Marco Gonzales
P | B/T: L/L | 6' 1" 205LBS | Age: 31
Draft: 2013 | Rd: 1, #19, St. Louis Cardinals | Gonzaga

Stats

W L ERA G GS SV IP SO WHIP
2023 4 1 5.22 10 10 0 50.0 34 1.46
9 Seasons 65 49 4.14 163 155 0 893.0 665 1.29
G W-L ERA IP SO WHIP
2023 10 4-1 5.22 50.0 34 1.46
9 Seasons 163 65-49 4.14 893.0 665 1.29

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Statcast Statistics

Season Age Pitches Batted
Balls		 Barrels Barrel % Barrel/PA Exit
Velocity		 Max EV Launch
Angle		 Sweet
Spot %		 XBA XSLG WOBA XWOBA XWOBACON HardHit% K% BB% ERA xERA
2015 23 66 14 2 14.3 12.5 95.5 109.8 9.8 50.0 .495 .884 .526 .565 .596 50.0 6.3 6.3 13.50 19.48
2017 25 701 141 9 6.4 4.9 88.3 112.0 12.1 35.5 .299 .485 .391 .353 .404 41.1 17.3 5.9 6.08 5.52
2018 26 2564 503 27 5.4 3.9 88.5 121.1 10.4 37.8 .262 .406 .311 .311 .372 35.0 21.1 4.7 4.00 4.09
2019 27 3232 657 32 4.9 3.7 88.3 112.9 14.7 31.5 .254 .407 .311 .311 .346 35.2 17.0 6.5 3.99 4.26
2020 28 1057 202 17 8.4 6.1 86.6 112.0 17.6 36.6 .243 .430 .265 .301 .376 34.3 23.1 2.5 3.10 3.82
2021 29 2324 430 49 11.4 8.4 88.1 116.5 20.6 37.4 .257 .483 .321 .341 .390 37.0 18.5 7.2 3.96 5.02
2022 30 2838 623 45 7.2 5.7 86.7 111.2 14.5 32.3 .267 .435 .337 .330 .352 35.0 13.2 6.4 4.13 4.59
2023 31 811 163 11 6.7 5.1 89.7 113.0 13.8 37.4 .286 .441 .336 .348 .382 36.8 15.8 8.4 5.22 5.06
Player 13593 2733 192 7.0 5.3 88.0 121.1 14.8 34.8 .263 .435 .321 .325 .368 35.8 17.5 6.0
MLB 6.8 4.7 88.4 122.4 12.1 33.0 .245 .405 .316 .315 .368 36.0 22.1 8.4
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Statcast Pitch Arsenal

Gonzales relies on 4 pitches.
4-Seam Fastball
(36.9%) ,
Changeup
(30.2%) ,
Curveball
(24.2%) ,
Cutter
(8.8%) ,


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Pitch Tracking



Batted Ball Profile

Season GB % FB % LD % PU % Pull % Straight % Oppo % Weak % Topped % Under % Flare/Burner % Solid % Barrel % Barrel/PA
2015 42.9 0.0 50.0 7.1 28.6 42.9 28.6 0.0 28.6 14.3 35.7 7.1 14.3 12.5
2017 45.4 19.1 27.0 8.5 38.3 34.0 27.0 5.7 33.3 19.1 28.4 7.1 6.4 4.9
2018 45.3 21.1 27.8 5.8 40.2 41.2 18.7 2.8 37.0 22.5 25.6 6.2 5.4 3.9
2019 41.9 23.7 25.3 9.1 37.7 38.1 24.2 3.7 29.4 26.9 24.5 7.2 4.9 3.7
2020 37.6 28.7 23.8 9.9 38.6 37.1 24.3 5.0 24.8 31.7 23.8 4.5 8.4 6.1
2021 34.0 30.2 23.3 12.6 38.8 35.8 25.3 5.3 22.8 32.8 22.6 5.1 11.4 8.4
2022 42.9 27.4 22.6 7.1 41.7 35.6 22.6 4.8 30.8 28.3 25.0 3.5 7.2 5.7
2023 40.5 23.9 29.4 6.1 38.7 38.7 22.7 4.3 28.2 28.2 28.8 3.7 6.7 5.1
Player 41.3 25.1 25.2 8.4 39.4 37.5 23.1 4.2 29.9 27.3 25.0 5.4 7.0 5.3
MLB 44.8 23.2 24.9 7.1 36.8 37.6 25.4 3.9 33.0 24.6 24.4 5.8 6.8 4.7
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Pitch Movement

