RF · 2026

Joey Wiemer

Washington Nationals National League EastRF

Age: 27
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 226 lb

Born: February 11, 1999 in Sylvania, OH, USA
MLB debut: April 1, 2023
Drafted: 2020, round 4
College: Cincinnati

dbWAR: .3
PA: 83
AVG: .286
OBP: .398
SLG: .514
wRC+: 154

Joey Wiemer is a right fielder for the Washington Nationals. In 2026 he hit 3 home runs and knocked in 12 RBIs, notching 20 hits across 83 plate appearances in 27 games. His batting average was .286, 17.3% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .398 clip and slugged .514, for an OPS of .912, 26.8% higher than the league mark of .719. He averaged 87.4 mph off the bat, hit 40.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 10.0% of them and made contact on 68.1% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 154 wRC+ puts his offence 54% above average. That comes to 0.8 dbWAR — +5.7 runs with the bat, +0.1 on the bases, -0.6 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+154

wOBA.401

ISO.229

BB%14.5%

WAR.8

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +7.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

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WAR by season

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.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHP	43	37	13	3	6	14	.351	.442	.757	.501	32.6%
vs RHP	40	33	7	0	6	15	.212	.350	.242	.292	37.5%

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.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHB	4	3	2	0	0	0	.667	.750	.667	.632	0.0%
vs RHB	12	9	5	1	2	0	.556	.583	1.000	.616	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 40 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 10.0%
Exit velocity: 87.4
Max exit velo: 110.5
Hard hit: 40.0%
Sweet spot: 30.0%
Launch angle: 1.4°

Barrel rate10.0%

Exit velocity87.4 mph

Hard hit rate40.0%

Contact rate68.1%

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.

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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 Joey Wiemer hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.

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By who is on base when he comes up. The season line is repeated as the baseline.
Situation	PA	AB	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
All situations	83	—	—	—	—	—	—	.286	.398	.514	.401
Bases empty	37	32	9	2	2	5	12	.281	.378	.594	.416
Runner on first · thin	23	21	7	0	2	1	10	.333	.391	.429	.367
Runners on	46	38	11	1	10	7	17	.289	.413	.447	.388
RISP · thin	23	17	4	1	8	6	7	.235	.435	.471	.409

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 Joey Wiemer 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.


Fastball	48.9%	22	78.2	2,089	31.8%	0.0%
Slider	35.6%	16	61.9	1,484	25.0%	0.0%

Joey Wiemer'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.


2026	27	83	20	3	12	1	12	29	.286	.398	.514	.229	.447	14.5%	34.9%	.401	+5.7	154	0.8
2025	20	61	13	3	12	0	2	23	.236	.279	.436	.200	.323	3.3%	37.7%	.297	-0.9	91	0.0
2024	13	28	4	0	0	1	2	9	.154	.214	.154	.000	.235	7.1%	32.1%	.178	-3.1	6	-0.3

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

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2026	2	0	2.0	0	0	0	7	5	0	2	22.50	14.09	4.50	0.0	9.0	539	337	-0.2	—

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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.