DH · 2024
Conner Capel
- Age
- 27
- B/T
- L/L
- Height
- 6' 0"
- Weight
- 185 lb
- Number
- #92
- Born
- May 19, 1997 in Katy, TX, USA
- MLB debut
- June 27, 2022
- Drafted
- 2016, round 5
- High school
- Seven Lakes
- Salary, 2024
- $740,000
- dbWAR
- -.0 1 season(s)
- PA
- 8
- AVG
- .250
- OBP
- .250
- SLG
- .250
- wRC+
- 35 100 = avg
Conner Capel is a designated hitter for the Cincinnati Reds. In 2024 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 2 hits across 8 plate appearances in 4 games. His batting average was .250, 2.8% higher than the league average of .243. He reached base at a .250 clip and slugged .250, for an OPS of .500, 29.7% lower than the league mark of .711. He averaged 87.7 mph off the bat, hit 16.7% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 75.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 35 wRC+ puts his offence 65% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -0.6 runs with the bat, +0.2 on the bases, -0.2 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, 2024.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2024. These four terms sum to -0.3 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs RHP | 8 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .222 | 25.0% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2024.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 6 tracked batted balls in 2024. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 87.7 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 97.1 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 16.7% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 50.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 10.8° 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, 2024.
Situational hitting
How Conner Capel 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 | 8 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .250 | .250 | .250 | .222 |
| Bases empty · thin | 6 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .296 |
| Runner on first · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .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, 2024.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .000 | .333 | 0.0% | 25.0% | .222 | -0.6 | 35 | -0.0 | — |
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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.