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José Godoy headshot

C · 2022

José Godoy

Age
28
B/T
L/R
Height
5' 9"
Weight
200 lb
Born
October 13, 1994 in Maracaibo, Venezuela
MLB debut
May 21, 2021
dbWAR
-.5
2 season(s)
PA
22
AVG
.050
OBP
.136
SLG
.050
wRC+
-45
100 = avg

José Godoy is a catcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates. In 2022 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 1 RBI, notching 1 hit across 22 plate appearances in 7 games. His batting average was .050, 79.4% lower than the league average of .243. He reached base at a .136 clip and slugged .050, for an OPS of .186, 73.6% lower than the league mark of .706. He averaged 73.0 mph off the bat, hit 18.2% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 66.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -45 wRC+ puts his offence 145% below average. That comes to -0.3 dbWAR — -3.7 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, +0.5 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.

wRC+-45
wOBA.104
ISO.000
BB%9.1%
WAR-.3

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2022. These four terms sum to -2.5 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting-3.7Baserunning-0.0Position+0.5Replacement+0.7
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

0.0-0.1-0.32122

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2022722101029.050.136.050.000.0919.1%40.9%.104-3.7-45-0.3
202114406030314.162.225.189.027.2617.5%35.0%.195-4.116-0.2

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2022. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP320012.000.333.000.23666.7%
vs RHP19181017.056.105.056.08436.8%

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 11 tracked batted balls in 2022. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate
0.0%
0 barrels
Exit velocity
73.0
mph average
Max exit velo
106.0
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
18.2%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
27.3%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
1.1°
average
Barrel rate0.0%
Exit velocity73.0 mph
Hard hit rate18.2%
Contact rate66.7%

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.

1 AB1 AB1 AB2 AB2 AB1 AB1 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 .242.

Situational hitting

How José Godoy 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 situations22.050.136.050.104
Bases empty · thin10800024.000.200.000.142
Runner on first · thin3310001.333.333.333.294
Runners on · thin121210105.083.083.083.073
RISP · thin9900104.000.000.000.000

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.

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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.