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LF · 2026

Cody Bellinger

Age
31
B/T
L/L
Height
6' 3"
Weight
204 lb
Number
#35
Born
July 13, 1995 in Scottsdale, AZ, USA
MLB debut
April 25, 2017
Drafted
2013, round 4
High school
Hamilton
Salary, 2026
$42.5M
dbWAR
7.0
3 season(s)
PA
434
AVG
.259
OBP
.350
SLG
.420
wRC+
114
100 = avg

Cody Bellinger is a left fielder for the New York Yankees. In 2026 he hit 11 home runs and knocked in 53 RBIs, notching 97 hits across 434 plate appearances in 102 games. His batting average was .259, 6.4% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .350 clip and slugged .420, for an OPS of .770, 7.0% higher than the league mark of .719 — the third best on his team, and 108th of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 89.1 mph off the bat, hit 37.6% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 79.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 114 wRC+ puts his offence 14% above average. That comes to 1.7 dbWAR — +8.7 runs with the bat, -1.1 on the bases, -5.1 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.

wRC+114
wOBA.343
ISO.160
BB%12.7%
WAR1.7

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +17.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting+8.7Baserunning-1.1Position-5.1Replacement+14.5
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

3.51.70.0242526

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 LHP1511323341624.250.325.417.32615.9%
vs RHP2832426473946.264.364.421.35216.3%

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.

.097.148.182.211.22935 AB.39328 AB.46715 AB.27836 AB.30243 AB.27629 AB.23330 AB.33333 AB.33315 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.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2026102434971153105570.259.350.420.160.28912.7%16.1%.343+8.71141.7
20251526561602998135790.272.334.480.207.2748.7%13.7%.349+18.31273.5
2024130569137187894589.266.325.426.161.2877.9%15.6%.324+5.31171.8

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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.