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Players · U · 3B · 2026

Ramón Urías

Age
32
B/T
R/R
Height
5' 9"
Weight
185 lb
Number
#29
Born
June 3, 1994 in Magdalena de Kino, SO, Mexico
MLB debut
August 20, 2020
Salary, 2026
$1.5M
dbWAR
7.0
7 season(s)
PA
100
AVG
.151
OBP
.260
SLG
.326
wRC+
67
100 = avg

Ramón Urías is a third baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals. So far in 2026 he has hit 4 home runs and knocked in 9 RBIs, notching 13 hits across 100 plate appearances in 37 games. His batting average is .151, 38.0% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .260 clip and slugged .326, for an OPS of .586, 18.5% lower than the league mark of .719 — 16th of 18 on his team, and 410th of 462 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 88.5 mph off the bat, hit 34.8% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 7.2% of them and made contact on 76.6% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 67 wRC+ puts his offence 33% below average. That comes to -0.2 dbWAR — -4.2 runs with the bat, +0.2 for the ballpark, -0.5 on the bases, -0.9 on double plays, +0.6 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+67
wOBA.267
ISO.174
BB%9.0%
WAR-.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to -1.7 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting-4.2Ballpark+0.2Baserunning-0.5Double plays-0.9Position+0.6Replacement+3.1
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

1.80.8-0.220212223242526

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2026STL3710013490918.151.260.326.174.1389.0%18.0%.267-4.267-0.2
2025BAL/HOU11039185114432788.241.292.384.142.2816.9%22.5%.294-6.9840.6
2024BAL9330169113712355.254.322.423.169.2807.6%18.3%.327+3.81121.7
2023BAL11239695442327101.264.328.375.111.3556.8%25.5%.313-2.4991.1
2022BAL116445100165113098.248.305.414.166.2876.7%22.0%.315+1.11021.8
2021BAL832967373812876.279.361.412.134.3699.5%25.7%.344+6.71131.7
2020BAL927913026.360.407.560.200.4447.4%22.2%.414+2.11660.4

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 LHP40348448.235.350.618.41120.0%
vs RHP605250510.096.200.135.17216.7%

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

Barrel rate
7.2%
5 barrels
Exit velocity
88.5
mph average
Max exit velo
106.8
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
34.8%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
27.5%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
17.9°
average
Barrel rate7.2%
Exit velocity88.5 mph
Hard hit rate34.8%
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.

—.000———2 AB—6 AB—6 AB—6 AB.3758 AB—7 AB—7 AB.43816 AB—6 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 Ramón Urías 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 situations100——————.151.260.326.267
Bases empty6051722610.137.267.294.264
Runner on first · thin232152515.238.304.571.372
Runners on403562738.171.250.371.273
RISP · thin171410223.071.176.071.138

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Rows under 25 plate appearances are marked thin — at that size a rate moves several dozen points on one hit. 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.

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.