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Mat Gamel

Milwaukee Brewers National League Central1B

Age: 27
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 220 lb
Number: #24

Born: July 26, 1985 in Jacksonville, FL, United States
MLB debut: September 3, 2008

dbWAR: -.0
PA: 75
AVG: .246
OBP: .293
SLG: .348
wRC+: 73

Mat Gamel was a first baseman for the Milwaukee Brewers. In 2012 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 6 RBIs, notching 17 hits across 75 plate appearances in 20 games. His batting average was .246, 3.2% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .293 clip and slugged .348, for an OPS of .641, 11.5% lower than the league mark of .724. He made contact on 77.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 73 wRC+ puts his offence 27% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -2.0 runs with the bat, -0.2 for the ballpark, +0.5 on the bases, +0.2 on double plays, -1.0 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, 2012 regular season.

wRC+73

wOBA.285

ISO.101

BB%5.3%

WAR-.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2012. 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.


2012	MIL	20	75	17	1	6	3	4	15	.246	.293	.348	.101	.296	5.3%	20.0%	.285	-2.0	73	-0.0
2011	MIL	9	27	3	0	2	0	1	4	.115	.148	.154	.038	.136	3.7%	14.8%	.140	-3.8	-24	-0.4
2010	MIL	12	17	3	0	1	0	1	8	.200	.294	.267	.067	.429	5.9%	47.1%	.268	-0.8	60	-0.1
2009	MIL	59	148	31	5	20	1	18	54	.242	.338	.422	.180	.371	12.2%	36.5%	.335	+0.3	105	0.4
2008	MIL	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	1.000	.500	1.000	0.0%	50.0%	.645	+0.5	318	0.1

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2012. 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	16	14	4	0	1	3	.286	.375	.286	.310	18.8%
vs RHP	59	55	13	1	3	12	.236	.271	.364	.278	20.3%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2012.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2012.

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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 Mat Gamel 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	75	—	—	—	—	—	—	.246	.293	.348	.285
Bases empty	49	46	10	1	1	2	13	.217	.265	.326	.265
Runner on first · thin	9	8	3	0	1	1	0	.375	.444	.625	.456
Runners on	26	23	7	0	5	2	2	.304	.346	.391	.321
RISP · thin	17	15	4	0	4	1	2	.267	.294	.267	.250

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, 2012.

Not in the 2012 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.