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Vladimir Guerrero

Baltimore Orioles American League EastDH

Age: 36
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 235 lb
Number: #27

Born: February 9, 1975 in Nizao, Dominican Republic
MLB debut: September 19, 1996

dbWAR: 19.5
PA: 590
AVG: .290
OBP: .317
SLG: .416
wRC+: 102

Vladimir Guerrero was a designated hitter for the Baltimore Orioles. In 2011 he hit 13 home runs and knocked in 63 RBIs, notching 163 hits across 590 plate appearances in 145 games. His batting average was .290, 13.7% higher than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .317 clip and slugged .416, for an OPS of .733, 1.9% higher than the league mark of .720 — 8th of 13 on his team, and 173rd of 452 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He made contact on 81.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 102 wRC+ puts his offence 2% above average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — +1.2 runs with the bat, +0.0 for the ballpark, -0.9 on the bases, -3.4 on double plays, -13.5 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, 2011 regular season.

wRC+102

wOBA.323

ISO.126

BB%2.9%

WAR-.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2011. These terms sum to -0.6 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 — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2011; his career began in 1996, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2011	BAL	145	590	163	13	63	2	17	56	.290	.317	.416	.126	.302	2.9%	9.5%	.323	+1.2	102	-0.1
2010	TEX	152	643	178	29	115	4	35	60	.300	.345	.496	.196	.292	5.4%	9.3%	.368	+21.7	126	2.4
2009	LAA	100	407	113	15	50	2	19	56	.295	.334	.460	.164	.313	4.7%	13.8%	.348	+4.9	109	0.5
2008	LAA	143	600	164	27	91	5	51	77	.303	.365	.521	.218	.311	8.5%	12.8%	.379	+22.7	131	2.8
2007	LAA	150	660	186	27	125	2	71	62	.324	.403	.547	.223	.324	10.8%	9.4%	.402	+36.6	141	4.5
2006	LAA	156	665	200	33	116	15	50	68	.329	.382	.552	.222	.327	7.5%	10.2%	.391	+30.3	140	4.5
2005	LAA	141	594	165	32	108	13	61	48	.317	.394	.565	.248	.299	10.3%	8.1%	.403	+35.1	153	4.8

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason batting

Postseason Vladimir Guerrero's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2010 Post	TEX	Postseason total	15	62	59	4	13	3	0	6	2	16	0	.220	.242	.271	.513
		ALDS	5	20	19	2	5	1	0	1	1	3	0	.263	.300	.316	.616
		ALCS	6	26	26	2	7	2	0	3	0	8	0	.269	.269	.346	.615
		World Series	4	16	14	0	1	0	0	2	1	5	0	.071	.125	.071	.196
2009 Post	LAA	Postseason total	9	40	37	5	14	3	1	7	3	6	0	.378	.425	.541	.966
		ALDS	3	12	10	2	4	0	0	2	2	1	0	.400	.500	.400	.900
		ALCS	6	28	27	3	10	3	1	5	1	5	0	.370	.393	.593	.985
2008 Post	LAA	ALDS	4	19	15	2	7	1	0	0	4	1	1	.467	.579	.533	1.112
2007 Post	LAA	ALDS	3	12	10	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	.200	.333	.200	.533
2005 Post	LAA	Postseason total	10	41	38	5	7	0	0	1	2	3	1	.184	.244	.184	.428
		ALDS	5	21	18	5	6	0	0	0	2	2	1	.333	.429	.333	.762
		ALCS	5	20	20	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	.050	.050	.050	.100
2005–2011		Postseason total · 5 Octobers	41	174	159	16	43	7	1	14	12	26	2	.270	.328	.333	.661

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2011. 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	161	153	44	2	7	20	.288	.323	.386	.315	12.4%
vs RHP	429	409	119	11	10	36	.291	.315	.428	.326	8.4%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2011.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2011.

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 .254.

Situational hitting

How Vladimir Guerrero 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	590	—	—	—	—	—	—	.290	.317	.416	.323
Bases empty	306	297	90	10	10	7	28	.303	.324	.455	.344
Runner on first	139	134	44	2	14	2	13	.328	.353	.463	.361
Runners on	284	265	73	3	53	10	28	.275	.310	.374	.300
RISP	145	131	29	1	39	8	15	.221	.269	.282	.241

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2011.

Not in the 2011 data: exit velocity and launch angle, first recorded in 2015. The play-by-play goes back to 2005, but the measurements on each pitch and batted ball arrived later, so the panels built from them are left off this season.

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Similar players

Nearest 2011 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

A.J. PierzynskiCWS

wRC+: 99
HR: 8
AVG: .287
WAR: 1.8

Very close

Blake DeWittCHC

wRC+: 100
HR: 5
AVG: .265
WAR: 0.5

Jeff KeppingerSF

wRC+: 93
HR: 6
AVG: .277
WAR: 0.9

Omar InfanteFLA

wRC+: 94
HR: 7
AVG: .276
WAR: 1.9

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.