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Gabe Gross

Oakland Athletics American League WestLF

Age: 31
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 220 lb
Number: #26

Born: October 21, 1979 in Baltimore, MD, United States
MLB debut: August 7, 2004

dbWAR: 2.4
PA: 244
AVG: .239
OBP: .290
SLG: .311
wRC+: 63

Gabe Gross was a left fielder for the Oakland Athletics. In 2010 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 25 RBIs, notching 53 hits across 244 plate appearances in 91 games. His batting average was .239, 7.2% lower than the league average of .257. He reached base at a .290 clip and slugged .311, for an OPS of .601, 17.4% lower than the league mark of .728 — the worst on his team, and 387th of 442 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He made contact on 83.6% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 63 wRC+ puts his offence 37% below average. That comes to -0.6 dbWAR — -10.6 runs with the bat, +0.2 for the ballpark, +0.4 on the bases, -0.5 on double plays, -2.1 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, 2010 regular season.

wRC+63

wOBA.271

ISO.072

BB%7.0%

WAR-.6

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2010. These terms sum to -5.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

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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 2005–2010; his career began in 2004, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2010	OAK	91	244	53	1	25	5	17	39	.239	.290	.311	.072	.283	7.0%	16.0%	.271	-10.6	63	-0.6
2009	TB	111	326	64	6	36	6	42	79	.227	.326	.355	.128	.293	12.9%	24.2%	.311	-5.7	86	0.1
2008	TB/MIL	125	399	82	13	40	4	50	82	.238	.336	.414	.177	.274	12.5%	20.6%	.339	+1.9	105	1.0
2007	MIL	89	210	43	7	24	3	25	37	.235	.329	.437	.202	.257	11.9%	17.6%	.337	+0.3	101	0.5
2006	MIL	112	252	57	9	38	1	36	60	.274	.382	.476	.202	.338	14.3%	23.8%	.374	+7.9	125	1.5
2005	TOR	36	102	23	1	7	1	10	21	.250	.324	.348	.098	.314	9.8%	20.6%	.305	-2.1	82	-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 Gabe Gross's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	H	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2008 Post	TB	Postseason total	7	23	19	1	2	3	7	2	.053	.174	.053	.227
		ALDS	2	8	6	1	0	2	2	1	.167	.375	.167	.542
		ALCS	4	11	10	0	0	1	5	1	.000	.091	.000	.091
		World Series	1	4	3	0	2	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000

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, 2010. 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 LHP	46	36	6	0	7	13	.167	.302	.250	.270	28.3%
vs RHP	198	186	47	1	10	26	.253	.288	.323	.271	13.1%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2010.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2010.

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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 .257.

Situational hitting

How Gabe Gross 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	244	—	—	—	—	—	—	.239	.290	.311	.271
Bases empty	114	109	24	0	0	5	18	.220	.254	.266	.238
Runner on first	62	55	13	1	5	4	9	.236	.288	.364	.294
Runners on	130	113	29	1	25	12	21	.257	.323	.354	.301
RISP	68	58	16	0	20	8	12	.276	.353	.345	.307

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2010.

Not in the 2010 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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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.