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Ramon Santiago

Cincinnati Reds National League Central3B

Age: 35
B/T: S/R
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 185 lb
Number: #39

Born: August 31, 1979 in Las Matas de Farfan, Dominican Republic
MLB debut: May 17, 2002

dbWAR: 4.3
PA: 214
AVG: .246
OBP: .343
SLG: .324
wRC+: 99

Ramon Santiago was a third baseman for the Cincinnati Reds. In 2014 he hit 2 home runs and knocked in 17 RBIs, notching 44 hits across 214 plate appearances in 72 games. His batting average was .246, 2.1% lower than the league average of .251. He reached base at a .343 clip and slugged .324, for an OPS of .667, 4.7% lower than the league mark of .700 — 7th of 13 on his team, and 262nd of 443 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He made contact on 86.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 99 wRC+ puts his offence 1% below average. That comes to 0.8 dbWAR — -0.5 runs with the bat, +0.1 for the ballpark, -0.2 on the bases, +1.1 on double plays, +1.4 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, 2014 regular season.

wRC+99

wOBA.311

ISO.078

BB%11.2%

WAR.8

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2014. These terms sum to +7.5 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 2005–2014; his career began in 2002, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2014	CIN	72	214	44	2	17	2	24	38	.246	.343	.324	.078	.300	11.2%	17.8%	.311	-0.5	99	0.8
2013	DET	69	234	46	1	14	0	21	32	.224	.298	.288	.063	.260	9.0%	13.7%	.271	-8.3	65	-0.1
2012	DET	80	259	47	2	17	1	20	39	.206	.283	.272	.066	.239	7.7%	15.1%	.255	-13.0	55	-0.4
2011	DET	90	294	67	5	30	0	17	38	.260	.311	.384	.124	.283	5.8%	12.9%	.311	-2.2	92	0.9
2010	DET	108	367	84	3	22	2	30	56	.263	.337	.325	.063	.308	8.2%	15.3%	.307	-5.4	88	0.9
2009	DET	87	296	70	7	35	1	17	57	.267	.318	.385	.118	.313	5.7%	19.3%	.313	-4.7	86	0.7
2008	DET	51	156	35	4	18	1	22	17	.282	.411	.460	.177	.301	14.1%	10.9%	.396	+8.0	140	1.5
2007	DET	26	74	19	0	7	3	1	10	.284	.324	.388	.104	.333	1.4%	13.5%	.321	-0.9	88	0.3
2006	DET	35	86	18	0	3	2	1	14	.225	.244	.263	.037	.273	1.2%	16.3%	.228	-7.8	28	-0.3
2005	SEA	7	13	1	0	0	0	1	2	.125	.417	.125	.000	.167	7.7%	15.4%	.315	-0.2	90	0.0

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 Ramon Santiago'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	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2012 Post	DET	World Series	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
2011 Post	DET	Postseason total	10	40	38	1	11	2	2	0	7	.289	.289	.342	.632
		ALDS	4	16	14	0	2	1	2	0	3	.143	.143	.214	.357
		ALCS	6	24	24	1	9	1	0	0	4	.375	.375	.417	.792
2006 Post	DET	Postseason total	5	14	12	0	1	0	0	1	2	.083	.154	.083	.237
		ALCS	3	8	7	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.125	.000	.125
		World Series	2	6	5	0	1	0	0	0	2	.200	.200	.200	.400
2005–2014		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	16	55	51	1	12	2	2	1	9	.235	.250	.275	.525

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, 2014. 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	55	47	17	1	5	9	.362	.434	.489	.414	16.4%
vs RHP	159	132	27	1	19	29	.205	.312	.265	.275	18.2%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2014.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2014.

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 .251.

Situational hitting

How Ramon Santiago 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	214	—	—	—	—	—	—	.246	.343	.324	.311
Bases empty	120	106	25	0	0	13	20	.236	.325	.274	.283
Runner on first	51	38	7	0	3	7	11	.184	.304	.263	.270
Runners on	94	73	19	2	17	11	18	.260	.368	.397	.349
RISP	43	35	12	2	14	4	7	.343	.439	.543	.438

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2014.

Not in the 2014 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.