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Magglio Ordonez

Detroit Tigers American League CentralRF

Age: 37
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 215 lb
Number: #30

Born: January 28, 1974 in Caracas, Venezuela
MLB debut: August 29, 1997

dbWAR: 16.6
PA: 357
AVG: .255
OBP: .303
SLG: .331
wRC+: 75

Magglio Ordonez was a right fielder for the Detroit Tigers. In 2011 he hit 5 home runs and knocked in 32 RBIs, notching 84 hits across 357 plate appearances in 92 games. His batting average was .255, level with the league average of .255. He reached base at a .303 clip and slugged .331, for an OPS of .634, 11.9% lower than the league mark of .720 — 12th of 14 on his team, and 345th of 452 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He made contact on 85.6% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 75 wRC+ puts his offence 25% below average. That comes to -0.4 dbWAR — -9.3 runs with the bat, -0.3 for the ballpark, -0.3 on the bases, +1.6 on double plays, -4.7 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+75

wOBA.287

ISO.076

BB%6.4%

WAR-.4

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2011. These terms sum to -3.4 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 1997, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2011	DET	92	357	84	5	32	2	23	41	.255	.303	.331	.076	.275	6.4%	11.5%	.287	-9.3	75	-0.4
2010	DET	84	365	98	12	59	1	40	38	.303	.378	.474	.170	.313	11.0%	10.4%	.380	+15.9	139	2.1
2009	DET	131	518	144	9	50	3	51	65	.310	.376	.428	.118	.344	9.8%	12.5%	.360	+11.6	118	1.8
2008	DET	146	623	178	21	103	1	53	76	.317	.376	.494	.176	.334	8.5%	12.2%	.383	+25.4	131	2.9
2007	DET	157	679	216	28	139	4	76	79	.363	.434	.595	.232	.381	11.2%	11.6%	.445	+61.9	171	6.9
2006	DET	155	646	177	24	104	1	45	87	.298	.350	.477	.179	.315	7.0%	13.5%	.360	+12.5	116	2.2
2005	DET	82	343	92	8	46	0	30	35	.302	.359	.436	.134	.312	8.7%	10.2%	.350	+5.5	115	1.1

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 Magglio Ordonez'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	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2011 Post	DET	Postseason total	5	15	13	1	5	1	0	0	2	3	.385	.467	.462	.928
		ALDS	4	12	11	1	5	1	0	0	1	2	.455	.500	.545	1.045
		ALCS	1	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.333	.000	.333
2006 Post	DET	Postseason total	13	55	51	8	10	1	3	8	4	8	.196	.255	.392	.647
		ALDS	4	16	15	3	4	1	1	2	1	2	.267	.313	.533	.846
		ALCS	4	19	17	3	4	0	2	6	2	2	.235	.316	.588	.904
		World Series	5	20	19	2	2	0	0	0	1	4	.105	.150	.105	.255
2005–2011		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	18	70	64	9	15	2	3	8	6	11	.234	.300	.406	.706

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	139	130	38	2	8	13	.292	.331	.385	.320	9.4%
vs RHP	218	199	46	3	15	28	.231	.284	.296	.265	12.8%

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.

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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 Magglio Ordonez 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	357	—	—	—	—	—	—	.255	.303	.331	.287
Bases empty	181	169	42	0	0	11	26	.249	.298	.272	.264
Runner on first	81	74	26	2	6	7	6	.351	.407	.486	.399
Runners on	176	160	42	5	32	12	15	.263	.307	.394	.311
RISP	95	86	16	3	26	5	9	.186	.221	.314	.236

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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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.