CF · 2016
Rusney Castillo
- Age
- 29
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 5' 9"
- Weight
- 207 lb
- Born
- July 9, 1987 in Ciego de Avila, Cuba
- MLB debut
- September 17, 2014
- dbWAR
- -.2 2 season(s)
- PA
- 8
- AVG
- .250
- OBP
- .250
- SLG
- .375
- wRC+
- 60 100 = avg
Rusney Castillo is a center fielder for the Boston Red Sox. In 2016 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 2 hits across 8 plate appearances in 6 games. His batting average was .250, 2.1% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .250 clip and slugged .375, for an OPS of .625, 15.4% lower than the league mark of .739. He averaged 99.9 mph off the bat, hit 80.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 20.0% of them and made contact on 66.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 60 wRC+ puts his offence 40% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -0.3 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, 2016.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2016. These four terms sum to -0.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .250 | .250 | .375 | .125 | .400 | 0.0% | 37.5% | .268 | -0.3 | 60 | -0.0 | |
| 2015 | 78 | 289 | 69 | 5 | 29 | 4 | 13 | 54 | .253 | .288 | .359 | .106 | .298 | 4.5% | 18.7% | .286 | -7.1 | 74 | -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 LHP | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 100.0% |
| vs RHP | 7 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .286 | .286 | .429 | .306 | 28.6% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2016.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 5 tracked batted balls in 2016. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 20.0% 1 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 99.9 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 105.2 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 80.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 20.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 5.0° 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, 2016.
Situational hitting
How Rusney Castillo 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 | 8 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .250 | .250 | .375 | .268 |
| Bases empty · thin | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .200 | .200 | .200 | .175 |
| Runner on first · thin | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | 1.000 | .632 |
| Runners on · thin | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .667 | .422 |
| RISP · 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, 2016.
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.