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2B · 2026

Luis Arraez

Age
29
B/T
L/R
Height
5' 10"
Weight
186 lb
Number
#4
Born
April 9, 1997 in San Felipe, Venezuela
MLB debut
May 18, 2019
Salary, 2026
$12M
dbWAR
5.5
3 season(s)
PA
493
AVG
.320
OBP
.355
SLG
.441
wRC+
120
100 = avg

Luis Arraez is a second baseman for the San Francisco Giants. In 2026 he hit 5 home runs and knocked in 48 RBIs, notching 143 hits across 493 plate appearances in 111 games. His batting average was .320, 31.3% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .355 clip and slugged .441, for an OPS of .796, 10.6% higher than the league mark of .719 — the second best on his team, and 85th of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 86.0 mph off the bat, hit 20.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 0.9% of them and made contact on 92.4% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 120 wRC+ puts his offence 20% above average. That comes to 3.1 dbWAR — +10.9 runs with the bat, +1.2 on the bases, +1.9 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.

wRC+120
wOBA.345
ISO.121
BB%5.3%
WAR3.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +30.5 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting+10.9Baserunning+1.2Position+1.9Replacement+16.4
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

3.11.50.0242526

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.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP146133411313.308.333.429.3338.9%
vs RHP34731410242310.325.364.446.3502.9%

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

Barrel rate
0.9%
4 barrels
Exit velocity
86.0
mph average
Max exit velo
104.4
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
20.0%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
41.1%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
15.5°
average
Barrel rate0.9%
Exit velocity86.0 mph
Hard hit rate20.0%
Contact rate92.4%

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.

.175.208.161.412.33324 AB.40537 AB.38526 AB.34335 AB.35867 AB.54831 AB.21932 AB.33345 AB.18222 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 .243.

Situational hitting

How Luis Arraez 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 situations493.320.355.441.345
Bases empty31630295441217.315.345.437.344
Runner on first8878211664.269.321.423.328
Runners on17714548144146.331.374.448.347
RISP89672703882.403.425.478.365

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2026.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2026111493143548102623.320.355.441.121.3225.3%4.7%.345+10.91203.1
2025154675181861113421.292.327.392.100.2895.0%3.1%.315+0.11020.8
202415067220044692429.314.346.392.078.3243.6%4.3%.325+6.91091.7

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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.