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George Springer

Toronto Blue Jays American League EastDH

Age: 37
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 220 lb
Number: #4

Born: September 19, 1989 in New Britain, CT, United States
MLB debut: April 16, 2014
Drafted: 2008, round 48
College: Connecticut
High school: Avon Old Farms
Salary, 2026: $24.2M

dbWAR: 35.7
PA: 515
AVG: .248
OBP: .320
SLG: .402
wRC+: 102

George Springer is a designated hitter for the Toronto Blue Jays. So far in 2026 he has hit 15 home runs and knocked in 54 RBIs, notching 114 hits across 515 plate appearances in 124 games. His batting average is .248, 1.6% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .320 clip and slugged .402, for an OPS of .722, 0.5% higher than the league mark of .719 — 4th of 16 on his team, and 189th of 462 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 88.6 mph off the bat, hit 38.6% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 6.3% of them and made contact on 76.6% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 102 wRC+ puts his offence 2% above average. That comes to 0.6 dbWAR — +1.3 runs with the bat, -0.1 for the ballpark, +0.9 on the bases, -1.0 on double plays, -11.0 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+102

wOBA.321

ISO.154

BB%9.1%

WAR.6

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +6.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2026	TOR	124	515	114	15	54	12	47	94	.248	.320	.402	.154	.280	9.1%	18.3%	.321	+1.3	102	0.6
2025	TOR	139	586	154	32	84	18	69	111	.309	.399	.560	.251	.340	11.8%	18.9%	.410	+46.3	166	5.6
2024	TOR	145	614	120	19	56	16	60	115	.220	.303	.371	.150	.245	9.8%	18.7%	.301	-5.8	90	0.5
2023	TOR	153	683	158	21	72	20	60	125	.258	.327	.405	.147	.291	8.8%	18.3%	.321	+0.6	104	1.4
2022	TOR	133	583	137	25	76	14	54	100	.267	.342	.472	.205	.285	9.3%	17.2%	.354	+19.9	131	4.1
2021	TOR	78	342	79	22	50	4	37	79	.264	.352	.555	.291	.286	10.8%	23.1%	.384	+19.3	141	2.5
2020	HOU	50	222	50	14	32	1	24	38	.265	.359	.540	.275	.259	10.8%	17.1%	.381	+11.3	145	1.9
2019	HOU	122	556	140	39	96	6	67	113	.292	.383	.591	.299	.305	12.1%	20.3%	.405	+38.9	152	5.1
2018	HOU	138	620	144	22	71	6	64	122	.265	.346	.434	.169	.303	10.3%	19.7%	.343	+12.4	118	2.6
2017	HOU	140	629	155	34	85	5	64	111	.283	.367	.522	.239	.297	10.2%	17.6%	.380	+29.1	145	4.5
2016	HOU	161	744	168	29	82	9	88	178	.261	.359	.457	.196	.317	11.8%	23.9%	.357	+21.0	131	3.8
2015	HOU	102	451	107	16	41	16	50	109	.276	.367	.459	.183	.342	11.1%	24.2%	.365	+17.3	137	3.1

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

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	157	139	29	4	13	30	.209	.282	.367	.288	19.1%
vs RHP	358	321	85	11	34	64	.265	.337	.417	.336	17.9%

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

Barrel rate: 6.3%
Exit velocity: 88.6
Max exit velo: 111.3
Hard hit: 38.6%
Sweet spot: 31.5%
Launch angle: 12.4°

Barrel rate6.3%

Exit velocity88.6 mph

Hard hit rate38.6%

Contact rate76.6%

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 George Springer 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.
Situation	PA	AB	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
All situations	515	—	—	—	—	—	—	.248	.320	.402	.321
Bases empty	294	264	66	10	10	26	61	.250	.322	.420	.329
Runner on first	105	91	20	3	6	12	14	.220	.317	.341	.302
Runners on	221	196	48	5	44	21	33	.245	.318	.378	.311
RISP	116	105	28	2	38	9	19	.267	.319	.410	.319

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

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

Matt ShawCHC

wRC+: 107
HR: 5
AVG: .240
WAR: 0.8

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Drew GilbertSF

wRC+: 105
HR: 11
AVG: .240
WAR: 1.2

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Pedro RamírezCHC

wRC+: 96
HR: 6
AVG: .257
WAR: 1.0

Cody BellingerNYY

wRC+: 111
HR: 17
AVG: .266
WAR: 2.4

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.