Sign In. He’s learned to turn some of those low pitches into slow jogs around the diamond. by Retrosheet. At Risk: Josh Reddick Gurriel is a former member of Cuba's national team.

With your membership, we can continue to offer the content you've come to rely on and add to our unique baseball coverage. He’s an extreme fly ball pitcher though, so expect a low BABIP, but potential issues with the long ball. Obviously, Kyle Tucker is the uber prospect we keep waiting and waiting on. The result was a power hitter with a great deal of inconsistency, ending a lot of at-bats with really poor contact.
Reported as the pre-2020 season number of waiver options remaining. Please support FanGraphs by becoming a member. They figure to … by Retrosheet. and play-by-play data provided by Baseball Info Solutions. I think this is the year that the delicate balance of factors falls apart. It’s enough extra runs to blow his ERA out of the water. But there’s really no reason for the team to continue playing a guy who has provided negative value both offensively and defensively over the last two years. Who else was fringe you maybe considered adding, but didn’t make the cut for this list, Dan? In a game of tradeoffs, he’s made a seemingly effective one. Strikeout potential looks great, but he posted a 14.2% walk rate at Double-A, and hasn’t even pitched at Triple-A. C’mon Astros, give him a chance! He once again beat his FIP by a run, but some of his decline didn’t show up (yet) in the traditional statistics.

Website admin will know that you reported it. All major league baseball data including pitch type, velocity, batted ball location, He'll get $250,000 for each of his 300th and 350th Plate Appearances in 2021, $350,000 for 400 and 450 PAs, $400,000 for 500 and 550 PAs. Trouble was hidden in the FIP, however, and his 4.59 mark was his worst in a healthy season since his early career when he was still a better wide receiver than a pitcher. He previously played for Sancti Spiritus in the Cuban league and the Yokohama DeNA BayStars of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). as distributed by STATS. If Gurriel actually gets kicked to the bench, it’s likely the Astros will just move pieces around and find someone to man first base.

All major league baseball data including pitch type, velocity, batted ball location, (In 2018 and 2019 combined, only six hitters were banished to the dugout by the curve sinister.) Replacement: Forrest Whitley, Cristian Javier.

Samardzija isn’t the power pitcher he once was, making his downside enormous. by Retrosheet. Lastly, he swiped 27 bases last year. We hoped you liked reading Szymborski’s Breakdown Candidates for 2020 by Dan Szymborski! FanGraphs Store. Today, we continue through the American League West teams in our 2020 Prospect Opportunities series, as we move onto the Astros. Signed By The Revenant for $10. 2019 already took away what was left of Miguel Cabrera’s performance, but I suspect 2020 will put the kibosh on whatever remaining hope there is of a comeback. We just recently updated our player pages for mobile and added a few new features! Yuli Gurriel HOU 1B/3B R Born: 06/09/1984 (Age: 36) FanGraphs Player Page. Yuli Gurriel was the hitter who got the gold medal (see Brett Gardner) in terms of actual slugging vs. ZiPS’ expectations based on the hit data. as distributed by STATS. Support FanGraphs. Support FanGraphs. Gurriel is a former member of Cuba's national team. As with Cabrera, I think 2020 will establishes Justin Upton’s 2019 collapse as a permanent one. (3/7/2020) At Risk: Yuli Gurriel Replacement: Taylor Jones. Yuli Gurriel has a dubious distinction; he hits popups on pitches he shouldn’t be able to get under. As breakdowns go, this is a mild one, but it’s significant given Houston’s increased reliance on Verlander without Gerrit Cole around. Follow Mike on Twitter @MikePodhorzer and contact him via email. Was there any thought of including Bryan Abreu as a replacement SP? Sign In. Lester’s largely a junk pitcher at this point, but he’s rapidly becoming a junk pitcher without effective offspeed pitches.

He has typically posted double digit walk rates and actually improved his SwStk% to his best level since his 2016 professional debut. Using Baseball Savant’s definition of a fastball down the “heart” of the zone, one can see Cabrera’s ferocity at the plate drain away. Every pitch but his cutter saw an uptick in both velocity and launch angle, and his cutter, more effective in the overall stats, lost an inch of its horizontal break and was missed less often in 2019. Play-by-play data prior to 2002 was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted After a solid debut, Jose Urquidy figured to win a rotation spot, and while I’m intrigued by his 2019 minor league strikeout spike, there’s risk it was a fluke. Yuli Gurriel 2019 batting splits statistics for Major League, Minor League, and postseason baseball. He’s 26 now, but posted ISO marks over .200 at Double-A in 2018 and at Triple-A in 2019. Simply demonstrating that his 2018 shoulder pains weren’t career-breaking made Jeff Samardzija’s 2019 a triumph. His SwStk% remains solid, but his timetable and immediate performance are more up in the air now. Avg Salary All Leagues $7.62 Last 10 adds $6.70 Old School (5x5) $7.93 Last 10 adds $7.50. Aníbal Sánchez has shown a great late kick to his career, reviving it after some injury-and-run-filled campaigns in Detroit. Website admin will know that you reported it. Yuli Gurriel batting game logs for Major League and Minor League baseball. All UZR (ultimate zone rating) calculations are provided courtesy of Mitchel Lichtman. He’s made little progress in his plate discipline and last season, he was nearly 50% more likely than the average major league hitter to swing at a pitch outside the strike zone. All UZR (ultimate zone rating) calculations are provided courtesy of Mitchel Lichtman. Yesterday, I posted my 10 favorite breakout candidates for our abbreviated 2020 season. Instead he’s relied on his cutter, a pitch he used to great effect in his Atlanta comeback season. Bumgarner’s not Shohei Ohtani; he’s a good hitter for a pitcher, not a good hitter period. Yuli Gurriel pitch% heatmaps. At each stop, he posted a strikeout rate between 33% and 39%.

