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Aramis Ramirez

Age
37
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 1"
Weight
205 lb
Number
#16
Born
June 25, 1978 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
MLB debut
May 26, 1998

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dbWAR
39.5
Regular season, 2005–2015 only
PA
516
AVG
.246
OBP
.297
SLG
.423
wRC+
94
100 = avg

Aramis Ramirez was a third baseman for the Milwaukee Brewers. In 2015 he hit 17 home runs and knocked in 75 RBIs, notching 117 hits across 516 plate appearances in 137 games. His batting average was .246, 3.2% lower than the league average of .254. He reached base at a .297 clip and slugged .423, for an OPS of .720, level with the league mark of .721 — 8th of 18 on his team, and 218th of 445 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 87.8 mph off the bat, hit 38.2% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 4.9% of them and made contact on 82.1% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 94 wRC+ puts his offence 6% below average. That comes to 0.9 dbWAR — -1.9 runs with the bat, -0.9 for the ballpark, +0.0 on the bases, -4.7 on double plays, +2.2 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, 2015 regular season.

wRC+94
wOBA.312
ISO.177
BB%6.0%
WAR.9

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2015. These terms sum to +8.7 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting-1.9Ballpark-0.9Baserunning+0.0Double plays-4.7Position+2.2Replacement+14.0
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

5.82.90.00506070809101112131415

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2015; his career began in 1998, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

Trend
2015MIL/PIT137516117177513168.246.297.423.177.2536.0%13.2%.312-1.9940.9
2014MIL133531141156632175.285.330.427.142.3104.0%14.1%.337+9.41172.7
2013MIL9235186124903655.283.370.461.178.30810.3%15.7%.370+14.11332.5
2012MIL1496301712710594482.300.360.540.240.3107.0%13.0%.389+34.71415.8
2011CHC149626173269314369.306.361.510.204.3086.9%11.0%.380+28.71445.0
2010CHC124507112258303490.241.294.452.211.2456.7%17.8%.327+0.4961.4
2009CHC8234297156522843.317.389.516.199.3318.2%12.6%.398+18.01382.7
2008CHC1496451602711127494.289.380.518.229.30311.5%14.6%.392+31.31385.1
2007CHC1325581572610104366.310.366.549.239.3137.7%11.8%.392+26.31324.3
2006CHC1576601733811925063.291.352.561.269.2707.6%9.5%.387+28.21314.7
2005CHC123506140319203560.302.358.568.266.2916.9%11.9%.398+28.01464.3

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 Aramis Ramirez's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
SeasonTeamRoundGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBAVGOBPSLGOPS
2015 PostPITWild Card111000000000.000.000.000.000
2008 PostCHCNLDS31211121000120.182.250.273.523
2007 PostCHCNLDS31312000000150.000.077.000.077
2005–2015Postseason total · 3 Octobers72624121000270.083.154.125.279

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.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2015. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP1231112451114.216.285.414.30011.4%
vs RHP39336493122054.255.300.426.31613.7%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2015.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 369 tracked batted balls in 2015. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate
4.9%
18 barrels
Exit velocity
87.8
mph average
Max exit velo
108.6
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
38.2%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
37.9%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
15.4°
average
Barrel rate4.9%
Exit velocity87.8 mph
Hard hit rate38.2%
Contact rate82.1%

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, 2015.

.167.133.152.150.27311 AB.15819 AB.53813 AB.37135 AB.43237 AB.14342 AB.43244 AB.24549 AB.23447 AB
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 Aramis Ramirez 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.
SituationPAABHHRRBIBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBA
All situations516——————.246.297.423.312
Bases empty2562416113131236.253.297.469.333
Runner on first1221162128619.181.221.293.229
Runners on260234564621932.239.296.376.291
RISP138118352541313.297.362.458.348

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2015.

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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.