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Joey Ortiz

Milwaukee Brewers National League CentralSS

Age: 28
B/T: R/R
Height: 5' 10"
Weight: 192 lb
Number: #3

Born: July 14, 1998 in Garden Grove, CA, United States
MLB debut: April 27, 2023
Drafted: 2019, round 4
College: New Mexico State

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dbWAR: 4.5
PA: 415
AVG: .270
OBP: .328
SLG: .402
wRC+: 103

Joey Ortiz is a shortstop for the Milwaukee Brewers. In 2026 he hit 9 home runs and knocked in 47 RBIs, notching 100 hits across 415 plate appearances in 120 games. His batting average was .270, 10.5% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .328 clip and slugged .402, for an OPS of .730, 1.5% higher than the league mark of .719 — 8th of 16 on his team, and 174th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 87.6 mph off the bat, hit 37.6% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 3.4% of them and made contact on 80.1% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 103 wRC+ puts his offence 3% above average. That comes to 1.9 dbWAR — +1.7 runs with the bat, -0.1 for the ballpark, -0.9 on the bases, -0.5 on double plays, +4.9 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 regular season.

wRC+103

wOBA.323

ISO.132

BB%8.4%

WAR1.9

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +18.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2026	MIL	120	415	100	9	47	9	35	82	.270	.328	.402	.132	.319	8.4%	19.8%	.323	+1.7	103	1.9
2025	MIL	146	506	108	7	45	14	27	74	.230	.276	.317	.087	.260	5.3%	14.6%	.265	-21.0	67	0.5
2024	MIL	137	511	105	11	60	11	56	103	.239	.329	.398	.159	.283	11.0%	20.2%	.321	+3.9	108	2.4
2023	BAL	14	34	7	0	4	0	0	9	.212	.206	.242	.030	.280	0.0%	26.5%	.193	-3.6	13	-0.2

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason batting

Postseason Joey Ortiz's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2026 Post	MIL	Postseason total · through Oct 27	7	22	21	0	2	1	0	6	.095	.095	.095	.190
		NLDS	3	11	10	0	1	0	0	3	.100	.100	.100	.200
		NLCS	2	7	7	0	1	1	0	3	.143	.143	.143	.286
		World Series	2	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
2025 Post	MIL	Postseason total	9	23	19	1	2	0	3	4	.105	.227	.105	.333
		NLDS	5	16	13	1	2	0	2	3	.154	.267	.154	.421
		NLCS	4	7	6	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.143	.000	.143
2024 Post	MIL	Wild Card	3	11	11	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000
Career		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	19	56	51	1	4	1	3	12	.078	.130	.078	.208

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

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	150	136	33	2	12	32	.243	.304	.360	.298	21.3%
vs RHP	265	235	67	7	23	50	.285	.342	.426	.338	18.9%

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

Barrel rate: 3.4%
Exit velocity: 87.6
Max exit velo: 112.2
Hard hit: 37.6%
Sweet spot: 30.5%
Launch angle: 5.9°

Barrel rate3.4%

Exit velocity87.6 mph

Hard hit rate37.6%

Contact rate80.1%

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 Joey Ortiz 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	415	—	—	—	—	—	—	.270	.328	.402	.323
Bases empty	213	199	55	3	3	14	42	.276	.324	.397	.320
Runner on first	89	81	21	3	7	6	13	.259	.310	.407	.317
Runners on	202	172	45	6	44	21	40	.262	.333	.407	.327
RISP	113	91	24	3	37	15	27	.264	.351	.407	.335

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.