P · 2016

Spencer Patton

Age: 35
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 200 lb
Number: #44

Born: February 20, 1988 in Urbana, IL, USA
MLB debut: September 4, 2014

Age shown as of the 2023 season.

dbWAR: -.1
PA: 2
AVG: .000
OBP: .000
SLG: .000
wRC+: -122

Spencer Patton is a pitcher for the Chicago Cubs. In 2016 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 .255. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .739. He made contact on 33.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -122 wRC+ puts his offence 222% 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, 2016.

wRC+-122

wOBA.000

ISO.000

BB%0.0%

WAR-.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2016. These four terms sum to -0.4 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

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Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

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2016	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-0.5	-122	-0.0	—

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2023	12	12.1	0	0	0	13	7	7	6	5.11	6.74	1.54	5.1	4.4	118	156	-0.3
2022	7	7.0	0	0	0	4	3	5	3	3.86	5.68	1.00	6.4	3.9	97	143	-0.1
2021	42	42.1	2	2	2	36	18	48	15	3.83	3.19	1.20	10.2	3.2	90	75	0.7
2016	16	21.1	1	1	0	20	13	22	14	5.48	5.02	1.59	9.3	5.9	131	120	-0.1
2015	27	24.0	1	1	0	24	24	28	12	9.00	5.51	1.50	10.5	4.5	227	139	-0.3

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2016. 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 RHP	2	2	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	50.0%

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2016. 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 LHB	40	31	7	0	8	11	.226	.400	.290	.330	27.5%
vs RHB	61	55	13	3	6	11	.236	.311	.418	.321	18.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2016.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2016.

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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 .255.

Situational hitting

How Spencer Patton 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	2	—	—	—	—	—	—	.000	.000	.000	.000
Bases empty · thin	2	2	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, 2016.

Pitch sequencing

What Spencer Patton 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 2016.


Four-Seam Fastball	58.6%	229	92.3	1,779	45.4%	25.8%
Slider	31.5%	123	84.0	580	48.8%	33.3%
Sinker	5.6%	22	91.2	1,637	13.6%	0.0%
Changeup	4.3%	17	83.8	1,104	35.3%	14.3%

Spencer Patton's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters.

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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.