DH · 2026

Shohei Ohtani

Los Angeles Dodgers National League WestDH

Age: 32
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 210 lb
Number: #17

Born: July 5, 1994 in Oshu, Japan
MLB debut: March 29, 2018
High school: Hanamaki Higashi
Salary, 2026: $28.2M

dbWAR: 22.6
PA: 496
AVG: .292
OBP: .395
SLG: .542
wRC+: 156

Shohei Ohtani is a designated hitter for the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2026 he hit 26 home runs and knocked in 71 RBIs, notching 121 hits across 496 plate appearances in 108 games. His batting average was .292, 19.7% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .395 clip and slugged .542, for an OPS of .937, 30.2% higher than the league mark of .719 — the best on his team, and 4th of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 93.3 mph off the bat, hit 52.8% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 69.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 156 wRC+ puts his offence 56% above average. That comes to 3.3 dbWAR — +31.5 runs with the bat, -0.8 on the bases, -14.4 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+156

wOBA.395

ISO.251

BB%13.9%

WAR3.3

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +32.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

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.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHP	162	144	43	11	12	39	.299	.360	.576	.392	24.1%
vs RHP	334	271	78	15	57	75	.288	.411	.524	.396	22.5%

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 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 LHB	191	171	36	3	15	47	.211	.279	.310	.267	24.6%
vs RHB	149	134	19	1	11	48	.142	.228	.201	.207	32.2%

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.

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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.

Pitch sequencing

What Shohei Ohtani throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, and how often it misses in 2026.


Four-Seam Fastball	45.1%	602	98.1	2,488	52.3%	26.9%
Sweeper	29.4%	393	85.0	2,726	52.7%	37.7%
Curveball	10.0%	133	75.2	2,651	38.3%	38.7%
Splitter	8.5%	114	89.0	1,563	35.1%	34.5%
Sinker	5.2%	69	96.5	2,217	39.1%	20.7%
Slider	1.1%	15	88.0	2,593	46.7%	10.0%

Shohei Ohtani's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2026	108	496	121	26	71	6	69	114	.292	.395	.542	.251	.339	13.9%	23.0%	.395	+31.5	156	3.3
2025	158	727	172	55	102	20	109	187	.282	.392	.622	.340	.315	15.0%	25.7%	.419	+62.4	166	6.7
2024	159	731	197	54	130	59	81	162	.310	.390	.646	.336	.336	11.1%	22.2%	.432	+72.2	188	8.6

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																			Trend
2026	14	14	85.2	8	2	0	55	17	95	26	1.79	2.60	0.95	10.0	2.7	43	62	2.4
2025	14	14	47.0	1	1	0	40	15	62	9	2.87	1.90	1.04	11.9	1.7	69	46	1.7

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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.