P · 2019

Alex McRae

Pittsburgh Pirates National League CentralP

Age: 28
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 220 lb

Born: April 6, 1993 in West Allis, WI, USA
MLB debut: August 1, 2018

Age shown as of the 2021 season.

dbWAR: -.8
PA: 7
AVG: .333
OBP: .333
SLG: .333
wRC+: 78

Alex McRae is a pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates. In 2019 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 2 hits across 7 plate appearances in 6 games. His batting average was .333, 32.1% higher than the league average of .252. He reached base at a .333 clip and slugged .333, for an OPS of .667, 12.0% lower than the league mark of .758. He averaged 95.4 mph off the bat, hit 50.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 88.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 78 wRC+ puts his offence 22% below average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — -0.2 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.

wRC+78

wOBA.291

ISO.000

BB%0.0%

WAR.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2019. These four terms sum to +0.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

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WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2019	6	7	2	0	0	0	0	3	.333	.333	.333	.000	.667	0.0%	42.9%	.291	-0.2	78	0.0
2018	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.5	-125	-0.0

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2021	2	0	2.0	0	3	1	1	1	4.50	3.67	2.00	4.5	4.5	105	86	0.0
2020	2	0	3.0	0	1	0	2	0	0.00	1.86	0.33	6.0	0.0	0	42	0.1
2019	11	2	26.2	4	36	26	19	16	8.78	8.31	1.95	6.4	5.4	195	185	-0.9
2018	2	0	6.1	1	8	4	5	5	5.68	4.42	2.05	7.1	7.1	137	107	0.0

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2019. 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	3	3	1	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.291	33.3%
vs RHP	4	3	1	0	0	2	.333	.333	.333	.291	50.0%

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2019. 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	61	53	19	5	7	7	.358	.443	.679	.461	11.5%
vs RHB	71	60	17	4	9	12	.283	.394	.550	.400	16.9%

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 2 tracked batted balls in 2019. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 95.4
Max exit velo: 99.3
Hard hit: 50.0%
Sweet spot: 50.0%
Launch angle: -3.0°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity95.4 mph

Hard hit rate50.0%

Contact rate88.9%

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.

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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 .252.

Situational hitting

How Alex McRae 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	7	—	—	—	—	—	—	.333	.333	.333	.291
Bases empty · thin	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	.436
Runner on first · thin	4	3	1	0	0	0	2	.333	.333	.333	.291
Runners on · thin	5	4	1	0	0	0	3	.250	.250	.250	.218
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 Alex McRae 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.


Sinker	35.6%	195	92.6	2,182	43.6%	13.1%
Slider	17.9%	98	87.2	2,289	37.8%	26.7%
Four-Seam Fastball	17.0%	93	92.3	2,153	52.7%	14.9%
Curveball	12.2%	67	80.0	2,427	35.8%	44.4%
Unknown	9.1%	50	—	—	56.0%	17.2%
Changeup	8.0%	44	86.2	1,453	36.4%	16.7%

Alex McRae'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.