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RF · 2024

David Hensley

Age
28
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 6"
Weight
219 lb
Number
#93
Born
March 28, 1996 in San Diego, CA, USA
MLB debut
August 27, 2022
Drafted
2018, round 26
College
San Diego State
Salary, 2024
$740,000
dbWAR
-.1
2 season(s)
PA
58
AVG
.212
OBP
.293
SLG
.288
wRC+
64
100 = avg

David Hensley is a right fielder for the Miami Marlins. In 2024 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 4 RBIs, notching 11 hits across 58 plate appearances in 23 games. His batting average was .212, 13.1% lower than the league average of .243. He reached base at a .293 clip and slugged .288, for an OPS of .582, 18.2% lower than the league mark of .711. He averaged 82.6 mph off the bat, hit 25.7% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 2.9% of them and made contact on 67.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 64 wRC+ puts his offence 36% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -2.1 runs with the bat, +0.1 on the bases, -0.9 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.

wRC+64
wOBA.268
ISO.077
BB%10.3%
WAR-.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2024. These four terms sum to -1.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting-2.1Baserunning+0.1Position-0.9Replacement+1.9
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2024. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP413981211.205.244.308.24526.8%
vs RHP17133046.231.412.231.32435.3%
Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2024. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB631010.333.333.667.3250.0%
vs RHB431000.333.500.333.4070.0%

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 35 tracked batted balls in 2024. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate
2.9%
1 barrels
Exit velocity
82.6
mph average
Max exit velo
109.5
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
25.7%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
20.0%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
-9.1°
average
Barrel rate2.9%
Exit velocity82.6 mph
Hard hit rate25.7%
Contact rate67.9%

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.

.1002 AB6 AB6 AB2 AB5 AB.1258 AB6 AB
Below averageLeague averageAbove average
Batting average by location of the pitch that ended each plate appearance, catcher's view. The bordered square is the strike zone; the outer band is chase territory. Cells with fewer than 8 at-bats are left grey rather than shown as signal. League average on the same attribution is .243.

Situational hitting

How David Hensley hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.

Split by
By who is on base when he comes up. The season line is repeated as the baseline.
SituationPAABHHRRBIBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBA
All situations58.212.293.288.268
Bases empty322981138.276.344.414.336
Runner on first · thin111010013.100.182.100.145
Runners on262330339.130.231.130.185
RISP · thin151320326.154.267.154.213

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.

Pitch sequencing

What David Hensley 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 2024.

Fastball96.2%2575.51,77624.0%16.7%
David Hensley's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2024235811141617.212.293.288.077.29410.3%29.3%.268-2.164-0.1

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2024102.000022019.006.171.500.04.5221151-0.0

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How these are computed

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.