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Gerald Laird

Arizona Diamondbacks National League WestC

Age: 36
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 230 lb
Number: #15

Born: November 13, 1979 in Garden Grove, CA, United States
MLB debut: April 30, 2003

dbWAR: 4.0
PA: 2
AVG: .000
OBP: .000
SLG: .000
wRC+: -121

Gerald Laird was a catcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks. In 2015 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 2 plate appearances in 1 game. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .254. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .721. He averaged 64.8 mph off the bat and made contact on 100.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -121 wRC+ puts his offence 221% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -0.5 runs with the bat, -0.0 for the ballpark, +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, 2015 regular season.

wRC+-121

wOBA.000

ISO.000

BB%0.0%

WAR-.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2015. These terms sum to -0.4 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2015; his career began in 2003, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2015	AZ	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.5	-121	-0.0
2014	ATL	51	167	31	0	10	0	14	33	.204	.275	.257	.053	.261	8.4%	19.8%	.243	-8.9	51	-0.3
2013	ATL	46	141	34	1	13	1	14	23	.281	.367	.372	.091	.337	9.9%	16.3%	.337	+2.1	115	0.8
2012	DET	57	191	49	2	11	0	14	21	.282	.337	.374	.092	.309	7.3%	11.0%	.317	-0.2	97	0.7
2011	STL	35	108	22	1	12	1	9	19	.232	.302	.358	.126	.276	8.3%	17.6%	.286	-2.8	79	0.1
2010	DET	88	299	56	5	25	3	18	57	.207	.263	.304	.096	.243	6.0%	19.1%	.259	-15.7	54	-0.2
2009	DET	129	477	93	4	33	5	40	68	.225	.306	.320	.094	.258	8.4%	14.3%	.289	-17.2	69	0.5
2008	TEX	94	381	95	6	41	2	23	63	.276	.329	.398	.122	.319	6.0%	16.5%	.324	-2.9	90	1.2
2007	TEX	117	448	91	9	47	6	30	103	.224	.278	.349	.125	.274	6.7%	23.0%	.280	-20.9	63	-0.0
2006	TEX	71	260	72	7	22	3	12	54	.296	.332	.473	.177	.353	4.6%	20.8%	.349	+2.8	106	1.3
2005	TEX	13	42	9	1	4	0	2	7	.225	.262	.350	.125	.250	4.8%	16.7%	.272	-2.0	59	-0.0

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason batting

Postseason Gerald Laird's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	H	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2013 Post	ATL	NLDS	1	1	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
2012 Post	DET	Postseason total	6	21	20	1	5	.050	.095	.050	.145
		ALDS	2	6	5	0	3	.000	.167	.000	.167
		ALCS	2	8	8	1	1	.125	.125	.125	.250
		World Series	2	7	7	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
2011 Post	STL	NLCS	1	1	1	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
2005–2015		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	8	23	22	1	6	.045	.087	.045	.132

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2015. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs RHP	2	2	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2015.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 2 tracked batted balls in 2015. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 64.8
Max exit velo: 80.6
Hard hit: 0.0%
Sweet spot: 50.0%
Launch angle: 42.5°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity64.8 mph

Hard hit rate0.0%

Contact rate100.0%

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, 2015.

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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 .254.

Situational hitting

How Gerald Laird 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.
Situation	PA	AB	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
All situations	2	—	—	—	—	—	—	.000	.000	.000	.000
Bases empty · thin	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	.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, 2015.

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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.