C · 2018

Chris Gimenez

Age: 36
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 230 lb
Number: #8

Born: December 27, 1982 in Gilroy, CA, USA
MLB debut: June 3, 2009

dbWAR: 2.0
PA: 66
AVG: .211
OBP: .288
SLG: .333
wRC+: 69

Chris Gimenez is a catcher for the Chicago Cubs. In 2018 he hit 2 home runs and knocked in 7 RBIs, notching 12 hits across 66 plate appearances in 23 games. His batting average was .211, 15.1% lower than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .288 clip and slugged .333, for an OPS of .621, 14.6% lower than the league mark of .728. He averaged 89.2 mph off the bat, hit 38.9% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 5.6% of them and made contact on 77.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 69 wRC+ puts his offence 31% below average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — -2.2 runs with the bat, +0.2 on the bases, +1.1 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, 2018.

wRC+69

wOBA.276

ISO.123

BB%9.1%

WAR.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2018. 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.


2018	23	66	12	2	7	1	6	16	.211	.288	.333	.123	.244	9.1%	24.2%	.276	-2.2	69	0.1
2017	69	225	41	7	16	1	33	60	.220	.350	.382	.161	.286	14.7%	26.7%	.330	+1.0	101	1.2
2016	55	155	30	4	11	0	10	41	.216	.272	.331	.115	.274	6.5%	26.5%	.267	-6.7	60	0.1
2015	33	113	25	5	14	2	10	19	.255	.330	.490	.235	.270	8.8%	16.8%	.358	+3.7	124	1.1

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2018	2	2.0	8	8	2	1	36.00	22.16	4.50	9.0	4.5	868	534	-0.4
2017	6	5.0	7	4	0	0	7.20	5.76	1.40	0.0	0.0	165	132	-0.1
2016	2	3.0	4	4	0	0	12.00	7.48	1.33	0.0	0.0	286	179	-0.1

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2018. 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	11	8	1	0	3	1	.125	.364	.125	.272	9.1%
vs RHP	55	49	11	2	3	15	.224	.273	.367	.277	27.3%

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2018. 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	9	8	6	3	1	1	.750	.778	1.875	1.051	11.1%
vs RHB	6	6	2	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.293	16.7%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2018.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 36 tracked batted balls in 2018. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 5.6%
Exit velocity: 89.2
Max exit velo: 105.3
Hard hit: 38.9%
Sweet spot: 25.0%
Launch angle: 14.4°

Barrel rate5.6%

Exit velocity89.2 mph

Hard hit rate38.9%

Contact rate77.5%

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, 2018.

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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 .247.

Situational hitting

How Chris Gimenez 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	66	—	—	—	—	—	—	.211	.288	.333	.276
Bases empty	32	30	8	1	1	2	8	.267	.313	.400	.313
Runner on first · thin	12	10	2	1	2	1	3	.200	.333	.500	.362
Runners on	34	27	4	1	6	4	8	.148	.265	.259	.242
RISP · thin	22	17	2	0	4	3	5	.118	.227	.118	.176

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, 2018.

Pitch sequencing

What Chris Gimenez throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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Four-seam

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, and how often it misses in 2018.


Four-Seam Fastball	100.0%	48	67.8	1,682	43.8%	16.7%

Chris Gimenez'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.