P · 2021
Riley Smith
- Age
- 26
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 207 lb
- Number
- #46
- Born
- January 15, 1995 in Lufkin, TX, USA
- MLB debut
- August 26, 2020
- dbWAR
- -.0 3 season(s)
- PA
- 17
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .000
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- -118 100 = avg
Riley Smith is a pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks. In 2021 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 17 plate appearances in 11 games. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .244. 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 78.2 mph off the bat, hit 16.7% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 44.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -118 wRC+ puts his offence 218% below average. That comes to -0.4 dbWAR — -4.5 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, 2021.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2021. These four terms sum to -4.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 11 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 64.7% | .000 | -4.5 | -118 | -0.4 | — |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 24 | 6 | 67.1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 86 | 45 | 36 | 15 | 6.01 | 4.88 | 1.50 | 4.8 | 2.0 | 141 | 114 | -0.0 | |
| 2020 | 6 | 0 | 18.1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 3 | 18 | 5 | 1.47 | 2.76 | 1.09 | 8.8 | 2.5 | 33 | 62 | 0.4 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 57.1% |
| vs RHP | 10 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 70.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 117 | 107 | 30 | 5 | 5 | 14 | .280 | .319 | .486 | .338 | 12.0% |
| vs RHB | 184 | 172 | 56 | 5 | 10 | 22 | .326 | .370 | .547 | .389 | 12.0% |
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 6 tracked batted balls in 2021. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 78.2 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 102.6 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 16.7% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 33.3% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 11.0° 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, 2021.
Situational hitting
How Riley Smith 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 | 17 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Bases empty · thin | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runner on first · thin | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| RISP · thin | 3 | 2 | 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, 2021.
Pitch sequencing
What Riley Smith 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 2021.
| Sinker | 614 | 92.9 | 2,248 | 46.4% | 11.9% | |
| Changeup | 182 | 86.5 | 1,937 | 38.5% | 12.1% | |
| Curveball | 115 | 79.3 | 2,365 | 40.0% | 22.2% | |
| Cutter | 107 | 84.2 | 2,152 | 36.4% | 15.7% | |
| Slider | 48 | 82.2 | 2,047 | 37.5% | 23.1% |
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.