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RF · 2019

Charlie Tilson

Age
27
B/T
L/L
Height
6' 1"
Weight
190 lb
Born
December 2, 1992 in Wilmette, IL, USA
MLB debut
August 2, 2016
dbWAR
-.5
3 season(s)
PA
157
AVG
.229
OBP
.293
SLG
.285
wRC+
56
100 = avg

Charlie Tilson is a right fielder for the Chicago White Sox. In 2019 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 12 RBIs, notching 33 hits across 157 plate appearances in 47 games. His batting average was .229, 9.2% lower than the league average of .252. He reached base at a .293 clip and slugged .285, for an OPS of .578, 23.7% lower than the league mark of .758 — the second worst on his team, and 419th of 451 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 87.3 mph off the bat, hit 34.4% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 3.1% of them and made contact on 75.1% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 56 wRC+ puts his offence 44% below average. That comes to -0.4 dbWAR — -8.7 runs with the bat, +0.7 on the bases, -1.4 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, 2019.

wRC+56
wOBA.257
ISO.056
BB%6.4%
WAR-.4

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2019. These four terms sum to -4.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting-8.7Baserunning+0.7Position-1.4Replacement+5.2
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

0.0-0.2-0.4161819

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2019471573311241038.229.293.285.056.3056.4%24.2%.257-8.756-0.4
2018371212801121020.264.331.292.028.3228.3%16.5%.285-3.378-0.2
201612100000.500.500.500.000.5000.0%0.0%.439+0.21830.0

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2019. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP25233027.130.200.130.16228.0%
vs RHP132121301831.248.311.314.27623.5%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2019.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 96 tracked batted balls in 2019. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate
3.1%
3 barrels
Exit velocity
87.3
mph average
Max exit velo
107.9
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
34.4%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
32.3%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
5.7°
average
Barrel rate3.1%
Exit velocity87.3 mph
Hard hit rate34.4%
Contact rate75.1%

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, 2019.

.091.1116 AB.40010 AB.2229 AB.11817 AB.50020 AB.40010 AB.2229 AB.09111 AB.18211 AB
Below averageLeague averageAbove average
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 .252.

Situational hitting

How Charlie Tilson 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.
SituationPAABHHRRBIBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBA
All situations157.229.293.285.257
Bases empty87821500321.183.230.207.200
Runner on first33321001010.313.333.344.297
Runners on706218112717.290.371.387.331
RISP3730811177.267.405.433.361

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2019.

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Similar players

Nearest 2019 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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.