LF · 2026
Gabriel Gonzalez
- Age
- 22
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 5' 10"
- Weight
- 165 lb
- Number
- #72
- Born
- January 4, 2004 in Carupano, Venezuela
- MLB debut
- May 22, 2026
- dbWAR
- .1 1 season(s)
- PA
- 4
- AVG
- .500
- OBP
- .750
- SLG
- .500
- wRC+
- 294 100 = avg
Gabriel Gonzalez is a left fielder for the Minnesota Twins. In 2026 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 4 plate appearances in 1 game. His batting average was .500, 105.2% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .750 clip and slugged .500, for an OPS of 1.250, 73.8% higher than the league mark of .719. He averaged 63.1 mph off the bat and made contact on 100.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 294 wRC+ puts his offence 194% above average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — +0.9 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, 2026.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +0.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .000 | .667 | .000 | .482 | 0.0% |
| vs RHP | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | .891 | 0.0% |
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 2 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 63.1 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 66.6 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 11.5° 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, 2026.
Situational hitting
How Gabriel Gonzalez 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 | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .500 | .750 | .500 | .584 |
| Bases empty · thin | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .500 | .667 | .500 | .538 |
| Runner on first · thin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 1.000 | — | .723 |
| Runners on · thin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 1.000 | — | .723 |
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, 2026.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .500 | .750 | .500 | .000 | .500 | 50.0% | 0.0% | .584 | +0.9 | 294 | 0.1 | — |
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.