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LF · 2017

Allen Córdoba

Age
22
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 2"
Weight
235 lb
Born
December 6, 1995 in Changuinola, Panama
MLB debut
April 3, 2017
dbWAR
-.6
1 season(s)
PA
227
AVG
.208
OBP
.282
SLG
.297
wRC+
58
100 = avg

Allen Córdoba is a left fielder for the San Diego Padres. In 2017 he hit 4 home runs and knocked in 15 RBIs, notching 42 hits across 227 plate appearances in 93 games. His batting average was .208, 18.5% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .282 clip and slugged .297, for an OPS of .579, 22.8% lower than the league mark of .750 — the second worst on his team, and 411th of 435 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 82.0 mph off the bat, hit 24.2% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 2.3% of them and made contact on 71.8% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 58 wRC+ puts his offence 42% below average. That comes to -0.6 dbWAR — -12.4 runs with the bat, -0.6 on the bases, -0.9 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, 2017.

wRC+58
wOBA.259
ISO.089
BB%7.9%
WAR-.6

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2017. These four terms sum to -6.4 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting-12.4Baserunning-0.6Position-0.9Replacement+7.6
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2017932274241521854.208.282.297.089.2597.9%23.8%.259-12.458-0.6

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2017. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP454241215.095.133.167.13433.3%
vs RHP1821603831639.237.319.331.29021.4%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2017.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 128 tracked batted balls in 2017. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate
2.3%
3 barrels
Exit velocity
82.0
mph average
Max exit velo
107.1
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
24.2%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
35.2%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
9.3°
average
Barrel rate2.3%
Exit velocity82.0 mph
Hard hit rate24.2%
Contact rate71.8%

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, 2017.

.000.100.286.2229 AB5 AB7 AB.11817 AB.37524 AB.25012 AB.18816 AB.17928 AB.23517 AB
Below averageLeague averageAbove average
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 .254.

Situational hitting

How Allen Córdoba 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.
SituationPAABHHRRBIBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBA
All situations227.208.282.297.259
Bases empty14112529221333.232.319.328.293
Runner on first414171207.171.171.244.177
Runners on867713213521.169.221.247.202
RISP45366111514.167.267.250.226

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2017.

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Nearest 2017 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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.