The 2021 Boston Red Sox hitting stats seen on this page include hitting data for every player who appeared in a game during the 2021 season. Hits, doubles, triples, home runs, batting averages and more hitting stats are included for every player on the 2021 Boston Red Sox broken down by each hitter. Every player's name links to their career statistics. NOTE: You can easily SORT the hitting stats on the table by simply clicking on the title of the hitting stat. Example, click HR (home runs) and the hitting stat sorts from least to greatest. Click it again, greatest to least.
Which hitters from the 2021 Boston Red Sox played the most games by each position? C Christian V�zquez (132), 1B Bobby Dalbec (123), 2B Christian Arroyo (51), 3B Rafael Devers (151), SS Xander Bogaerts (138), LF Alex Verdugo (90), CF Enrique Hern�ndez (93), RF Hunter Renfroe (138). Did you know that Rafael Devers (38 home runs) was the "Home Run Champion" for the 2021 Boston Red Sox? The "RBI Champion" was Rafael Devers (113 RBI), and the "Hit King" was Rafael Devers (165 hits). How do you determine who is the batting champion for the 2021 Boston Red Sox? Major League Baseball (Rule 10.22 Minimum Standards for Individual Championships) states, "The individual batting, slugging or on-base percentage champion shall be the player with the highest batting average, slugging percentage or on-base percentage, as the case may be, provided the player is credited with as many or more total appearances at the plate in league championship games as the number of games scheduled for each club in his clubs league that season, multiplied by 3.1 in the case of a Major League player and by 2.7 in the case of a National Association player. Total appearances at the plate shall include official times at bat, plus bases on balls, times hit by pitcher, sacrifice hits, sacrifice flies and times awarded first base because of interference or obstruction. Notwithstanding the foregoing requirement of minimum appearances at the plate, any player with fewer than the required number of plate appearances whose average would be the highest, if he were charged with the required number of plate appearances shall be awarded the batting, slugging or on-base percentage championship, as the case may be. Bobby Dalbec powered the Boston Red Sox to their first win of the 2022 season with a home run that moved him into exclusive company in franchise history. Dalbec led off the sixth inning of Sunday night’s game against the New York Yankees with the score knotted at three. Yankees reliever Clarke Schmidt left a 93 mph sinking fastball up too high in the zone and Dalbec hammered it 391 feet to right field for a solo homer, which proved to be the game-winner when Boston’s bullpen managed to lock down the final few frames. His first home run of the season was the 34th of Dalbec’s career, a total he reached in his 159th career game. Only two hitters in franchise history have blasted more home runs through the first 162 games of their career – Tony Conigliaro (36) and Walt Dropo (35). Dalbec’s latest home run gives him one more than the legendary Ted Williams collected by his 162nd career game. Dalbec made his major league debut about halfway through the pandemic-shortened 2020 season. He took the league by storm, smashing eight home runs in only 23 games to begin his career. He sputtered out of the gate last season as pitchers caught on to his free-swinging tendencies but Dalbec recovered to produce a strong second half and finished with 25 homers. He went without a home run in his first 58 at-bats to begin last season. It took him only 10 at-bats to collect his first homer this year. His career has spread across three different seasons and Dalbec still hasn’t appeared in a full 162 games yet, but it’s not unusual for players to take multiple seasons to reach that many games since rookies rarely appear in every game. Some notable names on the aforementioned list also played in an era when MLB had a shorter schedule. Conigliaro made his Red Sox debut at the age of 19 and hit 24 home runs in 111 games. He would collect his 36th career homer before reaching his 162nd game, during a 1965 campaign that saw him lead the league with 32 home runs. Dropo went without a home run during a brief 11-game stint in 1949 to open his career. He mashed 34 homers on his way to winning the Rookie of the Year award the following season. Dropo’s 35th homer came in his eighth game of the 1951 season. Williams hit 31 home runs during his rookie season in 1949. He also led the league with 145 RBI and finished fourth on the MVP ballot. Teddy Ballgame tallied two more homers by his 13th game of the following season, which was the 162nd of his career. Dalbec still has three more games before he reaches his 162nd career game. A big series in Detroit could lead to him challenging Tony C for the top spot on this list. His clutch home run against the Yankees was only Dalbec’s second hit of the season and he’s struck out in five of his 10 at-bats. It remains to be seen if Dalbec can make enough consistent contact to remain a long-term fixture in the lineup but his impressive power is legitimate. If he manages to hang on to his role as the primary first baseman, Dalbec is going to produce massive home run totals. Next: Red Sox sign Whitlock to 4-year extension The Boston Red Sox were struggling to find success against Shane Bieber. The former Cy Young award-winner blanked Boston’s bats through the first five innings before they finally broke out in the sixth, culminating in a mammoth three-run home run by Alex Verdugo. J.D. Martinez and Xander Bogaerts collected base hits to put traffic on the bases for Verdugo with two outs in the inning. Verdugo got ahead in the count 2-0, patiently waiting for his pitch. He found it when Bieber hung a curve over the plate that Verdugo crushed to right field, just shy of the second deck. The ball traveled 447 feet to put the Red Sox up 3-2 in a game they would go on to win. According to Baseball Savant, the distance on Verdugo’s home run is tied for 37th in the majors this season and trails only Franchy Cordero (448) among Red Sox hitters. This is the furthest ball that Verdugo has hit since 2019. The exit velocity on Verdugo’s home run was 108.8 mph. Only Rafael Devers (110.9 mph on a single in the eight inning) hit the ball harder in this game. Verdugo is riding a