C · 2022
Dustin Garneau
- Age
- 35
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 2"
- Weight
- 205 lb
- Born
- August 13, 1987 in San Pedro, CA, USA
- MLB debut
- August 20, 2015
- dbWAR
- 1.3 8 season(s)
- PA
- 11
- AVG
- .300
- OBP
- .364
- SLG
- .400
- wRC+
- 121 100 = avg
Dustin Garneau is a catcher for the Detroit Tigers. In 2022 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 1 RBI, notching 3 hits across 11 plate appearances in 5 games. His batting average was .300, 23.6% higher than the league average of .243. He reached base at a .364 clip and slugged .400, for an OPS of .764, 8.1% higher than the league mark of .706. He averaged 89.5 mph off the bat, hit 16.7% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 16.7% of them and made contact on 64.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 121 wRC+ puts his offence 21% above average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — +0.3 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, 2022.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2022. These four terms sum to +0.8 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | .300 | .364 | .400 | .100 | .500 | 9.1% | 36.4% | .341 | +0.3 | 121 | 0.1 | |
| 2021 | 19 | 68 | 13 | 6 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 18 | .210 | .250 | .581 | .371 | .175 | 4.4% | 26.5% | .336 | +1.1 | 117 | 0.5 | |
| 2020 | 15 | 46 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 15 | .158 | .273 | .289 | .132 | .227 | 13.0% | 32.6% | .260 | -2.4 | 59 | 0.0 | |
| 2019 | 31 | 101 | 21 | 3 | 14 | 0 | 10 | 22 | .244 | .350 | .407 | .163 | .295 | 9.9% | 21.8% | .333 | +0.9 | 106 | 0.6 | |
| 2018 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .500 | .667 | .500 | .000 | .500 | 33.3% | 0.0% | .528 | +0.5 | 250 | 0.1 | |
| 2017 | 39 | 126 | 21 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 12 | 36 | .188 | .272 | .313 | .125 | .257 | 9.5% | 28.6% | .264 | -6.3 | 54 | 0.0 | |
| 2016 | 23 | 75 | 16 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 22 | .235 | .293 | .368 | .132 | .326 | 8.0% | 29.3% | .290 | -1.9 | 71 | 0.2 | |
| 2015 | 22 | 76 | 11 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 6 | 14 | .157 | .224 | .286 | .129 | .167 | 7.9% | 18.4% | .218 | -5.9 | 27 | -0.2 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 9 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .333 | .333 | .444 | .338 | 44.4% |
| vs RHP | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 | .500 | .000 | .354 | 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 6 tracked batted balls in 2022. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 16.7% 1 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 89.5 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 104.6 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 16.7% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 33.3% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 40.5° 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, 2022.
Situational hitting
How Dustin Garneau 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 | 11 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .300 | .364 | .400 | .341 |
| Bases empty · thin | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .167 | .286 | .167 | .227 |
| Runner on first · thin | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 2.000 | 1.278 |
| Runners on · thin | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | .500 | .500 | .750 | .540 |
| RISP · thin | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .294 |
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.
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.