DH · 2019

AJ Reed

Chicago White Sox American League CentralDH

Age: 26
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 275 lb
Number: #23

Born: May 10, 1993 in Terre Haute, IN, USA
MLB debut: June 25, 2016

dbWAR: -1.4
PA: 49
AVG: .136
OBP: .204
SLG: .205
wRC+: 8

AJ Reed is a designated hitter for the Chicago White Sox. In 2019 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 4 RBIs, notching 6 hits across 49 plate appearances in 14 games. His batting average was .136, 45.9% lower than the league average of .252. He reached base at a .204 clip and slugged .205, for an OPS of .409, 46.1% lower than the league mark of .758. He averaged 89.0 mph off the bat, hit 36.4% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 4.5% of them and made contact on 61.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 8 wRC+ puts his offence 92% below average. That comes to -0.5 dbWAR — -5.7 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, -1.2 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, 2019.

wRC+8

wOBA.187

ISO.068

BB%8.2%

WAR-.5

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2019. These four terms sum to -5.3 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2019	14	49	6	1	4	4	21	.136	.204	.205	.068	.217	8.2%	42.9%	.187	-5.7	8	-0.5
2018	1	3	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	33.3%	.000	-0.8	-121	-0.1
2017	2	6	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	16.7%	.000	-1.6	-128	-0.2
2016	44	141	20	3	8	18	48	.164	.270	.262	.098	.236	12.8%	34.0%	.247	-8.4	53	-0.7

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

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2019	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	3.21	0.00	0.0	0.0	0	71	0.0	—

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

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.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHP	4	4	1	0	0	2	.250	.250	.250	.218	50.0%
vs RHP	45	40	5	1	4	19	.125	.200	.200	.184	42.2%

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2019. 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 RHB	3	3	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%

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 22 tracked batted balls in 2019. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 4.5%
Exit velocity: 89.0
Max exit velo: 106.7
Hard hit: 36.4%
Sweet spot: 22.7%
Launch angle: 16.1°

Barrel rate4.5%

Exit velocity89.0 mph

Hard hit rate36.4%

Contact rate61.5%

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.

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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 .252.

Situational hitting

How AJ Reed 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	49	—	—	—	—	—	—	.136	.204	.205	.187
Bases empty	26	24	2	0	0	2	13	.083	.154	.083	.122
Runner on first · thin	10	10	3	0	0	0	2	.300	.300	.300	.262
Runners on · thin	23	20	4	1	4	2	8	.200	.261	.350	.261
RISP · thin	13	10	1	1	4	2	6	.100	.231	.400	.260

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 AJ Reed throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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Changeup

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, and how often it misses in 2019.

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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.