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J.D. Martinez

Age: 37
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 230 lb
Number: #28

Born: August 21, 1987 in Miami, FL, United States
MLB debut: July 30, 2011
Drafted: 2009, round 20
College: Nova Southeastern
High school: Charles W Flanagan
Salary, 2024: $12M

dbWAR: 34.3
PA: 495
AVG: .235
OBP: .320
SLG: .406
wRC+: 107

J.D. Martinez was a designated hitter for the New York Mets. In 2024 he hit 16 home runs and knocked in 69 RBIs, notching 102 hits across 495 plate appearances in 120 games. His batting average was .235, 3.4% lower than the league average of .243. He reached base at a .320 clip and slugged .406, for an OPS of .725, 2.0% higher than the league mark of .711 — 6th of 15 on his team, and 165th of 455 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 91.0 mph off the bat, hit 46.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 12.9% of them and made contact on 68.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 107 wRC+ puts his offence 7% above average. That comes to 0.4 dbWAR — +3.5 runs with the bat, +0.4 for the ballpark, -0.9 on the bases, -3.8 on double plays, -10.9 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, 2024 regular season.

wRC+107

wOBA.321

ISO.171

BB%9.9%

WAR.4

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2024. These terms sum to +3.4 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.


2024	NYM	120	495	102	16	69	0	49	141	.235	.320	.406	.171	.308	9.9%	28.5%	.321	+3.5	107	0.4
2023	LAD	112	479	117	33	103	1	34	149	.271	.321	.572	.301	.324	7.1%	31.1%	.370	+20.2	140	2.3
2022	BOS	139	596	146	16	62	0	52	145	.274	.341	.448	.174	.345	8.7%	24.3%	.345	+16.3	120	1.7
2021	BOS	148	634	163	28	99	0	55	150	.286	.349	.518	.232	.340	8.7%	23.7%	.366	+26.2	126	2.7
2020	BOS	54	237	45	7	27	1	22	59	.213	.291	.389	.175	.259	9.3%	24.9%	.291	-6.1	77	-0.4
2019	BOS	146	657	175	36	105	2	72	138	.304	.383	.557	.252	.342	11.0%	21.0%	.389	+37.5	143	3.9
2018	BOS	150	649	188	43	130	6	69	146	.330	.402	.629	.299	.375	10.6%	22.5%	.432	+59.6	175	6.6
2017	AZ/DET	119	489	131	45	104	4	53	128	.303	.376	.690	.387	.327	10.8%	26.2%	.435	+45.2	166	4.9
2016	DET	120	517	141	22	68	1	49	128	.307	.373	.535	.228	.378	9.5%	24.8%	.388	+27.5	144	3.5
2015	DET	158	657	168	38	102	3	53	178	.282	.344	.535	.253	.339	8.1%	27.1%	.377	+31.1	146	4.7
2014	DET	122	480	139	23	76	6	30	126	.315	.358	.553	.238	.389	6.3%	26.3%	.396	+30.0	158	4.2
2013	HOU	86	310	74	7	36	2	10	82	.250	.272	.378	.128	.319	3.2%	26.5%	.287	-7.3	77	-0.3
2012	HOU	113	439	95	11	55	0	40	96	.241	.311	.375	.134	.290	9.1%	21.9%	.306	-4.3	93	-0.1
2011	HOU	53	226	57	6	35	0	13	48	.274	.319	.423	.149	.325	5.8%	21.2%	.327	+1.1	101	0.4

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 J.D. Martinez'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	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2024 Post	NYM	Postseason total	8	24	18	1	4	0	0	3	6	7	.222	.417	.222	.639
		Wild Card	2	6	5	0	1	0	0	2	1	2	.200	.333	.200	.533
		NLDS	4	10	9	1	3	0	0	1	1	2	.333	.400	.333	.733
		NLCS	2	8	4	0	0	0	0	0	4	3	.000	.500	.000	.500
2023 Post	LAD	NLDS	3	12	10	1	2	0	1	1	2	4	.200	.333	.500	.833
2021 Post	BOS	Postseason total	9	38	32	4	11	2	3	10	5	10	.344	.447	.688	1.135
		ALDS	3	15	15	1	7	1	1	4	0	1	.467	.467	.733	1.200
		ALCS	6	23	17	3	4	1	2	6	5	9	.235	.435	.647	1.082
2018 Post	BOS	Postseason total	14	62	50	6	15	2	3	14	10	11	.300	.403	.520	.923
		ALDS	4	19	14	1	5	0	1	6	3	0	.357	.421	.571	.992
		ALCS	5	22	18	3	5	1	1	3	4	4	.278	.409	.500	.909
		World Series	5	21	18	2	5	1	1	5	3	7	.278	.381	.500	.881
2017 Post	AZ	Postseason total	4	16	15	2	4	0	1	1	1	6	.267	.313	.467	.779
		Wild Card	1	5	4	1	0	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.200	.000	.200
		NLDS	3	11	11	1	4	0	1	1	0	4	.364	.364	.636	1.000
2014 Post	DET	ALDS	3	12	12	2	3	1	2	5	0	4	.250	.250	.833	1.083
Career		Postseason total · 6 Octobers	41	164	137	16	39	5	10	34	24	42	.285	.390	.540	.930

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, 2024. 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	138	118	31	6	18	38	.263	.370	.466	.368	27.5%
vs RHP	357	316	71	10	31	103	.225	.300	.383	.302	28.9%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2024.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 294 tracked batted balls in 2024. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 12.9%
Exit velocity: 91.0
Max exit velo: 110.8
Hard hit: 46.3%
Sweet spot: 42.5%
Launch angle: 14.4°

Barrel rate12.9%

Exit velocity91.0 mph

Hard hit rate46.3%

Contact rate68.5%

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, 2024.

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 J.D. 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.
Situation	PA	AB	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
All situations	495	—	—	—	—	—	—	.235	.320	.406	.321
Bases empty	267	233	45	6	7	29	86	.193	.293	.313	.278
Runner on first	95	86	23	4	10	8	29	.267	.330	.442	.338
Runners on	228	201	57	10	62	20	55	.284	.351	.512	.371
RISP	133	115	34	6	52	12	26	.296	.366	.565	.395

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2024.

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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.