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1B · 2026

Andrew Vaughn

Age
28
B/T
R/R
Height
5' 10"
Weight
215 lb
Number
#28
Born
April 3, 1998 in Santa Rosa, CA, USA
MLB debut
April 2, 2021
Drafted
2019, round 1
College
California
Salary, 2026
$7.65M
dbWAR
1.9
4 season(s)
PA
233
AVG
.300
OBP
.391
SLG
.470
wRC+
144
100 = avg

Andrew Vaughn is a first baseman for the Milwaukee Brewers. In 2026 he hit 5 home runs and knocked in 34 RBIs, notching 60 hits across 233 plate appearances in 73 games. His batting average was .300, 23.1% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .391 clip and slugged .470, for an OPS of .861, 19.6% higher than the league mark of .719 — the second best on his team, and 27th of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 90.4 mph off the bat, hit 43.1% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 6.0% of them and made contact on 79.8% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 144 wRC+ puts his offence 44% above average. That comes to 1.4 dbWAR — +11.8 runs with the bat, -0.4 on the bases, -4.7 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+144
wOBA.379
ISO.170
BB%11.6%
WAR1.4

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +14.4 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting+11.8Baserunning-0.4Position-4.7Replacement+7.8
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

1.40.70.0242526

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 LHP8470262138.371.476.643.4789.5%
vs RHP1491303431427.262.342.377.32418.1%
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 LHB421020.500.750.500.5840.0%
vs RHB442101.500.5001.250.72625.0%

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

Barrel rate
6.0%
10 barrels
Exit velocity
90.4
mph average
Max exit velo
109.1
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
43.1%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
36.5%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
10.2°
average
Barrel rate6.0%
Exit velocity90.4 mph
Hard hit rate43.1%
Contact rate79.8%

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.

.308.333.087.36411 AB.13315 AB.40010 AB.27818 AB.44134 AB.23821 AB.33312 AB.35714 AB.28614 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 Andrew Vaughn 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 situations233.300.391.470.379
Bases empty1139732331514.330.425.526.418
Runner on first4942100379.238.347.357.324
Runners on120103282311221.272.358.417.343
RISP716118228512.295.366.459.356

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2026.

Pitch sequencing

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

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Pitch arsenal

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

Fastball86.2%2551.866544.0%18.2%
Andrew Vaughn'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
2026732336053402735.300.391.470.170.34011.6%15.0%.379+11.81441.4
2025112447103146503180.254.307.411.158.2806.9%17.9%.313-0.71010.4
20241496191401970238132.246.297.402.156.2856.1%21.3%.305-3.5970.3

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2026101.0000331227.0020.095.009.018.0647481-0.2

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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.