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SS · 2026

Jim Jarvis

Age
26
B/T
L/R
Height
5' 9"
Weight
190 lb
Number
#74
Born
November 6, 2000 in San Diego, CA, USA
MLB debut
May 6, 2026
Drafted
2023, round 11
College
Alabama
dbWAR
.1
1 season(s)
PA
103
AVG
.234
OBP
.280
SLG
.340
wRC+
71
100 = avg

Jim Jarvis is a shortstop for the Atlanta Braves. In 2026 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 11 RBIs, notching 22 hits across 103 plate appearances in 31 games. His batting average was .234, 3.9% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .280 clip and slugged .340, for an OPS of .620, 13.8% lower than the league mark of .719 — the worst on his team, and 343rd of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 86.8 mph off the bat, hit 38.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 3.8% of them and made contact on 83.4% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 71 wRC+ puts his offence 29% below average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — -3.5 runs with the bat, -0.5 on the bases, +1.3 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+71
wOBA.277
ISO.106
BB%4.9%
WAR.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +0.7 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting-3.5Baserunning-0.5Position+1.3Replacement+3.4
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

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 LHP23193034.158.304.263.27517.4%
vs RHP8075191214.253.273.360.27817.5%

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

Barrel rate
3.8%
3 barrels
Exit velocity
86.8
mph average
Max exit velo
106.0
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
38.0%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
27.8%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
2.0°
average
Barrel rate3.8%
Exit velocity86.8 mph
Hard hit rate38.0%
Contact rate83.4%

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.

.1253 AB.2229 AB4 AB.3758 AB.35317 AB.2508 AB.2508 AB6 AB5 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 Jim Jarvis 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 situations103.234.280.340.277
Bases empty5954120059.222.288.278.261
Runner on first · thin201841305.222.263.444.305
Runners on44401011109.250.268.425.300
RISP · thin242260804.273.273.409.295

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
202631103221110518.234.280.340.106.2804.9%17.5%.277-3.5710.1

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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.