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Ryan Zimmerman

Washington Nationals National League East1B

Age: 37
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 215 lb
Number: #11

Born: September 28, 1984 in Washington, NC, United States
MLB debut: September 1, 2005

dbWAR: 37.1
PA: 273
AVG: .243
OBP: .286
SLG: .471
wRC+: 104

Ryan Zimmerman was a first baseman for the Washington Nationals. In 2021 he hit 14 home runs and knocked in 46 RBIs, notching 62 hits across 273 plate appearances in 110 games. His batting average was .243, level with the league average of .244. He reached base at a .286 clip and slugged .471, for an OPS of .756, 3.9% higher than the league mark of .728 — 6th of 20 on his team, and 162nd of 463 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 91.3 mph off the bat, hit 47.8% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 10.6% of them and made contact on 71.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 104 wRC+ puts his offence 4% above average. That comes to 0.4 dbWAR — +0.8 runs with the bat, +0.3 for the ballpark, -0.2 on the bases, -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, 2021 regular season.

wRC+104

wOBA.320

ISO.227

BB%5.9%

WAR.4

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2021. These terms sum to +4.3 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.


2021	WSH	110	273	62	14	46	0	16	77	.243	.286	.471	.227	.289	5.9%	28.2%	.320	+0.8	104	0.4
2019	WSH	52	190	44	6	27	0	17	39	.257	.321	.415	.158	.297	8.9%	20.5%	.316	-1.1	93	0.1
2018	WSH	85	323	76	13	51	1	30	55	.264	.337	.486	.222	.284	9.3%	17.0%	.356	+9.8	121	1.3
2017	WSH	142	576	159	36	108	1	44	126	.303	.358	.573	.269	.335	7.6%	21.9%	.391	+32.2	143	3.9
2016	WSH	115	467	93	15	46	4	29	104	.218	.272	.370	.152	.248	6.2%	22.3%	.280	-15.5	73	-0.9
2015	WSH	95	390	86	16	73	1	33	79	.249	.308	.465	.217	.268	8.5%	20.3%	.333	+5.0	111	1.0
2014	WSH	61	240	60	5	38	0	22	37	.280	.342	.449	.168	.313	9.2%	15.4%	.350	+6.7	123	1.3
2013	WSH	147	633	156	26	79	6	60	133	.275	.344	.465	.190	.316	9.5%	21.0%	.358	+19.4	128	4.2
2012	WSH	145	641	163	25	95	5	57	116	.282	.346	.478	.196	.313	8.9%	18.1%	.357	+19.1	125	4.0
2011	WSH	101	440	114	12	49	3	41	73	.289	.355	.443	.154	.326	9.3%	16.6%	.353	+11.0	124	2.5
2010	WSH	142	603	161	25	85	4	69	98	.307	.388	.510	.204	.334	11.4%	16.3%	.395	+33.3	150	5.5
2009	WSH	157	694	178	33	106	2	72	119	.292	.364	.525	.233	.310	10.4%	17.1%	.383	+28.0	133	5.0
2008	WSH	106	466	121	14	51	1	31	71	.283	.333	.442	.159	.308	6.7%	15.2%	.342	+3.5	105	1.9
2007	WSH	162	722	174	24	91	4	61	125	.266	.330	.458	.191	.295	8.4%	17.3%	.346	+5.9	111	2.9
2006	WSH	157	682	176	20	110	11	61	120	.287	.351	.471	.184	.326	8.9%	17.6%	.356	+11.1	115	3.2
2005	WSH	20	62	23	0	6	0	3	12	.397	.419	.569	.172	.489	4.8%	19.4%	.428	+5.0	174	0.7

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 Ryan Zimmerman'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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2019 Post	WSH	Postseason total	16	60	55	5	14	3	2	7	5	17	0	.255	.317	.418	.735
		Wild Card	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000
		NLDS	4	14	14	2	4	1	1	3	0	6	0	.286	.286	.571	.857
		NLCS	4	17	16	1	4	2	0	2	1	3	0	.250	.294	.375	.669
		World Series	7	28	24	2	5	0	1	2	4	8	0	.208	.321	.333	.655
2017 Post	WSH	NLDS	5	22	20	1	3	1	1	4	2	4	1	.150	.227	.350	.577
2016 Post	WSH	NLDS	5	20	17	1	6	2	0	2	3	3	0	.353	.450	.471	.921
2014 Post	WSH	NLDS	4	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500
2012 Post	WSH	NLDS	5	22	21	3	8	1	2	4	0	6	0	.381	.364	.714	1.078
Career		Postseason total · 5 Octobers	35	128	117	10	32	7	5	17	10	30	1	.274	.328	.462	.790

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, 2021. 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	116	110	32	7	5	35	.291	.319	.582	.376	30.2%
vs RHP	157	145	30	7	11	42	.207	.261	.386	.280	26.8%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2021.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 180 tracked batted balls in 2021. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 10.6%
Exit velocity: 91.3
Max exit velo: 111.5
Hard hit: 47.8%
Sweet spot: 33.9%
Launch angle: 7.4°

Barrel rate10.6%

Exit velocity91.3 mph

Hard hit rate47.8%

Contact rate71.0%

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, 2021.

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 .243.

Situational hitting

How Ryan Zimmerman 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	273	—	—	—	—	—	—	.243	.286	.471	.320
Bases empty	122	115	30	4	5	7	31	.261	.303	.452	.324
Runner on first	66	64	19	4	12	2	20	.297	.318	.547	.364
Runners on	151	140	32	10	41	9	46	.229	.272	.486	.317
RISP	85	76	13	6	29	7	26	.171	.235	.434	.281

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2021.

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Nearest 2021 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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wRC+: 101
HR: 10
AVG: .249
WAR: 0.3

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.