P · 2021
Taylor Widener
- Age
- 28
- B/T
- L/R
- Height
- 6' 0"
- Weight
- 203 lb
- Number
- #57
- Born
- October 24, 1994 in Aiken, SC, USA
- MLB debut
- July 25, 2020
Age shown as of the 2022 season.
- dbWAR
- -1.1 4 season(s)
- PA
- 18
- AVG
- .063
- OBP
- .118
- SLG
- .063
- wRC+
- -54 100 = avg
Taylor Widener is a pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks. In 2021 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 18 plate appearances in 11 games. His batting average was .063, 74.4% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .118 clip and slugged .063, for an OPS of .180, 75.2% lower than the league mark of .728. He averaged 64.2 mph off the bat and made contact on 46.4% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -54 wRC+ puts his offence 154% below average. That comes to -0.3 dbWAR — -3.4 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 -2.8 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 11 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11 | .063 | .118 | .063 | .000 | .200 | 5.6% | 61.1% | .094 | -3.4 | -54 | -0.3 | — |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 14 | 0 | 17.1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 22 | 7 | 14 | 5 | 3.63 | 4.38 | 1.56 | 7.3 | 2.6 | 92 | 110 | 0.0 | |
| 2021 | 23 | 13 | 70.1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 65 | 34 | 73 | 37 | 4.35 | 5.56 | 1.45 | 9.3 | 4.7 | 102 | 130 | -0.5 | |
| 2020 | 12 | 0 | 20.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 10 | 22 | 12 | 4.50 | 6.49 | 1.30 | 9.9 | 5.4 | 101 | 146 | -0.3 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 33.3% |
| vs RHP | 15 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 10 | .071 | .133 | .071 | .107 | 66.7% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 157 | 133 | 34 | 8 | 20 | 34 | .256 | .365 | .519 | .377 | 21.7% |
| vs RHB | 162 | 137 | 31 | 6 | 17 | 39 | .226 | .325 | .394 | .316 | 24.1% |
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 6 tracked batted balls in 2021. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 64.2 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 87.0 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -20.0° 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 Taylor Widener 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 | 18 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .063 | .118 | .063 | .094 |
| Bases empty · thin | 11 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | .091 | .091 | .091 | .080 |
| Runner on first · thin | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .000 | .333 | .000 | .242 |
| Runners on · thin | 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | .000 | .167 | .000 | .121 |
| RISP · thin | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .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 Taylor Widener 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.
| Four-Seam Fastball | 809 | 92.6 | 2,143 | 49.6% | 20.7% | |
| Slider | 211 | 84.0 | 2,238 | 39.8% | 26.3% | |
| Changeup | 195 | 85.6 | 1,713 | 34.9% | 32.5% |
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.