2B · 2023
Alejo Lopez
- Age
- 27
- B/T
- S/R
- Height
- 5' 8"
- Weight
- 170 lb
- Born
- May 5, 1996 in Mexico City, Mexico
- MLB debut
- June 28, 2021
- dbWAR
- -.2 4 season(s)
- PA
- 2
- AVG
- .500
- OBP
- .500
- SLG
- 1.000
- wRC+
- 314 100 = avg
Alejo Lopez is a second baseman for the Cincinnati Reds. In 2023 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 1 RBI, notching 1 hit across 2 plate appearances in 1 game. His batting average was .500, 101.3% higher than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .500 clip and slugged 1.000, for an OPS of 1.500, 104.3% higher than the league mark of .734. He averaged 83.4 mph off the bat and made contact on 100.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 314 wRC+ puts his offence 214% above average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — +0.5 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, 2023.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2023. 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .500 | .500 | 1.000 | .500 | 1.000 | 0.0% | 50.0% | .631 | +0.5 | 314 | 0.1 | |
| 2022 | 57 | 156 | 38 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 9 | 21 | .262 | .314 | .331 | .069 | .301 | 5.8% | 13.5% | .287 | -3.1 | 79 | 0.1 | |
| 2021 | 13 | 23 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | .261 | .261 | .261 | .000 | .333 | 0.0% | 21.7% | .229 | -1.7 | 36 | -0.1 |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3 | 0 | 2.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6.75 | 12.86 | 0.75 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 170 | 324 | -0.3 | — |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .500 | .500 | 1.000 | .631 | 50.0% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2023.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 1 tracked batted balls in 2023. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 83.4 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 83.4 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 100.0% 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, 2023.
Situational hitting
How Alejo Lopez 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 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .500 | .500 | 1.000 | .631 |
| Bases empty · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 2.000 | 1.262 |
| RISP · thin | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 2.000 | 1.262 |
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, 2023.
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.