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SS · 2026

J.P. Crawford

Age
31
B/T
L/R
Height
6' 0"
Weight
202 lb
Number
#3
Born
January 11, 1995 in Long Beach, CA, USA
MLB debut
September 5, 2017
Drafted
2013, round 1
High school
Lakewood
Salary, 2026
$12M
dbWAR
5.9
3 season(s)
PA
364
AVG
.212
OBP
.330
SLG
.345
wRC+
98
100 = avg

J.P. Crawford is a shortstop for the Seattle Mariners. In 2026 he hit 10 home runs and knocked in 30 RBIs, notching 65 hits across 364 plate appearances in 86 games. His batting average was .212, 13.1% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .330 clip and slugged .345, for an OPS of .675, 6.2% lower than the league mark of .719 — 8th of 15 on his team, and 266th of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 87.1 mph off the bat, hit 35.5% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 6.0% of them and made contact on 82.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 98 wRC+ puts his offence 2% below average. That comes to 1.2 dbWAR — -2.3 runs with the bat, -1.6 on the bases, +3.5 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+98
wOBA.311
ISO.134
BB%13.7%
WAR1.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +11.7 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting-2.3Baserunning-1.6Position+3.5Replacement+12.1
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

3.61.80.0242526

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 LHP107841811818.214.364.262.30616.8%
vs RHP2572234793256.211.315.377.31321.8%

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

Barrel rate
6.0%
14 barrels
Exit velocity
87.1
mph average
Max exit velo
107.8
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
35.5%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
38.0%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
12.4°
average
Barrel rate6.0%
Exit velocity87.1 mph
Hard hit rate35.5%
Contact rate82.2%

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.

.231.192.130.13023 AB.20015 AB.25016 AB.22935 AB.22948 AB.25024 AB.29031 AB.18527 AB.25020 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 J.P. Crawford 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 situations364.212.330.345.311
Bases empty22319331662646.161.274.285.262
Runner on first7463204101112.317.419.556.424
Runners on141114344242428.298.418.447.388
RISP6751140141316.275.418.314.349

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

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
20268636465103015074.212.330.345.134.24413.7%20.3%.311-2.3981.2
20251556541511258874122.265.352.370.105.31811.3%18.7%.326+5.91143.6
202410545179937552102.202.304.321.120.24811.5%22.6%.286-9.7871.1

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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.