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Aaron Judge

Age: 34
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 7"
Weight: 282 lb
Number: #99

Born: April 26, 1992 in Linden, CA, United States
MLB debut: August 13, 2016
Drafted: 2010, round 31
College: Fresno State
High school: Linden
Salary, 2026: $40M

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dbWAR: 58.6
PA: 285
AVG: .241
OBP: .360
SLG: .511
wRC+: 134

Aaron Judge is a right fielder for the New York Yankees. In 2026 he hit 18 home runs and knocked in 41 RBIs, notching 57 hits across 285 plate appearances in 66 games. His batting average was .241, 1.4% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .360 clip and slugged .511, for an OPS of .871, 21.1% higher than the league mark of .719 — the second best on his team, and 17th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 94.0 mph off the bat, hit 57.5% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 20.3% of them and made contact on 67.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 134 wRC+ puts his offence 34% above average. That comes to 1.6 dbWAR — +13.0 runs with the bat, -0.6 for the ballpark, -0.6 on the bases, -2.0 on double plays, -2.8 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+134

wOBA.374

ISO.270

BB%15.1%

WAR1.6

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +15.8 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting Regular season

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


2026	NYY	66	285	57	18	41	5	43	85	.241	.360	.511	.270	.289	15.1%	29.8%	.374	+13.0	134	1.6
2025	NYY	152	679	179	53	114	12	124	160	.331	.457	.688	.357	.376	18.3%	23.6%	.465	+84.2	210	9.8
2024	NYY	158	704	180	58	144	10	133	171	.322	.458	.701	.379	.367	18.9%	24.3%	.479	+96.4	216	11.9
2023	NYY	106	458	98	37	75	3	88	130	.267	.406	.613	.346	.300	19.2%	28.4%	.422	+39.1	171	4.7
2022	NYY	157	696	177	62	131	16	111	175	.311	.425	.686	.375	.340	15.9%	25.1%	.461	+83.7	206	10.8
2021	NYY	148	633	158	39	98	6	75	158	.287	.373	.544	.256	.332	11.8%	25.0%	.390	+38.6	152	5.1
2020	NYY	28	114	26	9	22	0	10	32	.257	.336	.554	.297	.283	8.8%	28.1%	.376	+5.2	134	0.6
2019	NYY	102	447	103	27	55	3	64	141	.272	.381	.540	.267	.360	14.3%	31.5%	.386	+24.3	151	3.1
2018	NYY	111	498	115	27	67	6	76	152	.278	.392	.528	.249	.368	15.3%	30.5%	.395	+31.0	148	3.8
2017	NYY	154	678	154	52	114	9	127	208	.284	.422	.627	.343	.357	18.7%	30.7%	.436	+62.9	175	7.4
2016	NYY	27	95	15	4	10	0	9	42	.179	.263	.345	.167	.282	9.5%	44.2%	.271	-3.8	65	-0.3

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 Aaron Judge's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2025 Post	NYY	Postseason total	7	31	26	5	13	2	1	7	4	5	0	.500	.581	.692	1.273
		Wild Card	3	12	11	0	4	0	0	1	0	2	0	.364	.417	.364	.780
		ALDS	4	19	15	5	9	2	1	6	4	3	0	.600	.684	.933	1.618
2024 Post	NYY	Postseason total	14	64	49	8	9	2	3	9	11	20	2	.184	.344	.408	.752
		ALDS	4	18	13	2	2	1	0	0	5	5	1	.154	.389	.231	.620
		ALCS	5	23	18	4	3	0	2	6	2	8	0	.167	.261	.500	.761
		World Series	5	23	18	2	4	1	1	3	4	7	1	.222	.391	.444	.836
2022 Post	NYY	Postseason total	9	38	36	5	5	0	2	3	2	15	1	.139	.184	.306	.490
		ALDS	5	21	20	4	4	0	2	3	1	11	1	.200	.238	.500	.738
		ALCS	4	17	16	1	1	0	0	0	1	4	0	.063	.118	.063	.180
2021 Post	NYY	Wild Card	1	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500
2020 Post	NYY	Postseason total	7	35	30	3	4	0	3	5	4	10	0	.133	.229	.433	.662
		Wild Card	2	11	9	1	1	0	1	2	2	4	0	.111	.273	.444	.717
		ALDS	5	24	21	2	3	0	2	3	2	6	0	.143	.208	.429	.637
2019 Post	NYY	Postseason total	9	42	34	6	9	0	1	2	7	11	2	.265	.390	.353	.743
		ALDS	3	14	9	3	3	0	0	0	4	1	0	.333	.538	.333	.872
		ALCS	6	28	25	3	6	0	1	2	3	10	2	.240	.321	.360	.681
2018 Post	NYY	Postseason total	5	22	19	6	8	1	3	4	3	3	0	.421	.500	.947	1.447
		Wild Card	1	4	3	2	2	1	1	2	1	1	0	.667	.750	2.000	2.750
		ALDS	4	18	16	4	6	0	2	2	2	2	0	.375	.444	.750	1.194
2017 Post	NYY	Postseason total	13	57	48	9	9	3	4	11	9	27	0	.188	.316	.500	.816
		Wild Card	1	5	4	3	2	0	1	2	1	0	0	.500	.600	1.250	1.850
		ALDS	5	24	20	1	1	1	0	2	4	16	0	.050	.208	.100	.308
		ALCS	7	28	24	5	6	2	3	7	4	11	0	.250	.357	.708	1.065
Career		Postseason total · 8 Octobers	65	293	246	42	58	8	17	41	40	91	5	.236	.346	.476	.822

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.

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	81	62	15	6	18	22	.242	.407	.548	.403	27.2%
vs RHP	204	175	42	12	25	63	.240	.342	.497	.362	30.9%

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

Barrel rate: 20.3%
Exit velocity: 94.0
Max exit velo: 116.2
Hard hit: 57.5%
Sweet spot: 34.6%
Launch angle: 15.0°

Barrel rate20.3%

Exit velocity94.0 mph

Hard hit rate57.5%

Contact rate67.2%

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 Aaron Judge 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	285	—	—	—	—	—	—	.241	.360	.511	.374
Bases empty	163	142	32	9	9	18	55	.225	.317	.472	.342
Runner on first	67	55	12	4	9	12	19	.218	.358	.455	.363
Runners on	122	95	25	9	32	25	30	.263	.418	.568	.417
RISP	55	40	13	5	23	13	11	.325	.491	.725	.488

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.

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wRC+: 130
HR: 45
AVG: .232
WAR: 3.7

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wRC+: 142
HR: 41
AVG: .264
WAR: 4.4

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wRC+: 130
HR: 35
AVG: .207
WAR: 3.1

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wRC+: 148
HR: 43
AVG: .267
WAR: 4.9

Comparable

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.