P · 2018
Yoshihisa Hirano
- Age
- 36
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 185 lb
- Born
- March 8, 1984 in Uji, Kyoto, Japan
- MLB debut
- March 29, 2018
Age shown as of the 2020 season.
- dbWAR
- 1.1 4 season(s)
- PA
- 1
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .000
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- -118 100 = avg
Yoshihisa Hirano is a pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks. In 2018 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 1 plate appearances in 1 game. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .728. He averaged 79.2 mph off the bat and made contact on 100.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -118 wRC+ puts his offence 218% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -0.3 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, 2018.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2018. These four terms sum to -0.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 0.0% | .000 | -0.3 | -118 | -0.0 | — |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 13 | 0 | 12.1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 18 | 8 | 11 | 8 | 5.84 | 5.70 | 2.11 | 8.0 | 5.8 | 131 | 128 | -0.1 | |
| 2019 | 62 | 0 | 53.0 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 51 | 28 | 61 | 22 | 4.75 | 4.04 | 1.38 | 10.4 | 3.7 | 106 | 90 | 0.5 | |
| 2018 | 75 | 0 | 66.1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 49 | 18 | 59 | 23 | 2.44 | 3.69 | 1.09 | 8.0 | 3.1 | 59 | 89 | 0.7 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs RHP | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 104 | 93 | 20 | 1 | 10 | 22 | .215 | .291 | .312 | .270 | 21.2% |
| vs RHB | 158 | 142 | 29 | 5 | 13 | 37 | .204 | .278 | .345 | .270 | 23.4% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2018.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 1 tracked batted balls in 2018. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 79.2 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 79.2 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -29.0° 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, 2018.
Situational hitting
How Yoshihisa Hirano 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 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| RISP · thin | 1 | 1 | 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, 2018.
Pitch sequencing
What Yoshihisa Hirano throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.
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Pitch arsenal
What he throws, how hard, and how often it misses in 2018.
| Four-Seam Fastball | 589 | 91.4 | 2,214 | 51.3% | 17.8% | |
| Splitter | 499 | 83.3 | 1,171 | 43.7% | 38.1% | |
| Slider | 10 | 82.5 | 881 | 60.0% | 40.0% |
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.