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How this works: Every pitch is affected by the forces of gravity, which means that every pitch drops on its way from the mound to the plate. These numbers are reported with gravity, which makes them larger and different than other pitch movement numbers you may have seen. Since gravity requires time, and slower pitches aren’t ‘better’ just because they have more time to move, the movement of a pitch is compared to ‘average’ movement by comparing it to other MLB pitch types within +/- 2 MPH and from within +/- 0.5 feet of extension and release.
Vertical Movement (inches) Horizontal Movement (inches)
Year Pitch Team Hand # MPH Inches of Drop vs Avg % vs Avg Inches of Break vs Avg % Break vs Avg
2023 Curveball SEA L 196 79.3 53.4 1.8 4 2.1 -9.1 -81
2023 Cutter SEA L 71 85.9 27.1 3.3 11 1.7 -4.7 -157
2023 4-Seamer SEA L 298 89.0 19.8 -1.3 -7 13.4 5.6 72
2023 Changeup SEA L 245 79.9 37.5 -0.1 0 17.6 2.8 19
2022 Changeup SEA L 865 79.4 36.7 -0.1 0 17.3 2.0 13
2022 Cutter SEA L 554 86.1 25.2 3.6 12 2.3 -4.9 -186
2022 Curveball SEA L 381 76.6 59.8 4.1 7 6.3 -5.0 -44
2022 4-Seamer SEA L 1,036 88.5 20.3 -2.2 -12 12.2 5.1 72
2021 Cutter SEA L 332 85.5 23.6 6.3 21 2.9 -5.5 -215
2021 Curveball SEA L 358 75.2 61.5 3.3 6 6.1 -4.9 -45
2021 Changeup SEA L 466 79.3 33.5 -2.6 -7 16.6 2.4 17
2021 4-Seamer SEA L 1,168 88.4 17.5 0.4 2 10.7 3.8 55
2020 4-Seamer SEA L 479 88.2 18.2 0.1 1 10.9 4.4 68
2020 Curveball SEA L 170 75.3 62.1 4.4 8 8.9 -2.2 -20
2020 Changeup SEA L 151 80.6 32.8 -2.0 -6 16.9 3.1 22
2020 Cutter SEA L 256 84.8 27.3 3.8 12 0.0 -3.0 -98
2019 Curveball SEA L 502 76.3 60.7 2.3 4 8.4 -2.8 -25
2019 Changeup SEA L 761 81.2 32.1 -2.1 -6 16.9 2.8 20
2019 4-Seamer SEA L 1,246 88.9 18.6 -0.3 -2 11.3 4.2 60
2019 Cutter SEA L 653 85.2 27.7 2.9 10 0.5 -3.1 -118
2018 4-Seamer SEA L 825 90.1 19.9 -2.1 -12 13.2 5.9 80
2018 Curveball SEA L 571 78.1 59.6 4.0 7 7.8 -2.5 -24
2018 Cutter SEA L 577 87.1 24.8 3.5 12 1.5 -0.8 -35
2018 Changeup SEA L 589 83.6 31.5 -1.7 -5 17.4 3.5 25
2017 4-Seamer SEA L 367 91.7 18.2 -2.4 -15 12.4 4.2 52
2017 Curveball SEA L 116 79.2 54.7 2.3 4 4.8 -4.3 -47
2017 Changeup SEA L 218 84.2 30.6 -0.5 -2 17.1 3.3 24
! Note: Years are in reverse order.
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Run Values by Pitch Type

