P · 2018

A.J. Cole

Washington Nationals National League EastP

Age: 29
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 5"
Weight: 240 lb

Born: January 5, 1992 in Winter Springs, FL, USA
MLB debut: April 28, 2015

Age shown as of the 2021 season.

dbWAR: -.2
PA: 4
AVG: .333
OBP: .333
SLG: 1.333
wRC+: 338

A.J. Cole is a pitcher for the Washington Nationals. In 2018 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 1 RBI, notching 1 hit across 4 plate appearances in 2 games. His batting average was .333, 34.4% higher than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .333 clip and slugged 1.333, for an OPS of 1.667, 129.1% higher than the league mark of .728. He made contact on 100.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 338 wRC+ puts his offence 238% above average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — +1.2 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, 2018.

wRC+338

wOBA.680

ISO1.000

BB%0.0%

WAR.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2018. These four terms sum to +1.3 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

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WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2018	2	4	1	1	1	0	1	.333	.333	1.333	1.000	.000	0.0%	25.0%	.680	+1.2	338	0.1
2017	9	16	2	0	0	2	5	.143	.250	.143	.000	.222	12.5%	31.3%	.198	-1.7	13	-0.1
2016	6	8	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-2.0	-119	-0.2
2015	2	2	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.


2021	6	0	8.0	0	0	1	6	1	7	1	1.13	3.42	0.88	7.9	1.1	26	80	0.1
2020	24	0	23.1	3	0	1	19	8	20	9	3.09	4.31	1.20	7.7	3.5	69	97	0.2
2019	25	0	26.0	3	1	1	31	11	30	8	3.81	3.83	1.50	10.4	2.8	85	85	0.3
2018	32	2	48.1	4	2	0	55	33	59	22	6.14	6.12	1.59	11.0	4.1	148	147	-0.8
2017	11	8	52.0	3	5	0	51	22	44	27	3.81	5.20	1.50	7.6	4.7	87	119	-0.0
2016	8	8	38.1	1	2	0	37	22	39	14	5.17	4.74	1.33	9.2	3.3	123	113	0.2
2015	3	1	9.1	0	0	1	14	6	9	1	5.79	2.92	1.61	8.7	1.0	146	74	0.2

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2018. 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	4	3	1	1	0	1	.333	.333	1.333	.680	25.0%

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2018. 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	93	82	30	7	10	18	.366	.430	.744	.490	19.4%
vs RHB	128	114	25	8	12	41	.219	.294	.456	.322	32.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2018.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2018.

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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 .247.

Situational hitting

How A.J. Cole 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	4	—	—	—	—	—	—	.333	.333	1.333	.680
Bases empty · thin	2	2	1	1	1	0	1	.500	.500	2.000	1.020
Runner on first · thin	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—
Runners on · thin	2	1	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, 2018.

Pitch sequencing

What A.J. Cole 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 2018.


Slider	43.1%	378	84.4	2,262	48.4%	43.5%
Four-Seam Fastball	20.8%	182	94.0	2,236	51.6%	21.1%
Curveball	20.1%	176	79.5	2,287	50.0%	28.6%
Sinker	12.8%	112	92.4	2,058	42.9%	26.0%
Changeup	2.6%	23	86.5	1,921	13.0%	0.0%

A.J. Cole'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.