RF · 2026

Jake Fraley

Age: 31
B/T: L/L
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 206 lb
Number: #17

Born: May 25, 1995 in Frederick, MD, USA
MLB debut: August 21, 2019
Drafted: 2016, round CB-B
College: Louisiana State
High school: Caravel Academy
Salary, 2026: $3M

dbWAR: 1.6
PA: 90
AVG: .232
OBP: .300
SLG: .390
wRC+: 92

Jake Fraley is a right fielder for the Tampa Bay Rays. In 2026 he hit 2 home runs and knocked in 5 RBIs, notching 19 hits across 90 plate appearances in 28 games. His batting average was .232, 4.9% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .300 clip and slugged .390, for an OPS of .690, 4.1% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 84.1 mph off the bat, hit 21.4% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 78.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 92 wRC+ puts his offence 8% below average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — -0.9 runs with the bat, +0.5 on the bases, -1.2 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+92

wOBA.306

ISO.159

BB%8.9%

WAR.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +1.4 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

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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	10	10	3	0	0	4	.300	.300	.400	.304	40.0%
vs RHP	80	72	16	2	8	21	.222	.300	.389	.306	26.3%

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.

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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.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2026	28	90	19	2	5	3	8	25	.232	.300	.390	.159	.309	8.9%	27.8%	.306	-0.9	92	0.1
2025	73	217	46	6	23	4	25	49	.241	.332	.382	.141	.294	11.5%	22.6%	.319	+0.7	102	0.4
2024	112	382	97	5	26	20	26	70	.277	.330	.386	.109	.331	6.8%	18.3%	.316	+1.2	99	1.0

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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.