2B · 2026

Jonathan India

Kansas City Royals American League Central2B

Age: 30
B/T: R/R
Height: 5' 10"
Weight: 200 lb
Number: #6

Born: December 15, 1996 in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA
MLB debut: April 1, 2021
Drafted: 2018, round 1
College: Florida
High school: American Heritage
Salary, 2026: $8M

dbWAR: 4.5
PA: 58
AVG: .167
OBP: .310
SLG: .313
wRC+: 81

Jonathan India is a second baseman for the Kansas City Royals. In 2026 he hit 2 home runs and knocked in 8 RBIs, notching 8 hits across 58 plate appearances in 16 games. His batting average was .167, 31.6% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .310 clip and slugged .313, for an OPS of .623, 13.4% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 85.7 mph off the bat, hit 31.4% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 5.7% of them and made contact on 77.4% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 81 wRC+ puts his offence 19% below average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — -1.2 runs with the bat, -0.1 on the bases, +0.2 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+81

wOBA.294

ISO.146

BB%13.8%

WAR.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +0.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

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	23	17	1	1	5	5	.059	.304	.235	.277	21.7%
vs RHP	35	31	7	1	3	8	.226	.314	.355	.304	22.9%

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

Barrel rate: 5.7%
Exit velocity: 85.7
Max exit velo: 105.5
Hard hit: 31.4%
Sweet spot: 28.6%
Launch angle: 28.4°

Barrel rate5.7%

Exit velocity85.7 mph

Hard hit rate31.4%

Contact rate77.4%

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 Jonathan India 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	58	—	—	—	—	—	—	.167	.310	.313	.294
Bases empty	31	25	3	0	0	4	7	.120	.290	.160	.240
Runner on first · thin	17	15	2	1	2	2	5	.133	.235	.333	.256
Runners on	27	23	5	2	8	4	6	.217	.333	.478	.355
RISP · thin	10	8	3	1	6	2	1	.375	.500	.750	.524

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.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2026	16	58	8	2	8	0	8	13	.167	.310	.313	.146	.182	13.8%	22.4%	.294	-1.2	81	0.1
2025	136	567	116	9	45	0	54	106	.233	.323	.346	.113	.279	9.5%	18.7%	.304	-5.1	95	0.9
2024	151	637	132	15	58	13	80	125	.248	.357	.392	.144	.292	12.6%	19.6%	.337	+12.8	112	3.5

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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.