RF · 2022
Aaron Whitefield
- Age
- 26
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 4"
- Weight
- 210 lb
- Number
- #44
- Born
- September 2, 1996 in Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- MLB debut
- July 25, 2020
- dbWAR
- -.3 2 season(s)
- PA
- 11
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .000
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- -117 100 = avg
Aaron Whitefield is a right fielder for the Los Angeles Angels. In 2022 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 11 plate appearances in 5 games. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .243. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .706. He averaged 95.3 mph off the bat, hit 50.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 16.7% of them and made contact on 55.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -117 wRC+ puts his offence 217% below average. That comes to -0.3 dbWAR — -2.8 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, 2022.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2022. These four terms sum to -2.5 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 45.5% | .000 | -2.8 | -117 | -0.3 | |
| 2020 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 0.0% | .000 | -0.3 | -120 | -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 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 50.0% |
| vs RHP | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 42.9% |
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 6 tracked batted balls in 2022. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 16.7% 1 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 95.3 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 106.1 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 50.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 33.3% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -2.0° 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, 2022.
Situational hitting
How Aaron Whitefield 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 | 11 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Bases empty · thin | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runner on first · thin | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| RISP · thin | 2 | 2 | 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, 2022.
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.