P · 2019
Glenn Sparkman
- Age
- 28
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 2"
- Weight
- 215 lb
- Born
- May 11, 1992 in Victoria, TX, USA
- MLB debut
- June 30, 2017
Age shown as of the 2020 season.
- dbWAR
- -.5 5 season(s)
- PA
- 2
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .000
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- -117 100 = avg
Glenn Sparkman is a pitcher for the Kansas City Royals. In 2019 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 2 plate appearances in 1 game. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .252. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .758. He averaged 93.0 mph off the bat, hit 50.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 100.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -117 wRC+ puts his offence 217% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -0.6 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, 2019.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2019. These four terms sum to -0.5 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 0.0% | .000 | -0.6 | -117 | -0.0 | — |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 4 | 0 | 5.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5.40 | 2.99 | 2.00 | 3.6 | 1.8 | 121 | 67 | 0.1 | |
| 2019 | 31 | 23 | 136.0 | 4 | 11 | 0 | 164 | 91 | 81 | 41 | 6.02 | 5.93 | 1.51 | 5.4 | 2.7 | 134 | 132 | -0.9 | |
| 2018 | 15 | 3 | 38.1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 47 | 19 | 27 | 15 | 4.46 | 4.02 | 1.62 | 6.3 | 3.5 | 108 | 97 | 0.3 | |
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 63.00 | 4.16 | 10.00 | 9.0 | 9.0 | 1,446 | 95 | 0.0 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs RHP | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 320 | 286 | 80 | 18 | 28 | 47 | .280 | .348 | .545 | .373 | 14.7% |
| vs RHB | 286 | 268 | 84 | 12 | 13 | 34 | .313 | .350 | .507 | .359 | 11.9% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2019.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 2 tracked batted balls in 2019. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 93.0 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 101.2 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 50.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -8.5° 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, 2019.
Situational hitting
How Glenn Sparkman 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 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Bases empty · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runner on first · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .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, 2019.
Pitch sequencing
What Glenn Sparkman 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 2019.
| Four-Seam Fastball | 1,380 | 93.4 | 2,251 | 48.0% | 14.7% | |
| Curveball | 377 | 79.1 | 2,477 | 29.7% | 19.1% | |
| Changeup | 292 | 85.7 | 2,032 | 34.6% | 11.9% | |
| Slider | 223 | 82.3 | 2,410 | 39.9% | 36.6% |
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.