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Curtis Granderson

Age: 38
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 200 lb
Number: #28

Born: March 16, 1981 in Blue Island, IL, United States
MLB debut: September 13, 2004

dbWAR: 45.4
PA: 363
AVG: .183
OBP: .281
SLG: .356
wRC+: 68

Curtis Granderson was a left fielder for the Miami Marlins. In 2019 he hit 12 home runs and knocked in 34 RBIs, notching 58 hits across 363 plate appearances in 135 games. His batting average was .183, 27.5% lower than the league average of .252. He reached base at a .281 clip and slugged .356, for an OPS of .637, 15.9% lower than the league mark of .758 — 12th of 17 on his team, and 382nd of 451 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 88.6 mph off the bat, hit 37.2% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 7.2% of them and made contact on 75.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 68 wRC+ puts his offence 32% below average. That comes to -0.9 dbWAR — -13.8 runs with the bat, -0.6 for the ballpark, -1.5 on the bases, +0.4 on double plays, -4.1 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, 2019 regular season.

wRC+68

wOBA.278

ISO.174

BB%11.3%

WAR-.9

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2019. These terms sum to -9.0 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 2005–2019; his career began in 2004, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2019	MIA	135	363	58	12	34	0	41	98	.183	.281	.356	.174	.220	11.3%	27.0%	.278	-13.8	68	-0.9
2018	TOR/MIL	121	403	83	13	38	2	54	106	.242	.351	.431	.190	.311	13.4%	26.3%	.346	+9.1	121	1.6
2017	NYM/LAD	146	527	95	26	64	6	71	123	.212	.323	.452	.241	.228	13.5%	23.3%	.335	+4.6	112	2.1
2016	NYM	149	633	129	30	59	4	74	130	.237	.335	.464	.228	.254	11.7%	20.5%	.344	+11.3	116	2.6
2015	NYM	157	682	150	26	70	11	91	151	.259	.364	.457	.198	.305	13.3%	22.1%	.362	+24.4	137	4.2
2014	NYM	155	654	128	20	66	8	79	141	.227	.326	.388	.161	.265	12.1%	21.6%	.325	+5.5	113	2.3
2013	NYY	61	245	49	7	15	8	27	69	.229	.317	.407	.178	.302	11.0%	28.2%	.323	+1.1	101	0.8
2012	NYY	159	684	138	43	106	10	75	195	.232	.319	.492	.260	.260	11.0%	28.5%	.351	+17.3	122	4.4
2011	NYY	156	691	153	41	119	25	85	169	.262	.364	.552	.290	.295	12.3%	24.5%	.401	+43.0	150	7.0
2010	NYY	136	528	115	24	67	12	53	116	.247	.324	.468	.221	.277	10.0%	22.0%	.349	+10.0	111	3.2
2009	DET	160	710	157	30	71	20	72	141	.249	.327	.453	.204	.275	10.1%	19.9%	.343	+5.6	106	3.6
2008	DET	139	629	155	22	66	12	71	111	.280	.365	.494	.213	.316	11.3%	17.6%	.379	+24.0	129	4.7
2007	DET	156	676	185	23	74	26	52	141	.302	.361	.552	.250	.360	7.7%	20.9%	.395	+33.2	138	6.3
2006	DET	157	679	155	19	68	8	66	174	.260	.335	.438	.178	.333	9.7%	25.6%	.341	+2.3	103	2.7
2005	DET	46	174	44	8	20	1	10	43	.272	.314	.494	.222	.324	5.7%	24.7%	.352	+3.0	116	0.8

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 Curtis Granderson's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2018 Post	MIL	Postseason total	7	7	7	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	3	0	.143	.143	.286	.429
		NLDS	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLCS	5	5	5	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	2	0	.200	.200	.400	.600
2017 Post	LAD	Postseason total	6	15	15	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	8	0	.067	.067	.067	.133
		NLDS	3	8	8	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	.125	.125	.125	.250
		NLCS	3	7	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
2016 Post	NYM	Wild Card	1	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
2015 Post	NYM	Postseason total	14	64	53	10	15	2	0	3	12	9	7	4	.283	.375	.491	.866
		NLDS	5	21	18	1	7	2	0	0	5	3	1	1	.389	.476	.500	.976
		NLCS	4	18	15	3	3	0	0	0	2	2	4	3	.200	.278	.200	.478
		World Series	5	25	20	6	5	0	0	3	5	4	2	0	.250	.360	.700	1.060
2012 Post	NYY	Postseason total	9	33	30	1	3	0	0	1	1	3	16	2	.100	.182	.200	.382
		ALDS	5	20	19	1	3	0	0	1	1	1	9	1	.158	.200	.316	.516
		ALCS	4	13	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	7	1	.000	.154	.000	.154
2011 Post	NYY	ALDS	5	24	20	4	5	1	1	1	3	4	7	0	.250	.375	.550	.925
2010 Post	NYY	Postseason total	9	38	28	3	10	2	1	1	6	8	5	1	.357	.514	.607	1.121
		ALDS	3	13	11	2	5	1	1	0	3	1	1	1	.455	.500	.727	1.227
		ALCS	6	25	17	1	5	1	0	1	3	7	4	0	.294	.520	.529	1.049
2006 Post	DET	Postseason total	13	59	53	8	12	3	1	3	7	5	10	2	.226	.288	.491	.779
		ALDS	4	18	17	3	5	0	1	2	5	0	1	1	.294	.278	.765	1.042
		ALCS	4	19	15	4	5	2	0	1	2	4	2	1	.333	.474	.667	1.140
		World Series	5	22	21	1	2	1	0	0	0	1	7	0	.095	.136	.143	.279
2005–2019		Postseason total · 8 Octobers	64	244	210	27	47	9	3	9	30	29	56	9	.224	.317	.424	.741

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, 2019. 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	60	49	12	1	8	11	.245	.350	.469	.345	18.3%
vs RHP	303	268	46	11	33	87	.172	.267	.336	.265	28.7%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2019.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 207 tracked batted balls in 2019. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 7.2%
Exit velocity: 88.6
Max exit velo: 107.0
Hard hit: 37.2%
Sweet spot: 42.5%
Launch angle: 16.8°

Barrel rate7.2%

Exit velocity88.6 mph

Hard hit rate37.2%

Contact rate75.2%

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, 2019.

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 .252.

Situational hitting

How Curtis Granderson 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	363	—	—	—	—	—	—	.183	.281	.356	.278
Bases empty	236	213	37	9	9	21	68	.174	.254	.347	.262
Runner on first	49	42	7	1	3	7	12	.167	.286	.310	.269
Runners on	127	104	21	3	25	20	30	.202	.331	.375	.309
RISP	78	62	14	2	22	13	18	.226	.359	.419	.334

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2019.

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Similar players

Nearest 2019 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Ryan O'HearnKC

wRC+: 70
HR: 14
AVG: .195
WAR: -0.8

Very close

Yonder AlonsoCWS

wRC+: 72
HR: 10
AVG: .199
WAR: -1.2

Justin BourLAA

wRC+: 64
HR: 8
AVG: .172
WAR: -0.7

Martín MaldonadoKC

wRC+: 77
HR: 12
AVG: .213
WAR: 0.4

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.