DH · 2025

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

dbWAR: -.5
PA: 40
AVG: .111
OBP: .200
SLG: .139
wRC+: -2

Yuli Gurriel is 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 -0.5 dbWAR — -4.8 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, -1.0 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.

wRC+-2

wOBA.170

ISO.028

BB%10.0%

WAR-.5

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2025. These four terms sum to -4.6 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

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.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHP	27	25	3	0	2	4	.120	.185	.160	.166	14.8%
vs RHP	13	11	1	0	2	4	.091	.231	.091	.179	30.8%

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%
Exit velocity: 85.1
Max exit velo: 107.9
Hard hit: 18.5%
Sweet spot: 14.3%
Launch angle: 22.4°

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.

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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 .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.
Situation	PA	AB	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
All situations	40	—	—	—	—	—	—	.111	.200	.139	.170
Bases empty · thin	16	15	1	0	0	1	3	.067	.125	.067	.100
Runner on first · thin	10	8	1	0	1	2	2	.125	.300	.250	.270
Runners on · thin	24	21	3	0	3	3	5	.143	.250	.190	.216
RISP · thin	14	13	2	0	2	1	3	.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.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2025	16	40	4	0	3	0	4	8	.111	.200	.139	.028	.143	10.0%	20.0%	.170	-4.8	-2	-0.5
2024	18	65	13	0	6	1	9	15	.241	.338	.296	.056	.317	13.8%	23.1%	.292	-1.1	83	-0.0

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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.