PH · 2017
Micah Johnson
- Age
- 27
- B/T
- L/R
- Height
- 6' 0"
- Weight
- 210 lb
- Number
- #7
- Born
- December 18, 1990 in Indianapolis, IN, USA
- MLB debut
- April 6, 2015
- dbWAR
- -.2 3 season(s)
- PA
- 11
- AVG
- .200
- OBP
- .200
- SLG
- .200
- wRC+
- -2 100 = avg
Micah Johnson is a position player for the Atlanta Braves. In 2017 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 2 hits across 11 plate appearances in 11 games. His batting average was .200, 21.6% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .200 clip and slugged .200, for an OPS of .400, 46.7% lower than the league mark of .750. He averaged 93.9 mph off the bat, hit 50.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 73.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -2 wRC+ puts his offence 102% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -1.4 runs with the bat, +0.2 on the bases, -0.3 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, 2017.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2017. These four terms sum to -1.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 11 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | .200 | .200 | .200 | .000 | .333 | 0.0% | 36.4% | .175 | -1.4 | -2 | -0.1 | |
| 2016 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .167 | .167 | .167 | .000 | .200 | 0.0% | 16.7% | .146 | -0.8 | -20 | -0.1 | |
| 2015 | 35 | 114 | 23 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 30 | .230 | .306 | .270 | .040 | .329 | 7.9% | 26.3% | .268 | -4.4 | 67 | -0.0 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs RHP | 11 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .200 | .200 | .200 | .175 | 36.4% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2017.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 2 tracked batted balls in 2017. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 93.9 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 99.6 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 50.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 50.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 3.0° 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, 2017.
Situational hitting
How Micah Johnson 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 | 11 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .200 | .200 | .200 | .175 |
| Bases empty · thin | 6 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .167 | .167 | .167 | .146 |
| Runner on first · thin | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .291 |
| Runners on · thin | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .219 |
| RISP · thin | 2 | 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, 2017.
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.