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1B · 2020

Jedd Gyorko

Age
32
B/T
R/R
Height
5' 10"
Weight
205 lb
Number
#9
Born
September 23, 1988 in Morgantown, WV, USA
MLB debut
April 1, 2013
dbWAR
8.1
9 season(s)
PA
135
AVG
.248
OBP
.333
SLG
.504
wRC+
120
100 = avg

Jedd Gyorko was a first baseman for the Milwaukee Brewers. In 2020 he hit 9 home runs and knocked in 17 RBIs, notching 29 hits across 135 plate appearances in 42 games. His batting average was .248, 1.3% higher than the league average of .245. He reached base at a .333 clip and slugged .504, for an OPS of .838, 13.3% higher than the league mark of .740 — the best on his team, and 73rd of 310 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 88.6 mph off the bat, hit 43.2% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 14.8% of them and made contact on 68.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 120 wRC+ puts his offence 20% above average. That comes to 0.6 dbWAR — +3.5 runs with the bat, -0.1 on the bases, -2.2 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, 2020.

wRC+120
wOBA.352
ISO.256
BB%11.1%
WAR.6

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2020. These four terms sum to +5.7 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting+3.5Baserunning-0.1Position-2.2Replacement+4.5
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

2.51.0-0.5151617181920

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2020421352991701538.248.333.504.256.27811.1%28.1%.352+3.51200.6
20195810116292924.174.248.250.076.2128.9%23.8%.226-8.335-0.5
201811740292114724477.262.346.416.154.30310.9%19.2%.336+5.91152.1
20171254811162067647105.272.341.472.200.3129.8%21.8%.348+9.41202.5
201612843897305903796.242.306.495.253.2448.4%21.9%.344+7.81182.4
20151284581041657027107.247.297.397.150.2905.9%23.4%.304-4.6931.3

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2020101.000010000.003.191.000.00.00720.0
2019100.100000100.00-2.790.0027.00.00-620.0
2018101.000021009.0019.162.000.00.0217462-0.2

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2020. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP57451251113.267.404.644.42722.8%
vs RHP7872174425.236.282.417.29932.1%
Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2020. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB330000.000.000.000.0000.0%
vs RHB1110001.0001.0001.000.8850.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2020.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 81 tracked batted balls in 2020. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate
14.8%
12 barrels
Exit velocity
88.6
mph average
Max exit velo
108.0
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
43.2%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
35.8%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
15.3°
average
Barrel rate14.8%
Exit velocity88.6 mph
Hard hit rate43.2%
Contact rate68.2%

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, 2020.

.167.0005 AB.20010 AB7 AB6 AB.50018 AB.08312 AB4 AB.40010 AB.2508 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 .244.

Situational hitting

How Jedd Gyorko 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 situations135.248.333.504.352
Bases empty73651666719.246.329.554.371
Runner on first3026824410.308.400.577.415
Runners on625213311819.250.339.442.330
RISP322651749.192.281.308.247

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2020.

Pitch sequencing

What Jedd Gyorko 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 2020.

Fastball100.0%1178.01,76618.2%0.0%
Jedd Gyorko'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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Similar players

Nearest 2020 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.