RF · 2023

Kyle Garlick

Minnesota Twins American League CentralRF

Age: 31
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 210 lb
Number: #41

Born: January 26, 1992 in La Habra, CA, USA
MLB debut: May 19, 2019

dbWAR: .4
PA: 30
AVG: .179
OBP: .233
SLG: .429
wRC+: 72

Kyle Garlick is a right fielder for the Minnesota Twins. In 2023 he hit 2 home runs and knocked in 4 RBIs, notching 5 hits across 30 plate appearances in 14 games. His batting average was .179, 28.1% lower than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .233 clip and slugged .429, for an OPS of .662, 9.9% lower than the league mark of .734. He averaged 92.1 mph off the bat, hit 58.8% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 23.5% of them and made contact on 61.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 72 wRC+ puts his offence 28% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -1.0 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, -0.4 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, 2023.

wRC+72

wOBA.281

ISO.250

BB%6.7%

WAR-.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2023. These four terms sum to -0.4 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2023	14	30	5	2	4	0	2	11	.179	.233	.429	.250	.200	6.7%	36.7%	.281	-1.0	72	-0.0
2022	63	162	35	9	18	0	8	48	.233	.284	.433	.200	.277	4.9%	29.6%	.312	+0.1	103	0.3
2021	33	107	23	5	10	1	6	32	.232	.280	.465	.232	.286	5.6%	29.9%	.316	-0.1	100	0.3
2020	10	23	3	0	3	0	0	7	.136	.174	.182	.045	.200	0.0%	30.4%	.164	-3.1	-8	-0.3
2019	29	53	12	3	6	0	5	19	.250	.321	.521	.271	.346	9.4%	35.8%	.345	+1.0	118	0.2

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2023. 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	22	21	3	1	1	10	.143	.182	.286	.203	45.5%
vs RHP	8	7	2	1	1	1	.286	.375	.857	.495	12.5%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2023.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 17 tracked batted balls in 2023. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 23.5%
Exit velocity: 92.1
Max exit velo: 108.5
Hard hit: 58.8%
Sweet spot: 35.3%
Launch angle: 17.3°

Barrel rate23.5%

Exit velocity92.1 mph

Hard hit rate58.8%

Contact rate61.7%

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, 2023.

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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 .248.

Situational hitting

How Kyle Garlick 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	30	—	—	—	—	—	—	.179	.233	.429	.281
Bases empty · thin	18	16	2	2	2	2	6	.125	.222	.500	.299
Runner on first · thin	6	6	1	0	0	0	3	.167	.167	.167	.147
Runners on · thin	12	12	3	0	2	0	5	.250	.250	.333	.252
RISP · thin	6	6	2	0	2	0	2	.333	.333	.500	.358

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, 2023.

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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.