P · 2019
Wei-Yin Chen
- Age
- 34
- B/T
- R/L
- Height
- 6' 0"
- Weight
- 200 lb
- Number
- #16
- Born
- July 21, 1985 in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
- MLB debut
- April 10, 2012
- dbWAR
- 1.8 9 season(s)
- PA
- 5
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .000
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- -116 100 = avg
Wei-Yin Chen is a pitcher for the Miami Marlins. In 2019 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 5 plate appearances in 5 games. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .252. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .758. He averaged 52.2 mph off the bat and made contact on 44.4% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -116 wRC+ puts his offence 216% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -1.4 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, 2019.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2019. These four terms sum to -1.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 80.0% | .000 | -1.4 | -116 | -0.1 | |
| 2018 | 26 | 42 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 18 | .150 | .150 | .175 | .025 | .273 | 0.0% | 42.9% | .142 | -6.0 | -24 | -0.5 | |
| 2017 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .125 | .125 | .125 | .000 | .200 | 0.0% | 37.5% | .109 | -1.4 | -49 | -0.1 | |
| 2016 | 21 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 36.7% | .000 | -12.5 | -123 | -1.1 |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 45 | 0 | 68.1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 87 | 50 | 63 | 18 | 6.59 | 5.23 | 1.54 | 8.3 | 2.4 | 146 | 116 | -0.2 | |
| 2018 | 26 | 26 | 133.1 | 6 | 12 | 0 | 131 | 71 | 111 | 47 | 4.79 | 4.43 | 1.33 | 7.5 | 3.2 | 115 | 107 | 0.9 | |
| 2017 | 9 | 5 | 33.0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 25 | 14 | 25 | 9 | 3.82 | 3.73 | 1.03 | 6.8 | 2.5 | 88 | 86 | 0.5 | |
| 2016 | 22 | 22 | 123.1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 134 | 68 | 100 | 24 | 4.96 | 4.50 | 1.28 | 7.3 | 1.8 | 118 | 107 | 0.8 | |
| 2015 | 31 | 31 | 191.1 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 192 | 71 | 153 | 41 | 3.34 | 4.16 | 1.22 | 7.2 | 1.9 | 84 | 105 | 1.6 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 100.0% |
| vs RHP | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 75.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 112 | 103 | 31 | 7 | 5 | 22 | .301 | .348 | .563 | .379 | 19.6% |
| vs RHB | 195 | 177 | 56 | 8 | 13 | 41 | .316 | .368 | .554 | .382 | 21.0% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2019.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 1 tracked batted balls in 2019. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 52.2 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 52.2 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 100.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 32.0° 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, 2019.
Situational hitting
How Wei-Yin Chen 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 | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Bases empty · thin | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runner on first · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 1 | 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, 2019.
Pitch sequencing
What Wei-Yin Chen 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 2019.
| Four-Seam Fastball | 554 | 91.4 | 2,138 | 51.6% | 14.2% | |
| Slider | 261 | 85.8 | 2,291 | 45.6% | 25.6% | |
| Curveball | 258 | 74.1 | 2,299 | 45.0% | 30.1% | |
| Changeup | 44 | 84.0 | 1,371 | 34.1% | 13.6% | |
| Sinker | 34 | 89.7 | 2,058 | 41.2% | 25.0% |
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.