Players · G · LF · 2008 regular season
Luis Gonzalez
- Age
- 41
- B/T
- L/R
- Height
- 6' 2"
- Weight
- 210 lb
- Number
- #20
- Born
- September 3, 1967 in Tampa, FL, United States
- MLB debut
- September 4, 1990
- dbWAR
- 6.8 Regular season, 2005–2008 only
- PA
- 387
- AVG
- .261
- OBP
- .336
- SLG
- .413
- wRC+
- 103 100 = avg
Luis Gonzalez was a left fielder for the Florida Marlins. In 2008 he hit 8 home runs and knocked in 47 RBIs, notching 89 hits across 387 plate appearances in 135 games. His batting average was .261, 1.0% lower than the league average of .264. He reached base at a .336 clip and slugged .413, for an OPS of .749, level with the league mark of .749 — 8th of 13 on his team, and 200th of 447 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He made contact on 87.1% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 103 wRC+ puts his offence 3% above average. That comes to 0.6 dbWAR — +0.6 runs with the bat, +0.3 for the ballpark, -0.9 on the bases, -0.7 on double plays, -4.4 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, 2008 regular season.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2008. These terms sum to +5.8 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.
WAR by season
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2008; his career began in 1990, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 84 | 71 | 17 | 1 | 11 | 8 | .239 | .333 | .338 | .310 | 9.5% |
| vs RHP | 303 | 270 | 72 | 7 | 30 | 35 | .267 | .337 | .433 | .342 | 11.6% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2008.
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Hot and cold zones
Batting average by pitch location, 2008.
Situational hitting
How Luis Gonzalez 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 | 387 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .261 | .336 | .413 | .335 |
| Bases empty | 218 | 192 | 42 | 4 | 4 | 26 | 23 | .219 | .312 | .354 | .306 |
| Runner on first | 68 | 63 | 20 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 6 | .317 | .368 | .508 | .386 |
| Runners on | 169 | 149 | 47 | 4 | 43 | 15 | 20 | .315 | .367 | .490 | .372 |
| RISP | 101 | 86 | 27 | 2 | 36 | 10 | 14 | .314 | .366 | .477 | .363 |
Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2008.
Not in the 2008 data: exit velocity and launch angle, first recorded in 2015. The play-by-play goes back to 2005, but the measurements on each pitch and batted ball arrived later, so the panels built from them are left off this season.
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Nearest 2008 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.
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.