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Jason Varitek
- Age
- 39
- B/T
- S/R
- Height
- 6' 2"
- Weight
- 230 lb
- Number
- #33
- Born
- April 11, 1972 in Rochester, MI, United States
- MLB debut
- September 24, 1997
- dbWAR
- 12.0 Regular season, 2005–2011 only
- PA
- 250
- AVG
- .221
- OBP
- .300
- SLG
- .423
- wRC+
- 98 100 = avg
Jason Varitek was a catcher for the Boston Red Sox. In 2011 he hit 11 home runs and knocked in 36 RBIs, notching 49 hits across 250 plate appearances in 65 games. His batting average was .221, 13.5% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .300 clip and slugged .423, for an OPS of .723, level with the league mark of .720 — 9th of 13 on his team, and 188th of 452 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He made contact on 70.6% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 98 wRC+ puts his offence 2% below average. That comes to 1.2 dbWAR — +0.7 runs with the bat, -0.7 for the ballpark, -0.2 on the bases, +0.2 on double plays, +4.3 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.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2011. These terms sum to +11.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.
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.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | BOS | 65 | 250 | 49 | 11 | 36 | 0 | 21 | 67 | .221 | .300 | .423 | .203 | .264 | 8.4% | 26.8% | .324 | +0.7 | 98 | 1.2 | |
| 2010 | BOS | 35 | 123 | 26 | 7 | 16 | 0 | 10 | 35 | .232 | .293 | .473 | .241 | .268 | 8.1% | 28.5% | .330 | +0.5 | 101 | 0.6 | |
| 2009 | BOS | 109 | 425 | 76 | 14 | 51 | 0 | 54 | 90 | .209 | .313 | .390 | .181 | .235 | 12.7% | 21.2% | .312 | -7.3 | 84 | 1.0 | |
| 2008 | BOS | 126 | 483 | 93 | 13 | 43 | 0 | 52 | 122 | .220 | .313 | .359 | .139 | .276 | 10.8% | 25.3% | .306 | -10.9 | 79 | 0.9 | |
| 2007 | BOS | 131 | 518 | 111 | 17 | 68 | 1 | 71 | 122 | .255 | .367 | .421 | .166 | .313 | 13.7% | 23.6% | .350 | +6.1 | 104 | 2.7 | |
| 2006 | BOS | 102 | 416 | 87 | 12 | 55 | 1 | 46 | 87 | .238 | .325 | .400 | .162 | .280 | 11.1% | 20.9% | .317 | -6.7 | 86 | 1.0 | |
| 2005 | BOS | 133 | 539 | 132 | 22 | 70 | 2 | 62 | 117 | .281 | .366 | .489 | .209 | .329 | 11.5% | 21.7% | .375 | +19.5 | 129 | 4.5 |
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
| Season | Team | Round | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | AVG | OBP | SLG | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 Post | BOS | Postseason total | 10 | 38 | 34 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 0 | .118 | .189 | .206 | .395 |
| ALDS | 4 | 15 | 14 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .214 | .214 | .214 | .429 | ||
| ALCS | 6 | 23 | 20 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 0 | .050 | .174 | .200 | .374 | ||
| 2007 Post | BOS | Postseason total | 14 | 58 | 52 | 6 | 14 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 14 | 0 | .269 | .310 | .423 | .733 |
| ALDS | 3 | 11 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | .182 | .182 | .273 | .455 | ||
| ALCS | 7 | 29 | 26 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 0 | .269 | .345 | .500 | .845 | ||
| World Series | 4 | 18 | 15 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .400 | .733 | ||
| 2005 Post | BOS | ALDS | 3 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .300 | .300 | .300 | .600 |
| 2005–2011 | Postseason total · 3 Octobers | 27 | 106 | 96 | 11 | 21 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 5 | 25 | 0 | .219 | .267 | .333 | .600 |
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.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 81 | 72 | 19 | 2 | 8 | 17 | .264 | .346 | .403 | .340 | 21.0% |
| vs RHP | 169 | 150 | 30 | 9 | 13 | 50 | .200 | .277 | .433 | .317 | 29.6% |
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.
Situational hitting
How Jason Varitek hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.
| Situation | PA | AB | H | HR | RBI | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All situations | 250 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .221 | .300 | .423 | .324 |
| Bases empty | 132 | 120 | 25 | 6 | 6 | 12 | 34 | .208 | .280 | .408 | .308 |
| Runner on first | 43 | 36 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 10 | .222 | .333 | .444 | .351 |
| Runners on | 118 | 102 | 24 | 5 | 30 | 9 | 33 | .235 | .322 | .441 | .343 |
| RISP | 75 | 66 | 16 | 3 | 24 | 5 | 23 | .242 | .315 | .439 | .338 |
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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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.