SS · 2025
Nick Ahmed
- Age
- 35
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 201 lb
- Born
- March 15, 1990 in East Longmeadow, MA, USA
- MLB debut
- June 29, 2014
- Drafted
- 2011, round 2
- College
- Connecticut
- High school
- East Longmeadow
- dbWAR
- -.3 2 season(s)
- PA
- 10
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .100
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- -75 100 = avg
Nick Ahmed is a shortstop for the Texas Rangers. In 2025 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 10 plate appearances in 5 games. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .245. He reached base at a .100 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .100, 86.1% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 83.4 mph off the bat, hit 16.7% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 50.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -75 wRC+ puts his offence 175% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -2.0 runs with the bat, +0.2 on the bases, +0.1 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, 2025.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2025. These four terms sum to -1.4 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 28.6% |
| vs RHP | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .000 | .333 | .000 | .240 | 33.3% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2025.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 6 tracked batted balls in 2025. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 83.4 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 97.6 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 16.7% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 16.7% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 13.2° average
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, 2025.
Situational hitting
How Nick Ahmed hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.
| Situation | PA | AB | H | HR | RBI | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All situations | 10 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .000 | .100 | .000 | .072 |
| Bases empty · thin | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runner on first · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 | .167 | .000 | .120 |
| RISP · thin | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 | .200 | .000 | .144 |
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, 2025.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | .000 | .100 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 10.0% | 30.0% | .072 | -2.0 | -75 | -0.1 | |
| 2024 | 68 | 228 | 48 | 2 | 17 | 2 | 11 | 51 | .229 | .267 | .295 | .067 | .287 | 4.8% | 22.4% | .250 | -11.6 | 58 | -0.2 |
Head to head
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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.