Players · F · 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, United States
MLB debut: August 21, 2019
Drafted: 2016, round CB-B
College: Louisiana State
High school: Caravel Academy
Salary, 2026: $3M

dbWAR: 5.5
PA: 97
AVG: .216
OBP: .289
SLG: .364
wRC+: 81

Jake Fraley is a right fielder for the Tampa Bay Rays. So far in 2026 he has hit 2 home runs and knocked in 5 RBIs, notching 19 hits across 97 plate appearances in 31 games. His batting average is .216, 11.5% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .289 clip and slugged .364, for an OPS of .652, 9.2% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 84.1 mph off the bat, hit 20.7% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 8.6% of them and made contact on 77.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 81 wRC+ puts his offence 19% below average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — -2.1 runs with the bat, -0.0 for the ballpark, +0.5 on the bases, +0.1 on double plays, -0.9 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+81

wOBA.292

ISO.148

BB%9.3%

WAR.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +0.6 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2026	TB	31	97	19	2	5	3	9	29	.216	.289	.364	.148	.298	9.3%	29.9%	.292	-2.1	81	0.1
2025	CIN/ATL	73	217	46	6	23	4	25	49	.241	.332	.382	.141	.294	11.5%	22.6%	.319	+0.7	102	0.5
2024	CIN	112	382	97	5	26	20	26	70	.277	.330	.386	.109	.331	6.8%	18.3%	.316	+1.2	99	1.2
2023	CIN	110	380	86	15	65	21	37	71	.256	.339	.443	.188	.283	9.7%	18.7%	.340	+6.3	114	1.7
2022	CIN	68	247	56	12	28	4	26	54	.259	.344	.468	.208	.289	10.5%	21.9%	.354	+8.4	124	1.5
2021	SEA	77	265	45	9	36	10	46	71	.210	.352	.369	.159	.265	17.4%	26.8%	.328	+2.3	112	1.0
2020	SEA	7	29	4	0	0	2	2	11	.154	.241	.269	.115	.267	6.9%	37.9%	.235	-2.2	41	-0.1
2019	SEA	11	41	6	0	1	0	0	14	.150	.171	.200	.050	.231	0.0%	34.1%	.162	-5.6	-9	-0.4

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

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	87	78	16	2	9	25	.205	.287	.359	.290	28.7%

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

Barrel rate: 8.6%
Exit velocity: 84.1
Max exit velo: 107.8
Hard hit: 20.7%
Sweet spot: 43.1%
Launch angle: 22.2°

Barrel rate8.6%

Exit velocity84.1 mph

Hard hit rate20.7%

Contact rate77.0%

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 Jake Fraley 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	97	—	—	—	—	—	—	.216	.289	.364	.292
Bases empty	55	52	13	1	1	3	18	.250	.291	.423	.311
Runner on first · thin	22	19	4	1	3	3	5	.211	.318	.421	.329
Runners on	42	36	6	1	4	6	11	.167	.286	.278	.267
RISP · thin	20	17	2	0	1	3	6	.118	.250	.118	.198

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.

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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.