C · 2026

J.C. Escarra

Age: 31
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 220 lb
Number: #25

Born: April 24, 1995 in Hialeah, FL, USA
MLB debut: March 29, 2025
Drafted: 2013, round 32
College: Florida International
High school: Mater Academy

dbWAR: .0
PA: 92
AVG: .188
OBP: .239
SLG: .271
wRC+: 38

J.C. Escarra is a catcher for the New York Yankees. In 2026 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 7 RBIs, notching 16 hits across 92 plate appearances in 29 games. His batting average was .188, 22.7% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .239 clip and slugged .271, for an OPS of .510, 29.1% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 88.2 mph off the bat, hit 34.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 3.0% of them and made contact on 71.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 38 wRC+ puts his offence 62% below average. That comes to -0.2 dbWAR — -6.7 runs with the bat, -0.1 on the bases, +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.

wRC+38

wOBA.231

ISO.082

BB%6.5%

WAR-.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to -1.8 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	21	19	6	0	1	2	.316	.333	.421	.324	9.5%
vs RHP	71	66	10	0	5	16	.152	.211	.227	.203	22.5%

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

Barrel rate: 3.0%
Exit velocity: 88.2
Max exit velo: 109.0
Hard hit: 34.3%
Sweet spot: 31.3%
Launch angle: 11.5°

Barrel rate3.0%

Exit velocity88.2 mph

Hard hit rate34.3%

Contact rate71.9%

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 J.C. Escarra 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	92	—	—	—	—	—	—	.188	.239	.271	.231
Bases empty	41	38	5	0	0	3	6	.132	.195	.184	.180
Runner on first	25	24	5	0	1	1	3	.208	.240	.250	.222
Runners on	51	47	11	0	7	3	12	.234	.275	.340	.272
RISP	26	23	6	0	6	2	9	.261	.308	.435	.320

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
2026	29	92	16	0	7	0	6	18	.188	.239	.271	.082	.235	6.5%	19.6%	.231	-6.7	38	-0.2
2025	34	98	17	2	11	1	11	14	.202	.296	.333	.131	.214	11.2%	14.3%	.284	-2.5	80	0.2

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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.