2B · 2017
Johnny Giavotella
- Age
- 30
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 5' 8"
- Weight
- 185 lb
- Number
- #9
- Born
- July 10, 1987 in Metairie, LA, USA
- MLB debut
- August 5, 2011
- dbWAR
- 1.7 3 season(s)
- PA
- 10
- AVG
- .100
- OBP
- .100
- SLG
- .100
- wRC+
- -62 100 = avg
Johnny Giavotella is a second baseman for the Baltimore Orioles. In 2017 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 10 plate appearances in 5 games. His batting average was .100, 60.8% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .100 clip and slugged .100, for an OPS of .200, 73.3% lower than the league mark of .750. He averaged 95.1 mph off the bat, hit 50.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 56.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -62 wRC+ puts his offence 162% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -2.0 runs with the bat, +0.2 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, 2017.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2017. These four terms sum to -1.5 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | .100 | .100 | .100 | .000 | .167 | 0.0% | 40.0% | .087 | -2.0 | -62 | -0.1 | |
| 2016 | 97 | 367 | 90 | 6 | 31 | 4 | 13 | 39 | .260 | .287 | .376 | .116 | .276 | 3.5% | 10.6% | .288 | -9.9 | 79 | 0.3 | |
| 2015 | 128 | 502 | 123 | 4 | 49 | 2 | 32 | 59 | .272 | .318 | .375 | .104 | .301 | 6.4% | 11.8% | .306 | -4.2 | 97 | 1.5 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 42.9% |
| vs RHP | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .291 | 33.3% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2017.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 4 tracked batted balls in 2017. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 95.1 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 104.6 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 50.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 25.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 6.0° average
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, 2017.
Situational hitting
How Johnny Giavotella hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.
| Situation | PA | AB | H | HR | RBI | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All situations | 10 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .100 | .100 | .100 | .087 |
| Bases empty · thin | 7 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .143 | .143 | .143 | .125 |
| Runner on first · thin | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 3 | 3 | 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, 2017.
Head to head
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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.