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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: 57.3
PA: 610
AVG: .276
OBP: .378
SLG: .517
wRC+: 145

Shohei Ohtani is a designated hitter for the Los Angeles Dodgers. So far in 2026 he has hit 30 home runs and knocked in 81 RBIs, notching 142 hits across 610 plate appearances in 133 games. His batting average is .276, 13.0% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .378 clip and slugged .517, for an OPS of .895, 24.5% higher than the league mark of .719 — the best on his team, and 7th of 462 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 93.4 mph off the bat, hit 52.9% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 15.0% of them and made contact on 68.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 145 wRC+ puts his offence 45% above average. That comes to 3.8 dbWAR — +31.5 runs with the bat, +0.2 for the ballpark, +0.1 on the bases, -0.7 on double plays, -13.2 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+145

wOBA.381

ISO.241

BB%13.3%

WAR3.8

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +36.7 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	LAD	133	610	142	30	81	11	81	150	.276	.378	.517	.241	.329	13.3%	24.6%	.381	+31.5	145	3.8
2025	LAD	158	727	172	55	102	20	109	187	.282	.392	.622	.340	.315	15.0%	25.7%	.419	+62.4	166	7.1
2024	LAD	159	731	197	54	130	59	81	162	.310	.390	.646	.336	.336	11.1%	22.2%	.432	+72.2	188	9.6
2023	LAA	135	599	151	44	95	20	91	143	.304	.412	.654	.350	.342	15.2%	23.9%	.436	+58.0	180	6.9
2022	LAA	157	666	160	34	95	11	72	161	.273	.356	.519	.246	.320	10.8%	24.2%	.371	+32.0	139	4.1
2021	LAA	155	639	138	46	100	26	96	189	.257	.372	.592	.335	.303	15.0%	29.6%	.397	+42.8	153	5.7
2020	LAA	44	175	29	7	24	7	22	50	.190	.291	.366	.176	.229	12.6%	28.6%	.292	-4.4	77	0.1
2019	LAA	106	425	110	18	62	12	33	110	.286	.343	.505	.219	.354	7.8%	25.9%	.355	+11.8	121	1.8
2018	LAA	104	367	93	22	61	10	37	102	.285	.361	.564	.279	.350	10.1%	27.8%	.394	+22.6	154	2.8

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2026	LAD	14	14	85.2	8	2	55	17	95	26	1.79	2.61	0.95	10.0	2.7	43	63	2.6
2025	LAD	14	14	47.0	1	1	40	15	62	9	2.87	1.90	1.04	11.9	1.7	69	46	1.8
2023	LAA	23	23	132.0	10	5	85	46	167	55	3.14	4.00	1.06	11.4	3.8	72	92	2.1
2022	LAA	28	28	166.0	15	9	124	43	219	44	2.33	2.40	1.01	11.9	2.4	59	61	5.2
2021	LAA	23	23	130.1	9	2	98	46	156	44	3.18	3.52	1.09	10.8	3.0	74	82	2.8
2020	LAA	2	2	1.2	0	1	3	7	3	8	37.80	13.99	6.60	16.2	43.2	849	314	-0.2
2018	LAA	10	10	51.2	4	2	38	19	63	22	3.31	3.57	1.16	11.0	3.8	80	86	1.0

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	201	176	48	12	17	50	.273	.350	.534	.375	24.9%
vs RHP	409	339	94	18	64	100	.277	.392	.507	.384	24.4%

Season

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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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 367 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 15.0%
Exit velocity: 93.4
Max exit velo: 114.6
Hard hit: 52.9%
Sweet spot: 40.8%
Launch angle: 12.4°

Barrel rate15.0%

Exit velocity93.4 mph

Hard hit rate52.9%

Contact rate68.3%

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 Shohei Ohtani 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	610	—	—	—	—	—	—	.276	.378	.517	.381
Bases empty	383	331	86	20	20	46	100	.260	.357	.495	.374
Runner on first	94	80	28	4	14	12	22	.350	.447	.600	.451
Runners on	227	184	56	10	61	35	50	.304	.414	.554	.394
RISP	133	104	28	6	47	23	28	.269	.391	.519	.350

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

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, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Season


Four-Seam Fastball	45.1%	602	98.1	2,488	52.3%	26.9%	150	.193	.572
Sweeper	29.4%	393	85.0	2,726	52.7%	37.7%	85	.129	.363
Curveball	10.0%	133	75.2	2,651	38.3%	38.7%	18	.111	.384
Splitter	8.5%	114	89.0	1,563	35.1%	34.5%	34	.294	.676
Sinker	5.2%	69	96.5	2,217	39.1%	20.7%	14	—	—
Slider	1.1%	15	88.0	2,593	46.7%	10.0%	2	—	—

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. BAA and OPS are what hitters did against each pitch, credited to the one that ended the plate appearance, and are left blank under 15 at-bats.

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

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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.