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Yasmani Grandal

Pittsburgh Pirates National League CentralC

Age: 36
B/T: S/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 225 lb

Born: November 8, 1988 in Havana, Cuba
MLB debut: June 2, 2012
Drafted: 2007, round 27
College: Miami
High school: Miami Springs
Salary, 2024: $2.5M

dbWAR: 27.7
PA: 243
AVG: .228
OBP: .304
SLG: .400
wRC+: 96

Yasmani Grandal was a catcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates. In 2024 he hit 9 home runs and knocked in 27 RBIs, notching 49 hits across 243 plate appearances in 68 games. His batting average was .228, 6.3% lower than the league average of .243. He reached base at a .304 clip and slugged .400, for an OPS of .704, 1.0% lower than the league mark of .711 — 6th of 14 on his team, and 201st of 455 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 90.1 mph off the bat, hit 42.8% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 8.7% of them and made contact on 79.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 96 wRC+ puts his offence 4% below average. That comes to 0.9 dbWAR — -0.4 runs with the bat, -0.4 for the ballpark, -0.2 on the bases, -2.1 on double plays, +4.1 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, 2024 regular season.

wRC+96

wOBA.310

ISO.172

BB%9.9%

WAR.9

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2024. These terms sum to +8.4 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.


2024	PIT	68	243	49	9	27	1	24	46	.228	.304	.400	.172	.248	9.9%	18.9%	.310	-0.4	96	0.9
2023	CWS	116	405	85	8	33	0	36	86	.234	.309	.339	.105	.284	8.9%	21.2%	.289	-10.4	79	0.4
2022	CWS	98	376	66	5	27	1	45	79	.202	.301	.269	.067	.249	12.0%	21.0%	.265	-14.0	65	-0.3
2021	CWS	92	375	67	23	62	0	87	82	.240	.420	.520	.280	.246	23.2%	21.9%	.409	+28.9	163	4.1
2020	CWS	46	194	37	8	27	0	30	58	.230	.351	.422	.193	.299	15.5%	29.9%	.341	+3.2	112	1.0
2019	MIL	153	632	126	28	77	5	109	139	.246	.380	.468	.222	.279	17.2%	22.0%	.365	+23.1	130	4.7
2018	LAD	140	518	106	24	68	2	72	124	.241	.349	.466	.225	.278	13.9%	23.9%	.356	+15.9	131	3.9
2017	LAD	129	482	108	22	58	0	40	130	.247	.308	.459	.212	.298	8.3%	27.0%	.329	+1.7	104	2.3
2016	LAD	125	457	89	27	72	1	64	116	.228	.339	.477	.249	.250	14.0%	25.4%	.355	+12.2	130	3.3
2015	LAD	114	426	83	16	47	0	65	92	.234	.353	.403	.169	.268	15.3%	21.6%	.340	+7.8	119	2.5
2014	SD	128	443	85	15	49	3	58	115	.225	.327	.401	.175	.277	13.1%	26.0%	.329	+5.1	117	2.2
2013	SD	28	108	19	1	9	0	18	18	.216	.352	.341	.125	.257	16.7%	16.7%	.315	-0.2	104	0.6
2012	SD	60	226	57	8	36	0	31	39	.297	.394	.469	.172	.333	13.7%	17.3%	.380	+10.8	148	2.1

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 Yasmani Grandal'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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2021 Post	CWS	ALDS	4	18	14	1	2	0	1	4	2	3	.143	.278	.357	.635
2020 Post	CWS	Wild Card	3	14	10	2	2	0	2	4	4	3	.200	.429	.800	1.229
2019 Post	MIL	Wild Card	1	4	3	1	1	0	1	2	1	1	.333	.500	1.333	1.833
2018 Post	LAD	Postseason total	13	34	29	2	4	1	1	1	5	15	.138	.265	.276	.541
		NLDS	4	16	13	2	1	0	1	1	3	5	.077	.250	.308	.558
		NLCS	5	11	11	0	2	1	0	0	0	6	.182	.182	.273	.455
		World Series	4	7	5	0	1	0	0	0	2	4	.200	.429	.200	.629
2017 Post	LAD	Postseason total	4	11	8	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	.000	.273	.000	.273
		NLDS	1	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLCS	1	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	.000	.750	.000	.750
		World Series	2	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
2016 Post	LAD	Postseason total	11	36	28	1	3	0	1	3	7	11	.107	.286	.214	.500
		NLDS	5	19	16	0	2	0	0	0	3	6	.125	.263	.125	.388
		NLCS	6	17	12	1	1	0	1	3	4	5	.083	.313	.333	.646
2015 Post	LAD	NLDS	3	11	10	0	1	0	0	2	1	6	.100	.182	.100	.282
Career		Postseason total · 7 Octobers	39	128	102	7	13	1	6	16	23	42	.127	.291	.314	.605

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, 2024. 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	60	55	13	0	4	14	.236	.288	.291	.262	23.3%
vs RHP	183	160	36	9	20	32	.225	.309	.438	.326	17.5%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2024.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 173 tracked batted balls in 2024. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 8.7%
Exit velocity: 90.1
Max exit velo: 108.0
Hard hit: 42.8%
Sweet spot: 33.5%
Launch angle: 10.2°

Barrel rate8.7%

Exit velocity90.1 mph

Hard hit rate42.8%

Contact rate79.9%

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, 2024.

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 Yasmani Grandal 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	243	—	—	—	—	—	—	.228	.304	.400	.310
Bases empty	135	124	24	6	6	11	28	.194	.259	.371	.277
Runner on first	52	47	12	2	5	5	6	.255	.327	.468	.345
Runners on	108	91	25	3	21	13	18	.275	.362	.440	.352
RISP	56	44	13	1	16	8	12	.295	.396	.409	.360

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2024.

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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.