RF · 2016
Dariel Álvarez
- Age
- 28
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 2"
- Weight
- 180 lb
- Born
- November 7, 1988 in Camaguey, Cuba
- MLB debut
- August 28, 2015
- dbWAR
- .1 2 season(s)
- PA
- 4
- AVG
- .333
- OBP
- .500
- SLG
- .667
- wRC+
- 217 100 = avg
Dariel Álvarez is a right fielder for the Baltimore Orioles. In 2016 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 4 plate appearances in 2 games. His batting average was .333, 30.5% higher than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .500 clip and slugged .667, for an OPS of 1.167, 57.9% higher than the league mark of .739. He averaged 84.3 mph off the bat, hit 33.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 75.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 217 wRC+ puts his offence 117% above average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — +0.5 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, -0.1 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, 2016.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2016. These four terms sum to +0.6 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .333 | .500 | .667 | .333 | .333 | 25.0% | 0.0% | .491 | +0.5 | 217 | 0.1 | |
| 2015 | 12 | 31 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 8 | .241 | .290 | .379 | .138 | .300 | 6.5% | 25.8% | .296 | -0.5 | 81 | 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 LHP | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .667 | .422 | 0.0% |
| vs RHP | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 1.000 | — | .697 | 0.0% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2016.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 3 tracked batted balls in 2016. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 84.3 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 101.8 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 33.3% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 33.3% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 27.3° 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, 2016.
Situational hitting
How Dariel Álvarez 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 | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .333 | .500 | .667 | .491 |
| Bases empty · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runner on first · thin | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 2.000 | .981 |
| Runners on · thin | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .500 | .667 | 1.000 | .654 |
| RISP · 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, 2016.
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.