P · 2015
Carter Capps
- Age
- 27
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 5"
- Weight
- 230 lb
- Number
- #58
- Born
- August 7, 1990 in Kinston, NC, USA
- MLB debut
- August 3, 2012
Age shown as of the 2017 season.
- dbWAR
- 1.3 3 season(s)
- PA
- 2
- AVG
- .500
- OBP
- .500
- SLG
- .500
- wRC+
- 190 100 = avg
Carter Capps is a pitcher for the Miami Marlins. In 2015 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 2 plate appearances in 2 games. His batting average was .500, 96.5% higher than the league average of .254. He reached base at a .500 clip and slugged .500, for an OPS of 1.000, 38.6% higher than the league mark of .721. He averaged 89.3 mph off the bat and made contact on 75.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 190 wRC+ puts his offence 90% above average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — +0.2 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, 2015.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2015. These four terms sum to +0.3 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .500 | .500 | .500 | .000 | 1.000 | 0.0% | 50.0% | .441 | +0.2 | 190 | 0.0 | — |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 11 | 0 | 12.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 6.57 | 4.62 | 1.14 | 5.1 | 1.5 | 151 | 106 | 0.0 | |
| 2015 | 30 | 0 | 31.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 4 | 58 | 7 | 1.16 | 1.10 | 0.81 | 16.8 | 2.0 | 29 | 28 | 1.2 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 100.0% |
| vs RHP | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | .881 | 0.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 54 | 50 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 31 | .160 | .204 | .240 | .200 | 57.4% |
| vs RHB | 64 | 57 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 27 | .175 | .254 | .246 | .234 | 42.2% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2015.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 1 tracked batted balls in 2015. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 89.3 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 89.3 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 3.0° 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, 2015.
Situational hitting
How Carter Capps 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 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .500 | .500 | .500 | .441 |
| Bases empty · thin | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | .881 |
| Runner on first · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 1 | 1 | 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, 2015.
Pitch sequencing
What Carter Capps 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 2015.
| Four-Seam Fastball | 286 | 98.0 | 2,140 | 53.5% | 33.8% | |
| Knuckle Curve | 157 | 83.5 | 757 | 65.0% | 77.6% |
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.