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Yuli Gurriel

Age
41
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 0"
Weight
215 lb
Number
#10
Born
June 9, 1984 in Sancti Spiritus, Cuba
MLB debut
August 21, 2016
Salary, 2025
$1.35M

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dbWAR
8.6
Regular season, 10 season(s)
PA
40
AVG
.111
OBP
.200
SLG
.139
wRC+
-2
100 = avg

Yuli Gurriel was a designated hitter for the San Diego Padres. In 2025 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 3 RBIs, notching 4 hits across 40 plate appearances in 16 games. His batting average was .111, 54.7% lower than the league average of .245. He reached base at a .200 clip and slugged .139, for an OPS of .339, 52.9% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 85.1 mph off the bat, hit 18.5% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 81.4% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -2 wRC+ puts his offence 102% below average. That comes to -0.4 dbWAR — -4.8 runs with the bat, +0.0 for the ballpark, -0.0 on the bases, +0.5 on double plays, -0.7 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, 2025 regular season.

wRC+-2
wOBA.170
ISO.028
BB%10.0%
WAR-.4

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2025. These terms sum to -3.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting-4.8Ballpark+0.0Baserunning-0.0Double plays+0.5Position-0.7Replacement+1.2
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

3.41.5-0.516171819202122232425

Batting Regular season

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

Trend
2025SD1640403048.111.200.139.028.14310.0%20.0%.170-4.8-2-0.4
2024KC186513061915.241.338.296.056.31713.8%23.1%.292-1.183-0.0
2023MIA1003297342742644.245.304.359.114.2727.9%13.4%.289-8.677-0.5
2022HOU14558413285383073.242.288.360.117.2665.1%12.5%.287-11.883-0.1
2021HOU141605169158115968.319.383.462.143.3369.8%11.2%.366+24.91353.2
2020HOU572304962201227.232.274.384.152.2355.2%11.7%.282-7.875-0.4
2019HOU1446121683110453765.298.343.541.243.2896.0%10.6%.367+23.01273.4
2018HOU136573156138552363.291.323.428.138.3064.0%11.0%.326+3.61061.0
2017HOU139564158187532262.299.332.486.187.3083.9%11.0%.348+11.21222.2
2016HOU36137343151512.262.292.385.123.2673.6%8.8%.294-3.0860.0

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 Yuli Gurriel's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
SeasonTeamRoundGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBAVGOBPSLGOPS
2024 PostKCPostseason total62421441000310.190.292.238.530
Wild Card287010000110.143.250.143.393
ALDS41614431000200.214.313.286.598
2023 PostMIAWild Card111000000010.000.000.000.000
2022 PostHOUPostseason total1250494171024112.347.360.490.850
ALDS31515160011001.400.400.6001.000
ALCS41515250012000.333.333.533.867
World Series52019161001111.316.350.368.718
2021 PostHOUPostseason total166661819101105102.311.364.377.741
ALDS41717130002050.176.176.176.353
ALCS625224101016311.455.520.6361.156
World Series62422360002241.273.333.273.606
2020 PostHOUPostseason total135344450001630.114.245.114.359
Wild Card288110000010.125.125.125.250
ALDS41815110001100.067.167.067.233
ALCS72721230000520.143.333.143.476
2019 PostHOUPostseason total18777251830213451.250.286.375.661
ALDS52019161004101.316.350.368.718
ALCS62624130014100.125.154.250.404
World Series73129392015250.310.355.483.838
2018 PostHOUPostseason total83631572013550.226.333.387.720
ALDS31411221000330.182.357.273.630
ALCS52220351013220.250.318.450.768
2017 PostHOUPostseason total18736952171284100.304.342.522.864
ALDS41817191100110.529.556.7061.261
ALCS72624263004240.250.308.375.683
World Series72928263024150.214.241.536.777
CareerPostseason total · 8 Octobers92380348359115183928365.261.318.379.698

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.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2025. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP27253024.120.185.160.16614.8%
vs RHP13111024.091.231.091.17930.8%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2025.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 27 tracked batted balls in 2025. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate
0.0%
0 barrels
Exit velocity
85.1
mph average
Max exit velo
107.9
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
18.5%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
14.3%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
22.4°
average
Barrel rate0.0%
Exit velocity85.1 mph
Hard hit rate18.5%
Contact rate81.4%

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, 2025.

—————1 AB———4 AB—4 AB—1 AB——4 AB—4 AB
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 .245.

Situational hitting

How Yuli Gurriel 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.
SituationPAABHHRRBIBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBA
All situations40——————.111.200.139.170
Bases empty · thin161510013.067.125.067.100
Runner on first · thin10810122.125.300.250.270
Runners on · thin242130335.143.250.190.216
RISP · thin141320213.154.214.154.178

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, 2025.

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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.