P · 2018
Braden Shipley
- Age
- 26
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 190 lb
- Born
- February 22, 1992 in Medford, OR, USA
- MLB debut
- July 25, 2016
- dbWAR
- -1.4 6 season(s)
- PA
- 2
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .000
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- -118 100 = avg
Braden Shipley is a pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks. In 2018 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 2 plate appearances in 2 games. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .728. He averaged 64.4 mph off the bat and made contact on 75.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -118 wRC+ puts his offence 218% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -0.5 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, 2018.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2018. 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 0.0% | .000 | -0.5 | -118 | -0.0 | |
| 2017 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 33.3% | .000 | -1.6 | -115 | -0.1 | |
| 2016 | 12 | 27 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 10 | .115 | .115 | .154 | .038 | .188 | 0.0% | 37.0% | .116 | -4.4 | -36 | -0.3 |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 3 | 0 | 5.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 7.20 | 3.76 | 1.20 | 5.4 | 3.6 | 174 | 91 | 0.0 | |
| 2017 | 10 | 3 | 25.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 31 | 16 | 18 | 15 | 5.76 | 6.24 | 1.84 | 6.5 | 5.4 | 132 | 143 | -0.3 | |
| 2016 | 13 | 11 | 70.0 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 80 | 41 | 43 | 28 | 5.27 | 5.76 | 1.54 | 5.5 | 3.6 | 126 | 137 | -0.6 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs RHP | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 9 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .111 | .111 | .111 | .098 | 33.3% |
| vs RHB | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .333 | .500 | .333 | .397 | 0.0% |
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 1 tracked batted balls in 2018. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 64.4 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 64.4 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -38.0° 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, 2018.
Situational hitting
How Braden Shipley 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 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Bases empty · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| 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, 2018.
Pitch sequencing
What Braden Shipley 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 2018.
| Four-Seam Fastball | 30 | 94.2 | 2,130 | 36.7% | 18.2% | |
| Curveball | 25 | 79.6 | 2,030 | 32.0% | 20.0% | |
| Changeup | 18 | 85.5 | 1,920 | 66.7% | 33.3% |
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.