P · 2021
Sal Romano
- Age
- 28
- B/T
- L/R
- Height
- 6' 5"
- Weight
- 255 lb
- Born
- October 12, 1993 in Syosset, NY, USA
- MLB debut
- April 16, 2017
- dbWAR
- -.9 9 season(s)
- PA
- 2
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .000
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- -112 100 = avg
Sal Romano was a pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds. In 2021 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 2 plate appearances in 2 games. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .728. He averaged 41.6 mph off the bat and made contact on 25.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -112 wRC+ puts his offence 212% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -0.5 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, 2021.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2021. These four terms sum to -0.5 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 50.0% | .000 | -0.5 | -112 | -0.0 | |
| 2019 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 50.0% | .000 | -0.6 | -118 | -0.0 | |
| 2018 | 21 | 40 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 24 | .056 | .056 | .083 | .028 | .167 | 0.0% | 60.0% | .060 | -8.4 | -76 | -0.7 | |
| 2017 | 15 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15 | .042 | .080 | .083 | .042 | .111 | 3.3% | 50.0% | .079 | -6.1 | -67 | -0.5 |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 19 | 0 | 25.0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 31 | 17 | 17 | 11 | 6.12 | 5.85 | 1.68 | 6.1 | 4.0 | 143 | 137 | -0.3 | |
| 2020 | 2 | 0 | 1.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 3.19 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 72 | 0.0 | |
| 2019 | 12 | 0 | 16.1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 22 | 14 | 16 | 8 | 7.71 | 6.09 | 1.84 | 8.8 | 4.4 | 171 | 135 | -0.2 | |
| 2018 | 39 | 25 | 145.2 | 8 | 11 | 0 | 155 | 86 | 105 | 53 | 5.31 | 4.95 | 1.43 | 6.5 | 3.3 | 128 | 119 | -0.1 | |
| 2017 | 16 | 16 | 87.0 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 91 | 43 | 73 | 37 | 4.45 | 4.24 | 1.47 | 7.6 | 3.8 | 102 | 97 | 1.0 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% |
| vs RHP | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 100.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 51 | 45 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 9 | .222 | .314 | .356 | .284 | 17.6% |
| vs RHB | 67 | 61 | 21 | 3 | 6 | 8 | .344 | .403 | .590 | .423 | 11.9% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2021.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 1 tracked batted balls in 2021. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 41.6 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 41.6 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -69.0° 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, 2021.
Situational hitting
How Sal Romano 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 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Bases empty · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runner on first · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .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, 2021.
Pitch sequencing
What Sal Romano 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 2021.
| Sinker | 267 | 93.6 | 2,090 | 41.6% | 11.8% | |
| Slider | 155 | 87.3 | 2,229 | 36.1% | 15.0% |
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.