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Jhonny Pereda

Age
30
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 1"
Weight
202 lb
Number
#5
Born
April 18, 1996 in San Juan, Venezuela
MLB debut
April 17, 2024

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dbWAR
.6
Regular season, 6 season(s)
PA
101
AVG
.300
OBP
.366
SLG
.389
wRC+
120
100 = avg

Jhonny Pereda is a catcher for the Seattle Mariners. In 2026 he hit 2 home runs and knocked in 8 RBIs, notching 27 hits across 101 plate appearances in 30 games. His batting average was .300, 23.0% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .366 clip and slugged .389, for an OPS of .755, 5.0% higher than the league mark of .719 — 4th of 16 on his team, and 137th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 90.0 mph off the bat, hit 45.7% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 2.9% of them and made contact on 77.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 120 wRC+ puts his offence 20% above average. That comes to 0.7 dbWAR — +1.8 runs with the bat, +0.2 for the ballpark, -0.2 on the bases, -0.3 on double plays, +1.9 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 regular season.

wRC+120
wOBA.340
ISO.089
BB%8.9%
WAR.7

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +6.5 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting+1.8Ballpark+0.2Baserunning-0.2Double plays-0.3Position+1.9Replacement+3.1
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

0.70.3-0.2242526

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.

Trend
2026SEA3010127280920.300.366.389.089.3628.9%19.8%.340+1.81200.7
2025ATH/MIN267817040821.246.325.333.087.35410.3%26.9%.300-1.0860.3
2024MIA15409040010.231.250.231.000.3100.0%25.0%.218-3.131-0.2

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.

Trend
2026SEA100.1000320054.0042.109.000.00.01,2911,007-0.1
2025ATH303.0000973221.007.473.679.06.0505180-0.1
2024MIA100.100000000.003.170.000.00.00780.0

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 LHP352810158.357.457.536.43322.9%
vs RHP6662171412.274.318.323.29118.2%
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 RHB443100.750.7501.500.9530.0%

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

Barrel rate
2.9%
2 barrels
Exit velocity
90.0
mph average
Max exit velo
106.7
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
45.7%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
47.1%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
8.2°
average
Barrel rate2.9%
Exit velocity90.0 mph
Hard hit rate45.7%
Contact rate77.7%

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.

———.300.3758 AB.10010 AB—5 AB—3 AB.0009 AB.1258 AB—7 AB.46213 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.

Situational hitting

How Jhonny Pereda 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.
SituationPAABHHRRBIBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBA
All situations101——————.300.366.389.340
Bases empty60561711311.304.350.375.327
Runner on first · thin221980035.421.500.474.440
Runners on4134101769.294.390.412.360
RISP · thin191521734.133.263.333.268

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, 2026.

Pitch sequencing

What Jhonny Pereda 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, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Eephus75.0%1258.71,26041.7%20.0%2——
Jhonny Pereda'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. BAA and OPS are what hitters did against each pitch, credited to the one that ended the plate appearance, and are left blank under 15 at-bats.

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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.