LF · 2026
Cooper Ingle
- Age
- 24
- B/T
- L/R
- Height
- 5' 8"
- Weight
- 190 lb
- Number
- #30
- Born
- February 23, 2002 in Asheville, NC, USA
- MLB debut
- June 26, 2026
- Drafted
- 2023, round 4
- College
- Clemson
- High school
- Reynolds
- dbWAR
- -.3 1 season(s)
- PA
- 24
- AVG
- .095
- OBP
- .208
- SLG
- .095
- wRC+
- -7 100 = avg
Cooper Ingle is a left fielder for the Cleveland Guardians. In 2026 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 2 RBIs, notching 2 hits across 24 plate appearances in 7 games. His batting average was .095, 60.9% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .208 clip and slugged .095, for an OPS of .304, 57.8% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 91.0 mph off the bat, hit 44.4% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 78.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -7 wRC+ puts his offence 107% below average. That comes to -0.3 dbWAR — -3.1 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, -0.5 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 -2.8 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 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 50.0% |
| vs RHP | 20 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 10 | .118 | .250 | .118 | .198 | 50.0% |
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 9 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 91.0 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 103.6 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 44.4% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 22.2% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 1.1° 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 Cooper Ingle 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 | 24 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .095 | .208 | .095 | .165 |
| Bases empty · thin | 14 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | .077 | .143 | .077 | .115 |
| Runner on first · thin | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | .000 | .500 | .000 | .362 |
| Runners on · thin | 10 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | .125 | .300 | .125 | .234 |
| RISP · thin | 6 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | .167 | .167 | .167 | .149 |
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 | 7 | 24 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 12 | .095 | .208 | .095 | .000 | .222 | 12.5% | 50.0% | .165 | -3.1 | -7 | -0.3 | — |
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.