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James McCann

Arizona DiamondbacksNational League WestC
Age
36
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 2"
Weight
235 lb
Number
#8
Born
June 13, 1990 in Santa Barbara, CA, United States
MLB debut
September 1, 2014
Drafted
2008, round 31
College
Arkansas
High school
Dos Pueblos

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dbWAR
8.0
Regular season, 16 season(s)
PA
166
AVG
.282
OBP
.311
SLG
.455
wRC+
110
100 = avg

James McCann is a catcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks. In 2026 he hit 7 home runs and knocked in 28 RBIs, notching 44 hits across 166 plate appearances in 48 games. His batting average was .282, 15.6% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .311 clip and slugged .455, for an OPS of .766, 6.6% higher than the league mark of .719 — 5th of 18 on his team, and 114th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 88.3 mph off the bat, hit 43.6% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 9.4% of them and made contact on 70.1% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 110 wRC+ puts his offence 10% above average. That comes to 0.7 dbWAR — +1.9 runs with the bat, +0.1 for the ballpark, -0.2 on the bases, -1.4 on double plays, +1.9 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 regular season.

wRC+110
wOBA.332
ISO.173
BB%3.6%
WAR.7

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +7.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting+1.9Ballpark+0.1Baserunning-0.2Double plays-1.4Position+1.9Replacement+4.9
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

2.41.0-0.514151617181920212223242526

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.

Trend
2026AZ48166447280642.282.311.455.173.3433.6%25.3%.332+1.91100.7
2025AZ38137325170833.260.324.431.171.3145.8%24.1%.330+1.71100.8
2024BAL642335083111356.234.279.388.154.2735.6%24.0%.290-4.3850.7
2023BAL66226466263957.222.269.377.155.2744.0%25.2%.281-7.5760.2
2022NYM561913431831146.195.257.282.086.2445.8%24.1%.244-10.455-0.2
2021NYM121412871046132115.232.294.349.117.3047.8%27.9%.284-11.6810.5
2020CWS30111287151830.289.360.536.247.3397.2%27.0%.380+5.51381.1
2019CWS1164761201860430137.273.328.460.187.3596.3%28.8%.335+5.01092.4
2018DET11745794839026116.220.267.314.094.2825.7%25.4%.258-22.160-0.5
2017DET10539189134912689.253.318.415.162.3006.6%22.8%.319-1.8921.4
2016DET103373761248023109.221.272.358.137.2836.2%29.2%.276-13.5690.1
2015DET11142510674101690.264.297.387.122.3253.8%21.2%.300-5.7911.1
2014DET612300102.250.250.333.083.3000.0%16.7%.257-0.5600.0

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.

Trend
2026AZ404.0000950311.258.603.000.06.8269206-0.2
2024BAL101.0000220018.0016.172.000.00.0441396-0.1
2023BAL101.000020000.003.262.000.00.00750.0

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason batting

Postseason James McCann's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
SeasonTeamRoundGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBAVGOBPSLGOPS
2024 PostBALWild Card122000000020.000.000.000.000
2020 PostCWSWild Card276110000030.167.286.167.452
CareerPostseason total · 2 Octobers398110000050.125.222.125.347

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

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 LHP5955130413.236.288.273.25822.0%
vs RHP107101317229.307.324.554.37427.1%
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.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB15125030.417.533.583.4910.0%
vs RHB874100.571.5001.000.5880.0%

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

Barrel rate
9.4%
11 barrels
Exit velocity
88.3
mph average
Max exit velo
109.8
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
43.6%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
38.5%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
11.2°
average
Barrel rate9.4%
Exit velocity88.3 mph
Hard hit rate43.6%
Contact rate70.1%

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.

.333—.100.121—7 AB.23113 AB.5008 AB.36411 AB.40020 AB.13315 AB—6 AB.57114 AB.2229 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 James McCann 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 situations166——————.282.311.455.332
Bases empty93922033127.217.226.326.240
Runner on first302892417.321.345.571.393
Runners on736424425515.375.423.641.453
RISP43361522148.417.476.694.494

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

Pitch sequencing

What James McCann 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, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Eephus87.3%5538.087021.8%8.3%16.5631.475
James McCann'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. BAA and OPS are what hitters did against each pitch, credited to the one that ended the plate appearance, and are left blank under 15 at-bats.

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Nearest 2026 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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HR
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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.