C · 2021
Erick Castillo
- Age
- 28
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 5' 11"
- Weight
- 178 lb
- Born
- February 25, 1993 in Araure, Venezuela
- MLB debut
- September 30, 2021
- dbWAR
- .0 1 season(s)
- PA
- 9
- AVG
- .250
- OBP
- .333
- SLG
- .250
- wRC+
- 70 100 = avg
Erick Castillo is a catcher for the Chicago Cubs. In 2021 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 2 hits across 9 plate appearances in 4 games. His batting average was .250, 2.5% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .333 clip and slugged .250, for an OPS of .583, 19.9% lower than the league mark of .728. He averaged 76.3 mph off the bat, hit 14.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 73.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 70 wRC+ puts his offence 30% below average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — -0.3 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, +0.2 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, 2021.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2021. These four terms sum to +0.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .250 | .333 | .250 | .000 | .286 | 11.1% | 11.1% | .275 | -0.3 | 70 | 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 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .500 | .438 | 0.0% |
| vs RHP | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .167 | .286 | .167 | .229 | 14.3% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2021.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 7 tracked batted balls in 2021. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 76.3 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 102.9 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 14.3% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 14.3% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -12.3° 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, 2021.
Situational hitting
How Erick Castillo 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 | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .250 | .333 | .250 | .275 |
| Bases empty · thin | 6 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .400 | .500 | .400 | .413 |
| Runner on first · thin | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 3 | 3 | 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, 2021.
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.