P · 2015

Tim Cooney

St. Louis Cardinals National League CentralP

Age: 25
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 195 lb
Number: #66

Born: December 19, 1990 in Collegeville, PA, USA
MLB debut: April 30, 2015

dbWAR: .5
PA: 11
AVG: .300
OBP: .300
SLG: .400
wRC+: 93

Tim Cooney is a pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals. In 2015 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 3 hits across 11 plate appearances in 6 games. His batting average was .300, 17.9% higher than the league average of .254. He reached base at a .300 clip and slugged .400, for an OPS of .700, 3.0% lower than the league mark of .721. He averaged 87.6 mph off the bat, hit 30.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 88.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 93 wRC+ puts his offence 7% below average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — -0.1 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, 2015.

wRC+93

wOBA.304

ISO.100

BB%0.0%

WAR.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2015. These four terms sum to +0.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2015	6	11	3	0	0	0	0	0	.300	.300	.400	.100	.300	0.0%	0.0%	.304	-0.1	93	0.0	—

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

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2015	6	6	31.1	1	0	0	28	11	29	10	3.16	3.58	1.21	8.3	2.9	80	90	0.5	—

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2015. 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	6	6	2	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.294	0.0%
vs RHP	5	5	1	0	0	0	.200	.200	.400	.255	0.0%

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2015. 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	26	22	7	0	2	6	.318	.400	.364	.334	23.1%
vs RHB	104	94	21	3	8	23	.223	.284	.404	.299	22.1%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2015.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 10 tracked batted balls in 2015. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 87.6
Max exit velo: 103.9
Hard hit: 30.0%
Sweet spot: 20.0%
Launch angle: -1.2°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity87.6 mph

Hard hit rate30.0%

Contact rate88.9%

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, 2015.

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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 .254.

Situational hitting

How Tim Cooney 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	11	—	—	—	—	—	—	.300	.300	.400	.304
Bases empty · thin	7	7	2	0	0	0	0	.286	.286	.429	.308
Runner on first · thin	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	.441
Runners on · thin	4	4	1	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.220
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, 2015.

Pitch sequencing

What Tim Cooney 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 2015.


Four-Seam Fastball	47.2%	227	89.5	2,005	43.2%	5.9%
Changeup	22.0%	106	82.1	2,073	41.5%	40.7%
Curveball	19.8%	95	74.3	1,461	41.1%	25.0%
Slider	8.7%	42	81.2	448	57.1%	35.0%

Tim Cooney'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.