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Johnny Giavotella

Baltimore Orioles American League East2B

Age: 30
B/T: R/R
Height: 5' 8"
Weight: 185 lb
Number: #9

Born: July 10, 1987 in Metairie, LA, United States
MLB debut: August 5, 2011

dbWAR: 1.8
PA: 10
AVG: .100
OBP: .100
SLG: .100
wRC+: -62

Johnny Giavotella was 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 -0.2 dbWAR — -2.0 runs with the bat, -0.0 for the ballpark, +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 regular season.

wRC+-62

wOBA.087

ISO.000

BB%0.0%

WAR-.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2017. These terms sum to -1.5 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.


2017	BAL	5	10	1	0	0	1	0	4	.100	.100	.100	.000	.167	0.0%	40.0%	.087	-2.0	-62	-0.2
2016	LAA	97	367	90	6	31	4	13	39	.260	.287	.376	.116	.276	3.5%	10.6%	.288	-9.9	79	0.3
2015	LAA	128	502	123	4	49	2	32	59	.272	.318	.375	.104	.301	6.4%	11.8%	.306	-4.2	97	1.6
2014	KC	12	41	8	1	5	0	1	5	.216	.268	.324	.108	.219	2.4%	12.2%	.268	-1.4	68	-0.0
2013	KC	14	48	9	0	4	0	5	4	.220	.333	.293	.073	.243	10.4%	8.3%	.296	-0.8	83	0.1
2012	KC	53	189	43	1	15	3	8	35	.238	.270	.304	.066	.290	4.2%	18.5%	.256	-9.3	57	-0.3
2011	KC	46	187	44	2	21	5	6	32	.247	.273	.376	.129	.288	3.2%	17.1%	.288	-4.8	77	0.1

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2017. 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	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%
Exit velocity: 95.1
Max exit velo: 104.6
Hard hit: 50.0%
Sweet spot: 25.0%
Launch angle: 6.0°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity95.1 mph

Hard hit rate50.0%

Contact rate56.3%

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.

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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 .254.

Situational hitting

How Johnny Giavotella 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	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.

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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.