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Marcell Ozuna

Pittsburgh Pirates National League CentralDH

Age: 36
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 251 lb
Number: #24

Born: November 12, 1990 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
MLB debut: April 30, 2013
Salary, 2026: $10.5M

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dbWAR: 29.7
PA: 280
AVG: .203
OBP: .286
SLG: .327
wRC+: 69

Marcell Ozuna is a designated hitter for the Pittsburgh Pirates. In 2026 he hit 8 home runs and knocked in 29 RBIs, notching 51 hits across 280 plate appearances in 69 games. His batting average was .203, 16.7% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .286 clip and slugged .327, for an OPS of .612, 14.8% lower than the league mark of .719 — 15th of 18 on his team, and 384th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 89.1 mph off the bat, hit 37.5% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 7.7% of them and made contact on 69.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 69 wRC+ puts his offence 31% below average. That comes to -0.9 dbWAR — -9.4 runs with the bat, -0.7 for the ballpark, -0.4 on the bases, -0.4 on double plays, -6.0 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, 2026 regular season.

wRC+69

wOBA.278

ISO.124

BB%9.6%

WAR-.9

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to -8.3 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.


2026	PIT	69	280	51	8	29	0	27	80	.203	.286	.327	.124	.264	9.6%	28.6%	.278	-9.4	69	-0.9
2025	ATL	145	592	113	21	68	0	94	144	.232	.355	.400	.168	.280	15.9%	24.3%	.338	+11.3	117	1.6
2024	ATL	162	688	183	39	104	1	74	170	.302	.378	.546	.244	.359	10.8%	24.7%	.397	+47.8	163	5.0
2023	ATL	144	592	145	40	100	0	57	134	.274	.346	.558	.285	.293	9.6%	22.6%	.382	+30.8	141	3.7
2022	ATL	124	507	106	23	56	2	31	122	.226	.274	.413	.187	.252	6.1%	24.1%	.299	-5.1	93	0.0
2021	ATL	48	208	40	7	26	0	19	46	.213	.288	.356	.144	.244	9.1%	22.1%	.287	-5.3	76	-0.2
2020	ATL	60	267	77	18	56	0	38	60	.338	.431	.636	.298	.391	14.2%	22.5%	.446	+28.2	183	3.2
2019	STL	130	549	117	29	89	12	62	114	.241	.328	.472	.231	.257	11.3%	20.8%	.339	+7.6	114	1.8
2018	STL	148	628	163	23	88	3	38	110	.280	.325	.433	.153	.309	6.1%	17.5%	.329	+5.5	110	2.0
2017	MIA	159	679	191	37	124	1	64	144	.312	.376	.548	.237	.355	9.4%	21.2%	.392	+38.0	152	5.0
2016	MIA	148	608	148	23	76	0	43	115	.266	.321	.452	.187	.296	7.1%	18.9%	.334	+5.9	114	2.8
2015	MIA	121	494	119	10	44	2	30	110	.259	.308	.383	.124	.320	6.1%	22.3%	.305	-4.6	93	1.3
2014	MIA	151	612	152	23	85	3	41	164	.269	.317	.455	.186	.337	6.7%	26.8%	.342	+13.2	120	3.6
2013	MIA	70	291	73	3	32	5	13	57	.265	.303	.389	.124	.326	4.5%	19.6%	.308	-2.0	93	0.6

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 Marcell Ozuna'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	ATL	Wild Card	2	8	7	0	2	0	0	1	0	4	.286	.250	.286	.536
2023 Post	ATL	NLDS	4	15	13	1	2	0	0	0	2	4	.154	.267	.154	.421
2022 Post	ATL	NLDS	3	8	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000
2020 Post	ATL	Postseason total	12	53	51	8	13	3	3	11	2	14	.255	.283	.490	.773
		Wild Card	2	9	9	1	1	0	1	2	0	5	.111	.111	.444	.556
		NLDS	3	13	13	3	4	1	0	3	0	5	.308	.308	.385	.692
		NLCS	7	31	29	4	8	2	2	6	2	4	.276	.323	.552	.874
2019 Post	STL	Postseason total	9	39	37	6	12	4	2	5	1	13	.324	.359	.595	.954
		NLDS	5	23	21	6	9	3	2	5	1	5	.429	.478	.857	1.335
		NLCS	4	16	16	0	3	1	0	0	0	8	.188	.188	.250	.438
Career		Postseason total · 5 Octobers	30	123	116	15	29	7	5	17	5	39	.250	.285	.440	.724

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, 2026. 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	103	92	19	4	11	27	.207	.291	.370	.292	26.2%
vs RHP	177	159	32	4	16	53	.201	.282	.302	.269	29.9%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2026.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 168 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 7.7%
Exit velocity: 89.1
Max exit velo: 111.2
Hard hit: 37.5%
Sweet spot: 41.1%
Launch angle: 20.3°

Barrel rate7.7%

Exit velocity89.1 mph

Hard hit rate37.5%

Contact rate69.9%

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, 2026.

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 Marcell Ozuna 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	280	—	—	—	—	—	—	.203	.286	.327	.278
Bases empty	140	128	25	4	4	11	35	.195	.264	.313	.262
Runner on first	69	62	13	3	7	7	17	.210	.290	.387	.301
Runners on	140	123	26	4	25	16	45	.211	.307	.341	.294
RISP	71	61	13	1	18	9	28	.213	.324	.295	.286

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2026.

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Nearest 2026 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Patrick BaileyCLE

wRC+: 67
HR: 10
AVG: .206
WAR: 0.3

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Moisés BallesterosCHC

wRC+: 70
HR: 9
AVG: .215
WAR: -0.4

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Nolan GormanSTL

wRC+: 63
HR: 9
AVG: .184
WAR: -0.4

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Tommy TroyAZ

wRC+: 79
HR: 4
AVG: .217
WAR: 0.1

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.