C · 2023

Michael Pérez

Age: 31
B/T: L/R
Height: 5' 10"
Weight: 195 lb

Born: August 7, 1992 in Bayamon, Puerto Rico
MLB debut: July 26, 2018

dbWAR: -.4
PA: 8
AVG: .500
OBP: .500
SLG: .625
wRC+: 222

Michael Pérez is a catcher for the New York Mets. In 2023 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 4 hits across 8 plate appearances in 3 games. His batting average was .500, 101.3% higher than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .500 clip and slugged .625, for an OPS of 1.125, 53.2% higher than the league mark of .734. He averaged 93.5 mph off the bat, hit 57.1% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 28.6% of them and made contact on 88.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 222 wRC+ puts his offence 122% above average. That comes to 0.2 dbWAR — +1.1 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, 2023.

wRC+222

wOBA.489

ISO.125

BB%0.0%

WAR.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2023. These four terms sum to +1.5 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2023	3	8	4	0	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.625	.125	.571	0.0%	12.5%	.489	+1.1	222	0.2
2022	41	132	18	6	14	1	10	32	.149	.214	.298	.149	.145	7.6%	24.2%	.229	-8.7	41	-0.2
2021	69	231	30	7	21	0	19	68	.143	.221	.290	.148	.170	8.2%	29.4%	.228	-17.4	38	-0.6
2020	32	93	14	1	13	0	7	27	.167	.237	.238	.071	.228	7.5%	29.0%	.219	-8.2	30	-0.3
2019	18	55	10	0	2	0	8	19	.217	.345	.326	.109	.370	14.5%	34.5%	.307	-0.8	92	0.2
2018	24	80	21	1	11	0	3	19	.284	.304	.392	.108	.357	3.8%	23.8%	.300	-1.2	90	0.3

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2023. 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 LHP	2	2	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	50.0%
vs RHP	6	6	4	0	0	0	.667	.667	.833	.652	0.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2023.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 7 tracked batted balls in 2023. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 28.6%
Exit velocity: 93.5
Max exit velo: 109.1
Hard hit: 57.1%
Sweet spot: 57.1%
Launch angle: 17.3°

Barrel rate28.6%

Exit velocity93.5 mph

Hard hit rate57.1%

Contact rate88.2%

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, 2023.

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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 .248.

Situational hitting

How Michael Pérez 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	8	—	—	—	—	—	—	.500	.500	.625	.489
Bases empty · thin	6	6	3	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	.442
Runner on first · thin	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	1.000	.631
Runners on · thin	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	1.000	.631

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, 2023.

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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.