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Drew Gilbert

San Francisco Giants National League WestCF

Age: 26
B/T: L/L
Height: 5' 9"
Weight: 195 lb
Number: #0

Born: September 27, 2000 in St. Paul, MN, United States
MLB debut: August 8, 2025
Drafted: 2022, round 1
College: Tennessee
High school: Stillwater

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dbWAR: 1.1
PA: 393
AVG: .238
OBP: .330
SLG: .394
wRC+: 105

Drew Gilbert is a center fielder for the San Francisco Giants. In 2026 he hit 11 home runs and knocked in 43 RBIs, notching 81 hits across 393 plate appearances in 131 games. His batting average was .238, 2.4% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .330 clip and slugged .394, for an OPS of .724, 0.7% higher than the league mark of .719 — 5th of 18 on his team, and 189th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 85.9 mph off the bat, hit 37.5% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 5.5% of them and made contact on 77.6% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 105 wRC+ puts his offence 5% above average. That comes to 1.3 dbWAR — +1.5 runs with the bat, +0.5 for the ballpark, -1.6 on the bases, -1.7 on double plays, +1.3 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, 2026 regular season.

wRC+105

wOBA.323

ISO.156

BB%9.9%

WAR1.3

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +12.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.

																					Trend
2026	SF	131	393	81	11	43	3	39	71	.238	.330	.394	.156	.268	9.9%	18.1%	.323	+1.5	105	1.3
2025	SF	34	109	19	3	13	1	7	20	.190	.248	.350	.160	.205	6.4%	18.3%	.261	-4.9	63	-0.2

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2026. 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	50	45	3	0	3	17	.067	.143	.067	.114	34.0%
vs RHP	343	295	78	11	36	54	.264	.357	.444	.353	15.7%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2026.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 272 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 5.5%
Exit velocity: 85.9
Max exit velo: 110.1
Hard hit: 37.5%
Sweet spot: 37.5%
Launch angle: 14.1°

Barrel rate5.5%

Exit velocity85.9 mph

Hard hit rate37.5%

Contact rate77.6%

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, 2026.

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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 Drew Gilbert 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	393	—	—	—	—	—	—	.238	.330	.394	.323
Bases empty	228	202	47	7	8	22	45	.233	.320	.396	.321
Runner on first	70	61	12	2	6	7	9	.197	.300	.361	.300
Runners on	165	138	34	4	35	17	26	.246	.344	.391	.326
RISP	95	77	22	2	29	10	17	.286	.376	.416	.345

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2026.

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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.