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Anthony Gose

Age
36
B/T
L/L
Height
6' 0"
Weight
200 lb
Number
#34
Born
August 10, 1990 in Bellflower, CA, United States
MLB debut
July 17, 2012
Drafted
2017, round 1
High school
Bellflower

Age shown as of the 2026 season.

dbWAR
1.9
6 season(s)
PA
101
AVG
.209
OBP
.287
SLG
.341
wRC+
72
100 = avg

Anthony Gose was a center fielder for the Detroit Tigers. In 2016 he hit 2 home runs and knocked in 7 RBIs, notching 19 hits across 101 plate appearances in 27 games. His batting average was .209, 18.2% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .287 clip and slugged .341, for an OPS of .628, 15.0% lower than the league mark of .739 — 13th of 15 on his team, and 361st of 438 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 90.1 mph off the bat, hit 39.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 4.9% of them and made contact on 65.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 72 wRC+ puts his offence 28% below average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — -3.3 runs with the bat, -0.0 for the ballpark, -0.5 on the bases, +0.4 on double plays, +0.6 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, 2016.

wRC+72
wOBA.280
ISO.132
BB%8.9%
WAR.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2016. These terms sum to +0.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting-3.3Ballpark-0.0Baserunning-0.5Double plays+0.4Position+0.6Replacement+2.8
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

1.60.80.01516

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2016DET2710119270938.209.287.341.132.3338.9%37.6%.280-3.3720.0
2015DET1315351235262345145.254.321.367.113.3528.4%27.1%.308-3.8961.6

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2026KC13013.011091720.692.490.854.81.417600.3
2024CLE304.1000954110.388.012.318.32.1255196-0.2
2022CLE22021.0300151128144.715.061.3812.06.0119128-0.2
2021CLE606.200021921.351.370.6012.12.732320.3

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2016. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP29253048.120.241.120.18727.6%
vs RHP7367162530.239.301.418.31441.1%

No pitching splits recorded for 2016.

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2016.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 41 tracked batted balls in 2016. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate
4.9%
2 barrels
Exit velocity
90.1
mph average
Max exit velo
107.5
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
39.0%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
24.4%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
8.7°
average
Barrel rate4.9%
Exit velocity90.1 mph
Hard hit rate39.0%
Contact rate65.2%

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, 2016.

——.176.000—2 AB—7 AB—3 AB.10010 AB—7 AB—5 AB—7 AB.50010 AB.4449 AB
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 .255.

Situational hitting

How Anthony Gose 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.
SituationPAABHHRRBIBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBA
All situations101——————.209.287.341.280
Bases empty52451311617.289.385.444.366
Runner on first · thin201831328.167.250.444.298
Runners on5047616321.128.180.234.186
RISP3029303113.103.133.103.111

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, 2016.

Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Four-Seam Fastball60.8%11395.72,42746.0%15.3%28.143.372
Slider33.3%6285.82,25654.8%42.9%13——
Changeup5.9%1184.81,66918.2%20.0%3——
Anthony Gose'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. BAA and OPS are what hitters did against each pitch, credited to the one that ended the plate appearance, and are left blank under 15 at-bats.

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Nearest 2016 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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.