SS · 2018

Gregorio Petit

Minnesota Twins American League CentralSS

Age: 34
B/T: R/R
Height: 5' 10"
Weight: 200 lb
Number: #2

Born: December 10, 1984 in Ocumare, Venezuela
MLB debut: May 18, 2008

dbWAR: -.1
PA: 67
AVG: .246
OBP: .313
SLG: .279
wRC+: 68

Gregorio Petit is a shortstop for the Minnesota Twins. In 2018 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 3 RBIs, notching 15 hits across 67 plate appearances in 22 games. His batting average was .246, 0.8% lower than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .313 clip and slugged .279, for an OPS of .592, 18.6% lower than the league mark of .728. He averaged 86.1 mph off the bat, hit 28.2% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 2.6% of them and made contact on 74.6% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 68 wRC+ puts his offence 32% below average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — -2.5 runs with the bat, +0.1 on the bases, +0.5 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+68

wOBA.272

ISO.033

BB%9.0%

WAR.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2018. These four terms sum to +0.3 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2018	22	67	15	0	3	3	6	14	.246	.313	.279	.033	.319	9.0%	20.9%	.272	-2.5	68	0.0
2016	75	223	50	2	17	1	15	51	.245	.299	.348	.103	.316	6.7%	22.9%	.284	-6.6	77	0.2
2015	19	47	7	0	5	0	3	16	.167	.217	.238	.071	.259	6.4%	34.0%	.195	-4.5	14	-0.3

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	12	11	2	0	1	3	.182	.250	.364	.272	25.0%
vs RHP	55	50	13	0	5	11	.260	.327	.260	.272	20.0%

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 39 tracked batted balls in 2018. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 2.6%
Exit velocity: 86.1
Max exit velo: 104.5
Hard hit: 28.2%
Sweet spot: 38.5%
Launch angle: 17.3°

Barrel rate2.6%

Exit velocity86.1 mph

Hard hit rate28.2%

Contact rate74.6%

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, 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 Gregorio Petit 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	67	—	—	—	—	—	—	.246	.313	.279	.272
Bases empty	38	33	10	0	0	5	8	.303	.395	.364	.345
Runner on first · thin	14	14	2	0	0	0	4	.143	.143	.143	.126
Runners on	29	28	5	0	3	1	6	.179	.207	.179	.176
RISP · thin	15	14	3	0	3	1	2	.214	.267	.214	.223

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.

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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.