P · 2019
Roenis Elías
- Age
- 34
- B/T
- L/L
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 205 lb
- Number
- #52
- Born
- August 1, 1988 in Guantanamo, Cuba
- MLB debut
- April 3, 2014
Age shown as of the 2022 season.
- dbWAR
- 1.0 8 season(s)
- PA
- 1
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .000
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- -116 100 = avg
Roenis Elías is a pitcher for the Washington Nationals. In 2019 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 1 plate appearances in 1 game. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .252. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .758. He averaged 73.9 mph off the bat and made contact on 66.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -116 wRC+ puts his offence 216% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -0.3 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, 2019.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2019. These four terms sum to -0.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 0.0% | .000 | -0.3 | -116 | -0.0 | |
| 2018 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .500 | .500 | .500 | .000 | 1.000 | 0.0% | 50.0% | .439 | +0.2 | 193 | 0.0 |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 7 | 0 | 7.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 3.52 | 4.42 | 1.30 | 7.0 | 3.5 | 89 | 111 | 0.0 | |
| 2019 | 48 | 0 | 50.0 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 46 | 22 | 47 | 18 | 3.96 | 5.07 | 1.28 | 8.5 | 3.2 | 88 | 113 | -0.1 | |
| 2018 | 23 | 4 | 51.0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 46 | 15 | 34 | 16 | 2.65 | 3.08 | 1.22 | 6.0 | 2.8 | 64 | 74 | 0.9 | |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.00 | 6.16 | 3.00 | 27.0 | 27.0 | 0 | 141 | -0.0 | |
| 2016 | 3 | 1 | 7.2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 12.91 | 7.71 | 2.61 | 3.5 | 5.9 | 308 | 184 | -0.3 | |
| 2015 | 22 | 20 | 115.1 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 106 | 53 | 97 | 44 | 4.14 | 4.52 | 1.30 | 7.6 | 3.4 | 104 | 114 | 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 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 67 | 57 | 21 | 5 | 9 | 11 | .368 | .455 | .649 | .462 | 16.4% |
| vs RHB | 149 | 138 | 25 | 5 | 9 | 36 | .181 | .235 | .333 | .241 | 24.2% |
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 1 tracked batted balls in 2019. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 73.9 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 73.9 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -38.0° 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, 2019.
Situational hitting
How Roenis Elías 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 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Bases empty · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .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, 2019.
Pitch sequencing
What Roenis Elías 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 2019.
| Four-Seam Fastball | 407 | 93.9 | 2,478 | 52.8% | 23.2% | |
| Changeup | 233 | 86.6 | 2,114 | 42.5% | 32.5% | |
| Curveball | 107 | 77.5 | 2,685 | 31.8% | 34.4% | |
| Sinker | 52 | 93.8 | 2,477 | 46.2% | 13.3% | |
| Unknown | 44 | — | — | 43.2% | 31.8% |
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.