P · 2021
James Kaprielian
- Age
- 29
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 3"
- Weight
- 225 lb
- Born
- March 2, 1994 in Laguna Hills, CA, USA
- MLB debut
- August 16, 2020
Age shown as of the 2023 season.
- dbWAR
- 1.2 5 season(s)
- PA
- 4
- AVG
- .333
- OBP
- .333
- SLG
- .333
- wRC+
- 86 100 = avg
James Kaprielian is a pitcher for the Oakland Athletics. In 2021 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 4 plate appearances in 2 games. His batting average was .333, 36.7% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .333 clip and slugged .333, for an OPS of .667, 8.4% lower than the league mark of .728. He averaged 75.9 mph off the bat, hit 50.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 87.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 86 wRC+ puts his offence 14% 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, 2021.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2021. These four terms sum to +0.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .000 | 1.000 | 0.0% | 50.0% | .292 | -0.1 | 86 | 0.0 | — |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 14 | 11 | 61.0 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 66 | 43 | 57 | 31 | 6.34 | 5.07 | 1.59 | 8.4 | 4.6 | 146 | 117 | 0.0 | |
| 2022 | 26 | 26 | 134.0 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 121 | 63 | 98 | 59 | 4.23 | 4.63 | 1.34 | 6.6 | 4.0 | 107 | 117 | 0.4 | |
| 2021 | 24 | 21 | 119.1 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 105 | 54 | 123 | 41 | 4.07 | 4.33 | 1.22 | 9.3 | 3.1 | 95 | 102 | 1.0 | |
| 2020 | 2 | 0 | 3.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 7.36 | 9.74 | 1.64 | 9.8 | 4.9 | 165 | 219 | -0.2 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs RHP | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .292 | 50.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 258 | 222 | 59 | 11 | 31 | 53 | .266 | .360 | .500 | .371 | 20.5% |
| vs RHB | 244 | 229 | 46 | 8 | 10 | 70 | .201 | .240 | .362 | .259 | 28.7% |
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 2 tracked batted balls in 2021. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 75.9 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 108.1 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 50.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 50.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -34.5° 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 James Kaprielian 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 | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .333 | .333 | .333 | .292 |
| Bases empty · thin | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .500 | .500 | .500 | .438 |
| Runner on first · thin | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · 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, 2021.
Pitch sequencing
What James Kaprielian 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 2021.
| Four-Seam Fastball | 1,070 | 93.0 | 2,034 | 49.0% | 27.8% | |
| Slider | 352 | 85.2 | 2,276 | 45.5% | 33.3% | |
| Changeup | 320 | 83.8 | 1,299 | 44.4% | 23.8% | |
| Curveball | 160 | 77.9 | 2,442 | 45.0% | 21.1% | |
| Sinker | 122 | 92.4 | 1,983 | 39.3% | 19.2% |
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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.