P · 2016
Jake Esch
- Age
- 27
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 3"
- Weight
- 205 lb
- Born
- March 27, 1990 in Saint Paul, MN, USA
- MLB debut
- August 31, 2016
Age shown as of the 2017 season.
- dbWAR
- -.4 3 season(s)
- PA
- 5
- AVG
- .200
- OBP
- .200
- SLG
- .200
- wRC+
- 1 100 = avg
Jake Esch is a pitcher for the Miami Marlins. In 2016 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 5 plate appearances in 3 games. His batting average was .200, 21.7% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .200 clip and slugged .200, for an OPS of .400, 45.9% lower than the league mark of .739. He averaged 81.5 mph off the bat and made contact on 77.8% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 1 wRC+ puts his offence 99% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -0.6 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, 2016.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2016. These four terms sum to -0.4 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .200 | .200 | .200 | .000 | .333 | 0.0% | 40.0% | .175 | -0.6 | 1 | -0.0 | — |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2016 | 3 | 3 | 13.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 5.54 | 7.22 | 1.77 | 6.9 | 4.2 | 132 | 172 | -0.3 | — |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs RHP | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .200 | .200 | .200 | .175 | 40.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 30 | 26 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 5 | .269 | .367 | .538 | .390 | 16.7% |
| vs RHB | 29 | 26 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 5 | .385 | .448 | .692 | .476 | 17.2% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2016.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 1 tracked batted balls in 2016. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 81.5 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 81.5 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -50.0° 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, 2016.
Situational hitting
How Jake Esch 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 | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .200 | .200 | .200 | .175 |
| Bases empty · thin | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | .877 |
| Runner on first · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| 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, 2016.
Pitch sequencing
What Jake Esch 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 2016.
| Four-Seam Fastball | 105 | 90.1 | 2,082 | 43.8% | 4.7% | |
| Slider | 63 | 84.0 | 412 | 55.6% | 35.6% | |
| Curveball | 21 | 79.0 | 487 | 42.9% | 33.3% | |
| Sinker | 15 | 89.3 | 1,959 | 20.0% | 0.0% |
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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.