3B · 2017

Conor Gillaspie

San Francisco Giants National League West3B

Age: 30
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 195 lb
Number: #50

Born: July 18, 1987 in Omaha, NE, USA
MLB debut: September 9, 2008

dbWAR: -.1
PA: 87
AVG: .163
OBP: .218
SLG: .287
wRC+: 33

Conor Gillaspie is a third baseman for the San Francisco Giants. In 2017 he hit 2 home runs and knocked in 8 RBIs, notching 13 hits across 87 plate appearances in 42 games. His batting average was .163, 36.3% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .218 clip and slugged .287, for an OPS of .506, 32.6% lower than the league mark of .750. He averaged 85.3 mph off the bat, hit 24.2% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 3.2% of them and made contact on 81.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 33 wRC+ puts his offence 67% below average. That comes to -0.5 dbWAR — -7.3 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, -0.4 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.

wRC+33

wOBA.224

ISO.125

BB%5.7%

WAR-.5

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2017. These four terms sum to -4.8 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2017	42	87	13	2	8	0	5	10	.163	.218	.287	.125	.159	5.7%	11.5%	.224	-7.3	33	-0.5
2016	99	205	50	6	25	1	12	28	.262	.307	.440	.178	.278	5.9%	13.7%	.317	-0.7	97	0.4
2015	75	253	54	4	24	0	13	47	.228	.269	.359	.131	.266	5.1%	18.6%	.272	-8.9	71	-0.0

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	12	11	2	0	0	2	.182	.250	.273	.239	16.7%
vs RHP	75	69	11	2	5	8	.159	.213	.290	.221	10.7%

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 62 tracked batted balls in 2017. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 3.2%
Exit velocity: 85.3
Max exit velo: 103.2
Hard hit: 24.2%
Sweet spot: 38.7%
Launch angle: 11.4°

Barrel rate3.2%

Exit velocity85.3 mph

Hard hit rate24.2%

Contact rate81.5%

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 Conor Gillaspie 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	87	—	—	—	—	—	—	.163	.218	.287	.224
Bases empty	51	50	8	1	1	1	8	.160	.176	.300	.204
Runner on first · thin	18	16	3	1	2	2	2	.188	.278	.375	.287
Runners on	36	30	5	1	7	4	2	.167	.278	.267	.252
RISP · thin	18	14	2	0	5	2	0	.143	.278	.143	.217

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.