Year Pitch Type Team RV/100 Run Value Pitches % PA BA SLG wOBA Whiff% K% PutAway % xBA xSLG xwOBA Hard Hit %
2023 4-Seamer 2.4 7 299 36.9 54 .333 .556 .432 13.0 18.5 11.9 .295 .445 .380 40.0
2023 Changeup -0.9 -2 245 30.2 86 .222 .358 .267 29.5 20.9 19.8 .252 .408 .307 31.3
2023 Curveball -0.4 -1 196 24.2 56 .294 .353 .327 13.5 8.9 11.9 .314 .449 .363 42.6
2023 Cutter 3.7 3 71 8.8 19 .389 .667 .463 17.6 5.3 6.3 .335 .558 .402 35.3
2022 4-Seamer 0.2 2 1,036 36.5 271 .249 .442 .353 15.6 13.3 12.2 .277 .481 .370 39.1
2022 Changeup 0.3 2 865 30.5 292 .263 .442 .324 24.5 16.8 14.6 .235 .359 .276 30.7
2022 Cutter 1.4 8 554 19.5 146 .321 .547 .395 13.0 6.8 7.9 .302 .519 .372 31.3
2022 Curveball -0.2 -1 381 13.4 73 .275 .391 .319 15.6 11.0 9.9 .287 .420 .325 45.2
2021 4-Seamer -0.1 -1 1,168 50.3 260 .237 .525 .352 17.3 19.2 16.8 .259 .538 .366 43.3
2021 Changeup -0.5 -3 466 20.1 137 .191 .405 .269 27.8 19.7 15.6 .215 .367 .267 24.0
2021 Curveball 0.2 1 358 15.4 95 .241 .379 .288 24.1 20.0 14.5 .300 .487 .357 44.3
2021 Cutter -0.1 0 332 14.3 90 .284 .481 .364 15.1 13.3 12.4 .271 .506 .366 31.9
2020 4-Seamer -2.6 -13 479 45.3 115 .196 .259 .224 16.7 22.6 20.8 .254 .377 .282 32.6
2020 Cutter -0.4 -1 256 24.2 71 .188 .377 .263 21.2 23.9 16.8 .238 .506 .318 32.7
2020 Curveball 0.7 1 170 16.1 45 .262 .405 .342 25.6 28.9 24.1 .223 .460 .315 41.4
2020 Changeup 1.0 2 151 14.3 45 .310 .571 .396 19.0 17.8 12.7 .243 .414 .309 35.3
2019 4-Seamer -0.7 -9 1,246 38.6 290 .264 .425 .346 15.5 16.9 14.1 .272 .467 .354 40.4
2019 Changeup -0.5 -4 761 23.5 233 .244 .410 .309 22.2 12.0 13.7 .252 .398 .299 25.9
2019 Cutter 0.3 2 653 20.2 201 .250 .356 .307 15.9 24.4 19.2 .231 .345 .271 35.7
2019 Curveball 0.1 1 502 15.5 116 .324 .495 .374 19.0 14.7 15.9 .267 .410 .305 41.7
2018 4-Seamer 0.3 3 825 32.2 150 .282 .458 .366 18.3 17.3 18.2 .292 .477 .376 41.9
2018 Changeup 0.4 2 589 23.0 208 .281 .413 .323 22.3 17.3 18.4 .270 .410 .311 25.8
2018 Cutter 0.1 1 577 22.5 191 .228 .406 .311 19.9 31.9 21.7 .227 .360 .276 33.3
2018 Curveball -0.7 -4 571 22.3 137 .287 .382 .318 23.7 16.1 16.5 .270 .392 .294 43.5
2017 4-Seamer 1.7 6 367 52.4 87 .364 .610 .449 20.6 14.9 15.7 .327 .557 .409 45.3
2017 Changeup -0.6 -1 218 31.1 80 .282 .462 .319 26.7 23.8 24.7 .253 .415 .285 35.0
2017 Curveball 3.5 4 116 16.5 18 .529 .588 .558 14.0 0.0 0.0 .377 .482 .385 47.1
! Note: Years are in reverse order.
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Spin Direction

