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Gerardo Parra

Washington Nationals National League EastLF

Age: 34
B/T: L/L
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 209 lb
Number: #8

Born: May 6, 1987 in Santa Barbara del Zulia, Venezuela
MLB debut: May 13, 2009

dbWAR: 7.4
PA: 107
AVG: .237
OBP: .292
SLG: .351
wRC+: 78

Gerardo Parra was a left fielder for the Washington Nationals. In 2021 he hit 2 home runs and knocked in 10 RBIs, notching 23 hits across 107 plate appearances in 51 games. His batting average was .237, 2.7% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .292 clip and slugged .351, for an OPS of .643, 11.7% lower than the league mark of .728 — 17th of 20 on his team, and 355th of 463 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 86.9 mph off the bat, hit 29.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 1.4% of them and made contact on 73.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 78 wRC+ puts his offence 22% below average. That comes to -0.2 dbWAR — -3.0 runs with the bat, +0.1 for the ballpark, -0.3 on the bases, -0.6 on double plays, -1.2 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+78

wOBA.284

ISO.113

BB%5.6%

WAR-.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2021. These terms sum to -1.9 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	WSH	51	107	23	2	10	1	6	30	.237	.292	.351	.113	.318	5.6%	28.0%	.284	-3.0	78	-0.2
2019	WSH/SF	119	301	64	9	48	8	19	59	.234	.293	.391	.157	.264	6.3%	19.6%	.290	-8.5	75	-0.3
2018	COL	136	443	114	6	53	11	32	75	.284	.342	.372	.087	.334	7.2%	16.9%	.315	-1.1	91	0.6
2017	COL	114	425	121	10	71	2	20	67	.309	.341	.452	.143	.343	4.7%	15.8%	.340	+5.4	101	0.6
2016	COL	101	381	93	7	39	6	9	73	.253	.271	.399	.147	.297	2.4%	19.2%	.287	-10.3	70	-0.8
2015	MIL/BAL	153	589	159	14	51	14	28	92	.291	.328	.452	.161	.325	4.8%	15.6%	.337	+9.6	111	2.6
2014	AZ/MIL	146	574	138	9	40	9	32	100	.261	.308	.369	.108	.306	5.6%	17.4%	.302	-5.2	88	0.5
2013	AZ	154	663	161	10	48	10	48	100	.268	.323	.403	.135	.305	7.2%	15.1%	.322	+2.4	104	1.7
2012	AZ	125	430	105	7	36	15	33	77	.273	.335	.392	.119	.323	7.7%	17.9%	.321	+0.5	96	1.1
2011	AZ	136	493	130	8	46	15	43	82	.292	.357	.427	.135	.342	8.7%	16.6%	.340	+7.5	109	1.8
2010	AZ	129	393	95	3	30	1	23	76	.261	.308	.371	.110	.322	5.9%	19.3%	.295	-9.6	78	-0.4
2009	AZ	120	491	132	5	60	5	25	89	.290	.324	.404	.114	.346	5.1%	18.1%	.321	-4.7	87	0.2

Pitching Regular season

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

																				Trend
2019	WSH	1	0	0.0	0	0	0	1	5	0	4	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

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 Gerardo Parra'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	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2019 Post	WSH	Postseason total	7	7	6	1	1	0	0	1	2	.167	.286	.167	.452
		NLDS	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLCS	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000
		World Series	4	4	3	1	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.250	.000	.250
2018 Post	COL	Postseason total	3	9	8	1	4	0	0	1	1	.500	.556	.500	1.056
		Wild Card	1	3	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	.500	.667	.500	1.167
		NLDS	2	6	6	1	3	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000
2017 Post	COL	Wild Card	1	4	4	1	2	0	1	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000
2011 Post	AZ	NLDS	5	19	18	1	1	1	0	1	7	.056	.105	.111	.216
Career		Postseason total · 4 Octobers	16	39	36	4	8	1	1	3	10	.222	.282	.250	.532

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	21	19	3	0	0	7	.158	.200	.158	.169	33.3%
vs RHP	86	78	20	2	6	23	.256	.314	.397	.311	26.7%

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

Barrel rate: 1.4%
Exit velocity: 86.9
Max exit velo: 104.4
Hard hit: 29.0%
Sweet spot: 36.2%
Launch angle: 14.6°

Barrel rate1.4%

Exit velocity86.9 mph

Hard hit rate29.0%

Contact rate73.9%

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.

Below averageLeague averageAbove average

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 Gerardo Parra 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	107	—	—	—	—	—	—	.237	.292	.351	.284
Bases empty	59	55	15	1	1	3	16	.273	.322	.400	.317
Runner on first · thin	19	18	2	0	0	0	5	.111	.158	.111	.132
Runners on	48	42	8	1	9	3	14	.190	.255	.286	.243
RISP	29	24	6	1	9	3	9	.250	.321	.417	.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.


Four-Seam Fastball	92.0%	23	89.8	2,263	30.4%	60.0%	1	—	—

Gerardo Parra'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. BAA and OPS are what hitters did against each pitch, credited to the one that ended the plate appearance, and are left blank under 15 at-bats.

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Nearest 2021 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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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.