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Ramon Martinez

Age
37
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 0"
Weight
190 lb
Number
#34
Born
October 10, 1972 in Philadelphia, PA, United States
MLB debut
June 20, 1998

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dbWAR
-1.2
Regular season, 2005–2009 only
PA
44
AVG
.167
OBP
.182
SLG
.214
wRC+
-6
100 = avg

Ramon Martinez was a shortstop for the New York Mets. In 2009 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 4 RBIs, notching 7 hits across 44 plate appearances in 12 games. His batting average was .167, 36.5% lower than the league average of .262. He reached base at a .182 clip and slugged .214, for an OPS of .396, 47.2% lower than the league mark of .751. He made contact on 84.4% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -6 wRC+ puts his offence 106% below average. That comes to -0.4 dbWAR — -5.6 runs with the bat, +0.0 for the ballpark, +0.2 on the bases, -0.3 on double plays, +0.6 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, 2009 regular season.

wRC+-6
wOBA.177
ISO.048
BB%2.3%
WAR-.4

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2009. These terms sum to -3.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting-5.6Ballpark+0.0Baserunning+0.2Double plays-0.3Position+0.6Replacement+1.2
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

0.1-0.4-0.80506070809

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2009; his career began in 1998, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

Trend
2009NYM1244704119.167.182.214.048.2062.3%20.5%.177-5.6-6-0.4
2008NYM618403023.250.333.438.188.30811.1%16.7%.346+0.21110.1
2007LAD581472502711115.194.248.225.031.2107.5%10.2%.221-14.122-0.8
2006LAD771944922401520.278.339.364.085.3057.7%10.3%.316-3.3850.1
2005PHI/DET51127311140611.277.309.330.054.2884.7%8.7%.285-4.766-0.2

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 Ramon Martinez's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
SeasonTeamRoundGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBAVGOBPSLGOPS
2006 PostLADNLDS333011001010.333.333.6671.000

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, 2009. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP11103010.300.364.300.3110.0%
vs RHP33324009.125.121.188.13227.3%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2009.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2009.

—————1 AB—5 AB——2 AB—7 AB—5 AB——3 AB—3 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 .262.

Situational hitting

How Ramon Martinez 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 situations44——————.167.182.214.177
Bases empty292950004.172.172.207.169
Runner on first · thin5500003.000.000.000.000
Runners on · thin151320415.154.200.231.194
RISP · thin10820412.250.300.375.290

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Rows under 25 plate appearances are marked thin — at that size a rate moves several dozen points on one hit. Counted from play-by-play, 2009.

Not in the 2009 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.