SS · 2022

Dee Strange-Gordon

Washington Nationals National League EastSS

Age: 34
B/T: L/R
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 166 lb

Born: April 22, 1988 in Avon Park, FL, USA
MLB debut: June 6, 2011

dbWAR: 7.3
PA: 59
AVG: .305
OBP: .305
SLG: .356
wRC+: 83

Dee Strange-Gordon is a shortstop for the Washington Nationals. In 2022 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 2 RBIs, notching 18 hits across 59 plate appearances in 19 games. His batting average was .305, 25.7% higher than the league average of .243. He reached base at a .305 clip and slugged .356, for an OPS of .661, 6.4% lower than the league mark of .706. He averaged 82.6 mph off the bat, hit 17.6% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 82.8% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 83 wRC+ puts his offence 17% below average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — -1.2 runs with the bat, -0.3 on the bases, +0.5 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, 2022.

wRC+83

wOBA.287

ISO.051

BB%0.0%

WAR.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2022. These four terms sum to +1.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2022	19	59	18	0	2	3	0	8	.305	.305	.356	.051	.353	0.0%	13.6%	.287	-1.2	83	0.1
2020	29	82	15	0	3	3	5	13	.200	.268	.213	.013	.242	6.1%	15.9%	.228	-6.5	37	-0.4
2019	113	421	108	3	34	22	18	61	.275	.304	.359	.084	.313	4.3%	14.5%	.284	-13.9	75	0.4
2018	140	588	149	4	36	30	9	80	.268	.288	.349	.081	.304	1.5%	13.6%	.280	-18.4	77	0.5
2017	157	695	201	2	33	60	25	93	.308	.341	.375	.067	.354	3.6%	13.4%	.314	-5.8	97	2.4
2016	77	346	87	1	14	30	18	55	.268	.305	.335	.068	.319	5.2%	15.9%	.281	-11.1	76	0.5
2015	145	653	205	4	46	58	25	91	.333	.359	.418	.085	.383	3.8%	13.9%	.339	+11.5	117	4.2

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

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2022	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	2	3	0	3	27.00	28.11	5.00	0.0	27.0	680	708	-0.3	—

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2022. 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	4	4	2	0	0	2	.500	.500	.500	.441	50.0%
vs RHP	55	55	16	0	0	6	.291	.291	.345	.276	10.9%

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2022. 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	1	0	0	0	1	0	—	1.000	—	.709	0.0%
vs RHB	7	4	2	1	2	0	.500	.714	1.250	.729	0.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2022.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 51 tracked batted balls in 2022. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 82.6
Max exit velo: 100.4
Hard hit: 17.6%
Sweet spot: 29.4%
Launch angle: -1.0°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity82.6 mph

Hard hit rate17.6%

Contact rate82.8%

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, 2022.

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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 .242.

Situational hitting

How Dee Strange-Gordon 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	59	—	—	—	—	—	—	.305	.305	.356	.287
Bases empty	40	40	12	0	0	0	6	.300	.300	.375	.291
Runner on first · thin	5	5	2	0	0	0	0	.400	.400	.400	.352
Runners on · thin	19	19	6	0	2	0	2	.316	.316	.316	.278
RISP · thin	14	14	4	0	2	0	2	.286	.286	.286	.252

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, 2022.

Pitch sequencing

What Dee Strange-Gordon throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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Fastball

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, and how often it misses in 2022.


Fastball	100.0%	28	56.8	1,357	28.6%	0.0%

Dee Strange-Gordon'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.