P · 2016
Erik Johnson
- Age
- 27
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 3"
- Weight
- 230 lb
- Number
- #45
- Born
- December 30, 1989 in Mountain View, CA, USA
- MLB debut
- September 4, 2013
- dbWAR
- -1.8 3 season(s)
- PA
- 5
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .000
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- -117 100 = avg
Erik Johnson is a pitcher for the San Diego Padres. In 2016 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 5 plate appearances in 3 games. 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 .739. He averaged 104.9 mph off the bat, hit 100.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 50.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -117 wRC+ puts his offence 217% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -1.3 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 -1.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 60.0% | .000 | -1.3 | -117 | -0.1 | — |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 6 | 6 | 31.1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 46 | 29 | 21 | 11 | 8.33 | 8.67 | 1.82 | 6.0 | 3.2 | 199 | 207 | -1.3 | |
| 2015 | 6 | 6 | 35.0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 32 | 13 | 30 | 17 | 3.34 | 5.93 | 1.40 | 7.7 | 4.4 | 84 | 150 | -0.4 |
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 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 60.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 70 | 64 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 12 | .281 | .300 | .641 | .385 | 17.1% |
| vs RHB | 76 | 68 | 28 | 8 | 8 | 9 | .412 | .474 | .853 | .553 | 11.8% |
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
- 104.9 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 104.9 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 100.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 1.0° 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 Erik Johnson 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 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Bases empty · thin | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runner on first · thin | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 3 | 2 | 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 Erik Johnson 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 | 257 | 89.5 | 2,126 | 49.4% | 10.9% | |
| Slider | 120 | 82.8 | 826 | 39.2% | 26.0% | |
| Sinker | 92 | 89.9 | 2,117 | 41.3% | 13.2% | |
| Curveball | 55 | 70.9 | 1,698 | 23.6% | 15.8% | |
| Changeup | 48 | 78.6 | 1,551 | 31.3% | 38.1% |
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.