DH · 2019

Hanley Ramirez

Cleveland Indians American League CentralDH

Age: 36
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 235 lb
Number: #2

Born: December 23, 1983 in Samana, Dominican Republic
MLB debut: September 20, 2005

dbWAR: 3.8
PA: 57
AVG: .184
OBP: .298
SLG: .327
wRC+: 73

Hanley Ramirez is a designated hitter for the Cleveland Indians. In 2019 he hit 2 home runs and knocked in 8 RBIs, notching 9 hits across 57 plate appearances in 16 games. His batting average was .184, 27.2% lower than the league average of .252. He reached base at a .298 clip and slugged .327, for an OPS of .625, 17.5% lower than the league mark of .758. He averaged 88.8 mph off the bat, hit 45.2% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 6.5% of them and made contact on 63.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 73 wRC+ puts his offence 27% below average. That comes to -0.2 dbWAR — -2.0 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, -1.7 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, 2019.

wRC+73

wOBA.281

ISO.143

BB%14.0%

WAR-.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2019. These four terms sum to -1.8 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2019	16	57	9	2	8	0	8	17	.184	.298	.327	.143	.233	14.0%	29.8%	.281	-2.0	73	-0.2
2018	44	195	45	6	29	4	14	35	.254	.313	.395	.141	.283	7.2%	17.9%	.311	-1.1	93	0.1
2017	132	553	120	23	62	1	51	116	.242	.320	.429	.188	.272	9.2%	21.0%	.321	-1.5	97	0.0
2016	147	620	157	30	111	9	60	120	.286	.361	.505	.219	.315	9.7%	19.4%	.372	+24.8	127	3.2
2015	104	430	100	19	53	6	21	71	.249	.291	.426	.177	.257	4.9%	16.5%	.311	-2.1	91	0.6

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2019. 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	19	17	3	0	2	7	.176	.263	.235	.231	36.8%
vs RHP	38	32	6	2	6	10	.188	.316	.375	.307	26.3%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2019.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 31 tracked batted balls in 2019. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 6.5%
Exit velocity: 88.8
Max exit velo: 113.8
Hard hit: 45.2%
Sweet spot: 51.6%
Launch angle: 5.5°

Barrel rate6.5%

Exit velocity88.8 mph

Hard hit rate45.2%

Contact rate63.2%

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, 2019.

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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 .252.

Situational hitting

How Hanley 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.
Situation	PA	AB	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
All situations	57	—	—	—	—	—	—	.184	.298	.327	.281
Bases empty · thin	22	20	4	1	1	2	6	.200	.273	.350	.272
Runner on first · thin	15	12	2	1	2	3	5	.167	.333	.417	.331
Runners on	35	29	5	1	7	6	11	.172	.314	.310	.287
RISP · thin	20	17	3	0	5	3	6	.176	.300	.235	.255

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, 2019.

Head to head

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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.