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Craig Gentry

Baltimore Orioles American League EastLF

Age: 35
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 190 lb
Number: #23

Born: November 29, 1983 in Fort Smith, AR, United States
MLB debut: September 6, 2009

dbWAR: 3.5
PA: 169
AVG: .269
OBP: .321
SLG: .346
wRC+: 87

Craig Gentry was a left fielder for the Baltimore Orioles. In 2018 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 11 RBIs, notching 42 hits across 169 plate appearances in 54 games. His batting average was .269, 8.6% higher than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .321 clip and slugged .346, for an OPS of .668, 8.2% lower than the league mark of .728 — 12th of 18 on his team, and 319th of 448 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 84.8 mph off the bat, hit 25.5% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 0.9% of them and made contact on 78.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 87 wRC+ puts his offence 13% below average. That comes to 0.3 dbWAR — -2.6 runs with the bat, +0.1 for the ballpark, +1.1 on the bases, +1.1 on double plays, -0.9 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, 2018 regular season.

wRC+87

wOBA.299

ISO.077

BB%6.5%

WAR.3

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2018. These terms sum to +3.3 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.


2018	BAL	54	169	42	1	11	12	11	31	.269	.321	.346	.077	.331	6.5%	18.3%	.299	-2.6	87	0.3
2017	BAL	52	117	26	2	11	5	11	24	.257	.333	.386	.129	.316	9.4%	20.5%	.318	-0.6	95	0.1
2016	LAA	13	39	5	0	2	0	3	6	.147	.237	.176	.029	.179	7.7%	15.4%	.200	-3.8	18	-0.4
2015	OAK	22	56	6	0	3	1	4	15	.120	.196	.200	.080	.167	7.1%	26.8%	.185	-5.8	7	-0.5
2014	OAK	89	258	59	0	12	20	17	44	.254	.319	.289	.034	.314	6.6%	17.1%	.279	-6.8	75	0.4
2013	TEX	102	287	69	2	22	24	29	46	.280	.373	.386	.106	.337	10.1%	16.0%	.343	+5.6	118	1.9
2012	TEX	99	269	73	1	26	13	14	41	.304	.367	.392	.087	.364	5.2%	15.2%	.339	+4.2	108	1.3
2011	TEX	54	153	36	1	13	18	10	27	.271	.347	.346	.075	.330	6.5%	17.6%	.316	-0.6	86	0.8
2010	TEX	15	35	7	0	3	1	1	11	.212	.229	.212	.000	.304	2.9%	31.4%	.200	-3.5	13	-0.3
2009	TEX	10	19	2	0	1	0	2	5	.118	.211	.176	.059	.167	10.5%	26.3%	.191	-2.2	3	-0.2

Pitching Regular season

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

																				Trend
2012	TEX	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	3	2	0	1	18.00	6.09	4.00	0.0	9.0	448	152	-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 Craig Gentry'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	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2012 Post	TEX	Wild Card	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
2011 Post	TEX	Postseason total	8	18	15	2	5	1	1	4	2	.333	.412	.333	.745
		ALDS	3	8	5	1	2	0	1	1	2	.400	.571	.400	.971
		ALCS	2	5	5	0	2	1	0	0	0	.400	.400	.400	.800
		World Series	3	5	5	1	1	0	0	3	0	.200	.200	.200	.400
Career		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	9	20	17	2	5	1	1	4	2	.294	.368	.294	.663

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, 2018. 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	84	79	21	1	5	16	.266	.310	.367	.300	19.0%
vs RHP	85	77	21	0	6	15	.273	.333	.325	.298	17.6%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2018.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 106 tracked batted balls in 2018. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.9%
Exit velocity: 84.8
Max exit velo: 101.4
Hard hit: 25.5%
Sweet spot: 34.9%
Launch angle: 8.7°

Barrel rate0.9%

Exit velocity84.8 mph

Hard hit rate25.5%

Contact rate78.7%

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, 2018.

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 .247.

Situational hitting

How Craig Gentry 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	169	—	—	—	—	—	—	.269	.321	.346	.299
Bases empty	107	100	24	0	0	6	23	.240	.290	.310	.270
Runner on first	31	27	7	1	2	3	3	.259	.333	.407	.328
Runners on	62	56	18	1	11	5	8	.321	.377	.411	.349
RISP	31	29	11	0	9	2	5	.379	.419	.414	.370

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2018.

Pitch arsenal

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


Changeup	85.0%	17	82.0	1,906	17.6%	0.0%	5	—	—

Craig Gentry'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 2018 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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HR: 2
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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.