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Jake Cronenworth

Age: 32
B/T: L/R
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 187 lb
Number: #9

Born: January 21, 1994 in St. Clair, MI, United States
MLB debut: July 26, 2020
Drafted: 2015, round 7
College: Michigan
High school: Saint Clair
Salary, 2026: $12.3M

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dbWAR: 15.9
PA: 425
AVG: .225
OBP: .308
SLG: .321
wRC+: 83

Jake Cronenworth is a second baseman for the San Diego Padres. In 2026 he hit 7 home runs and knocked in 41 RBIs, notching 85 hits across 425 plate appearances in 108 games. His batting average was .225, 7.6% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .308 clip and slugged .321, for an OPS of .629, 12.5% lower than the league mark of .719 — 13th of 17 on his team, and 362nd of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 85.2 mph off the bat, hit 29.8% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 3.9% of them and made contact on 78.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 83 wRC+ puts his offence 17% below average. That comes to 0.9 dbWAR — -10.3 runs with the bat, +1.0 for the ballpark, +0.3 on the bases, +2.2 on double plays, +2.6 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 regular season.

wRC+83

wOBA.289

ISO.095

BB%9.2%

WAR.9

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +9.0 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	SD	108	425	85	7	41	9	39	97	.225	.308	.321	.095	.286	9.2%	22.8%	.289	-10.3	83	0.9
2025	SD	135	515	103	11	59	3	69	107	.246	.367	.377	.131	.299	13.4%	20.8%	.337	+9.5	118	3.1
2024	SD	154	656	139	17	83	5	61	118	.241	.324	.390	.149	.274	9.3%	18.0%	.317	+2.8	104	1.9
2023	SD	127	522	105	10	48	6	46	97	.229	.312	.378	.148	.267	8.8%	18.6%	.304	-7.2	91	0.6
2022	SD	158	684	140	17	88	3	70	131	.239	.332	.390	.152	.275	10.2%	19.2%	.321	+5.1	113	3.7
2021	SD	152	643	151	21	71	4	55	90	.266	.340	.460	.194	.283	8.6%	14.0%	.344	+14.4	122	4.2
2020	SD	53	192	49	4	20	3	18	30	.285	.354	.477	.192	.324	9.4%	15.6%	.359	+6.1	127	1.5

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.

																				Trend
2021	SD	1	0	0.2	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0.00	0.17	1.50	13.5	0.0	0	4	0.0	—

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 Jake Cronenworth'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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2026 Post	SD	Postseason total · through Oct 7	6	19	17	1	3	0	1	2	0	4	0	.176	.222	.353	.575
		Wild Card	2	7	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	.167	.286	.167	.452
		NLDS	4	12	11	1	2	0	1	2	0	3	0	.182	.182	.455	.636
2025 Post	SD	Wild Card	3	11	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
2024 Post	SD	Postseason total	7	25	22	2	3	1	0	0	2	9	0	.136	.240	.227	.467
		Wild Card	2	7	6	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	.000	.143	.000	.143
		NLDS	5	18	16	1	3	1	0	0	2	5	0	.188	.278	.313	.590
2022 Post	SD	Postseason total	12	49	46	6	11	0	1	6	1	15	0	.239	.286	.304	.590
		Wild Card	3	13	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLDS	4	16	16	3	7	0	1	5	0	4	0	.438	.438	.625	1.063
		NLCS	5	20	17	3	4	0	0	1	1	5	0	.235	.350	.235	.585
2020 Post	SD	Postseason total	6	24	18	5	7	1	1	3	4	5	1	.389	.542	.667	1.208
		Wild Card	3	12	8	4	5	1	1	2	2	1	1	.625	.750	1.250	2.000
		NLDS	3	12	10	1	2	0	0	1	2	4	0	.200	.333	.200	.533
Career		Postseason total · 5 Octobers	34	128	114	14	24	2	3	11	7	36	1	.211	.291	.325	.616

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	93	84	21	1	4	15	.250	.315	.310	.288	16.1%
vs RHP	332	293	64	6	35	82	.218	.306	.324	.289	24.7%

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

Barrel rate: 3.9%
Exit velocity: 85.2
Max exit velo: 108.9
Hard hit: 29.8%
Sweet spot: 31.6%
Launch angle: 10.9°

Barrel rate3.9%

Exit velocity85.2 mph

Hard hit rate29.8%

Contact rate78.7%

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.

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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 Jake Cronenworth 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	425	—	—	—	—	—	—	.225	.308	.321	.289
Bases empty	241	211	38	2	2	28	62	.180	.282	.242	.251
Runner on first	76	70	22	2	6	5	13	.314	.368	.443	.360
Runners on	184	166	47	5	39	11	35	.283	.343	.422	.340
RISP	108	96	25	3	33	6	22	.260	.324	.406	.325

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2026.

Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

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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.