P · 2021

Jose Alvarez

San Francisco Giants National League WestP

Age: 33
B/T: L/L
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 195 lb
Number: #52

Born: May 6, 1989 in Barcelona, Venezuela
MLB debut: June 9, 2013

Age shown as of the 2022 season.

dbWAR: 4.7
PA: 5
AVG: .000
OBP: .500
SLG: .000
wRC+: 132

Jose Alvarez is a pitcher for the San Francisco Giants. In 2021 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 5 plate appearances in 5 games. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .500 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .500, 31.3% lower than the league mark of .728. He averaged 37.7 mph off the bat and made contact on 100.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 132 wRC+ puts his offence 32% above average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — +0.2 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, +0.0 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, 2021.

wRC+132

wOBA.362

ISO.000

BB%40.0%

WAR.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2021. 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.

																				Trend
2021	5	5	0	0	0	0	2	2	.000	.500	.000	.000	—	40.0%	40.0%	.362	+0.2	132	0.0
2016	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.3	-120	-0.0

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2022	21	0	15.1	2	1	1	17	9	15	9	5.28	5.85	1.70	8.8	5.3	133	147	-0.3
2021	67	1	64.2	5	2	0	53	17	42	19	2.37	3.15	1.11	5.8	2.6	55	74	1.1
2020	8	0	6.1	0	0	0	7	1	6	3	1.42	2.72	1.58	8.5	4.3	32	61	0.1
2019	67	1	59.0	3	4	1	66	22	51	18	3.36	4.21	1.42	7.8	2.7	74	94	0.5
2018	76	0	63.0	6	4	1	51	19	59	22	2.71	3.05	1.16	8.4	3.1	65	73	1.1
2017	64	0	48.2	0	3	1	50	21	45	12	3.88	3.92	1.27	8.3	2.2	89	90	0.5
2016	64	0	57.1	1	3	0	71	22	51	15	3.45	3.11	1.50	8.0	2.4	82	74	1.0
2015	64	0	67.0	4	3	0	58	26	59	23	3.49	3.60	1.21	7.9	3.1	88	91	0.6

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 RHP	5	2	0	0	2	2	.000	.500	.000	.362	40.0%

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 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 LHB	126	118	26	0	6	16	.220	.256	.254	.229	12.7%
vs RHB	140	126	27	2	13	26	.214	.288	.302	.264	18.6%

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

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 37.7
Max exit velo: 37.7
Hard hit: 0.0%
Sweet spot: 0.0%
Launch angle: -48.0°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity37.7 mph

Hard hit rate0.0%

Contact rate100.0%

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 Jose Alvarez 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	5	—	—	—	—	—	—	.000	.500	.000	.362
Bases empty · thin	3	1	0	0	0	2	1	.000	.667	.000	.483
Runner on first · thin	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—
Runners on · thin	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
RISP · thin	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000

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 sequencing

What Jose Alvarez throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, and how often it misses in 2021.


Sinker	45.6%	442	91.2	2,125	52.0%	14.4%
Changeup	28.0%	272	81.2	1,541	36.0%	29.8%
Four-Seam Fastball	12.5%	121	91.2	2,306	44.6%	20.4%
Slider	10.3%	100	81.5	2,237	40.0%	22.2%
Cutter	3.6%	35	85.8	2,310	37.1%	27.3%

Jose Alvarez'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.

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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.