C · 2026

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

dbWAR: .3
PA: 71
AVG: .258
OBP: .310
SLG: .348
wRC+: 87

Jhonny Pereda is a catcher for the Seattle Mariners. In 2026 he hit 2 home runs and knocked in 4 RBIs, notching 17 hits across 71 plate appearances in 20 games. His batting average was .258, 5.7% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .310 clip and slugged .348, for an OPS of .658, 8.5% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 89.9 mph off the bat, hit 46.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 3.7% of them and made contact on 82.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 87 wRC+ puts his offence 13% below average. That comes to 0.2 dbWAR — -1.3 runs with the bat, -0.1 on the bases, +1.5 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+87

wOBA.296

ISO.091

BB%5.6%

WAR.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +2.4 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

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.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHP	16	13	3	1	2	3	.231	.375	.462	.374	18.8%
vs RHP	55	53	14	1	2	9	.264	.291	.321	.274	16.4%

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

Barrel rate: 3.7%
Exit velocity: 89.9
Max exit velo: 106.7
Hard hit: 46.3%
Sweet spot: 44.4%
Launch angle: 8.5°

Barrel rate3.7%

Exit velocity89.9 mph

Hard hit rate46.3%

Contact rate82.3%

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 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.
Situation	PA	AB	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
All situations	71	—	—	—	—	—	—	.258	.310	.348	.296
Bases empty	45	42	13	1	1	2	6	.310	.356	.381	.331
Runner on first · thin	14	12	3	0	0	2	3	.250	.357	.250	.294
Runners on	26	24	4	1	3	2	6	.167	.231	.292	.236
RISP · thin	12	12	1	1	3	0	3	.083	.083	.333	.168

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.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2026	20	71	17	2	4	4	12	.258	.310	.348	.091	.288	5.6%	16.9%	.296	-1.3	87	0.2
2025	26	78	17	0	4	8	21	.246	.325	.333	.087	.354	10.3%	26.9%	.300	-1.0	86	0.3
2024	15	40	9	0	4	0	10	.231	.250	.231	.000	.310	0.0%	25.0%	.218	-3.1	31	-0.1

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																			Trend
2025	3	0	3.0	0	0	0	9	7	3	2	21.00	7.47	3.67	9.0	6.0	505	180	-0.1
2024	1	0	0.1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	3.17	0.00	0.0	0.0	0	78	0.0

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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.