P · 2021
Junior Guerra
- Age
- 36
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 0"
- Weight
- 235 lb
- Number
- #41
- Born
- January 16, 1985 in San Felix, VEN
- MLB debut
- June 12, 2015
- dbWAR
- 1.3 12 season(s)
- PA
- 2
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .000
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- -119 100 = avg
Junior Guerra is a pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels. In 2021 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 .244. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .728. He averaged 74.9 mph off the bat and made contact on 40.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -119 wRC+ puts his offence 219% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -0.5 runs with the bat, +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, 2021.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2021. These four terms sum to -0.5 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 50.0% | .000 | -0.5 | -119 | -0.0 | |
| 2019 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .000 | 1.000 | 0.0% | 66.7% | .291 | -0.1 | 79 | 0.0 | |
| 2018 | 24 | 37 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | .114 | .114 | .200 | .086 | .182 | 0.0% | 35.1% | .135 | -5.5 | -27 | -0.4 | |
| 2017 | 12 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 19.0% | .000 | -5.7 | -120 | -0.5 | |
| 2016 | 19 | 43 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | .229 | .229 | .286 | .057 | .364 | 0.0% | 30.2% | .223 | -3.4 | 33 | -0.2 |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 41 | 1 | 65.1 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 67 | 44 | 61 | 46 | 6.06 | 4.75 | 1.73 | 8.4 | 6.3 | 142 | 111 | -0.0 | |
| 2020 | 25 | 0 | 23.2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 8 | 21 | 15 | 3.04 | 4.12 | 1.35 | 8.0 | 5.7 | 68 | 93 | 0.2 | |
| 2019 | 72 | 0 | 83.2 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 58 | 33 | 77 | 36 | 3.55 | 4.52 | 1.12 | 8.3 | 3.9 | 79 | 100 | 0.4 | |
| 2018 | 31 | 26 | 141.0 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 143 | 64 | 136 | 55 | 4.09 | 4.24 | 1.40 | 8.7 | 3.5 | 98 | 102 | 1.2 | |
| 2017 | 21 | 14 | 70.1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 61 | 40 | 67 | 43 | 5.12 | 6.58 | 1.48 | 8.6 | 5.5 | 117 | 151 | -1.1 | |
| 2016 | 20 | 20 | 121.2 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 94 | 38 | 100 | 43 | 2.81 | 3.71 | 1.13 | 7.4 | 3.2 | 67 | 88 | 1.9 | |
| 2015 | 3 | 0 | 4.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 6.75 | 5.63 | 2.00 | 6.8 | 2.3 | 170 | 142 | -0.1 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs RHP | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 50.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 122 | 92 | 28 | 3 | 28 | 19 | .304 | .467 | .457 | .414 | 15.6% |
| vs RHB | 185 | 164 | 39 | 3 | 18 | 42 | .238 | .319 | .335 | .296 | 22.7% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2021.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 1 tracked batted balls in 2021. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 74.9 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 74.9 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 6.0° average
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, 2021.
Situational hitting
How Junior Guerra 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 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Bases empty · thin | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .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, 2021.
Pitch sequencing
What Junior Guerra 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 2021.
| Sinker | 471 | 93.0 | 2,139 | 45.0% | 15.6% | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 215 | 92.2 | 2,328 | 44.2% | 24.2% | |
| Curveball | 194 | 80.8 | 2,565 | 37.1% | 33.3% | |
| Splitter | 194 | 84.1 | 1,006 | 41.8% | 45.7% | |
| Slider | 151 | 84.2 | 2,395 | 42.4% | 41.2% |
Head to head
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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.