P · 2017

Jharel Cotton

Age: 30
B/T: R/R
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 200 lb

Born: January 19, 1992 in St. Thomas, VI, USA
MLB debut: September 7, 2016

Age shown as of the 2022 season.

dbWAR: -.1
PA: 2
AVG: .000
OBP: .000
SLG: .000
wRC+: -118

Jharel Cotton is a pitcher for the Oakland Athletics. In 2017 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 2 plate appearances in 1 game. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .750. He averaged 89.5 mph off the bat and made contact on 40.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -118 wRC+ puts his offence 218% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -0.5 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, 2017.

wRC+-118

wOBA.000

ISO.000

BB%0.0%

WAR-.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2017. These four terms sum to -0.5 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2017	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-0.5	-118	-0.0	—

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2022	30	0	43.0	4	2	34	17	39	20	3.56	4.95	1.26	8.2	4.2	90	125	-0.3
2021	23	0	30.2	2	0	28	12	30	15	3.52	3.72	1.40	8.8	4.4	83	87	0.3
2017	24	24	129.0	9	10	133	80	105	53	5.58	5.68	1.44	7.3	3.7	128	130	-0.6
2016	5	5	29.1	2	0	20	7	23	4	2.15	3.76	0.82	7.1	1.2	51	90	0.4

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2017. 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	2	2	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	50.0%

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2017. 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	255	218	56	14	30	44	.257	.347	.482	.355	17.3%
vs RHB	311	280	77	14	23	61	.275	.333	.504	.357	19.6%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2017.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 1 tracked batted balls in 2017. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 89.5
Max exit velo: 89.5
Hard hit: 0.0%
Sweet spot: 0.0%
Launch angle: -6.0°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity89.5 mph

Hard hit rate0.0%

Contact rate40.0%

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, 2017.

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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 .254.

Situational hitting

How Jharel Cotton 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	2	—	—	—	—	—	—	.000	.000	.000	.000
Bases empty · thin	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
Runners on · thin	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
RISP · 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, 2017.

Pitch sequencing

What Jharel Cotton 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 2017.


Four-Seam Fastball	33.7%	731	93.2	2,215	47.9%	17.3%
Slider	22.4%	487	88.5	2,199	42.3%	27.4%
Changeup	21.5%	467	77.9	2,322	43.7%	30.2%
Sinker	13.3%	289	92.7	2,153	42.6%	14.2%
Curveball	8.6%	186	77.2	2,412	41.9%	17.6%
Unknown	0.5%	10	41.1	972	50.0%	0.0%

Jharel Cotton'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.