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Pablo Sandoval

Age: 35
B/T: S/R
Height: 5' 10"
Weight: 268 lb

Born: August 11, 1986 in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela
MLB debut: August 14, 2008

dbWAR: 20.3
PA: 86
AVG: .178
OBP: .302
SLG: .342
wRC+: 82

Pablo Sandoval was a position player for the Atlanta Braves. In 2021 he hit 4 home runs and knocked in 11 RBIs, notching 13 hits across 86 plate appearances in 68 games. His batting average was .178, 27.0% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .302 clip and slugged .342, for an OPS of .645, 11.4% lower than the league mark of .728. He averaged 91.5 mph off the bat, hit 47.9% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 10.4% of them and made contact on 68.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 82 wRC+ puts his offence 18% below average. That comes to -0.2 dbWAR — -1.6 runs with the bat, -0.2 for the ballpark, -0.1 on the bases, -0.4 on double plays, -1.9 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 regular season.

wRC+82

wOBA.294

ISO.164

BB%12.8%

WAR-.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2021. These terms sum to -1.7 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 — postseason games are listed separately below.


2021	ATL	68	86	13	4	11	0	11	25	.178	.302	.342	.164	.205	12.8%	29.1%	.294	-1.6	82	-0.2
2020	SF/ATL	32	94	18	1	6	0	8	19	.214	.287	.262	.048	.262	8.5%	20.2%	.254	-5.5	53	-0.5
2019	SF	108	296	73	14	41	1	18	67	.268	.313	.507	.239	.304	6.1%	22.6%	.338	+4.0	117	1.4
2018	SF	90	252	57	9	40	0	19	52	.248	.310	.417	.170	.282	7.5%	20.6%	.315	-0.6	98	0.3
2017	SF/BOS	77	279	57	9	32	0	16	53	.220	.265	.367	.147	.240	5.7%	19.0%	.274	-11.8	68	-0.6
2016	BOS	3	7	0	0	0	0	1	4	.000	.143	.000	.000	.000	14.3%	57.1%	.100	-1.2	-47	-0.1
2015	BOS	126	505	115	10	47	0	25	73	.245	.292	.366	.121	.270	5.0%	14.5%	.291	-10.5	77	0.2
2014	SF	156	638	164	16	73	0	39	85	.279	.324	.415	.136	.300	6.1%	13.3%	.327	+6.3	112	2.8
2013	SF	141	584	146	14	79	0	47	79	.278	.341	.417	.139	.301	8.0%	13.5%	.335	+7.8	117	2.7
2012	SF	108	442	112	12	63	1	38	59	.283	.342	.447	.164	.301	8.6%	13.3%	.342	+8.1	126	2.3
2011	SF	117	466	134	23	70	2	32	63	.315	.357	.552	.237	.320	6.9%	13.5%	.389	+24.8	159	4.2
2010	SF	152	616	151	13	63	3	47	81	.268	.323	.409	.140	.291	7.6%	13.1%	.320	-2.8	98	1.3
2009	SF	153	633	189	25	90	5	52	83	.330	.387	.556	.226	.350	8.2%	13.1%	.404	+36.6	146	5.6
2008	SF	41	154	50	3	24	0	4	14	.345	.357	.490	.145	.356	2.6%	9.1%	.366	+4.1	121	0.8

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.

																				Trend
2019	SF	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	6.21	0.00	0.0	0.0	0	138	-0.0
2018	SF	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	3.16	0.00	0.0	0.0	0	76	0.0

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason batting

Postseason Pablo Sandoval's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2020 Post	ATL	NLCS	3	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.250	.000	.250
2014 Post	SF	Postseason total	17	78	71	12	26	7	0	5	5	11	.366	.423	.465	.888
		Wild Card	1	5	4	2	2	0	0	0	1	1	.500	.600	.500	1.100
		NLDS	4	20	19	1	4	1	0	1	1	4	.211	.250	.263	.513
		NLCS	5	23	20	3	8	3	0	0	2	2	.400	.478	.550	1.028
		World Series	7	30	28	6	12	3	0	4	1	4	.429	.467	.536	1.002
2012 Post	SF	Postseason total	16	70	66	9	24	5	6	13	3	8	.364	.386	.712	1.098
		NLDS	5	22	21	2	7	2	1	3	0	2	.333	.318	.571	.890
		NLCS	7	31	29	4	9	2	2	6	2	4	.310	.355	.586	.941
		World Series	4	17	16	3	8	1	3	4	1	2	.500	.529	1.125	1.654
2010 Post	SF	Postseason total	6	19	17	0	3	1	0	2	2	3	.176	.263	.235	.498
		NLDS	2	7	6	0	1	0	0	0	1	2	.167	.286	.167	.452
		NLCS	3	9	8	0	2	1	0	2	1	0	.250	.333	.375	.708
		World Series	1	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
Career		Postseason total · 4 Octobers	42	171	157	21	53	13	6	20	10	24	.338	.386	.535	.921

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2021. 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	8	6	1	0	1	3	.167	.375	.167	.294	37.5%
vs RHP	78	67	12	4	10	22	.179	.295	.358	.294	28.2%

Season

No pitching splits recorded for 2021.

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 48 tracked batted balls in 2021. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 10.4%
Exit velocity: 91.5
Max exit velo: 111.5
Hard hit: 47.9%
Sweet spot: 41.7%
Launch angle: 14.1°

Barrel rate10.4%

Exit velocity91.5 mph

Hard hit rate47.9%

Contact rate68.5%

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, 2021.

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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 .243.

Situational hitting

How Pablo Sandoval 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	86	—	—	—	—	—	—	.178	.302	.342	.294
Bases empty	38	33	5	0	0	4	11	.152	.263	.152	.211
Runner on first · thin	19	17	5	2	4	2	7	.294	.368	.647	.424
Runners on	48	40	8	4	11	7	14	.200	.333	.500	.360
RISP	29	23	3	2	7	5	7	.130	.310	.391	.318

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 arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

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.