LF · 2021
Nick Williams
- Age
- 28
- B/T
- L/L
- Height
- 6' 3"
- Weight
- 215 lb
- Number
- #5
- Born
- September 8, 1993 in Galveston, TX, USA
- MLB debut
- June 30, 2017
- dbWAR
- 1.4 4 season(s)
- PA
- 13
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .231
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- -1 100 = avg
Nick Williams is a left fielder for the Chicago White Sox. In 2021 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 13 plate appearances in 4 games. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .231 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .231, 68.3% lower than the league mark of .728. He averaged 86.0 mph off the bat, hit 33.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 57.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -1 wRC+ puts his offence 101% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -1.6 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, -0.2 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, 2021.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2021. These four terms sum to -1.3 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 4 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | .000 | .231 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 7.7% | 30.8% | .172 | -1.6 | -1 | -0.1 | |
| 2019 | 64 | 112 | 16 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 43 | .151 | .196 | .245 | .094 | .230 | 3.6% | 38.4% | .195 | -12.3 | 13 | -1.0 | |
| 2018 | 138 | 448 | 104 | 17 | 50 | 3 | 32 | 111 | .256 | .324 | .425 | .170 | .312 | 7.1% | 24.8% | .328 | +3.4 | 105 | 1.2 | |
| 2017 | 82 | 343 | 90 | 12 | 55 | 1 | 20 | 97 | .288 | .338 | .473 | .185 | .375 | 5.8% | 28.3% | .348 | +6.6 | 113 | 1.4 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs RHP | 13 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | .000 | .231 | .000 | .172 | 30.8% |
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 6 tracked batted balls in 2021. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 86.0 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 104.6 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 33.3% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 33.3% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 13.8° 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 Nick Williams 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 | 13 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .000 | .231 | .000 | .172 |
| Bases empty · thin | 10 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | .000 | .300 | .000 | .223 |
| Runner on first · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| RISP · thin | 2 | 2 | 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, 2021.
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.