RF · 2021
Hunter Owen
- Age
- 28
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 5' 11"
- Weight
- 200 lb
- Born
- September 22, 1993 in Evansville, IN, USA
- MLB debut
- May 5, 2021
- dbWAR
- -.1 1 season(s)
- PA
- 5
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .200
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- -15 100 = avg
Hunter Owen is a right fielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates. In 2021 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 5 plate appearances in 3 games. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .200 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .200, 72.5% lower than the league mark of .728. He averaged 71.1 mph off the bat and made contact on 45.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -15 wRC+ puts his offence 115% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -0.7 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, 2021.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2021. These four terms sum to -0.6 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .200 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 60.0% | .151 | -0.7 | -15 | -0.1 | — |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs RHP | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .200 | .000 | .151 | 60.0% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2021.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 1 tracked batted balls in 2021. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 71.1 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 71.1 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 5.0° 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, 2021.
Situational hitting
How Hunter Owen 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 | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .000 | .200 | .000 | .151 |
| Bases empty · thin | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runner on first · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .333 | .000 | .251 |
| RISP · thin | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .500 | .000 | .377 |
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, 2021.
Head to head
Put Hunter Owen 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.