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Players · M · 2B · 2026

Jeff McNeil

Age
34
B/T
L/R
Height
6' 0"
Weight
195 lb
Number
#22
Born
April 8, 1992 in Santa Barbara, CA, United States
MLB debut
July 24, 2018
Drafted
2013, round 12
College
Long Beach State
High school
Nipomo
Salary, 2026
$15.8M
dbWAR
21.9
9 season(s)
PA
513
AVG
.267
OBP
.315
SLG
.373
wRC+
81
100 = avg

Jeff McNeil is a second baseman for the Athletics. So far in 2026 he has hit 9 home runs and knocked in 59 RBIs, notching 126 hits across 513 plate appearances in 142 games. His batting average is .267, 9.4% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .315 clip and slugged .373, for an OPS of .688, 4.3% lower than the league mark of .719 — 10th of 17 on his team, and 262nd of 462 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 86.1 mph off the bat, hit 29.9% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 1.7% of them and made contact on 84.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 81 wRC+ puts his offence 19% below average. That comes to 0.7 dbWAR — -5.5 runs with the bat, -3.6 for the ballpark, +0.0 on the bases, -0.3 on double plays, +0.4 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.306
ISO.106
BB%5.8%
WAR.7

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +6.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting-5.5Ballpark-3.6Baserunning+0.0Double plays-0.3Position+0.4Replacement+15.9
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

5.32.70.0181920212223242526

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2026ATH14251312695983059.267.315.373.106.2875.8%11.5%.306-5.5810.7
2025NYM12246297125434955.243.335.411.168.25310.6%11.9%.326+4.21082.1
2024NYM124472101124453568.238.308.384.146.2567.4%14.4%.305-2.7961.7
2023NYM1566481581055103965.270.333.378.108.2886.0%10.0%.316-2.21002.5
2022NYM14558917496244061.326.382.454.128.3536.8%10.4%.367+26.41455.3
2021NYM1204269773532958.251.319.360.109.2806.8%13.6%.303-4.9951.0
2020NYM512095742302024.311.383.454.142.3359.6%11.5%.362+7.21281.3
2019NYM132567162237553575.318.384.531.214.3376.2%13.2%.387+31.21484.7
2018NYM632487431971424.329.381.471.142.3595.6%9.7%.373+11.01502.4

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 LHP10997230109.237.315.278.2788.3%
vs RHP40437510392050.275.315.397.31312.4%

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

Barrel rate
1.7%
7 barrels
Exit velocity
86.1
mph average
Max exit velo
108.4
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
29.9%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
38.8%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
14.3°
average
Barrel rate1.7%
Exit velocity86.1 mph
Hard hit rate29.9%
Contact rate84.2%

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.

.154.071.193.120.22218 AB.44134 AB.40015 AB.28859 AB.22662 AB.37532 AB.29341 AB.32153 AB.34823 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 Jeff McNeil 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 situations513——————.267.315.373.306
Bases empty28226462551532.235.284.330.276
Runner on first1091032926410.282.315.379.308
Runners on231208644541527.308.354.428.342
RISP122105352481117.333.388.476.373

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

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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.