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3B · 2026

José Ramírez

Age
34
B/T
S/R
Height
5' 8"
Weight
190 lb
Number
#11
Born
September 17, 1992 in Bani, Dominican Republic
MLB debut
September 1, 2013
Salary, 2026
$18.4M
dbWAR
12.5
3 season(s)
PA
375
AVG
.237
OBP
.337
SLG
.388
wRC+
98
100 = avg

José Ramírez is a third baseman for the Cleveland Guardians. In 2026 he hit 10 home runs and knocked in 36 RBIs, notching 76 hits across 375 plate appearances in 86 games. His batting average was .237, 2.5% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .337 clip and slugged .388, for an OPS of .724, 0.7% higher than the league mark of .719 — the second best on his team, and 174th of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 89.2 mph off the bat, hit 40.9% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 83.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 98 wRC+ puts his offence 2% below average. That comes to 1.6 dbWAR — -0.1 runs with the bat, +4.5 on the bases, -1.0 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.

wRC+98
wOBA.318
ISO.150
BB%13.1%
WAR1.6

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +15.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting-0.1Baserunning+4.5Position-1.0Replacement+12.5
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

5.62.80.0242526

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

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.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP10892285148.304.398.533.3897.4%
vs RHP2672284853538.211.312.329.29114.2%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2026.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2026.

.200.167.313.133.20015 AB.21428 AB.26715 AB.13622 AB.35645 AB.18222 AB.16131 AB.27629 AB.38513 AB
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.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
202686375761036294946.237.337.388.150.24613.1%12.3%.318-0.1981.6
20251586731683085446674.283.360.503.219.2799.8%11.0%.361+25.51325.3
202415868217339118415482.279.335.537.258.2657.9%12.0%.365+29.71335.6

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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.