And please don't worry, your report will be anonymous. and play-by-play data provided by Baseball Info Solutions. He’s managed this feat largely through a reboot of his repertoire. Yuli Gurriel career batting statistics for Major League, Minor League, and postseason baseball. Yulieski Gourriel Castillo (born June 9, 1984), commonly known as Yuli Gurriel and nicknamed "La Piña", is a Cuban professional baseball first baseman for the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball (MLB).

We publish thousands of articles a year, host multiple podcasts, and have an ever growing database of baseball stats. At Risk: Jose Urquidy, Josh James, Austin Pruitt ZiPS has been projecting gloom-and-doom for Gurriel for awhile now and while it has yet to be right, it just feels as if Gurriel is a … Replacement: Taylor Jones. Updated: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 10:52 AM ET, Park Factors Play-by-play data prior to 2002 was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted Play-by-play data prior to 2002 was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted His slider, once a bread-and-butter pitch responsible for 71 strikeouts in his career-best 2013 season, has fallen out of favor. You can flag a comment by clicking its flag icon. All minor league baseball data provided by Major League Baseball Advanced Media Games. as distributed by STATS. If Upton’s ability to punish mistakes doesn’t return quickly, I think he’s done.

Yuli Gurriel HOU 1B/3B R Born: 06/09/1984 (Age: 36) FanGraphs Player Page. Verlander’s projection for 2020 is quite close to his 2019, but the differences at the bottom are stark; ZiPS projects an 14% chance of Verlander having an ERA+ under 80; when re-projecting 2019 with a 60-game season, that number was only 5%. He produces player projections using his own forecasting system and is the author of the eBook Projecting X 2.0: How to Forecast Baseball Player Performance, which teaches you how to project players yourself. Reported as the pre-2020 season number of waiver options remaining. Positions 1B/3B 2021 Projected Positions 1B/3B . He was a writer for ESPN.com from 2010-2018, a regular guest on a number of radio shows and podcasts, and a voting BBWAA member. Pitchers discovered a long time ago that Upton is susceptible to offspeed pitches; since 2015, he’s hit .186 with a .370 slugging against offspeed stuff, a stunning change from his 2008-2014 numbers (.276 and .552). Donate to FanGraphs. Naturally, the team with the best record in baseball in 2019 doesn’t have many players truly at risk of losing their starting jobs based on performance. The Houston #Astros sign slugger Yuli Gurriel to a one-year, $7 million contract, keeping him from free agency. by Handedness, 1 yr, $8.3M (2020); 1 yr, $7M (2021), 2022 club option). That’s good. There are signs of trouble in his profile, however. All Win Expectancy, Leverage Index, Run Expectancy, and Fans Scouting Report data licenced from TangoTiger.com. In 2019, Gardner focused on pulling the baseball and crushing fastballs, hitting more than a quarter of his career homers on fastballs last year alone (25 of 94). Yuli Gurriel pitch% heatmaps. by Handedness, 1 yr, $8.3M (2020); 1 yr, $7M (2021), 2022 club option). All Win Expectancy, Leverage Index, Run Expectancy, and Fans Scouting Report data licenced from TangoTiger.com. Cabrera blamed his lack of lineup protection for the loss of his power, claiming it prevented him from getting quality fastballs. Even when healthy, Upton had issues hitting the ball hard in 2019, and that was his biggest strength at the plate. Updated: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 10:52 AM ET, Park Factors We just recently updated our player pages for mobile and added a few new features! As he enters his late 30s without elite exit velocities, I’m skeptical that he’ll continue to hold up as well as, say, Nelson Cruz has. Gift a Membership. All minor league baseball data provided by Major League Baseball Advanced Media Yuli Gurriel HOU 1B/3B R Born: 06/09/1984 (Age: 36) FanGraphs Player Page. They figure to … by Handedness, 1 yr, $8.3M (2020); 1 yr, $7M (2021), 2022 club option). All UZR (ultimate zone rating) calculations are provided courtesy of Mitchel Lichtman. Amid injury, his control deserted him and during his first taste of Triple-A action, his strikeout rate plunged to just 24.4% (to go along with a 12.6% walk rate). Cristian Javier is the team’s sixth ranked prospect, after blowing through the minors from High-A to Triple-A in 2019. Avg Salary All Leagues $7.65 Last 10 adds $7.50 H2H FanGraphs Points $7.91 Last 10 adds $8.90.

Jon Lester ought to best his .347 BABIP handily, but he’s hittable enough at this point that I expect his home run total to creep up to compensate. Analysis: Gurriel's solo shot off Mariners starter Taijuan Walker started a four-run rally in the fourth inning.The first baseman has maintained a batting average of at least .290 in each of the last three years. Sánchez’s NLCS Game 1 will go down as one of his late-career highlights, a 7 2/3-inning one-hitter. Yulieski Gourriel Castillo (born June 9, 1984), commonly known as Yuli Gurriel and nicknamed "La Piña", is a Cuban professional baseball first baseman for the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball (MLB). All Win Expectancy, Leverage Index, Run Expectancy, and Fans Scouting Report data licenced from TangoTiger.com. But he’s at an age when pitchers can decline very quickly and he’s recovering from a significant groin injury. Yuli Gurriel was the hitter who got the gold medal (see Brett Gardner) in terms of actual slugging vs. ZiPS’ expectations based on the hit data. Signed By Alternative Stats for $10.

Very few contracts this offseason have gotten worse over the last six months without an injury being involved than Madison Bumgarner’s. Replacement: Kyle Tucker, Drew Ferguson. RF 2020 Pre-Season Projections ZiPS, Steamer, Depth Charts ATC, THE BAT, THE BAT X

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