P · 2021

Julio Urías

Los Angeles Dodgers National League WestP

Age: 27
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 225 lb

Born: August 12, 1996 in Culiacan Rosales, Sinaloa, Mexico
MLB debut: May 27, 2016

Age shown as of the 2023 season.

dbWAR: 10.5
PA: 70
AVG: .203
OBP: .217
SLG: .237
wRC+: 19

Julio Urías is a pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2021 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 9 RBIs, notching 12 hits across 70 plate appearances in 30 games. His batting average was .203, 16.6% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .217 clip and slugged .237, for an OPS of .454, 37.6% lower than the league mark of .728. He averaged 72.4 mph off the bat, hit 26.1% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 2.2% of them and made contact on 72.6% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 19 wRC+ puts his offence 81% below average. That comes to -0.5 dbWAR — -6.9 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.

wRC+19

wOBA.200

ISO.034

BB%0.0%

WAR-.5

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2021. These four terms sum to -4.6 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2021	30	70	12	9	0	22	.203	.217	.237	.034	.324	0.0%	31.4%	.200	-6.9	19	-0.5
2019	14	18	3	2	1	4	.250	.308	.250	.000	.375	5.6%	22.2%	.256	-1.0	56	-0.0
2018	1	1	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.3	-125	-0.0
2017	4	7	1	0	0	4	.167	.167	.167	.000	.500	0.0%	57.1%	.146	-1.0	-22	-0.1
2016	16	26	3	2	0	9	.136	.136	.136	.000	.231	0.0%	34.6%	.120	-4.2	-39	-0.3

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2023	21	21	117.1	11	8	0	112	60	117	24	4.60	4.69	1.16	9.0	1.8	106	108	0.7
2022	31	31	175.0	17	7	0	127	42	166	41	2.16	3.71	0.96	8.5	2.1	54	94	2.4
2021	32	32	185.2	20	3	0	151	61	195	38	2.96	3.13	1.02	9.5	1.8	69	73	4.2
2020	11	10	55.0	3	0	0	45	20	45	18	3.27	3.72	1.15	7.4	2.9	73	84	0.9
2019	37	8	79.2	4	3	4	59	22	85	27	2.49	3.43	1.08	9.6	3.1	55	76	1.3
2018	3	0	4.0	0	0	0	1	0	7	0	0.00	-0.34	0.25	15.8	0.0	0	-8	0.2
2017	5	5	23.1	0	2	0	23	14	11	14	5.40	4.70	1.59	4.2	5.4	124	108	0.1
2016	18	15	77.0	5	2	0	81	29	84	31	3.39	3.17	1.45	9.8	3.6	81	76	1.6

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2021. 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	12	10	4	0	0	3	.400	.400	.400	.351	25.0%
vs RHP	58	49	8	0	0	19	.163	.180	.204	.170	32.8%

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2021. 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 LHB	192	181	38	8	5	56	.210	.247	.392	.275	29.2%
vs RHB	553	510	113	11	33	139	.222	.272	.333	.265	25.1%

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 46 tracked batted balls in 2021. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 2.2%
Exit velocity: 72.4
Max exit velo: 104.4
Hard hit: 26.1%
Sweet spot: 23.9%
Launch angle: 3.5°

Barrel rate2.2%

Exit velocity72.4 mph

Hard hit rate26.1%

Contact rate72.6%

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.

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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 .243.

Situational hitting

How Julio Urías 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	70	—	—	—	—	—	—	.203	.217	.237	.200
Bases empty	35	35	5	0	0	0	16	.143	.143	.143	.125
Runner on first · thin	10	6	1	0	0	0	2	.167	.167	.167	.146
Runners on	35	24	7	0	9	0	6	.292	.320	.375	.306
RISP	25	18	6	0	9	0	4	.333	.368	.444	.356

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 Julio Urías 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	48.3%	1,347	94.1	2,499	54.6%	21.1%
Slurve	34.2%	954	81.4	2,884	53.1%	26.4%
Changeup	17.3%	483	86.8	1,921	41.0%	29.0%

Julio Urías's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters.

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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.