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3B · 2026

Brooks Lee

Age
25
B/T
S/R
Height
6' 0"
Weight
205 lb
Number
#22
Born
February 14, 2001 in San Luis Obispo, CA, USA
MLB debut
July 3, 2024
Drafted
2019, round 35
College
Cal Poly
High school
San Luis Obispo
dbWAR
2.4
3 season(s)
PA
453
AVG
.240
OBP
.296
SLG
.417
wRC+
99
100 = avg

Brooks Lee is a third baseman for the Minnesota Twins. In 2026 he hit 17 home runs and knocked in 61 RBIs, notching 100 hits across 453 plate appearances in 111 games. His batting average was .240, 1.6% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .296 clip and slugged .417, for an OPS of .714, 0.8% lower than the league mark of .719 — 7th of 13 on his team, and 202nd of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 87.2 mph off the bat, hit 32.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 3.2% of them and made contact on 78.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 99 wRC+ puts his offence 1% below average. That comes to 1.6 dbWAR — -2.0 runs with the bat, -0.8 on the bases, +3.4 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+99
wOBA.313
ISO.177
BB%7.1%
WAR1.6

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +15.8 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting-2.0Baserunning-0.8Position+3.4Replacement+15.1
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

1.60.7-0.1242526

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 LHP1431302531033.192.261.292.25223.1%
vs RHP31028775142242.261.313.474.34113.5%

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

Barrel rate
3.2%
11 barrels
Exit velocity
87.2
mph average
Max exit velo
108.0
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
32.0%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
32.0%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
14.5°
average
Barrel rate3.2%
Exit velocity87.2 mph
Hard hit rate32.0%
Contact rate78.9%

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.

.100.040.152.115.30020 AB.36838 AB3 AB.36136 AB.27355 AB.33327 AB.15645 AB.25064 AB.29627 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 Brooks Lee 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 situations453.240.296.417.313
Bases empty2722515711112048.227.287.410.306
Runner on first79741438412.189.231.378.264
Runners on181166436501227.259.311.428.323
RISP1029229342815.315.373.467.369

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

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2026111453100176173275.240.296.417.177.2557.1%16.6%.313-2.0991.6
2025137527115166433192.236.285.370.133.2585.9%17.5%.287-12.2780.9
2024501853832731127.221.265.320.099.2435.9%14.6%.254-8.958-0.1

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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.