P · 2018
Heath Fillmyer
- Age
- 25
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 195 lb
- Born
- May 16, 1994 in Roebling, NJ, USA
- MLB debut
- June 24, 2018
Age shown as of the 2019 season.
- dbWAR
- -.3 3 season(s)
- PA
- 5
- AVG
- .250
- OBP
- .250
- SLG
- .500
- wRC+
- 99 100 = avg
Heath Fillmyer is a pitcher for the Kansas City Royals. In 2018 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 1 RBI, notching 1 hit across 5 plate appearances in 2 games. His batting average was .250, 0.8% higher than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .250 clip and slugged .500, for an OPS of .750, 3.1% higher than the league mark of .728. He averaged 101.7 mph off the bat, hit 100.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 28.6% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 99 wRC+ puts his offence 1% below average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — +0.0 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 +0.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .250 | .250 | .500 | .250 | 1.000 | 0.0% | 60.0% | .319 | +0.0 | 99 | 0.0 | — |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 12 | 3 | 22.1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 28 | 20 | 15 | 12 | 8.06 | 7.38 | 1.79 | 6.0 | 4.8 | 179 | 164 | -0.5 | |
| 2018 | 17 | 13 | 82.1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 78 | 39 | 57 | 32 | 4.26 | 4.75 | 1.34 | 6.2 | 3.5 | 103 | 115 | 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 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 50.0% |
| vs RHP | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .333 | .333 | .667 | .426 | 66.7% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 192 | 166 | 38 | 3 | 23 | 30 | .229 | .323 | .325 | .295 | 15.6% |
| vs RHB | 152 | 140 | 40 | 8 | 9 | 27 | .286 | .329 | .479 | .347 | 17.8% |
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
- 101.7 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 101.7 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 100.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 100.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 9.0° 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 Heath Fillmyer 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 | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .250 | .250 | .500 | .319 |
| Bases empty · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runner on first · thin | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .500 | .500 | 1.000 | .638 |
| Runners on · thin | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | .333 | .333 | .667 | .426 |
| RISP · thin | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .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 Heath Fillmyer 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 | 640 | 92.5 | 2,220 | 41.9% | 12.5% | |
| Slider | 294 | 84.1 | 2,388 | 44.9% | 35.3% | |
| Changeup | 194 | 85.4 | 1,653 | 40.2% | 31.0% | |
| Curveball | 141 | 79.4 | 2,543 | 41.1% | 22.6% | |
| Sinker | 54 | 91.8 | 2,188 | 27.8% | 10.5% |
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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.