C · 2019
Raudy Read
- Age
- 26
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 0"
- Weight
- 220 lb
- Born
- October 29, 1993 in San Jose de Ocoa, Dominican Republic
- MLB debut
- September 3, 2017
- dbWAR
- -.2 2 season(s)
- PA
- 11
- AVG
- .091
- OBP
- .091
- SLG
- .091
- wRC+
- -63 100 = avg
Raudy Read is a catcher for the Washington Nationals. In 2019 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 11 plate appearances in 5 games. His batting average was .091, 64.0% lower than the league average of .252. He reached base at a .091 clip and slugged .091, for an OPS of .182, 76.0% lower than the league mark of .758. He averaged 78.0 mph off the bat, hit 16.7% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 39.1% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -63 wRC+ puts his offence 163% below average. That comes to -0.2 dbWAR — -2.3 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, +0.1 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, 2019.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2019. These four terms sum to -1.8 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 5 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | .091 | .091 | .091 | .000 | .167 | 0.0% | 45.5% | .079 | -2.3 | -63 | -0.2 | |
| 2017 | 8 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .273 | .273 | .273 | .000 | .375 | 0.0% | 27.3% | .238 | -0.8 | 41 | -0.0 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 33.3% |
| vs RHP | 8 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .125 | .125 | .125 | .109 | 50.0% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2019.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 6 tracked batted balls in 2019. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 78.0 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 96.7 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 16.7% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 50.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 12.5° 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, 2019.
Situational hitting
How Raudy Read 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 | 11 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .091 | .091 | .091 | .079 |
| Bases empty · thin | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runner on first · thin | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .500 | .500 | .500 | .436 |
| Runners on · thin | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .200 | .200 | .200 | .174 |
| RISP · thin | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .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, 2019.
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.