1B · 2024

Joey Gallo

Washington Nationals National League East1B

Age: 31
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 250 lb

Born: November 19, 1993 in Henderson, NV, USA
MLB debut: June 2, 2015
Drafted: 2012, round C-A
High school: Bishop Gorman
Salary, 2024: $2.5M

dbWAR: -.4
PA: 260
AVG: .161
OBP: .277
SLG: .336
wRC+: 77

Joey Gallo is a first baseman for the Washington Nationals. In 2024 he hit 10 home runs and knocked in 27 RBIs, notching 36 hits across 260 plate appearances in 74 games. His batting average was .161, 33.6% lower than the league average of .243. He reached base at a .277 clip and slugged .336, for an OPS of .613, 13.8% lower than the league mark of .711 — 15th of 19 on his team, and 368th of 455 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 90.2 mph off the bat, hit 43.4% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 12.3% of them and made contact on 60.4% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 77 wRC+ puts his offence 23% below average. That comes to -0.4 dbWAR — -7.2 runs with the bat, -0.2 on the bases, -5.3 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+77

wOBA.278

ISO.175

BB%12.3%

WAR-.4

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2024. These four terms sum to -4.1 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	64	61	7	2	2	28	.115	.156	.230	.172	43.8%
vs RHP	196	162	29	8	30	74	.179	.316	.377	.313	37.8%

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 122 tracked batted balls in 2024. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 12.3%
Exit velocity: 90.2
Max exit velo: 109.0
Hard hit: 43.4%
Sweet spot: 34.4%
Launch angle: 25.2°

Barrel rate12.3%

Exit velocity90.2 mph

Hard hit rate43.4%

Contact rate60.4%

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 Joey Gallo 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	260	—	—	—	—	—	—	.161	.277	.336	.278
Bases empty	132	113	23	4	4	16	47	.204	.318	.372	.311
Runner on first	58	47	3	1	2	10	27	.064	.241	.128	.201
Runners on	128	110	13	6	23	16	55	.118	.234	.300	.244
RISP	70	63	10	5	21	6	28	.159	.229	.429	.280

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2024.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2024	74	260	36	10	27	3	32	102	.161	.277	.336	.175	.232	12.3%	39.2%	.278	-7.2	77	-0.4	—

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Similar players

Nearest 2024 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Niko KavadasLAA

wRC+: 77
HR: 4
AVG: .183
WAR: -0.2

Mitch GarverSEA

wRC+: 86
HR: 15
AVG: .172
WAR: -0.5

Estevan FlorialCLE

wRC+: 74
HR: 3
AVG: .173
WAR: -0.2

Davis SchneiderTOR

wRC+: 76
HR: 13
AVG: .191
WAR: 0.1

Comparable

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.