Year Pitch Type Pitches MPH Active Spin % Total Movement (In.) Spin-Based Observed Deviation
2020 Changeup 145 80.6 99 19.4 10:00 9:45 15
2020 Curveball 150 75.3 88 19.0 5:00 5:00 0
2020 Cutter 200 84.8 60 9.7 11:30 12:00 -30
2020 4-Seam Fastball 405 88.2 99 20.1 11:00 10:45 15
2021 Changeup 461 79.3 97 19.5 9:45 9:45 0
2021 Curveball 358 75.2 78 17.1 5:00 5:15 -15
2021 Cutter 332 85.5 74 13.1 11:00 11:30 -30
2021 4-Seam Fastball 1,161 88.4 99 20.2 10:45 11:00 -15
2022 Changeup 851 79.4 96 19.1 9:30 9:30 0
2022 Curveball 369 76.6 81 17.2 5:00 5:15 -15
2022 Cutter 528 86.1 68 10.9 11:00 11:45 -45
2022 4-Seam Fastball 1,016 88.4 99 19.0 10:30 10:30 0
2023 Changeup 245 79.9 96 18.9 9:30 9:30 0
2023 Curveball 193 79.3 64 12.5 5:00 5:45 -45
2023 Cutter 71 85.9 58 9.2 10:45 11:45 -60
2023 4-Seam Fastball 298 89.0 99 19.8 10:30 10:30 0
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Swing/Take

Runs
Year Team PA Pitches Heart Shadow Chase Waste All
2014 179 721 -1 -5 3 4 1
2017 185 701 8 -8 5 4 9
2018 686 2,562 -7 -14 14 8 2
2019 840 3,162 -16 -20 18 9 -10
2020 276 1,056 -7 -11 4 3 -11
2021 582 2,324 0 -21 10 7 -4
2022 782 2,836 -4 -10 17 9 12
2023 215 811 6 -4 3 2 7
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Plate Discipline

Season Pitches Zone % Zone Swing % Zone Contact % Chase % Chase Contact % Edge % 1st Pitch Strike % Swing % Whiff % Meatball % Meatball Swing %
2015 66 45.5 63.3 89.5 33.3 91.7 25.8 75.0 47.0 6.5 6.1 100.0
2017 701 48.2 67.5 86.0 26.2 58.9 43.5 60.0 46.1 22.0 7.6 79.2
2018 2,564 48.8 64.8 82.3 32.9 71.2 46.6 66.3 48.4 21.0 6.1 73.1
2019 3,232 49.5 65.8 85.1 29.7 73.8 47.1 65.7 47.7 18.0 7.4 77.4
2020 1,057 53.6 62.9 84.6 30.2 68.2 48.1 64.3 47.8 19.6 6.7 70.4
2021 2,324 48.7 68.8 84.4 28.3 67.8 46.5 62.7 48.0 20.4 6.3 75.3
2022 2,838 48.0 70.7 84.9 32.8 73.8 47.8 63.1 51.0 18.3 6.0 80.6
2023 811 50.3 65.2 86.5 31.8 64.8 47.6 60.5 48.6 19.8 6.5 75.5
Player 13,593 49.2 66.9 84.6 30.7 70.8 46.9 64.1 48.5 19.4 6.6 76.4
MLB 48.5 66.9 82.0 28.4 58.2 42.6 60.8 47.1 24.7 7.3 76.1
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Percentile Rankings

Year xwOBA /
xERA 		xBA xSLG xISO xOBP Brl Brl% EV Hard
Hit% 		K% BB% Whiff% Chase
Rate 		FB
Velo 		FB
Spin 		CB
Spin 		Extension
2017 35 46 38 53
2018 44 20 39 56 58 24 70 44 53 43 94 24 93 7 67 47 52
2019 52 38 53 65 54 17 87 58 62 11 75 3 57 3 48 26 59
2020 62 46 37 30 87 2 31 81 65 49 99 9 73 3 26 21 73
2021 19 25 9 6 44 2 6 66 64 16 67 11 53 3 27 24 60
2022 20 13 15 22 33 3 50 85 72 1 72 5 83 3 7 7 58
2023 23 11 32 56 21 29 65 33 65 11 50 12 81 4 5 12 57
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Expected Home Runs

