P · 2017

Miguel González

Chicago White Sox American League CentralP

Age: 34
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 180 lb
Number: #50

Born: May 27, 1984 in Gudalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
MLB debut: May 29, 2012

Age shown as of the 2018 season.

dbWAR: 1.9
PA: 8
AVG: .000
OBP: .143
SLG: .000
wRC+: -52

Miguel González is a pitcher for the Chicago White Sox. In 2017 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 8 plate appearances in 4 games. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .143 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .143, 81.0% lower than the league mark of .750. He averaged 73.3 mph off the bat and made contact on 63.6% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -52 wRC+ puts his offence 152% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -1.5 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, 2017.

wRC+-52

wOBA.101

ISO.000

BB%12.5%

WAR-.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2017. These four terms sum to -1.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2017	4	8	1	2	.000	.143	.000	.000	.000	12.5%	25.0%	.101	-1.5	-52	-0.1
2016	1	1	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.3	-120	-0.0
2015	1	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.3	-117	-0.0

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2018	3	3	12.1	0	3	24	17	5	6	12.41	8.03	2.43	3.6	4.4	299	193	-0.4
2017	27	27	156.0	8	13	167	80	100	55	4.62	4.88	1.42	5.8	3.2	106	112	0.6
2016	24	23	135.0	5	8	132	56	95	35	3.73	3.71	1.24	6.3	2.3	89	89	2.1
2015	26	26	144.2	9	12	151	79	109	51	4.91	5.01	1.40	6.8	3.2	124	126	-0.2

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2017. 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	3	1	0	0	1	0	.000	.500	.000	.355	0.0%
vs RHP	5	5	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	40.0%

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2017. 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 LHB	332	300	86	11	25	49	.287	.347	.510	.366	14.8%
vs RHB	352	316	81	11	30	51	.256	.322	.408	.317	14.5%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2017.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 3 tracked batted balls in 2017. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 73.3
Max exit velo: 85.4
Hard hit: 0.0%
Sweet spot: 0.0%
Launch angle: -18.3°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity73.3 mph

Hard hit rate0.0%

Contact rate63.6%

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, 2017.

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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 Miguel González 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	8	—	—	—	—	—	—	.000	.143	.000	.101
Bases empty · thin	3	2	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.333	.000	.237
Runner on first · thin	3	2	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
Runners on · thin	5	4	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
RISP · thin	2	2	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, 2017.

Pitch sequencing

What Miguel González 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 2017.


Four-Seam Fastball	26.2%	663	90.9	2,358	49.5%	13.8%
Sinker	23.4%	592	91.3	2,236	41.4%	9.1%
Slider	21.4%	541	86.4	2,453	47.1%	16.8%
Curveball	16.7%	423	77.4	2,752	38.8%	16.6%
Splitter	11.7%	296	84.5	1,337	42.9%	24.8%
Changeup	0.4%	11	86.8	1,821	45.5%	28.6%

Miguel González's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters.

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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.