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2B · 2025

Jose Iglesias

Age
35
B/T
R/R
Height
5' 11"
Weight
195 lb
Number
#7
Born
January 5, 1990 in Havana, Cuba
MLB debut
May 8, 2011
Salary, 2025
$3M
dbWAR
2.4
2 season(s)
PA
343
AVG
.229
OBP
.298
SLG
.294
wRC+
71
100 = avg

Jose Iglesias is a second baseman for the San Diego Padres. In 2025 he hit 3 home runs and knocked in 36 RBIs, notching 70 hits across 343 plate appearances in 108 games. His batting average was .229, 6.7% lower than the league average of .245. He reached base at a .298 clip and slugged .294, for an OPS of .592, 17.7% lower than the league mark of .719 — 9th of 12 on his team, and 393rd of 461 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 82.8 mph off the bat, hit 28.6% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 2.0% of them and made contact on 82.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 71 wRC+ puts his offence 29% below average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — -12.5 runs with the bat, +0.0 on the bases, +1.1 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, 2025.

wRC+71
wOBA.271
ISO.065
BB%7.0%
WAR.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2025. These four terms sum to +0.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting-12.5Baserunning+0.0Position+1.1Replacement+11.4
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

2.41.20.02425

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 LHP1371202811427.233.319.342.30019.7%
vs RHP2061864221029.226.284.263.25214.1%

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 255 tracked batted balls in 2025. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate
2.0%
5 barrels
Exit velocity
82.8
mph average
Max exit velo
109.5
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
28.6%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
27.1%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
2.8°
average
Barrel rate2.0%
Exit velocity82.8 mph
Hard hit rate28.6%
Contact rate82.2%

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.

.091.200.045.179.21723 AB.35317 AB.23113 AB.28621 AB.25044 AB.38526 AB.2508 AB.20025 AB.29031 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 Jose Iglesias 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 situations343.229.298.294.271
Bases empty18116434221133.207.274.280.254
Runner on first69571513811.263.373.333.329
Runners on162142361341323.254.325.310.290
RISP938521031512.247.290.294.263

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2025.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
20251083437033652456.229.298.294.065.2697.0%16.3%.271-12.5710.0
2024772919142661239.337.381.448.111.3824.1%13.4%.364+12.41382.4

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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.