LF · 2026
Christian Franklin
- Age
- 27
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 5' 9"
- Weight
- 195 lb
- Number
- #27
- Born
- November 30, 1999 in Overland Park, KS, USA
- MLB debut
- August 4, 2026
- Drafted
- 2021, round 4
- College
- Arkansas
- High school
- Rockhurst
- dbWAR
- -.0 1 season(s)
- PA
- 9
- AVG
- .125
- OBP
- .222
- SLG
- .250
- wRC+
- 32 100 = avg
Christian Franklin is a left fielder for the Baltimore Orioles. In 2026 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 9 plate appearances in 4 games. His batting average was .125, 48.7% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .222 clip and slugged .250, for an OPS of .472, 34.4% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 89.3 mph off the bat, hit 20.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 57.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 32 wRC+ puts his offence 68% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -0.7 runs with the bat, +0.2 on the bases, -0.1 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.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to -0.3 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .200 | .200 | .400 | .252 | 40.0% |
| vs RHP | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .000 | .250 | .000 | .181 | 25.0% |
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 5 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 89.3 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 97.7 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 20.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 20.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 14.2° 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 Christian Franklin 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 | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .125 | .222 | .250 | .221 |
| Bases empty · thin | 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | .000 | .143 | .000 | .103 |
| Runner on first · thin | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 2.000 | 1.261 |
| Runners on · thin | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | 1.000 | .631 |
| RISP · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
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 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | .125 | .222 | .250 | .125 | .200 | 11.1% | 33.3% | .221 | -0.7 | 32 | -0.0 | — |
Head to head
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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.