C · 2021
Nick Ciuffo
- Age
- 26
- B/T
- L/R
- Height
- 5' 11"
- Weight
- 205 lb
- Born
- March 7, 1995 in Mount Pleasant, SC, USA
- MLB debut
- September 3, 2018
- dbWAR
- -.0 3 season(s)
- PA
- 6
- AVG
- .200
- OBP
- .333
- SLG
- .400
- wRC+
- 104 100 = avg
Nick Ciuffo is a catcher for the Baltimore Orioles. In 2021 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 6 plate appearances in 2 games. His batting average was .200, 18.0% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .333 clip and slugged .400, for an OPS of .733, 0.8% higher than the league mark of .728. He averaged 85.0 mph off the bat, hit 50.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 71.4% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 104 wRC+ puts his offence 4% above average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — +0.1 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, +0.1 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, 2021.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2021. These four terms sum to +0.4 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .200 | .333 | .400 | .200 | .250 | 16.7% | 16.7% | .329 | +0.1 | 104 | 0.0 | |
| 2019 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .167 | .167 | .167 | .000 | .333 | 0.0% | 50.0% | .145 | -0.9 | -21 | -0.1 | |
| 2018 | 16 | 44 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 12 | .189 | .262 | .297 | .108 | .240 | 6.8% | 27.3% | .251 | -2.4 | 55 | -0.0 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs RHP | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .200 | .333 | .400 | .329 | 16.7% |
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 4 tracked batted balls in 2021. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 85.0 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 97.8 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 50.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 50.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 24.0° 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, 2021.
Situational hitting
How Nick Ciuffo 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 | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .200 | .333 | .400 | .329 |
| Bases empty · thin | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .250 | .400 | .500 | .395 |
| Runner on first · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .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.
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.