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Joc Pederson

Age: 34
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 220 lb
Number: #3

Born: April 21, 1992 in Palo Alto, CA, United States
MLB debut: September 1, 2014
Drafted: 2010, round 11
High school: Palo Alto
Salary, 2026: $21.3M

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dbWAR: 22.8
PA: 432
AVG: .235
OBP: .329
SLG: .487
wRC+: 128

Joc Pederson is a designated hitter for the Texas Rangers. In 2026 he hit 26 home runs and knocked in 53 RBIs, notching 88 hits across 432 plate appearances in 136 games. His batting average was .235, 3.6% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .329 clip and slugged .487, for an OPS of .816, 13.5% higher than the league mark of .719 — the third best on his team, and 58th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 91.9 mph off the bat, hit 50.9% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 10.9% of them and made contact on 70.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 128 wRC+ puts his offence 28% above average. That comes to 1.7 dbWAR — +12.5 runs with the bat, +0.7 for the ballpark, -0.2 on the bases, -1.3 on double plays, -9.0 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 regular season.

wRC+128

wOBA.353

ISO.251

BB%11.3%

WAR1.7

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +16.1 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	TEX	136	432	88	26	53	2	49	102	.235	.329	.487	.251	.249	11.3%	23.6%	.353	+12.5	128	1.7
2025	TEX	96	306	48	9	26	2	34	65	.181	.285	.328	.147	.203	11.1%	21.2%	.279	-9.1	79	-0.5
2024	AZ	132	449	101	23	64	7	55	105	.275	.393	.515	.240	.322	12.2%	23.4%	.394	+30.3	154	3.5
2023	SF	120	425	84	15	51	0	57	89	.235	.348	.416	.182	.268	13.4%	20.9%	.333	+4.6	114	1.0
2022	SF	134	433	104	23	70	3	42	100	.274	.353	.521	.247	.310	9.7%	23.1%	.375	+22.2	146	3.4
2021	CHC/ATL	136	481	102	18	61	2	39	117	.238	.310	.422	.184	.281	8.1%	24.3%	.318	+0.4	99	0.8
2020	LAD	43	138	23	7	16	1	11	34	.190	.285	.397	.207	.200	8.0%	24.6%	.299	-2.7	85	-0.1
2019	LAD	149	514	112	36	74	1	50	111	.249	.339	.538	.289	.249	9.7%	21.6%	.365	+18.7	133	2.9
2018	LAD	137	443	98	25	56	1	40	85	.248	.321	.522	.273	.253	9.0%	19.2%	.359	+14.5	133	2.3
2017	LAD	101	323	58	11	35	4	39	68	.212	.331	.407	.194	.241	12.1%	21.1%	.327	+0.6	102	1.2
2016	LAD	135	476	100	25	68	6	63	130	.246	.352	.495	.249	.296	13.2%	27.3%	.365	+16.3	137	3.6
2015	LAD	149	585	101	26	54	4	92	170	.210	.346	.417	.206	.262	15.7%	29.1%	.340	+10.9	119	3.2
2014	LAD	17	38	4	0	0	0	9	11	.143	.351	.143	.000	.235	23.7%	28.9%	.269	-1.3	70	-0.1

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 Joc Pederson'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
2021 Post	ATL	Postseason total	15	48	44	4	9	0	3	9	2	12	0	.205	.271	.409	.680
		NLDS	4	7	7	2	3	0	2	5	0	0	0	.429	.429	1.286	1.714
		NLCS	6	24	22	2	5	0	1	4	1	8	0	.227	.292	.364	.655
		World Series	5	17	15	0	1	0	0	0	1	4	0	.067	.176	.067	.243
2020 Post	LAD	Postseason total	16	37	34	4	13	0	2	8	3	6	0	.382	.432	.559	.991
		Wild Card	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLDS	3	5	5	0	2	0	0	2	0	2	0	.400	.400	.400	.800
		NLCS	6	19	18	2	7	0	1	3	1	2	0	.389	.421	.556	.977
		World Series	6	12	10	2	4	0	1	3	2	2	0	.400	.500	.700	1.200
2019 Post	LAD	NLDS	5	17	15	3	4	2	1	1	2	5	0	.267	.353	.600	.953
2018 Post	LAD	Postseason total	16	42	39	6	8	1	2	2	1	13	0	.205	.262	.385	.647
		NLDS	4	15	14	3	4	1	1	1	0	4	0	.286	.333	.571	.905
		NLCS	7	15	13	2	3	0	0	0	1	4	0	.231	.333	.231	.564
		World Series	5	12	12	1	1	0	1	1	0	5	0	.083	.083	.333	.417
2017 Post	LAD	Postseason total	10	26	23	7	7	3	3	5	2	10	0	.304	.360	.826	1.186
		NLCS	4	6	5	1	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	.200	.200	.400	.600
		World Series	6	20	18	6	6	2	3	5	2	8	0	.333	.400	.944	1.344
2016 Post	LAD	Postseason total	11	40	36	5	9	2	1	4	3	14	2	.250	.325	.389	.714
		NLDS	5	18	15	2	5	1	1	3	2	6	0	.333	.444	.600	1.044
		NLCS	6	22	21	3	4	1	0	1	1	8	2	.190	.227	.238	.465
2015 Post	LAD	NLDS	3	8	4	0	0	0	0	0	4	1	0	.000	.500	.000	.500
Career		Postseason total · 7 Octobers	76	218	195	29	50	8	12	29	17	61	2	.256	.332	.482	.814

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	36	31	4	1	3	14	.129	.229	.387	.271	38.9%
vs RHP	396	343	84	25	46	88	.245	.338	.496	.361	22.2%

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

Barrel rate: 10.9%
Exit velocity: 91.9
Max exit velo: 110.6
Hard hit: 50.9%
Sweet spot: 32.7%
Launch angle: 16.0°

Barrel rate10.9%

Exit velocity91.9 mph

Hard hit rate50.9%

Contact rate70.0%

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 Joc Pederson 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	432	—	—	—	—	—	—	.235	.329	.487	.353
Bases empty	290	253	57	19	19	35	76	.225	.322	.482	.351
Runner on first	68	63	17	4	10	4	12	.270	.324	.524	.365
Runners on	142	121	31	7	34	14	26	.256	.345	.496	.359
RISP	74	58	14	3	24	10	14	.241	.365	.466	.353

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

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Similar players

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

Matt OlsonATL

wRC+: 121
HR: 41
AVG: .251
WAR: 3.1

Michael ConfortoCHC

wRC+: 118
HR: 15
AVG: .240
WAR: 1.1

Max MuncyLAD

wRC+: 132
HR: 29
AVG: .252
WAR: 4.3

Rafael DeversSF

wRC+: 138
HR: 37
AVG: .258
WAR: 3.6

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.