2B · 2018
Gift Ngoepe
- Age
- 28
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 5' 8"
- Weight
- 200 lb
- Born
- January 18, 1990 in Pietersburg, South Africa
- MLB debut
- April 26, 2017
- dbWAR
- -.3 2 season(s)
- PA
- 19
- AVG
- .056
- OBP
- .105
- SLG
- .056
- wRC+
- -63 100 = avg
Gift Ngoepe was a second baseman for the Toronto Blue Jays. In 2018 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 19 plate appearances in 9 games. His batting average was .056, 77.6% lower than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .105 clip and slugged .056, for an OPS of .161, 77.9% lower than the league mark of .728. He averaged 87.2 mph off the bat, hit 33.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 16.7% of them and made contact on 54.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -63 wRC+ puts his offence 163% below average. That comes to -0.3 dbWAR — -3.6 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, +0.1 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, 2018.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2018. These four terms sum to -2.8 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 9 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12 | .056 | .105 | .056 | .000 | .167 | 5.3% | 63.2% | .083 | -3.6 | -63 | -0.3 | |
| 2017 | 24 | 63 | 12 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 26 | .222 | .323 | .296 | .074 | .429 | 12.7% | 41.3% | .286 | -2.0 | 75 | 0.0 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | .000 | .200 | .000 | .141 | 60.0% |
| vs RHP | 14 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | .071 | .071 | .071 | .063 | 64.3% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2018.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 6 tracked batted balls in 2018. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 16.7% 1 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 87.2 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 102.7 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 33.3% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 33.3% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 2.5° 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, 2018.
Situational hitting
How Gift Ngoepe 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 | 19 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .056 | .105 | .056 | .083 |
| Bases empty · thin | 10 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | .000 | .100 | .000 | .071 |
| Runner on first · thin | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 9 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | .111 | .111 | .111 | .098 |
| RISP · thin | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .220 |
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, 2018.
Head to head
Put Gift Ngoepe beside up to three others.
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.