1B · 2026

Abimelec Ortiz

Washington Nationals National League East1B

Age: 24
B/T: L/L
Height: 5' 10"
Weight: 230 lb
Number: #81

Born: February 22, 2002 in Bayamon, Puerto Rico
MLB debut: July 12, 2026
College: Florida Southwestern State JC
High school: Carlos Beltran Baseball Academy

dbWAR: .1
PA: 23
AVG: .273
OBP: .304
SLG: .591
wRC+: 138

Abimelec Ortiz is a first baseman for the Washington Nationals. In 2026 he hit 2 home runs and knocked in 4 RBIs, notching 6 hits across 23 plate appearances in 8 games. His batting average was .273, 11.9% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .304 clip and slugged .591, for an OPS of .895, 24.4% higher than the league mark of .719. He averaged 92.6 mph off the bat, hit 50.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 16.7% of them and made contact on 82.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 138 wRC+ puts his offence 38% above average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — +1.1 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, -0.5 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+138

wOBA.378

ISO.318

BB%4.3%

WAR.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +1.4 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

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	2	2	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	50.0%
vs RHP	22	21	6	2	1	3	.286	.318	.619	.395	13.6%

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

Barrel rate: 16.7%
Exit velocity: 92.6
Max exit velo: 106.8
Hard hit: 50.0%
Sweet spot: 55.6%
Launch angle: 15.7°

Barrel rate16.7%

Exit velocity92.6 mph

Hard hit rate50.0%

Contact rate82.0%

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 Abimelec 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	23	—	—	—	—	—	—	.273	.304	.591	.378
Bases empty · thin	15	14	4	2	2	1	2	.286	.333	.786	.460
Runner on first · thin	5	5	1	0	0	0	1	.200	.200	.200	.178
Runners on · thin	9	9	2	0	2	0	2	.222	.222	.222	.198
RISP · thin	4	4	1	0	2	0	1	.250	.250	.250	.223

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Rows under 25 plate appearances are marked thin — at that size a rate moves several dozen points on one hit. Counted from play-by-play, 2026.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2026	8	23	6	2	4	0	1	4	.273	.304	.591	.318	.250	4.3%	17.4%	.378	+1.1	138	0.1	—

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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.