C · 2018
Alfredo González
- Age
- 26
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 0"
- Weight
- 220 lb
- Born
- July 13, 1992 in Santa Teresa del Tuy, Venezuela
- MLB debut
- May 26, 2018
- dbWAR
- -.1 1 season(s)
- PA
- 9
- AVG
- .111
- OBP
- .111
- SLG
- .111
- wRC+
- -54 100 = avg
Alfredo González is a catcher for the Chicago White Sox. In 2018 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 1 RBI, notching 1 hit across 9 plate appearances in 3 games. His batting average was .111, 55.2% lower than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .111 clip and slugged .111, for an OPS of .222, 69.5% lower than the league mark of .728. He averaged 79.7 mph off the bat and made contact on 55.6% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -54 wRC+ puts his offence 154% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -1.6 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, +0.2 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 -1.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .111 | .111 | .111 | .000 | .200 | 0.0% | 44.4% | .098 | -1.6 | -54 | -0.1 | — |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .220 | 50.0% |
| vs RHP | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 40.0% |
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 5 tracked batted balls in 2018. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 79.7 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 91.3 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 20.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -1.4° 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 Alfredo González 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 | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .111 | .111 | .111 | .098 |
| Bases empty · thin | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runner on first · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .293 |
| RISP · thin | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .500 | .439 |
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
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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.