2B · 2026
Jihwan Bae
- Age
- 27
- B/T
- L/R
- Height
- 5' 11"
- Weight
- 185 lb
- Number
- #0
- Born
- July 26, 1999 in Daegu, Republic of Korea
- MLB debut
- September 23, 2022
- dbWAR
- -.5 3 season(s)
- PA
- 2
- AVG
- 1.000
- OBP
- 1.000
- SLG
- 1.000
- wRC+
- 505 100 = avg
Jihwan Bae is a second baseman for the Milwaukee Brewers. In 2026 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 2 plate appearances in 1 game. His batting average was 1.000, 310.4% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a 1.000 clip and slugged 1.000, for an OPS of 2.000, 178.0% higher than the league mark of .719. He averaged 29.8 mph off the bat and made contact on 100.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 505 wRC+ puts his offence 405% above average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — +0.9 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, +0.0 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.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +1.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | .891 | 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 2 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 29.8 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 37.4 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -54.5° average
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.
Situational hitting
How Jihwan Bae hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.
| Situation | PA | AB | H | HR | RBI | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All situations | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | .891 |
| Bases empty · thin | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | .891 |
| Runner on first · thin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| Runners on · thin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
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.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | .000 | 1.000 | 0.0% | 0.0% | .891 | +0.9 | 505 | 0.1 | |
| 2025 | 10 | 25 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 9 | .050 | .240 | .050 | .000 | .091 | 20.0% | 36.0% | .180 | -2.8 | 5 | -0.2 | |
| 2024 | 26 | 81 | 14 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 24 | .189 | .247 | .216 | .027 | .275 | 7.4% | 29.6% | .215 | -6.5 | 31 | -0.4 |
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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.