3B · 2024

Miguel Sanó

Los Angeles Angels American League West3B

Age: 31
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 272 lb
Number: #22

Born: May 11, 1993 in San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic
MLB debut: July 2, 2015
Salary, 2024: $875,000

dbWAR: -.1
PA: 95
AVG: .205
OBP: .295
SLG: .313
wRC+: 75

Miguel Sanó is a third baseman for the Los Angeles Angels. In 2024 he hit 2 home runs and knocked in 6 RBIs, notching 17 hits across 95 plate appearances in 27 games. His batting average was .205, 15.8% lower than the league average of .243. He reached base at a .295 clip and slugged .313, for an OPS of .608, 14.5% lower than the league mark of .711. He averaged 93.8 mph off the bat, hit 54.2% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 10.4% of them and made contact on 61.6% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 75 wRC+ puts his offence 25% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -2.7 runs with the bat, -0.2 on the bases, -0.8 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, 2024.

wRC+75

wOBA.277

ISO.108

BB%9.5%

WAR-.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2024. These four terms sum to -0.6 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2024. 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	21	17	4	0	4	3	.235	.381	.294	.322	14.3%
vs RHP	74	66	13	2	5	33	.197	.270	.318	.265	44.6%

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2024. 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	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2024.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 48 tracked batted balls in 2024. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 10.4%
Exit velocity: 93.8
Max exit velo: 114.9
Hard hit: 54.2%
Sweet spot: 41.7%
Launch angle: 9.0°

Barrel rate10.4%

Exit velocity93.8 mph

Hard hit rate54.2%

Contact rate61.6%

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, 2024.

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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 .243.

Situational hitting

How Miguel Sanó 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	95	—	—	—	—	—	—	.205	.295	.313	.277
Bases empty	46	40	9	1	1	5	16	.225	.326	.325	.300
Runner on first	27	24	6	1	3	2	10	.250	.296	.417	.306
Runners on	49	43	8	1	5	4	20	.186	.265	.302	.256
RISP · thin	22	19	2	0	2	2	10	.105	.227	.158	.195

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, 2024.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2024	27	95	17	2	6	0	9	36	.205	.295	.313	.108	.326	9.5%	37.9%	.277	-2.7	75	-0.1	—

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																			Trend
2024	1	0	0.1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	3.17	0.00	0.0	0.0	0	78	0.0	—

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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.