DH · 2021

Jacob Nottingham

Age: 26
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 220 lb
Number: #26

Born: April 3, 1995 in Redlands, CA, USA
MLB debut: April 16, 2018

dbWAR: .3
PA: 45
AVG: .150
OBP: .222
SLG: .400
wRC+: 66

Jacob Nottingham is a designated hitter for the Seattle Mariners. In 2021 he hit 3 home runs and knocked in 6 RBIs, notching 6 hits across 45 plate appearances in 15 games. His batting average was .150, 38.5% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .222 clip and slugged .400, for an OPS of .622, 14.5% lower than the league mark of .728. He averaged 87.3 mph off the bat, hit 33.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 14.3% of them and made contact on 51.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 66 wRC+ puts his offence 34% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -2.0 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, -0.6 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+66

wOBA.265

ISO.250

BB%4.4%

WAR-.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2021. These four terms sum to -1.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2021	15	45	6	3	6	2	20	.150	.222	.400	.250	.167	4.4%	44.4%	.265	-2.0	66	-0.1
2020	17	54	9	4	13	5	20	.188	.278	.458	.271	.208	9.3%	37.0%	.314	-0.4	94	0.2
2019	5	7	2	1	4	0	2	.333	.429	.833	.500	.333	0.0%	28.6%	.508	+1.1	227	0.1
2018	7	24	4	0	0	4	8	.200	.333	.250	.050	.333	16.7%	33.3%	.281	-0.7	74	0.1

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	22	20	4	3	1	10	.200	.273	.700	.395	45.5%
vs RHP	23	20	2	0	1	10	.100	.174	.100	.140	43.5%

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

Barrel rate: 14.3%
Exit velocity: 87.3
Max exit velo: 108.5
Hard hit: 33.3%
Sweet spot: 42.9%
Launch angle: 31.7°

Barrel rate14.3%

Exit velocity87.3 mph

Hard hit rate33.3%

Contact rate51.0%

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 Jacob Nottingham 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	45	—	—	—	—	—	—	.150	.222	.400	.265
Bases empty · thin	23	21	5	2	2	1	10	.238	.304	.571	.368
Runner on first · thin	6	6	1	1	2	0	3	.167	.167	.667	.331
Runners on · thin	22	19	1	1	4	1	10	.053	.136	.211	.157
RISP · thin	16	13	0	0	2	1	7	.000	.125	.000	.092

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.

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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.