C · 2021

Chance Sisco

Age: 26
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 210 lb
Number: #15

Born: February 24, 1995 in Corona, CA, USA
MLB debut: September 2, 2017

dbWAR: 1.7
PA: 83
AVG: .149
OBP: .241
SLG: .189
wRC+: 24

Chance Sisco is a catcher for the Baltimore Orioles. In 2021 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 4 RBIs, notching 11 hits across 83 plate appearances in 26 games. His batting average was .149, 39.0% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .241 clip and slugged .189, for an OPS of .430, 40.9% lower than the league mark of .728. He averaged 81.7 mph off the bat, hit 9.6% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 1.9% of them and made contact on 67.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 24 wRC+ puts his offence 76% below average. That comes to -0.3 dbWAR — -7.5 runs with the bat, -0.1 on the bases, +1.5 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+24

wOBA.209

ISO.041

BB%8.4%

WAR-.3

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2021. These four terms sum to -3.3 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2021	26	83	11	0	4	0	7	21	.149	.241	.189	.041	.208	8.4%	25.3%	.209	-7.5	24	-0.3
2020	35	121	21	4	10	0	17	41	.214	.364	.378	.163	.321	14.0%	33.9%	.339	+1.8	114	0.7
2019	56	198	35	8	20	0	22	61	.210	.333	.395	.186	.276	11.1%	30.8%	.322	-0.1	97	0.9
2018	62	184	29	2	16	1	13	66	.181	.288	.269	.087	.293	7.1%	35.9%	.261	-8.5	61	0.1
2017	8	22	6	2	4	0	3	7	.333	.455	.778	.444	.444	13.6%	31.8%	.506	+3.3	223	0.4

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	14	13	1	0	1	3	.077	.143	.077	.114	21.4%
vs RHP	69	61	10	0	6	18	.164	.261	.213	.228	26.1%

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

Barrel rate: 1.9%
Exit velocity: 81.7
Max exit velo: 100.5
Hard hit: 9.6%
Sweet spot: 26.9%
Launch angle: 13.6°

Barrel rate1.9%

Exit velocity81.7 mph

Hard hit rate9.6%

Contact rate67.7%

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, 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 Chance Sisco 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	83	—	—	—	—	—	—	.149	.241	.189	.209
Bases empty	47	43	5	0	0	4	11	.116	.191	.116	.155
Runner on first · thin	16	13	3	0	0	2	5	.231	.375	.308	.325
Runners on	36	31	6	0	4	3	10	.194	.306	.290	.280
RISP · thin	20	18	3	0	4	1	5	.167	.250	.278	.243

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.