C · 2018

Bruce Maxwell

Age: 28
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 250 lb

Born: December 20, 1990 in Weisbaden, Germany
MLB debut: July 23, 2016

dbWAR: 1.2
PA: 58
AVG: .182
OBP: .207
SLG: .309
wRC+: 36

Bruce Maxwell is a catcher for the Oakland Athletics. In 2018 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 6 RBIs, notching 10 hits across 58 plate appearances in 18 games. His batting average was .182, 26.7% lower than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .207 clip and slugged .309, for an OPS of .516, 29.1% lower than the league mark of .728. He averaged 89.1 mph off the bat, hit 35.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 5.0% of them and made contact on 78.4% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 36 wRC+ puts his offence 64% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -4.5 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, +1.1 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, 2018.

wRC+36

wOBA.223

ISO.127

BB%3.4%

WAR-.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2018. These four terms sum to -1.4 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2018	18	58	10	1	6	2	13	.182	.207	.309	.127	.214	3.4%	22.4%	.223	-4.5	36	-0.1
2017	75	253	52	3	22	31	63	.237	.329	.333	.096	.316	12.3%	24.9%	.300	-5.2	81	0.8
2016	31	101	26	1	14	8	24	.283	.337	.402	.120	.368	7.9%	23.8%	.323	+0.1	106	0.5

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2018. 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	15	15	1	0	0	2	.067	.067	.133	.085	13.3%
vs RHP	43	40	9	1	2	11	.225	.256	.375	.272	25.6%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2018.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 40 tracked batted balls in 2018. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 5.0%
Exit velocity: 89.1
Max exit velo: 111.0
Hard hit: 35.0%
Sweet spot: 42.5%
Launch angle: 6.0°

Barrel rate5.0%

Exit velocity89.1 mph

Hard hit rate35.0%

Contact rate78.4%

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, 2018.

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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 .247.

Situational hitting

How Bruce Maxwell 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	58	—	—	—	—	—	—	.182	.207	.309	.223
Bases empty	31	31	5	1	1	0	8	.161	.161	.290	.192
Runner on first · thin	12	11	3	0	1	1	2	.273	.333	.545	.378
Runners on	27	24	5	0	5	2	5	.208	.259	.333	.259
RISP · thin	15	13	2	0	4	1	3	.154	.200	.154	.164

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, 2018.

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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.