SS · 2023
Jeter Downs
- Age
- 25
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 5' 10"
- Weight
- 197 lb
- Born
- July 27, 1998 in San Andres, Colombia
- MLB debut
- June 22, 2022
- dbWAR
- -.1 2 season(s)
- PA
- 9
- AVG
- .400
- OBP
- .667
- SLG
- .400
- wRC+
- 228 100 = avg
Jeter Downs is a shortstop for the Washington Nationals. In 2023 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 1 RBI, notching 2 hits across 9 plate appearances in 5 games. His batting average was .400, 61.0% higher than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .667 clip and slugged .400, for an OPS of 1.067, 45.3% higher than the league mark of .734. He averaged 76.2 mph off the bat, hit 50.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 61.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 228 wRC+ puts his offence 128% above average. That comes to 0.2 dbWAR — +1.4 runs with the bat, +0.4 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, 2023.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2023. These four terms sum to +2.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | .400 | .667 | .400 | .000 | .500 | 44.4% | 11.1% | .511 | +1.4 | 228 | 0.2 | |
| 2022 | 13 | 41 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 21 | .154 | .171 | .256 | .103 | .278 | 2.4% | 51.2% | .185 | -4.2 | 10 | -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 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .500 | .667 | .500 | .531 | 0.0% |
| vs RHP | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | .000 | .667 | .000 | .472 | 33.3% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2023.
Loading 4 batted balls…
Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 4 tracked batted balls in 2023. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 76.2 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 99.5 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 50.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 50.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 3.5° 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 Jeter Downs 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 | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .400 | .667 | .400 | .511 |
| Bases empty · thin | 7 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | .250 | .571 | .250 | .430 |
| Runner on first · thin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 1.000 | — | .708 |
| Runners on · thin | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | .796 |
| RISP · thin | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | .884 |
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
Put Jeter Downs beside up to three others.
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.