P · 2017
Chris O'Grady
- Age
- 28
- B/T
- R/L
- Height
- 6' 4"
- Weight
- 225 lb
- Born
- April 17, 1990 in Congers, NY, USA
- MLB debut
- July 8, 2017
Age shown as of the 2018 season.
- dbWAR
- -.2 3 season(s)
- PA
- 9
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .000
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- -127 100 = avg
Chris O'Grady is a pitcher for the Miami Marlins. In 2017 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 9 plate appearances in 4 games. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .750. He averaged 59.6 mph off the bat and made contact on 54.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -127 wRC+ puts his offence 227% below average. That comes to -0.2 dbWAR — -2.4 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, 2017.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2017. These four terms sum to -2.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 55.6% | .000 | -2.4 | -127 | -0.2 | — |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 8 | 0 | 7.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 6.43 | 6.30 | 1.57 | 10.3 | 5.1 | 155 | 152 | -0.1 | |
| 2017 | 13 | 6 | 33.0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 33 | 16 | 30 | 18 | 4.36 | 4.64 | 1.55 | 8.2 | 4.9 | 100 | 107 | 0.1 |
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 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 50.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 55 | 48 | 8 | 0 | 6 | 15 | .167 | .273 | .229 | .231 | 27.3% |
| vs RHB | 90 | 75 | 25 | 4 | 12 | 15 | .333 | .420 | .600 | .431 | 16.7% |
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 4 tracked batted balls in 2017. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 59.6 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 82.4 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 25.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -24.3° 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 Chris O'Grady 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 | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Bases empty · thin | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runner on first · thin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| Runners on · thin | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| RISP · thin | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .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.
Pitch sequencing
What Chris O'Grady 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 2017.
| Four-Seam Fastball | 223 | 87.4 | 2,056 | 43.0% | 22.7% | |
| Cutter | 203 | 82.3 | 2,269 | 44.3% | 21.2% | |
| Changeup | 79 | 78.6 | 1,574 | 41.8% | 24.4% | |
| Curveball | 43 | 74.7 | 2,386 | 39.5% | 25.0% |
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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.