P · 2019
Luis Escobar
- Age
- 23
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 205 lb
- Born
- May 30, 1996 in Cartagena, Colombia
- MLB debut
- July 13, 2019
- dbWAR
- -.2 2 season(s)
- PA
- 2
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .000
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- -119 100 = avg
Luis Escobar is a pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates. 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 97.5 mph off the bat, hit 100.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 33.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -119 wRC+ puts his offence 219% 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.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 50.0% | .000 | -0.6 | -119 | -0.0 | — |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 4 | 0 | 5.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 7.94 | 7.45 | 2.47 | 3.2 | 6.4 | 176 | 165 | -0.1 | — |
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 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 50.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 12 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | .556 | .667 | .667 | .571 | 8.3% |
| vs RHB | 17 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | .385 | .438 | .692 | .450 | 5.9% |
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 1 tracked batted balls in 2019. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 97.5 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 97.5 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 100.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -16.0° 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, 2019.
Situational hitting
How Luis Escobar 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 |
| Runners on · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| RISP · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .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 Luis Escobar 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 | 41 | 95.2 | 2,266 | 31.7% | 5.6% | |
| Sinker | 30 | 94.9 | 2,167 | 53.3% | 36.8% | |
| Changeup | 20 | 84.2 | 1,751 | 30.0% | 14.3% | |
| Curveball | 13 | 78.6 | 2,227 | 15.4% | 25.0% |
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.