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DH · 2024

Estevan Florial

Age
27
B/T
L/R
Height
6' 1"
Weight
195 lb
Number
#90
Born
November 25, 1997 in Barahona, Dominican Republic
MLB debut
August 28, 2020
dbWAR
-.2
1 season(s)
PA
111
AVG
.173
OBP
.264
SLG
.367
wRC+
74
100 = avg

Estevan Florial is a designated hitter for the Cleveland Guardians. In 2024 he hit 3 home runs and knocked in 11 RBIs, notching 17 hits across 111 plate appearances in 35 games. His batting average was .173, 28.7% lower than the league average of .243. He reached base at a .264 clip and slugged .367, for an OPS of .631, 11.3% lower than the league mark of .711 — 11th of 16 on his team, and 330th of 455 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 87.7 mph off the bat, hit 41.4% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 10.3% of them and made contact on 57.8% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 74 wRC+ puts his offence 26% below average. That comes to -0.2 dbWAR — -3.0 runs with the bat, -0.1 on the bases, -2.1 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, 2024.

wRC+74
wOBA.279
ISO.194
BB%9.9%
WAR-.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2024. These four terms sum to -1.6 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting-3.0Baserunning-0.1Position-2.1Replacement+3.7
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.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP14134015.308.357.538.38035.7%
vs RHP97851331036.153.250.341.26437.1%

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

Barrel rate
10.3%
6 barrels
Exit velocity
87.7
mph average
Max exit velo
110.7
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
41.4%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
36.2%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
11.5°
average
Barrel rate10.3%
Exit velocity87.7 mph
Hard hit rate41.4%
Contact rate57.8%

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.

.0715 AB5 AB3 AB.09111 AB.0008 AB.2508 AB.27311 AB.36819 AB7 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 .243.

Situational hitting

How Estevan Florial 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 situations111.173.264.367.279
Bases empty69641022527.156.217.359.250
Runner on first2520201411.100.250.150.207
Runners on4234719614.206.341.382.328
RISP · thin171451823.357.471.714.497

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, 2024.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2024351111731121141.173.264.367.194.2599.9%36.9%.279-3.074-0.2

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

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.