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Players · A · 2B · 2026

Luis Arraez

Age
29
B/T
L/R
Height
5' 10"
Weight
186 lb
Number
#4
Born
April 9, 1997 in San Felipe, Venezuela
MLB debut
May 18, 2019
Salary, 2026
$12M
dbWAR
19.9
8 season(s)
PA
655
AVG
.310
OBP
.345
SLG
.419
wRC+
112
100 = avg

Luis Arraez is a second baseman for the San Francisco Giants. So far in 2026 he has hit 6 home runs and knocked in 64 RBIs, notching 185 hits across 655 plate appearances in 151 games. His batting average is .310, 27.3% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .345 clip and slugged .419, for an OPS of .765, 6.4% higher than the league mark of .719 — 4th of 18 on his team, and 124th of 462 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 85.6 mph off the bat, hit 19.4% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 1.2% of them and made contact on 92.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 112 wRC+ puts his offence 12% above average. That comes to 3.5 dbWAR — +7.8 runs with the bat, +0.8 for the ballpark, +0.6 on the bases, -1.4 on double plays, +5.4 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+112
wOBA.333
ISO.109
BB%5.2%
WAR3.5

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +33.4 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting+7.8Ballpark+0.8Baserunning+0.6Double plays-1.4Position+5.4Replacement+20.3
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

4.72.30.01920212223242526

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2026SF/PHI151655185664103428.310.345.419.109.3115.2%4.3%.333+7.81123.5
2025SD154675181861113421.292.327.392.100.2895.0%3.1%.315+0.11021.5
2024SD/MIA15067220044692429.314.346.392.078.3243.6%4.3%.325+6.91091.7
2023MIA147617203106933534.354.393.469.115.3625.7%5.5%.371+26.21334.7
2022MIN14460317384945043.316.375.420.104.3318.3%7.1%.351+19.31313.5
2021MIN12147912624224348.294.357.376.082.3239.0%10.0%.324+2.81051.7
2020MIN32121360130811.321.364.402.080.3536.6%9.1%.337+1.61120.7
2019MIN9036610942823629.334.399.439.104.3559.8%7.9%.363+12.71282.6

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 LHP210194611614.314.341.423.3366.7%
vs RHP44540212452814.308.347.418.3323.1%

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

Barrel rate
1.2%
7 barrels
Exit velocity
85.6
mph average
Max exit velo
104.4
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
19.4%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
40.5%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
15.6°
average
Barrel rate1.2%
Exit velocity85.6 mph
Hard hit rate19.4%
Contact rate92.9%

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.

.236.188.250.326.25831 AB.34053 AB.35531 AB.36749 AB.35690 AB.47438 AB.24441 AB.30559 AB.25831 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 Luis Arraez 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 situations655——————.310.345.419.333
Bases empty383366114441518.311.342.423.338
Runner on first133121342988.281.326.421.329
Runners on272230712601910.309.350.413.326
RISP13910937051112.339.372.404.323

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.