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David Ortiz

Age: 41
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 230 lb
Number: #34

Born: November 18, 1975 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
MLB debut: September 2, 1997

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dbWAR: 48.8
PA: 626
AVG: .315
OBP: .401
SLG: .620
wRC+: 161

David Ortiz was a designated hitter for the Boston Red Sox. In 2016 he hit 38 home runs and knocked in 127 RBIs, notching 169 hits across 626 plate appearances in 151 games. His batting average was .315, 23.2% higher than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .401 clip and slugged .620, for an OPS of 1.021, 38.2% higher than the league mark of .739 — the best on his team, and the second best among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 94.3 mph off the bat, hit 54.7% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 16.3% of them and made contact on 80.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 161 wRC+ puts his offence 61% above average. That comes to 5.1 dbWAR — +51.7 runs with the bat, -2.1 for the ballpark, +0.1 on the bases, -4.0 on double plays, -14.3 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, 2016 regular season.

wRC+161

wOBA.425

ISO.305

BB%12.8%

WAR5.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2016. These terms sum to +48.9 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 2005–2016; his career began in 1997, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2016	BOS	151	626	169	38	127	2	80	86	.315	.401	.620	.305	.312	12.8%	13.7%	.425	+51.7	161	5.1
2015	BOS	146	614	144	37	108	0	77	95	.273	.360	.553	.280	.264	12.5%	15.5%	.384	+32.5	139	3.3
2014	BOS	142	602	136	35	104	0	75	95	.263	.355	.517	.255	.256	12.5%	15.8%	.374	+27.5	140	3.0
2013	BOS	137	600	160	30	103	4	76	88	.309	.395	.564	.255	.321	12.7%	14.7%	.405	+40.1	163	4.3
2012	BOS	90	383	103	23	60	0	56	51	.318	.415	.611	.293	.316	14.6%	13.3%	.432	+34.0	168	3.6
2011	BOS	145	605	162	29	96	1	78	83	.309	.398	.554	.246	.321	12.9%	13.7%	.413	+43.3	156	4.2
2010	BOS	145	606	140	32	102	0	82	145	.270	.370	.529	.259	.313	13.5%	23.9%	.389	+30.3	140	3.4
2009	BOS	150	627	129	28	99	0	74	134	.238	.332	.462	.224	.262	11.8%	21.4%	.348	+7.4	108	1.1
2008	BOS	109	491	110	23	89	1	70	74	.264	.369	.507	.243	.270	14.3%	15.1%	.379	+18.4	128	2.2
2007	BOS	149	667	182	35	117	3	111	103	.332	.445	.621	.290	.355	16.6%	15.4%	.457	+67.6	173	6.7
2006	BOS	151	686	160	54	137	1	119	117	.287	.413	.636	.349	.270	17.3%	17.1%	.435	+56.5	164	6.0
2005	BOS	159	713	180	47	148	1	102	124	.300	.397	.604	.304	.303	14.3%	17.4%	.425	+55.4	164	6.0

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 David Ortiz'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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2016 Post	BOS	ALDS	3	12	9	0	1	1	0	0	1	2	1	.111	.250	.222	.472
2013 Post	BOS	Postseason total	16	68	51	12	18	3	0	5	13	16	7	.353	.500	.706	1.206
		ALDS	4	18	13	4	5	1	0	2	3	5	2	.385	.556	.923	1.479
		ALCS	6	25	22	1	2	0	0	1	4	3	4	.091	.200	.227	.427
		World Series	6	25	16	7	11	2	0	2	6	8	1	.688	.760	1.188	1.948
2009 Post	BOS	ALDS	3	12	12	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	.083	.083	.083	.167
2008 Post	BOS	Postseason total	11	52	43	4	8	2	1	1	5	9	13	.186	.327	.349	.676
		ALDS	4	20	17	1	4	1	0	0	1	3	4	.235	.350	.294	.644
		ALCS	7	32	26	3	4	1	1	1	4	6	9	.154	.313	.385	.697
2007 Post	BOS	Postseason total	14	63	46	16	17	6	0	3	10	14	9	.370	.508	.696	1.204
		ALDS	3	13	7	5	5	0	0	2	3	6	1	.714	.846	1.571	2.418
		ALCS	7	33	24	7	7	3	0	1	3	6	5	.292	.424	.542	.966
		World Series	4	17	15	4	5	3	0	0	4	2	3	.333	.412	.533	.945
2005 Post	BOS	ALDS	3	12	12	2	4	2	0	1	1	0	3	.333	.333	.750	1.083
2005–2016		Postseason total · 6 Octobers	50	219	173	34	49	14	1	10	30	41	37	.283	.416	.549	.965

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, 2016. 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	152	134	42	5	16	20	.313	.382	.485	.376	13.2%
vs RHP	473	402	127	33	64	65	.316	.408	.667	.443	13.7%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2016.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 386 tracked batted balls in 2016. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 16.3%
Exit velocity: 94.3
Max exit velo: 113.4
Hard hit: 54.7%
Sweet spot: 45.3%
Launch angle: 15.8°

Barrel rate16.3%

Exit velocity94.3 mph

Hard hit rate54.7%

Contact rate80.7%

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, 2016.

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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 .255.

Situational hitting

How David Ortiz 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	626	—	—	—	—	—	—	.315	.401	.620	.425
Bases empty	317	279	76	16	16	38	53	.272	.360	.527	.381
Runner on first	129	118	47	12	37	10	14	.398	.450	.839	.537
Runners on	308	257	93	22	111	42	32	.362	.445	.724	.474
RISP	179	139	46	10	74	32	18	.331	.441	.626	.425

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2016.

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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.