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Javier Báez

Detroit Tigers American League CentralSS

Age: 34
B/T: R/R
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 190 lb
Number: #28

Born: December 1, 1992 in Bayamon, Puerto Rico
MLB debut: August 5, 2014
Drafted: 2011, round 1
High school: Arlington Country Day
Salary, 2026: $24M

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dbWAR: 18.5
PA: 196
AVG: .241
OBP: .270
SLG: .364
wRC+: 74

Javier Báez is a shortstop for the Detroit Tigers. In 2026 he hit 3 home runs and knocked in 20 RBIs, notching 45 hits across 196 plate appearances in 56 games. His batting average was .241, 1.4% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .270 clip and slugged .364, for an OPS of .634, 11.8% lower than the league mark of .719 — 13th of 18 on his team, and 353rd of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 85.6 mph off the bat, hit 34.9% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 2.7% of them and made contact on 70.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 74 wRC+ puts his offence 26% below average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — -6.5 runs with the bat, +0.3 for the ballpark, -0.8 on the bases, -0.5 on double plays, +2.0 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+74

wOBA.278

ISO.123

BB%3.1%

WAR.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +0.4 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	DET	56	196	45	3	20	1	6	41	.241	.270	.364	.123	.292	3.1%	20.9%	.278	-6.5	74	0.0
2025	DET	123	437	107	12	57	5	10	109	.257	.282	.398	.141	.318	2.3%	24.9%	.294	-7.7	83	1.1
2024	DET	79	289	50	6	37	8	12	69	.184	.221	.294	.110	.220	4.2%	23.9%	.225	-20.7	39	-0.9
2023	DET	136	547	113	9	59	12	24	125	.222	.267	.325	.104	.274	4.4%	22.9%	.262	-26.6	58	-0.2
2022	DET	144	590	132	17	67	9	26	147	.238	.278	.393	.155	.292	4.4%	24.9%	.292	-9.3	86	1.8
2021	CHC/NYM	138	547	133	31	87	18	28	184	.265	.319	.494	.229	.352	5.1%	33.6%	.345	+12.9	117	3.6
2020	CHC	58	235	45	8	24	3	7	75	.203	.238	.360	.158	.262	3.0%	31.9%	.257	-13.0	58	-0.1
2019	CHC	135	561	149	29	85	11	28	156	.281	.316	.531	.250	.345	5.0%	27.8%	.349	+12.7	120	3.5
2018	CHC	159	645	176	34	111	21	29	167	.290	.326	.554	.264	.347	4.5%	25.9%	.371	+27.6	134	5.5
2017	CHC	137	508	128	23	75	10	30	144	.273	.317	.480	.207	.345	5.9%	28.3%	.329	+1.7	99	2.2
2016	CHC	133	450	115	14	59	12	15	108	.273	.314	.423	.150	.336	3.3%	24.0%	.319	-1.1	102	1.9
2015	CHC	27	80	22	1	4	1	4	24	.289	.325	.408	.118	.412	5.0%	30.0%	.318	+0.1	102	0.3
2014	CHC	52	229	36	9	20	5	15	95	.169	.227	.324	.155	.248	6.6%	41.5%	.251	-10.9	57	-0.2

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 Javier Báez'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	DET	Postseason total	8	33	32	3	10	2	1	5	1	3	1	.313	.333	.469	.802
		Wild Card	3	11	11	1	5	1	0	1	0	1	0	.455	.455	.545	1.000
		ALDS	5	22	21	2	5	1	1	4	1	2	1	.238	.273	.429	.701
2020 Post	CHC	Wild Card	2	8	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	3	0	.125	.125	.125	.250
2018 Post	CHC	Wild Card	1	6	5	0	1	1	0	1	1	2	1	.200	.333	.400	.733
2017 Post	CHC	Postseason total	9	28	26	3	2	0	2	2	2	11	2	.077	.143	.308	.451
		NLDS	4	15	14	1	0	0	0	0	1	5	1	.000	.067	.000	.067
		NLCS	5	13	12	2	2	0	2	2	1	6	1	.167	.231	.667	.897
2016 Post	CHC	Postseason total	17	71	68	8	18	4	2	8	2	21	2	.265	.282	.412	.693
		NLDS	4	17	16	4	6	0	1	2	1	4	0	.375	.412	.563	.974
		NLCS	6	24	22	3	7	4	0	5	1	4	2	.318	.333	.500	.833
		World Series	7	30	30	1	5	0	1	1	0	13	0	.167	.167	.267	.433
2015 Post	CHC	Postseason total	6	15	15	1	5	0	1	3	0	4	2	.333	.333	.533	.867
		NLDS	2	5	5	1	4	0	1	3	0	0	1	.800	.800	1.400	2.200
		NLCS	4	10	10	0	1	0	0	0	0	4	1	.100	.100	.100	.200
Career		Postseason total · 6 Octobers	43	161	154	15	37	7	6	19	6	44	8	.240	.267	.403	.670

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	59	57	15	2	2	11	.263	.288	.474	.327	18.6%
vs RHP	137	130	30	1	4	30	.231	.263	.315	.257	21.9%

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

Barrel rate: 2.7%
Exit velocity: 85.6
Max exit velo: 108.6
Hard hit: 34.9%
Sweet spot: 34.2%
Launch angle: 7.4°

Barrel rate2.7%

Exit velocity85.6 mph

Hard hit rate34.9%

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 Javier Báez 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	196	—	—	—	—	—	—	.241	.270	.364	.278
Bases empty	102	95	24	2	2	6	23	.253	.304	.411	.314
Runner on first	37	37	9	1	3	0	7	.243	.243	.405	.277
Runners on	94	92	21	1	18	0	18	.228	.234	.315	.239
RISP	57	55	12	0	15	0	11	.218	.228	.255	.214

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.

Daniel SusacSF

wRC+: 83
HR: 3
AVG: .243
WAR: 0.3

Blaze JordanSTL

wRC+: 81
HR: 3
AVG: .247
WAR: 0.1

Kyle IsbelKC

wRC+: 59
HR: 6
AVG: .224
WAR: -0.4

Tommy WhiteATH

wRC+: 56
HR: 3
AVG: .254
WAR: -0.6

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.