Year Team Avg HR Trot Actual HR xHR HR-xHR Doubters Mostly Gone No Doubters No Doubter %
2017 24.5 8 8.7 -1 3 9 2 25.0
2018 23.4 17 18.2 -1 6 11 10 58.8
2019 23.6 23 19.9 3 19 13 10 43.5
2020 23.6 8 8.7 -1 5 7 4 50.0
2021 23.0 29 31.3 -2 8 24 15 51.7
2022 24.1 30 29.7 0 13 22 12 40.0
2023 24.8 5 4.9 0 2 2 3 60.0
Player 23.7 120 121.4 -1 56 88 56 46.7

Expected Home Runs by Park

Year HR
2017 8 11 7 7 9 7 11 7 6 6 9 12 7 9 8 8 8 7 12 8 10 10 11 11 7 8 9 12 11 9 5
2018 17 22 15 18 16 17 20 18 13 14 17 20 20 18 17 19 18 16 19 20 21 18 23 21 18 16 16 20 21 20 14
2019 23 27 15 23 20 19 22 20 16 12 15 24 27 20 17 18 16 15 20 23 20 27 27 27 18 15 15 20 29 16 13
2020 8 9 11 10 7 10 10 9 7 6 7 9 10 8 10 10 10 9 10 8 11 7 12 8 8 5 8 8 11 8 5
2021 29 37 33 27 31 29 36 30 20 22 23 35 31 26 31 35 30 31 33 33 33 32 41 37 31 29 34 34 34 30 32
2022 30 26 24 27 31 30 33 22 24 25 26 35 32 29 31 32 28 29 30 30 31 29 37 34 24 27 34 36 35 31 28
2023 5 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 4 5 6 5 5 5 6 4 4 5 5 5 4 6 5 4 5 5 5 5 5 5
Player 120 136 110 117 119 117 137 111 91 89 102 141 132 115 119 128 114 111 129 127 131 127 157 143 110 105 121 135 146 119 102
! Note: This tells how many of this player's home runs would have been out of other stadiums. This accounts for different wall heights, distances and environmental effects. For these purposes, the 2020 Blue Jays home field was still Rogers Centre, not Sahlen Field.
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Year to Year Changes

