1B · 2022
Gosuke Katoh
- Age
- 28
- B/T
- L/R
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 200 lb
- Born
- October 8, 1994 in Poway, CA, USA
- MLB debut
- April 9, 2022
- dbWAR
- .1 1 season(s)
- PA
- 11
- AVG
- .143
- OBP
- .400
- SLG
- .286
- wRC+
- 122 100 = avg
Gosuke Katoh is a first baseman for the Toronto Blue Jays. In 2022 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 11 plate appearances in 5 games. His batting average was .143, 41.1% lower than the league average of .243. He reached base at a .400 clip and slugged .286, for an OPS of .686, 2.9% lower than the league mark of .706. He averaged 78.1 mph off the bat, hit 14.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 93.8% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 122 wRC+ puts his offence 22% above average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — +0.3 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, -0.1 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 +0.5 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | .143 | .400 | .286 | .143 | .167 | 27.3% | 9.1% | .340 | +0.3 | 122 | 0.1 | — |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% |
| vs RHP | 9 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | .167 | .444 | .333 | .378 | 11.1% |
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 7 tracked batted balls in 2022. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 78.1 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 98.7 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 14.3% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 14.3% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 9.6° 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 Gosuke Katoh 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 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .143 | .400 | .286 | .340 |
| Bases empty · thin | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .250 | .500 | .500 | .449 |
| Runner on first · thin | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 | .333 | .000 | .236 |
| Runners on · thin | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .000 | .250 | .000 | .177 |
| RISP · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .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.
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.