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Jorge Posada

Age: 41
B/T: S/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 215 lb
Number: #20

Born: August 17, 1970 in Santurce, Puerto Rico
MLB debut: September 4, 1995

dbWAR: 21.2
PA: 387
AVG: .235
OBP: .315
SLG: .398
wRC+: 94

Jorge Posada was a designated hitter for the New York Yankees. In 2011 he hit 14 home runs and knocked in 44 RBIs, notching 81 hits across 387 plate appearances in 114 games. His batting average was .235, 7.7% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .315 clip and slugged .398, for an OPS of .714, 0.8% lower than the league mark of .720 — 10th of 13 on his team, and 209th of 452 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He made contact on 78.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 94 wRC+ puts his offence 6% below average. That comes to -0.3 dbWAR — -0.9 runs with the bat, -0.8 for the ballpark, -1.1 on the bases, -1.7 on double plays, -8.3 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, 2011 regular season.

wRC+94

wOBA.318

ISO.163

BB%10.1%

WAR-.3

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2011. These terms sum to -2.3 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 1995, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2011	NYY	114	387	81	14	44	0	39	76	.235	.315	.398	.163	.262	10.1%	19.6%	.318	-0.9	94	-0.3
2010	NYY	120	451	95	18	57	3	59	99	.248	.357	.454	.206	.287	13.1%	22.0%	.363	+13.4	120	3.0
2009	NYY	111	438	109	22	81	1	48	101	.285	.363	.522	.238	.328	11.0%	23.1%	.384	+18.0	136	3.5
2008	NYY	51	195	45	3	22	0	24	38	.268	.364	.411	.143	.328	12.3%	19.5%	.347	+2.2	108	0.7
2007	NYY	144	589	171	20	90	2	74	98	.338	.426	.543	.206	.386	12.6%	16.6%	.424	+43.4	156	6.5
2006	NYY	142	545	129	23	93	3	64	97	.277	.374	.492	.215	.303	11.7%	17.8%	.380	+19.8	133	4.5
2005	NYY	142	546	124	19	71	1	66	94	.262	.352	.430	.169	.288	12.1%	17.2%	.346	+6.8	109	3.2

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 Jorge Posada'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	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2011 Post	NYY	ALDS	5	19	14	4	6	0	1	0	0	4	6	0	.429	.579	.571	1.150
2010 Post	NYY	Postseason total	9	32	30	3	8	2	0	0	3	2	12	0	.267	.313	.333	.646
		ALDS	3	12	11	2	3	0	0	0	2	1	4	0	.273	.333	.273	.606
		ALCS	6	20	19	1	5	2	0	0	1	1	8	0	.263	.300	.368	.668
2009 Post	NYY	Postseason total	15	58	50	5	13	2	0	2	8	7	14	1	.260	.345	.420	.765
		ALDS	3	11	11	1	4	0	0	1	2	0	2	0	.364	.364	.636	1.000
		ALCS	6	25	20	3	4	1	0	1	1	5	5	1	.200	.360	.400	.760
		World Series	6	22	19	1	5	1	0	0	5	2	7	0	.263	.318	.316	.634
2007 Post	NYY	ALDS	4	17	15	1	2	1	0	0	0	2	3	0	.133	.235	.200	.435
2006 Post	NYY	ALDS	4	16	14	2	7	1	0	1	2	2	2	0	.500	.563	.786	1.348
2005 Post	NYY	ALDS	5	19	13	3	3	1	0	1	2	6	2	0	.231	.474	.538	1.012
2005–2011		Postseason total · 6 Octobers	42	161	136	18	39	7	1	4	15	23	39	1	.287	.391	.441	.832

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	71	65	6	0	6	24	.092	.169	.108	.133	33.8%
vs RHP	316	279	75	14	33	52	.269	.348	.466	.359	16.5%

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 Jorge Posada 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	387	—	—	—	—	—	—	.235	.315	.398	.318
Bases empty	200	179	49	7	7	20	40	.274	.350	.436	.353
Runner on first	92	87	17	6	13	5	13	.195	.239	.425	.293
Runners on	187	165	32	7	37	19	36	.194	.278	.358	.279
RISP	95	78	15	1	24	14	23	.192	.316	.282	.264

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.