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Alex Bregman

Age: 32
B/T: R/R
Height: 5' 10"
Weight: 190 lb
Number: #3

Born: March 30, 1994 in Albuquerque, NM, United States
MLB debut: July 25, 2016
Drafted: 2012, round 29
College: Louisiana State
High school: Albuquerque Academy
Salary, 2026: $26.3M

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dbWAR: 45.0
PA: 702
AVG: .265
OBP: .355
SLG: .464
wRC+: 127

Alex Bregman is a third baseman for the Chicago Cubs. In 2026 he hit 28 home runs and knocked in 93 RBIs, notching 161 hits across 702 plate appearances in 155 games. His batting average was .265, 8.5% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .355 clip and slugged .464, for an OPS of .819, 13.8% higher than the league mark of .719 — the third best on his team, and 54th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 88.2 mph off the bat, hit 37.8% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 5.9% of them and made contact on 84.4% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 127 wRC+ puts his offence 27% above average. That comes to 4.7 dbWAR — +23.6 runs with the bat, -0.3 for the ballpark, -0.9 on the bases, -2.6 on double plays, +3.1 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, 2026 regular season.

wRC+127

wOBA.359

ISO.199

BB%10.8%

WAR4.7

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +44.7 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	CHC	155	702	161	28	93	3	76	102	.265	.355	.464	.199	.275	10.8%	14.5%	.359	+23.6	127	4.7
2025	BOS	114	495	118	18	62	1	51	70	.273	.360	.462	.189	.288	10.3%	14.1%	.358	+17.8	131	3.5
2024	HOU	145	634	151	26	75	3	44	86	.260	.315	.453	.193	.264	6.9%	13.6%	.332	+10.4	112	3.3
2023	HOU	161	724	163	25	98	3	92	87	.262	.363	.441	.178	.270	12.7%	12.0%	.353	+20.2	124	4.3
2022	HOU	155	656	142	23	93	1	87	77	.259	.366	.454	.195	.260	13.3%	11.7%	.361	+26.2	136	5.2
2021	HOU	91	400	94	12	55	1	44	53	.270	.355	.422	.152	.286	11.0%	13.3%	.339	+7.2	115	2.0
2020	HOU	42	180	37	6	22	0	24	26	.242	.350	.451	.209	.254	13.3%	14.4%	.348	+4.0	121	1.2
2019	HOU	156	690	164	41	112	5	119	83	.296	.423	.592	.296	.281	17.2%	12.0%	.423	+59.3	164	8.3
2018	HOU	157	705	170	31	103	10	96	85	.286	.394	.532	.246	.289	13.6%	12.1%	.400	+47.0	158	7.3
2017	HOU	153	626	158	19	71	17	55	97	.284	.352	.475	.191	.311	8.8%	15.5%	.355	+16.0	127	4.0
2016	HOU	49	217	53	8	34	2	15	52	.264	.313	.478	.214	.317	6.9%	24.0%	.340	+3.2	119	1.2

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 Alex Bregman'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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2026 Post	CHC	Wild Card · through Sep 30	2	8	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
2025 Post	BOS	Wild Card	3	13	10	0	3	1	0	0	1	3	2	0	.300	.462	.400	.862
2024 Post	HOU	Wild Card	2	8	8	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.375	.375	.375	.750
2023 Post	HOU	Postseason total	11	49	41	10	9	1	1	4	7	7	10	0	.220	.347	.585	.932
		ALDS	4	17	15	4	3	0	0	1	2	1	6	0	.200	.294	.400	.694
		ALCS	7	32	26	6	6	1	1	3	5	6	4	0	.231	.375	.692	1.067
2022 Post	HOU	Postseason total	13	58	51	7	15	5	0	3	11	6	6	1	.294	.379	.569	.948
		ALDS	3	16	15	1	5	1	0	1	3	1	2	0	.333	.375	.600	.975
		ALCS	4	16	15	2	5	1	0	1	4	1	0	0	.333	.375	.600	.975
		World Series	6	26	21	4	5	3	0	1	4	4	4	1	.238	.385	.524	.908
2021 Post	HOU	Postseason total	16	69	60	9	13	2	0	1	7	7	15	0	.217	.304	.300	.604
		ALDS	4	18	16	4	6	1	0	0	4	2	6	0	.375	.444	.438	.882
		ALCS	6	26	23	4	5	0	0	1	1	3	2	0	.217	.308	.348	.656
		World Series	6	25	21	1	2	1	0	0	2	2	7	0	.095	.200	.143	.343
2020 Post	HOU	Postseason total	13	57	50	5	11	1	0	1	2	5	6	0	.220	.316	.300	.616
		Wild Card	2	9	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.143	.333	.143	.476
		ALDS	4	18	15	5	6	1	0	1	2	2	1	0	.400	.500	.667	1.167
		ALCS	7	30	28	0	4	0	0	0	0	1	5	0	.143	.200	.143	.343
2019 Post	HOU	Postseason total	18	77	64	13	15	3	0	4	12	12	13	1	.234	.364	.469	.832
		ALDS	5	20	17	6	6	2	0	1	3	3	6	1	.353	.450	.647	1.097
		ALCS	6	26	18	4	3	1	0	0	1	7	2	0	.167	.423	.222	.645
		World Series	7	31	29	3	6	0	0	3	8	2	5	0	.207	.258	.517	.775
2018 Post	HOU	Postseason total	8	38	24	8	7	2	0	2	5	11	4	0	.292	.553	.625	1.178
		ALDS	3	14	9	5	5	1	0	2	4	4	1	0	.556	.714	1.333	2.048
		ALCS	5	24	15	3	2	1	0	0	1	7	3	0	.133	.458	.200	.658
2017 Post	HOU	Postseason total	18	78	72	11	15	3	0	4	10	5	10	1	.208	.256	.417	.673
		ALDS	4	18	18	3	4	1	0	2	2	0	3	0	.222	.222	.611	.833
		ALCS	7	27	24	2	4	1	0	0	3	3	3	0	.167	.259	.208	.468
		World Series	7	33	30	6	7	1	0	2	5	2	4	1	.233	.273	.467	.739
Career		Postseason total · 10 Octobers	104	455	388	63	91	18	1	19	55	56	70	3	.235	.343	.433	.776

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	179	146	41	7	27	22	.281	.402	.473	.385	12.3%
vs RHP	523	462	120	21	49	80	.260	.338	.461	.350	15.3%

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

Barrel rate: 5.9%
Exit velocity: 88.2
Max exit velo: 108.3
Hard hit: 37.8%
Sweet spot: 35.2%
Launch angle: 17.7°

Barrel rate5.9%

Exit velocity88.2 mph

Hard hit rate37.8%

Contact rate84.4%

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.

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 Alex Bregman 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	702	—	—	—	—	—	—	.265	.355	.464	.359
Bases empty	350	306	77	13	13	41	55	.252	.346	.431	.346
Runner on first	166	144	42	8	20	20	15	.292	.386	.542	.403
Runners on	352	302	84	15	80	35	47	.278	.364	.497	.372
RISP	186	158	42	7	60	15	32	.266	.344	.456	.344

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. 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.

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wRC+: 130
HR: 25
AVG: .262
WAR: 4.3

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wRC+: 129
HR: 14
AVG: .256
WAR: 3.0

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wRC+: 130
HR: 10
AVG: .251
WAR: 1.4

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Donovan WaltonATH

wRC+: 114
HR: 9
AVG: .261
WAR: 1.6

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.