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SS · 2026

Jorge Mateo

Age
31
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 0"
Weight
200 lb
Number
#2
Born
June 23, 1995 in Santo Domingo Oeste, Dominican Republic
MLB debut
August 13, 2020
Salary, 2026
$1M
dbWAR
.6
5 season(s)
PA
137
AVG
.240
OBP
.285
SLG
.380
wRC+
81
100 = avg

Jorge Mateo is a shortstop for the Atlanta Braves. In 2026 he hit 4 home runs and knocked in 11 RBIs, notching 31 hits across 137 plate appearances in 58 games. His batting average was .240, 1.4% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .285 clip and slugged .380, for an OPS of .665, 7.6% lower than the league mark of .719 — 10th of 12 on his team, and 279th of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 88.9 mph off the bat, hit 46.6% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 69.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 81 wRC+ puts his offence 19% below average. That comes to 0.4 dbWAR — -2.9 runs with the bat, +1.4 on the bases, +1.0 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.

wRC+81
wOBA.293
ISO.140
BB%5.8%
WAR.4

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +4.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting-2.9Baserunning+1.4Position+1.0Replacement+4.6
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

0.50.2-0.2242526

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 LHP5452122218.231.259.365.27333.3%
vs RHP8377192623.247.301.390.30627.7%
Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2026. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB443000.750.750.750.6680.0%
vs RHB872011.286.375.286.31312.5%

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.

.308.100.1255 AB.23113 AB7 AB.47117 AB7 AB.27311 AB6 AB.33312 AB.0008 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.

Pitch sequencing

What Jorge Mateo throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, and how often it misses in 2026.

Fastball100.0%4165.61,58936.6%5.3%
Jorge Mateo's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2026581373141110841.240.285.380.140.3215.8%29.9%.293-2.9810.4
20253583141315430.177.217.266.089.2714.8%36.1%.216-6.830-0.2
20246420844518131048.229.267.401.172.2754.8%23.1%.287-4.4830.5

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2026302.100051113.863.522.573.93.992840.0
2025101.0000550245.0025.147.000.018.01,082604-0.2

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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.