C · 2023

Zack Collins

Cleveland Guardians American League CentralC

Age: 28
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 220 lb
Number: #21

Born: February 6, 1995 in Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
MLB debut: June 19, 2019

dbWAR: .4
PA: 6
AVG: .500
OBP: .667
SLG: .500
wRC+: 253

Zack Collins is a catcher for the Cleveland Guardians. In 2023 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 2 hits across 6 plate appearances in 2 games. His batting average was .500, 101.3% higher than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .667 clip and slugged .500, for an OPS of 1.167, 58.9% higher than the league mark of .734. He averaged 100.0 mph off the bat, hit 100.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 66.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 253 wRC+ puts his offence 153% above average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — +1.1 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, 2023.

wRC+253

wOBA.531

ISO.000

BB%33.3%

WAR.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2023. These four terms sum to +1.4 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2023	2	6	2	0	0	0	2	2	.500	.667	.500	.000	1.000	33.3%	33.3%	.531	+1.1	253	0.1
2022	32	108	15	4	11	0	9	41	.155	.231	.320	.165	.208	8.3%	38.0%	.247	-5.6	55	-0.4
2021	75	231	41	4	26	1	34	69	.210	.330	.338	.128	.303	14.7%	29.9%	.305	-2.3	92	0.9
2020	7	18	1	0	0	0	2	5	.063	.167	.125	.063	.091	11.1%	27.8%	.149	-2.7	-18	-0.2
2019	27	102	16	3	12	0	14	39	.186	.307	.349	.163	.295	13.7%	38.2%	.289	-2.9	78	-0.0

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2023. 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	5	4	2	0	1	2	.500	.600	.500	.495	40.0%
vs RHP	1	0	0	0	1	0	—	1.000	—	.708	0.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2023.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 2 tracked batted balls in 2023. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 100.0
Max exit velo: 104.8
Hard hit: 100.0%
Sweet spot: 100.0%
Launch angle: 13.5°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity100.0 mph

Hard hit rate100.0%

Contact rate66.7%

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, 2023.

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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 .248.

Situational hitting

How Zack Collins 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	6	—	—	—	—	—	—	.500	.667	.500	.531
Bases empty · thin	6	4	2	0	0	2	2	.500	.667	.500	.531

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, 2023.

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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.