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C · 2026

Jake Rogers

Age
31
B/T
R/R
Height
5' 11"
Weight
201 lb
Number
#46
Born
April 18, 1995 in Canyon, TX, USA
MLB debut
July 30, 2019
Drafted
2016, round 3
College
Tulane
Salary, 2026
$3.05M
dbWAR
1.0
5 season(s)
PA
125
AVG
.183
OBP
.290
SLG
.327
wRC+
75
100 = avg

Jake Rogers is a catcher for the Detroit Tigers. In 2026 he hit 3 home runs and knocked in 11 RBIs, notching 19 hits across 125 plate appearances in 40 games. His batting average was .183, 25.0% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .290 clip and slugged .327, for an OPS of .617, 14.2% lower than the league mark of .719 — 12th of 15 on his team, and 345th of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 87.2 mph off the bat, hit 38.4% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 5.5% of them and made contact on 71.8% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 75 wRC+ puts his offence 25% below average. That comes to 0.3 dbWAR — -3.8 runs with the bat, +0.0 on the bases, +2.5 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+75
wOBA.281
ISO.144
BB%12.8%
WAR.3

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +2.8 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting-3.8Baserunning+0.0Position+2.5Replacement+4.2
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

0.40.20.0242526

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 LHP26226137.273.346.455.34726.9%
vs RHP99821321328.159.276.293.26428.3%
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.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB543010.750.8001.000.7530.0%
vs RHB760003.000.143.000.10742.9%

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

Barrel rate
5.5%
4 barrels
Exit velocity
87.2
mph average
Max exit velo
109.3
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
38.4%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
35.6%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
21.9°
average
Barrel rate5.5%
Exit velocity87.2 mph
Hard hit rate38.4%
Contact rate71.8%

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.

.0714 AB.20010 AB.3339 AB.2508 AB.35317 AB.1119 AB4 AB.15413 AB.1258 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 Jake Rogers 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 situations125.183.290.327.281
Bases empty786612231022.182.295.333.288
Runner on first · thin211741337.235.350.471.361
Runners on4738718613.184.283.316.270
RISP262130536.143.231.190.201

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 Jake Rogers throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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EephusFastball

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Pitch arsenal

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

Eephus55.8%2451.81,16620.8%0.0%
Fastball41.9%1877.41,91055.6%16.7%
Jake Rogers'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
2026401251931111635.183.290.327.144.23212.8%28.0%.281-3.8750.3
2025451422331901539.187.277.333.146.24110.6%27.5%.272-5.0680.2
20249733761103612299.197.255.352.155.2516.5%29.4%.265-13.0670.4

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2026302.100030310.003.091.7111.63.90740.0
2025403.200051002.453.951.360.00.059950.0

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Similar players

Nearest 2026 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.