P · 2018

Sam Gaviglio

Age: 30
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 215 lb

Born: May 22, 1990 in Ashland, OR, USA
MLB debut: May 11, 2017

Age shown as of the 2020 season.

dbWAR: .2
PA: 3
AVG: .333
OBP: .333
SLG: .667
wRC+: 177

Sam Gaviglio is a pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays. In 2018 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 3 plate appearances in 1 game. His batting average was .333, 34.4% higher than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .333 clip and slugged .667, for an OPS of 1.000, 37.4% higher than the league mark of .728. He averaged 85.1 mph off the bat, hit 50.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 100.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 177 wRC+ puts his offence 77% above average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — +0.3 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, 2018.

wRC+177

wOBA.426

ISO.333

BB%0.0%

WAR.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2018. These four terms sum to +0.4 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

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WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

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2018	1	3	1	0	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.667	.333	.500	0.0%	33.3%	.426	+0.3	177	0.0
2017	2	5	1	0	0	0	0	2	.200	.200	.200	.000	.333	0.0%	40.0%	.175	-0.6	-2	-0.0

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2020	4	0	3.0	0	1	3	3	1	5	9.00	7.52	2.67	3.0	15.0	202	169	-0.1
2019	52	0	95.2	4	2	85	49	88	22	4.61	4.64	1.12	8.3	2.1	102	103	0.3
2018	26	24	123.2	3	10	140	73	105	38	5.31	4.69	1.44	7.6	2.8	128	113	0.5
2017	16	13	74.1	4	5	76	36	49	26	4.36	5.81	1.37	5.9	3.1	100	133	-0.5

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 RHP	3	3	1	0	0	1	.333	.333	.667	.426	33.3%

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 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 LHB	252	226	63	9	20	37	.279	.336	.465	.347	14.7%
vs RHB	297	273	77	12	18	68	.282	.332	.473	.348	22.9%

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 2 tracked batted balls in 2018. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 85.1
Max exit velo: 100.8
Hard hit: 50.0%
Sweet spot: 100.0%
Launch angle: 14.0°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity85.1 mph

Hard hit rate50.0%

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, 2018.

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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 .247.

Situational hitting

How Sam Gaviglio 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	3	—	—	—	—	—	—	.333	.333	.667	.426
Bases empty · thin	3	3	1	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.667	.426

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, 2018.

Pitch sequencing

What Sam Gaviglio 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 2018.


Sinker	54.6%	1,115	88.0	2,039	45.8%	10.8%
Slider	28.4%	579	83.0	2,137	43.5%	35.1%
Changeup	11.2%	229	82.8	1,472	34.5%	21.5%
Curveball	5.7%	116	77.9	2,121	43.1%	17.9%

Sam Gaviglio'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.