1B · 2025
J.D. Davis
- Age
- 32
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 218 lb
- Number
- #28
- Born
- April 27, 1993 in Elk Grove, CA, USA
- MLB debut
- August 5, 2017
- Drafted
- 2014, round 3
- College
- Cal State Fullerton
- High school
- Elk Grove
- dbWAR
- -.2 2 season(s)
- PA
- 9
- AVG
- .111
- OBP
- .111
- SLG
- .111
- wRC+
- -52 100 = avg
J.D. Davis is a first baseman for the Los Angeles Angels. In 2025 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 9 plate appearances in 5 games. His batting average was .111, 54.7% lower than the league average of .245. He reached base at a .111 clip and slugged .111, for an OPS of .222, 69.1% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 85.7 mph off the bat, hit 33.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 56.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -52 wRC+ puts his offence 152% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -1.6 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, -0.1 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, 2025.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2025. These four terms sum to -1.4 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% |
| vs RHP | 9 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .111 | .111 | .111 | .098 | 44.4% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2025.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 6 tracked batted balls in 2025. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 85.7 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 102.9 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 33.3% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 16.7% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -0.3° average
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, 2025.
Situational hitting
How J.D. Davis hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.
| Situation | PA | AB | H | HR | RBI | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All situations | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .111 | .111 | .111 | .098 |
| Bases empty · thin | 7 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .143 | .143 | .143 | .127 |
| Runner on first · thin | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| RISP · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
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, 2025.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .111 | .111 | .111 | .000 | .167 | 0.0% | 33.3% | .098 | -1.6 | -52 | -0.1 | |
| 2024 | 46 | 157 | 31 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 12 | 39 | .218 | .293 | .338 | .120 | .273 | 7.6% | 24.8% | .284 | -3.6 | 81 | -0.1 |
Head to head
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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.