C · 2022
Israel Pineda
- Age
- 22
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 5' 10"
- Weight
- 226 lb
- Born
- April 3, 2000 in Maracay, Venezuela
- MLB debut
- September 11, 2022
- dbWAR
- -.2 1 season(s)
- PA
- 14
- AVG
- .077
- OBP
- .143
- SLG
- .077
- wRC+
- -40 100 = avg
Israel Pineda is a catcher for the Washington Nationals. In 2022 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 14 plate appearances in 4 games. His batting average was .077, 68.3% lower than the league average of .243. He reached base at a .143 clip and slugged .077, for an OPS of .220, 68.9% lower than the league mark of .706. He averaged 88.9 mph off the bat, hit 16.7% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 55.6% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -40 wRC+ puts his offence 140% below average. That comes to -0.2 dbWAR — -2.2 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, +0.3 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 -1.5 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 4 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | .077 | .143 | .077 | .000 | .167 | 7.1% | 50.0% | .114 | -2.2 | -40 | -0.2 | — |
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 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 50.0% |
| vs RHP | 12 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | .091 | .167 | .091 | .132 | 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 6 tracked batted balls in 2022. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 88.9 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 98.9 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 16.7% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 33.3% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 7.2° 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 Israel Pineda 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 | 14 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .077 | .143 | .077 | .114 |
| Bases empty · thin | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | .111 | .200 | .111 | .159 |
| Runners on · thin | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| RISP · thin | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .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.