P · 2021

Steven Brault

Pittsburgh Pirates National League CentralP

Age: 30
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 195 lb

Born: April 29, 1992 in La Mesa, CA, USA
MLB debut: July 5, 2016

Age shown as of the 2022 season.

dbWAR: 1.4
PA: 8
AVG: .167
OBP: .167
SLG: .333
wRC+: 25

Steven Brault is a pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates. In 2021 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 8 plate appearances in 6 games. His batting average was .167, 31.6% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .167 clip and slugged .333, for an OPS of .500, 31.3% lower than the league mark of .728. He averaged 75.4 mph off the bat, hit 50.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 73.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 25 wRC+ puts his offence 75% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -0.7 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.

wRC+25

wOBA.209

ISO.167

BB%0.0%

WAR-.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2021. These four terms sum to -0.5 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2021	6	8	1	0	0	0	2	.167	.167	.333	.167	.250	0.0%	25.0%	.209	-0.7	25	-0.0
2019	31	50	14	1	2	1	8	.333	.349	.429	.095	.394	2.0%	16.0%	.334	+0.5	107	0.2
2018	16	21	3	0	0	1	5	.150	.190	.200	.050	.200	4.8%	23.8%	.178	-2.4	3	-0.2
2017	10	13	3	0	2	0	0	.231	.231	.308	.077	.231	0.0%	0.0%	.232	-1.0	37	-0.1
2016	7	9	2	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.000	.250	0.0%	0.0%	.219	-0.7	31	-0.0

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2022	9	0	9.0	0	0	0	8	3	8	5	3.00	3.33	1.44	8.0	5.0	76	84	0.1
2021	7	7	27.2	0	3	0	33	18	19	12	5.86	4.62	1.63	6.2	3.9	137	108	0.2
2020	11	10	42.2	1	3	0	29	16	38	22	3.38	3.92	1.20	8.0	4.6	76	88	0.6
2019	25	19	113.1	4	6	0	117	65	100	53	5.16	4.76	1.50	7.9	4.2	115	106	0.6
2018	45	5	91.2	6	3	0	84	47	82	57	4.61	4.92	1.54	8.1	5.6	111	118	-0.3
2017	11	4	34.2	1	0	1	41	18	23	14	4.67	4.34	1.59	6.0	3.6	107	100	0.2
2016	8	7	33.1	0	3	0	45	18	29	17	4.86	5.07	1.86	7.8	4.6	116	121	-0.0

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	1	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%
vs RHP	7	5	1	0	0	2	.200	.200	.400	.250	28.6%

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 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 LHB	18	15	2	0	2	2	.133	.278	.267	.261	11.1%
vs RHB	109	98	31	3	10	17	.316	.380	.541	.388	15.6%

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%
Exit velocity: 75.4
Max exit velo: 105.4
Hard hit: 50.0%
Sweet spot: 0.0%
Launch angle: -30.0°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity75.4 mph

Hard hit rate50.0%

Contact rate73.3%

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 Steven Brault 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	8	—	—	—	—	—	—	.167	.167	.333	.209
Bases empty · thin	5	5	1	0	0	0	2	.200	.200	.400	.250
Runner on first · thin	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—
Runners on · thin	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
RISP · thin	2	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, 2021.

Pitch sequencing

What Steven Brault 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	39.6%	197	90.7	2,068	50.3%	17.6%
Changeup	21.5%	107	83.8	1,647	41.1%	19.4%
Slider	21.1%	105	82.6	2,224	41.0%	32.4%
Sinker	13.9%	69	90.5	1,923	39.1%	15.6%
Curveball	4.0%	20	72.0	2,138	35.0%	30.0%

Steven Brault's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters.

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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.