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C · 2026

Ben Rortvedt

Age
29
B/T
L/R
Height
5' 10"
Weight
210 lb
Number
#47
Born
September 25, 1997 in Madison, WI, USA
MLB debut
April 30, 2021
Drafted
2016, round 2
High school
Verona Area
Salary, 2026
$1.25M
dbWAR
.5
4 season(s)
PA
4
AVG
.250
OBP
.250
SLG
.250
wRC+
34
100 = avg

Ben Rortvedt is a catcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2026 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 4 plate appearances in 2 games. His batting average was .250, 2.6% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .250 clip and slugged .250, for an OPS of .500, 30.5% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 87.1 mph off the bat and made contact on 80.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 34 wRC+ puts his offence 66% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -0.3 runs with the bat, -0.0 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, 2026.

wRC+34
wOBA.223
ISO.000
BB%0.0%
WAR-.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to -0.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting-0.3Baserunning-0.0Position+0.1Replacement+0.1
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

1.00.3-0.4242526

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 LHP221000.500.500.500.4460.0%
vs RHP220000.000.000.000.0000.0%

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.

1 AB1 AB1 AB1 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
202624100000.250.250.250.000.2500.0%0.0%.223-0.334-0.0
2025411281711001123.152.240.205.054.1828.6%18.0%.214-10.829-0.4
20241053286633113488.228.317.303.076.31710.4%26.8%.286-7.1821.0

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2024102.000031124.5011.672.504.59.0110286-0.2

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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.