six-game hitting streak as we approach the end of his best month of the season. He’s batting .304/.360/.456 in June. While his bat is heating up, the home run power hasn’t been there. This was only Verdugo’s second home run this month and fifth of the season. After starting the season with three home runs in his first eight games, Verdugo went nearly two months before adding another. Verdugo’s power is slightly above-average, ranking in the 53rd percentile in average exit velocity and 55th percentile in Hard Hit percentage. The lack of home runs is primarily due to Verdugo’s approach at the plate. While many hitters have been caught up in the launch angle craze in recent years, Verdugo’s 7.5 Launch Angle is well below the major league average (12.1). The low launch angle means fewer batted balls classified a barrels, resulting in a below-average Barrel% that ranks in the 40th percentile. Verdugo is capable of hitting the ball hard but he isn’t hitting it in the air frequently. His 34.1 fly ball percentage is the 23rd-lowest among qualified AL hitters, per FanGraphs. The approach will lead to fewer home runs but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Verdugo was never going to be a 30+ homer guy. He’s not someone we want swinging for the fences every time. He puts the ball in play, ranking in the 95th percentile in Whiff% and 97th percentile in K% this season. His .251 batting average doesn’t seem all that impressive but Verdugo’s .287 expected batting average ranks in the 82nd percentile. A .263 BABIP that rates as the 20th-lowest in the league is responsible for an underwhelming batting average. Fortune hasn’t favored him in terms of the home run ball either. While his swing isn’t tailor made for homers, his total of five is surprisingly low. StatCast has a metric called expected home runs, which projects Verdugo for 9.1 home runs so far this season, nearly double his actual total. Verdugo might not catch the career-high 13 home runs he hit last year but he should be on pace to shatter that mark based on his xHR rate. Even if he struggles to crack double-digits, Verdugo is still finding ways to be productive. Next: Red Sox fans chanted for a guy named Jeter BOSTON -- With the ball repeatedly flying out of Fenway Park for the Red Sox on a perfect Sunday afternoon (you couldn’t find a cloud anywhere), it was easy to forget the power outage that took place for this same team just a month ago. Instead of powerless, the Red Sox are now powerful. That point was made emphatically when they got five homers from five different players in a 12-2 romp of the Orioles. “Yeah, it looks very much like who we are and what we sought out to be,” said winning pitcher Nick Pivetta. “It allows us [as pitchers] to feel less pressure.” Bobby Dalbec got the party started in the second inning when he hammered one high and deep over the Monster. Dalbec has just three homers this season, but two have come the last two days. Production from Dalbec going forward would be significant because the Red Sox are a force when they get production in the lower part of the batting order. “I just think my body is in the right spot, and in the right spot at the right time,” Dalbec said. Just two batters after Dalbec’s two-run blast, Franchy Cordero swatted a Statcast-projected 448-foot missile into the bleachers in center off lefty Bruce Zimmermann, who became the fifth pitcher in Orioles history to give up five homers in one outing. Much like Dalbec, Cordero is a supporting member of the offense rather than a central figure. The homer was just his fourth in 98 career plate appearances against a lefty. “I feel really good about it. I also tried to stay up the middle. I was waiting for that pitch so I was glad it went over the fence,” said Cordero. The third homer of the day -- which came in the third inning -- was from the most expected source of power in Rafael Devers, who mashed his 11th homer of the season. In typical Devers fashion, it was scalded at an exit velocity of 110.7 mph and for a projected distance of 434 feet. Platoon player Christian Arroyo got into the act in the fourth by roping one over everything in left. And Kiké Hernández, who is starting to break out of his early-season slump, completed the quintet later that inning by going deep to left-center. The Red Sox didn’t homer for the rest of the day and it didn’t matter. Five in four innings were more than enough. A five-spot in the bottom of the eighth was the perfect capper to a satisfying and stress-free afternoon of baseball. “The bottom of the lineup was outstanding,” said Cora. “Arroyo, Bobby, Franchy and obviously the big boys did their thing. The quality of the at-bats were all the way to the end. Knowing what happened a few days ago [blowing an 8-2 lead], they kept adding on and putting pressure on them, and we have a chance to win the series tomorrow.” Backed by the barrage of offense, Pivetta turned in his fifth straight strong start (6 IP, 5 H, 1 R, 3 BB, 5 SO) following his struggles at the beginning of the season. After starting the season 10-19, the Sox have won 13 of their last 19 and nine of their last 12. The key to the resurgence, without question, has been the offense. All along, the rotation has been steady. The bullpen still has issues, but they are lessened with all the crooked numbers of late. For Boston, April’s warning-track outs are turning into no-doubt taters. From April 23-28, the Red Sox didn’t homer in six consecutive games, marking their longest drought since 2001. In that first month of the season, they had only 12 homers in 22 games. How is May going, you ask? The Sox have clubbed 37 home runs in 26 games. On April 28, this is what Cora said: “We will hit homers. That’s going to be part of it. We’re doing a better job swinging at pitches in the zone. We’re not chasing as much. With that, the home runs will come.” Those words proved prophetic. Through the first 32 games, the Red Sox never once reached double-digits in runs scored in a game. In 16 games since May 14, they've scored 10 or more runs five times. “I think we’re swinging at the right pitches and we’re not trying to do too much with them,” said Dalbec. “We were all kind of pressing as a team early and just missing balls and stuff just not going our way and kind of let it wear on us. Just trying to be ourselves.” |
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