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3B · 2017

Adonis García

Age
32
B/T
R/R
Height
5' 9"
Weight
205 lb
Number
#14
Born
April 12, 1985 in Ciego de Avila, Cuba
MLB debut
May 19, 2015
dbWAR
2.5
3 season(s)
PA
183
AVG
.237
OBP
.273
SLG
.347
wRC+
63
100 = avg

Adonis García is a third baseman for the Atlanta Braves. In 2017 he hit 5 home runs and knocked in 19 RBIs, notching 41 hits across 183 plate appearances in 52 games. His batting average was .237, 7.1% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .273 clip and slugged .347, for an OPS of .620, 17.4% lower than the league mark of .750 — 14th of 16 on his team, and 388th of 435 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 87.8 mph off the bat, hit 37.6% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 1.6% of them and made contact on 80.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 63 wRC+ puts his offence 37% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -8.3 runs with the bat, +0.7 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.

wRC+63
wOBA.270
ISO.110
BB%3.8%
WAR-.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2017. These four terms sum to -1.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting-8.3Baserunning+0.7Position+0.3Replacement+6.1
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

1.50.7-0.1151617

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
201752183415194723.237.273.347.110.2473.8%12.6%.270-8.363-0.1
2016134563145146532493.273.311.406.133.3084.3%16.5%.311-4.8911.5
2015581985310260535.277.293.497.220.2912.5%17.7%.339+3.41171.1

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2017. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP29266223.231.310.462.33210.3%
vs RHP154147353520.238.266.327.25913.0%

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 125 tracked batted balls in 2017. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate
1.6%
2 barrels
Exit velocity
87.8
mph average
Max exit velo
107.8
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
37.6%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
30.4%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
4.8°
average
Barrel rate1.6%
Exit velocity87.8 mph
Hard hit rate37.6%
Contact rate80.2%

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.

.250.125.300.2355 AB7 AB7 AB.27818 AB.33315 AB.12516 AB6 AB.33315 AB.15819 AB
Below averageLeague averageAbove average
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 Adonis García 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.
SituationPAABHHRRBIBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBA
All situations183.237.273.347.270
Bases empty103992633314.263.291.384.293
Runner on first353230025.094.171.094.136
Runners on80741521649.203.250.297.242
RISP45421221624.286.311.452.323

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2017.

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Similar players

Nearest 2017 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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.