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3B · 2026

Alex Bregman

Age
32
B/T
R/R
Height
5' 10"
Weight
190 lb
Number
#3
Born
March 30, 1994 in Albuquerque, NM, USA
MLB debut
July 25, 2016
Drafted
2012, round 29
College
Louisiana State
High school
Albuquerque Academy
Salary, 2026
$26.3M
dbWAR
8.9
3 season(s)
PA
532
AVG
.249
OBP
.338
SLG
.381
wRC+
103
100 = avg

Alex Bregman is a third baseman for the Chicago Cubs. In 2026 he hit 12 home runs and knocked in 53 RBIs, notching 115 hits across 532 plate appearances in 116 games. His batting average was .249, 2.2% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .338 clip and slugged .381, for an OPS of .719, level with the league mark of .719 — 9th of 13 on his team, and 187th of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 88.2 mph off the bat, hit 37.5% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 83.8% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 103 wRC+ puts his offence 3% above average. That comes to 2.0 dbWAR — +1.9 runs with the bat, -0.6 on the bases, +0.9 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+103
wOBA.323
ISO.132
BB%10.7%
WAR2.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +20.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting+1.9Baserunning-0.6Position+0.9Replacement+17.7
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

3.61.80.0242526

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 LHP1361113032020.270.390.396.35214.7%
vs RHP3963518593765.242.321.376.31316.4%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2026.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2026.

.176.250.250.255.17229 AB.23738 AB.25028 AB.20848 AB.24262 AB.38644 AB.16724 AB.24050 AB.30636 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.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2026116532115125335785.249.338.381.132.27810.7%16.0%.323+1.91032.0
2025114495118186215170.273.360.462.189.28810.3%14.1%.358+17.81313.6
2024145634151267534486.260.315.453.193.2646.9%13.6%.332+10.41123.4

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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.