Metric 2017 2018 +/-   2019 +/-   2020 +/-   2021 +/-   2022 +/-   2023 +/-  
Fastball Velocity 91.7 88.9 -2.8 ↓ 87.6 -1.3 ↓ 87.0 -0.6 ↓ 87.7 0.7 ↑ 87.6 -0.1 ↓ 88.4 0.8 ↑
Offspeed Velocity 84.2 83.6 -0.6 ↓ 81.2 -2.4 ↓ 80.6 -0.6 ↓ 79.3 -1.3 ↓ 79.4 0.1 ↑ 79.9 0.5 ↑
Breaking Velocity 79.2 78.1 -1.1 ↓ 76.3 -1.8 ↓ 75.3 -1.0 ↓ 75.2 -0.1 ↓ 76.6 1.4 ↑ 79.3 2.7 ↑
Exit Velocity 88.3 88.5 0.2 ↑ 88.3 -0.2 ↓ 86.6 -1.7 ↓ 88.1 1.5 ↑ 86.7 -1.4 ↓ 89.7 3.0 ↑
Launch Angle 12.1 10.4 -1.7 ↓ 14.7 4.3 ↑ 17.6 2.9 ↑ 20.6 3.0 ↑ 14.5 -6.1 ↓ 13.8 -0.7 ↓
Barrel % 6.4 5.4 -1.0 ↓ 4.9 -0.5 ↓ 8.4 3.5 ↑ 11.4 3.0 ↑ 7.2 -4.2 ↓ 6.7 -0.5 ↓
Hard Hit % 41.1 35.0 -6.1 ↓ 35.2 0.2 ↑ 34.3 -0.9 ↓ 37.0 2.7 ↑ 35.0 -2.0 ↓ 36.8 1.8 ↑
Sweet Spot % 35.5 37.8 2.3 ↑ 31.5 -6.3 ↓ 36.6 5.1 ↑ 37.4 0.8 ↑ 32.3 -5.1 ↓ 37.4 5.1 ↑
xBA .299 .262 -0.037 ↓ .254 -0.008 ↓ .243 -0.011 ↓ .257 0.014 ↑ .267 0.010 ↑ .286 0.019 ↑
BA .343 .267 -0.076 ↓ .264 -0.003 ↓ .222 -0.042 ↓ .234 0.012 ↑ .271 0.037 ↑ .282 0.011 ↑
xwOBA .353 .311 -0.042 ↓ .311 0.000 .301 -0.010 ↓ .341 0.040 ↑ .330 -0.011 ↓ .348 0.018 ↑
wOBA .391 .311 -0.080 ↓ .311 0.000 .265 -0.046 ↓ .321 0.056 ↑ .337 0.016 ↑ .336 -0.001 ↓
xSLG .485 .406 -0.079 ↓ .407 0.001 ↑ .430 0.023 ↑ .483 0.053 ↑ .435 -0.048 ↓ .441 0.006 ↑
SLG .541 .414 -0.127 ↓ .422 0.008 ↑ .361 -0.061 ↓ .465 0.104 ↑ .457 -0.008 ↓ .431 -0.026 ↓
K% 17.3 21.1 3.8 ↑ 17.0 -4.1 ↓ 23.1 6.1 ↑ 18.5 -4.6 ↓ 13.2 -5.3 ↓ 15.8 2.6 ↑
BB% 5.9 4.7 -1.2 ↓ 6.5 1.8 ↑ 2.5 -4.0 ↓ 7.2 4.7 ↑ 6.4 -0.8 ↓ 8.4 2.0 ↑
Swing % 46.1 48.4 2.3 ↑ 47.7 -0.7 ↓ 47.8 0.1 ↑ 48.0 0.2 ↑ 51.0 3.0 ↑ 48.6 -2.4 ↓
Whiff% 22.0 21.0 -1.0 ↓ 18.0 -3.0 ↓ 19.6 1.6 ↑ 20.4 0.8 ↑ 18.3 -2.1 ↓ 19.8 1.5 ↑
In Zone % 48.2 48.8 0.6 ↑ 49.5 0.7 ↑ 53.6 4.1 ↑ 48.7 -4.9 ↓ 48.0 -0.7 ↓ 50.3 2.3 ↑
Out of Zone % 51.8 51.2 -0.6 ↓ 50.5 -0.7 ↓ 46.4 -4.1 ↓ 51.3 4.9 ↑ 52.0 0.7 ↑ 49.7 -2.3 ↓
Out of Zone Swing % 26.2 32.9 6.7 ↑ 29.7 -3.2 ↓ 30.2 0.5 ↑ 28.3 -1.9 ↓ 32.8 4.5 ↑ 31.8 -1.0 ↓
First Pitch Swing % 27.6 28.1 0.5 ↑ 30.3 2.2 ↑ 27.4 -2.9 ↓ 29.2 1.8 ↑ 34.7 5.5 ↑ 27.4 -7.3 ↓
First Pitch Strike % 60.0 66.3 6.3 ↑ 65.7 -0.6 ↓ 64.3 -1.4 ↓ 62.7 -1.6 ↓ 63.1 0.4 ↑ 60.5 -2.6 ↓
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Statcast Shift Statistics

vs RHHvs LHH
YearPAwOBAPAShifts%PAShifts%
2017 185 .391 139 2 1.4 46 23 50.0
2018 686 .311 565 41 7.3 121 49 40.5
2019 840 .309 620 44 7.1 220 96 43.6
2020 277 .265 199 31 15.6 78 53 67.9
2021 557 .312 411 93 22.6 146 80 54.8
2022 781 .337 609 285 46.8 172 100 58.1
2023 215 .336 167 0 0.0 48 0 0.0

Pitch Tempo