C · 2026

Alex Jackson

Minnesota Twins American League CentralC

Age: 31
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 238 lb
Number: #70

Born: December 25, 1995 in San Diego, CA, USA
MLB debut: April 7, 2019
Drafted: 2014, round 1
High school: Rancho Bernardo
Salary, 2026: $1.35M

dbWAR: .1
PA: 69
AVG: .303
OBP: .333
SLG: .409
wRC+: 110

Alex Jackson is a catcher for the Minnesota Twins. In 2026 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 5 RBIs, notching 20 hits across 69 plate appearances in 23 games. His batting average was .303, 24.4% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .333 clip and slugged .409, for an OPS of .742, 3.2% higher than the league mark of .719. He averaged 80.7 mph off the bat, hit 34.9% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 2.3% of them and made contact on 69.4% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 110 wRC+ puts his offence 10% above average. That comes to 0.4 dbWAR — +0.6 runs with the bat, -0.1 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, 2026.

wRC+110

wOBA.328

ISO.106

BB%1.4%

WAR.4

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +3.8 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

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WAR by season

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	24	23	4	0	0	12	.174	.208	.174	.180	50.0%
vs RHP	45	43	16	1	1	11	.372	.400	.535	.407	24.4%

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 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 LHB	4	4	2	1	0	0	.500	.500	1.250	.726	0.0%
vs RHB	6	5	1	1	1	0	.200	.333	.800	.456	0.0%

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

Barrel rate: 2.3%
Exit velocity: 80.7
Max exit velo: 108.6
Hard hit: 34.9%
Sweet spot: 23.3%
Launch angle: 4.6°

Barrel rate2.3%

Exit velocity80.7 mph

Hard hit rate34.9%

Contact rate69.4%

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.

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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 Alex Jackson 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	69	—	—	—	—	—	—	.303	.333	.409	.328
Bases empty	40	38	10	1	1	0	13	.263	.300	.421	.316
Runner on first · thin	15	15	5	0	0	0	6	.333	.333	.333	.297
Runners on	29	28	10	0	4	1	10	.357	.379	.393	.345
RISP · thin	14	13	5	0	4	1	4	.385	.429	.462	.396

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.

Pitch sequencing

What Alex Jackson throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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Eephus

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, and how often it misses in 2026.


Eephus	96.2%	25	50.2	1,273	24.0%	0.0%

Alex Jackson'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.


2026	23	69	20	1	5	0	1	23	.303	.333	.409	.106	.452	1.4%	33.3%	.328	+0.6	110	0.4
2025	31	100	20	5	8	0	5	37	.220	.290	.473	.253	.306	5.0%	37.0%	.328	+1.1	108	0.6
2024	53	155	17	3	12	1	12	53	.122	.201	.237	.115	.167	7.7%	34.2%	.201	-14.1	22	-0.6

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																			Trend
2026	2	0	2.0	0	0	0	3	3	0	1	13.50	17.59	2.00	0.0	4.5	323	421	-0.3
2025	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	3	3	0	2	27.00	9.14	5.00	0.0	18.0	649	220	-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.