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RF · 2022

Jaylin Davis

Age
28
B/T
R/R
Height
5' 11"
Weight
205 lb
Born
July 1, 1994 in Greensboro, NC, USA
MLB debut
September 4, 2019
dbWAR
-.3
4 season(s)
PA
27
AVG
.333
OBP
.407
SLG
.375
wRC+
126
100 = avg

Jaylin Davis is a right fielder for the Boston Red Sox. In 2022 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 2 RBIs, notching 8 hits across 27 plate appearances in 10 games. His batting average was .333, 37.3% higher than the league average of .243. He reached base at a .407 clip and slugged .375, for an OPS of .782, 10.8% higher than the league mark of .706. He averaged 88.2 mph off the bat, hit 38.5% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 50.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 126 wRC+ puts his offence 26% above average. That comes to 0.2 dbWAR — +0.9 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, -0.2 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, 2022.

wRC+126
wOBA.355
ISO.042
BB%11.1%
WAR.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2022. These four terms sum to +1.6 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting+0.9Baserunning-0.0Position-0.2Replacement+0.9
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

0.2-0.1-0.319202122

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
202210278020311.333.407.375.042.61511.1%40.7%.355+0.91260.2
202159100001.111.111.222.111.1250.0%11.1%.139-1.3-24-0.1
2020412211006.167.167.417.250.2000.0%50.0%.237-0.942-0.1
201917477131311.167.255.238.071.2006.4%23.4%.229-3.739-0.3

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2022. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP16134036.308.438.308.35337.5%
vs RHP11114005.364.364.455.35645.5%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2022.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 13 tracked batted balls in 2022. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate
0.0%
0 barrels
Exit velocity
88.2
mph average
Max exit velo
108.1
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
38.5%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
53.8%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
7.1°
average
Barrel rate0.0%
Exit velocity88.2 mph
Hard hit rate38.5%
Contact rate50.0%

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, 2022.

3 AB1 AB4 AB3 AB4 AB2 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 .242.

Situational hitting

How Jaylin Davis 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 situations27.333.407.375.355
Bases empty · thin161340036.308.438.385.378
Runner on first · thin5510004.200.200.200.176
Runners on · thin111140205.364.364.364.320
RISP · thin6630201.500.500.500.441

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, 2022.

Head to head

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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.