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1B · 2026

Freddie Freeman

Age
37
B/T
L/R
Height
6' 4"
Weight
220 lb
Number
#5
Born
September 12, 1989 in Villa Park, CA, USA
MLB debut
September 1, 2010
Drafted
2007, round 2
High school
El Modena
Salary, 2026
$27M
dbWAR
10.4
3 season(s)
PA
493
AVG
.303
OBP
.377
SLG
.474
wRC+
141
100 = avg

Freddie Freeman is a first baseman for the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2026 he hit 15 home runs and knocked in 55 RBIs, notching 132 hits across 493 plate appearances in 115 games. His batting average was .303, 24.5% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .377 clip and slugged .474, for an OPS of .851, 18.3% higher than the league mark of .719 — the second best on his team, and 32nd of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 89.9 mph off the bat, hit 43.7% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 78.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 141 wRC+ puts his offence 41% above average. That comes to 2.9 dbWAR — +22.5 runs with the bat, +0.2 on the bases, -10.3 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+141
wOBA.373
ISO.170
BB%10.3%
WAR2.9

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +28.8 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting+22.5Baserunning+0.2Position-10.3Replacement+16.4
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

3.81.90.0242526

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 LHP1601433841429.266.338.392.32618.1%
vs RHP33329294113749.322.396.514.39614.7%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2026.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2026.

.227.250.156.250.37516 AB.44829 AB.28621 AB.21347 AB.38050 AB.41736 AB.20634 AB.33956 AB.41931 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.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2026115493132155555178.303.377.474.170.33810.3%15.8%.373+22.51412.9
20251476271642490660128.295.367.502.207.3429.6%20.4%.372+29.51353.7
20241476381532289978100.282.378.476.194.30612.2%15.7%.368+29.21423.8

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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.