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José Ramírez

Cleveland Guardians American League Central3B

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: 54.4
PA: 539
AVG: .237
OBP: .323
SLG: .372
wRC+: 90

José Ramírez is a third baseman for the Cleveland Guardians. So far in 2026 he has hit 12 home runs and knocked in 53 RBIs, notching 111 hits across 539 plate appearances in 123 games. His batting average is .237, 2.8% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .323 clip and slugged .372, for an OPS of .695, 3.2% lower than the league mark of .719 — 7th of 16 on his team, and 247th of 462 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 88.5 mph off the bat, hit 38.1% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 3.5% of them and made contact on 84.6% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 90 wRC+ puts his offence 10% below average. That comes to 2.0 dbWAR — -5.3 runs with the bat, -0.4 for the ballpark, +5.0 on the bases, +2.4 on double plays, +0.7 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+90

wOBA.306

ISO.135

BB%11.1%

WAR2.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +18.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2026	CLE	123	539	111	12	53	37	60	69	.237	.323	.372	.135	.251	11.1%	12.8%	.306	-5.3	90	2.0
2025	CLE	158	673	168	30	85	44	66	74	.283	.360	.503	.219	.279	9.8%	11.0%	.361	+25.5	132	5.6
2024	CLE	158	682	173	39	118	41	54	82	.279	.335	.537	.258	.265	7.9%	12.0%	.365	+29.7	133	6.1
2023	CLE	156	691	172	24	80	28	73	73	.282	.356	.475	.193	.285	10.6%	10.6%	.348	+16.0	123	4.4
2022	CLE	157	685	168	29	126	20	69	82	.280	.355	.514	.235	.279	10.1%	12.0%	.365	+29.3	140	5.8
2021	CLE	152	636	147	36	103	27	72	87	.266	.355	.538	.272	.256	11.3%	13.7%	.375	+30.8	142	5.7
2020	CLE	58	254	64	17	46	10	31	43	.292	.386	.607	.315	.294	12.2%	16.9%	.417	+20.6	162	3.1
2019	CLE	128	542	123	23	83	24	52	74	.255	.327	.479	.224	.256	9.6%	13.7%	.337	+6.8	111	2.8
2018	CLE	157	698	156	39	105	34	106	80	.270	.387	.552	.282	.252	15.2%	11.5%	.397	+44.3	149	7.7
2017	CLE	152	645	186	29	83	17	52	69	.318	.374	.583	.265	.319	8.1%	10.7%	.402	+41.6	154	6.6
2016	CLE	149	618	176	11	76	22	44	62	.312	.363	.462	.150	.333	7.1%	10.0%	.358	+17.9	118	4.0
2015	CLE	91	355	69	6	27	10	32	39	.219	.291	.340	.121	.232	9.0%	11.0%	.284	-9.3	71	0.5

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	163	142	41	5	16	12	.289	.368	.472	.357	7.4%
vs RHP	376	326	70	7	44	57	.215	.304	.328	.285	15.2%

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 404 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 3.5%
Exit velocity: 88.5
Max exit velo: 110.8
Hard hit: 38.1%
Sweet spot: 36.1%
Launch angle: 19.2°

Barrel rate3.5%

Exit velocity88.5 mph

Hard hit rate38.1%

Contact rate84.6%

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.

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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 José Ramírez 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	539	—	—	—	—	—	—	.237	.323	.372	.306
Bases empty	289	257	61	8	8	31	39	.237	.322	.374	.311
Runner on first	119	104	25	3	7	13	13	.240	.331	.356	.313
Runners on	250	211	50	4	45	29	30	.237	.325	.370	.301
RISP	131	107	25	1	38	16	17	.234	.321	.383	.289

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

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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.