.5
2017	26	0	35.0	2	1	0	35	19	25	15	4.89	4.13	1.43	6.4	3.9	112	95	0.3
2016	32	2	59.2	3	3	0	57	31	48	26	4.68	5.29	1.39	7.2	3.9	112	126	-0.4
2015	9	7	32.2	0	4	0	42	25	30	21	6.89	5.67	1.93	8.3	5.8	174	143	-0.4

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

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 LHP	2	2	1	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	.439	50.0%
vs RHP	9	9	1	0	0	3	.111	.111	.222	.141	33.3%

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	108	94	27	6	13	15	.287	.380	.511	.387	13.9%
vs RHB	152	137	30	5	13	33	.219	.285	.380	.289	21.7%

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 5 tracked batted balls in 2016. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 92.6
Max exit velo: 98.6
Hard hit: 40.0%
Sweet spot: 20.0%
Launch angle: 10.4°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity92.6 mph

Hard hit rate40.0%

Contact rate65.0%

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 Josh A. Smith 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	11	—	—	—	—	—	—	.182	.182	.273	.195
Bases empty · thin	6	6	1	0	0	0	2	.167	.167	.333	.211
Runner on first · thin	3	3	1	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.292
Runners on · thin	5	5	1	0	0	0	2	.200	.200	.200	.175
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, 2016.

Pitch sequencing

What Josh A. Smith 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.


Four-Seam Fastball	37.2%	388	90.8	1,668	46.4%	17.7%
Slider	34.5%	360	84.7	721	48.6%	28.0%
Curveball	22.3%	232	78.0	1,635	44.4%	28.6%
Sinker	3.5%	36	88.1	1,676	27.8%	30.8%
Changeup	1.6%	17	81.6	1,483	11.8%	0.0%

Josh A. Smith'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.