C · 2022
Donny Sands
- Age
- 26
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 0"
- Weight
- 190 lb
- Number
- #41
- Born
- May 16, 1996 in Tucson, AZ, USA
- MLB debut
- September 2, 2022
- dbWAR
- -.0 1 season(s)
- PA
- 4
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .250
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- 5 100 = avg
Donny Sands is a catcher for the Philadelphia Phillies. In 2022 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 4 plate appearances in 3 games. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .243. He reached base at a .250 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .250, 64.6% lower than the league mark of .706. He averaged 90.8 mph off the bat, hit 50.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 100.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 5 wRC+ puts his offence 95% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -0.4 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, 2022.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2022. These four terms sum to -0.3 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .000 | .250 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 25.0% | 25.0% | .177 | -0.4 | 5 | -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 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% |
| vs RHP | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .000 | .500 | .000 | .354 | 50.0% |
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 2 tracked batted balls in 2022. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 90.8 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 95.0 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 50.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -12.0° 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 Donny Sands 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 | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .000 | .250 | .000 | .177 |
| Bases empty · thin | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .000 | .500 | .000 | .354 |
| Runners on · thin | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| RISP · thin | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .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.