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3B · 2025

Jon Berti

Age
35
B/T
R/R
Height
5' 10"
Weight
190 lb
Number
#5
Born
January 22, 1990 in Troy, MI, USA
MLB debut
September 26, 2018
Drafted
2008, round 36
College
Bowling Green State
High school
Troy
Salary, 2025
$2M
dbWAR
-.1
3 season(s)
PA
107
AVG
.210
OBP
.262
SLG
.230
wRC+
39
100 = avg

Jon Berti is a third baseman for the Chicago Cubs. In 2025 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 2 RBIs, notching 21 hits across 107 plate appearances in 45 games. His batting average was .210, 14.4% lower than the league average of .245. He reached base at a .262 clip and slugged .230, for an OPS of .492, 31.6% lower than the league mark of .719 — the worst on his team, and 451st of 461 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 87.5 mph off the bat, hit 37.7% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 1.3% of them and made contact on 73.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 39 wRC+ puts his offence 61% below average. That comes to -0.3 dbWAR — -7.7 runs with the bat, +0.8 on the bases, +0.4 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, 2025.

wRC+39
wOBA.228
ISO.020
BB%4.7%
WAR-.3

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2025. These four terms sum to -2.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting-7.7Baserunning+0.8Position+0.4Replacement+3.6
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

0.3-0.0-0.32425

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2025. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP30296013.207.233.207.20110.0%
vs RHP7771150419.211.273.239.23924.7%
Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2025. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB961030.167.444.167.3390.0%
vs RHB1093010.333.400.556.4120.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2025.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 77 tracked batted balls in 2025. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate
1.3%
1 barrels
Exit velocity
87.5
mph average
Max exit velo
112.1
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
37.7%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
33.8%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
1.5°
average
Barrel rate1.3%
Exit velocity87.5 mph
Hard hit rate37.7%
Contact rate73.7%

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, 2025.

.1675 AB.10010 AB1 AB.33312 AB.21414 AB.27311 AB5 AB.13315 AB5 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 .245.

Situational hitting

How Jon Berti 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.
SituationPAABHHRRBIBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBA
All situations107.210.262.230.228
Bases empty61571200213.211.262.228.228
Runner on first · thin222070024.350.409.350.348
Runners on464390239.209.261.233.228
RISP · thin242320215.087.125.130.119

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, 2025.

Pitch sequencing

What Jon Berti 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, and how often it misses in 2025.

Fastball51.0%2662.21,61426.9%7.7%
Eephus49.0%2549.61,29720.0%0.0%
Jon Berti'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.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
202545107210211522.210.262.230.020.2694.7%20.6%.228-7.739-0.3
2024247418165614.273.342.318.045.3338.1%18.9%.303-0.5930.3

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2025403.200043047.366.412.180.09.8177154-0.1

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Nearest 2025 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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.