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Players · M · CF · 2026

Cedric Mullins

Age
32
B/T
L/L
Height
5' 7"
Weight
175 lb
Number
#31
Born
October 1, 1994 in Greensboro, NC, United States
MLB debut
August 10, 2018
Drafted
2015, round 13
College
Campbell
Salary, 2026
$6.5M
dbWAR
16.4
9 season(s)
PA
493
AVG
.205
OBP
.285
SLG
.347
wRC+
76
100 = avg

Cedric Mullins is a center fielder for the Tampa Bay Rays. So far in 2026 he has hit 15 home runs and knocked in 46 RBIs, notching 88 hits across 493 plate appearances in 133 games. His batting average is .205, 16.1% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .285 clip and slugged .347, for an OPS of .632, 12.1% lower than the league mark of .719 — 11th of 13 on his team, and 358th of 462 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 84.9 mph off the bat, hit 32.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 3.8% of them and made contact on 78.1% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 76 wRC+ puts his offence 24% below average. That comes to 0.5 dbWAR — -13.7 runs with the bat, -0.1 for the ballpark, -0.6 on the bases, +0.4 on double plays, +3.7 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+76
wOBA.285
ISO.142
BB%8.7%
WAR.5

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +4.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting-13.7Ballpark-0.1Baserunning-0.6Double plays+0.4Position+3.7Replacement+15.2
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

6.02.7-0.7181920212223242526

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2026TB133493881546214394.205.285.347.142.2258.7%19.1%.285-13.7760.5
2025BAL/NYM1304989417592250120.216.299.391.175.25310.0%24.1%.304-4.6911.8
2024BAL1414991041854324198.234.305.405.171.2618.2%19.6%.312+0.11022.8
2023BAL1124559415741943101.233.305.416.183.2719.5%22.2%.313-2.8981.8
2022BAL15367215716643447126.258.318.403.145.2997.0%18.8%.317+2.81043.3
2021BAL15767517530593059125.291.360.518.228.3228.7%18.5%.374+32.51336.0
2020BAL40153383127837.271.315.407.136.3505.2%24.2%.315-0.9970.6
2019BAL21746041414.094.181.156.063.1185.4%18.9%.162-10.2-9-0.7
2018BAL441914041121737.235.312.359.124.2798.9%19.4%.301-2.7880.3

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 LHP1181022111021.206.296.275.26817.8%
vs RHP37532867143373.204.282.369.29019.5%

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

Barrel rate
3.8%
13 barrels
Exit velocity
84.9
mph average
Max exit velo
110.4
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
32.3%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
26.2%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
21.3°
average
Barrel rate3.8%
Exit velocity84.9 mph
Hard hit rate32.3%
Contact rate78.1%

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.

.224.148.137.000.13622 AB.23842 AB.30423 AB.24337 AB.33345 AB.20025 AB.18937 AB.25036 AB.05618 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 Cedric Mullins 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 situations493——————.205.285.347.285
Bases empty2672394612132543.192.277.381.293
Runner on first96861926720.221.287.326.278
Runners on226191423331851.220.295.304.274
RISP130105231271131.219.301.286.271

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.