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LF · 2026

Ramón Laureano

Age
32
B/T
R/R
Height
5' 9"
Weight
203 lb
Number
#5
Born
July 15, 1994 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
MLB debut
August 3, 2018
Drafted
2014, round 16
College
Northeastern Oklahoma A&M
Salary, 2026
$6.5M
dbWAR
4.1
3 season(s)
PA
206
AVG
.203
OBP
.286
SLG
.374
wRC+
86
100 = avg

Ramón Laureano is a left fielder for the San Diego Padres. In 2026 he hit 7 home runs and knocked in 21 RBIs, notching 37 hits across 206 plate appearances in 53 games. His batting average was .203, 16.6% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .286 clip and slugged .374, for an OPS of .660, 8.3% lower than the league mark of .719 — 9th of 14 on his team, and 288th of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 88.0 mph off the bat, hit 41.2% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 10.9% of them and made contact on 68.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 86 wRC+ puts his offence 14% below average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — -4.1 runs with the bat, +0.3 on the bases, -2.7 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+86
wOBA.294
ISO.170
BB%9.7%
WAR.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +0.4 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting-4.1Baserunning+0.3Position-2.7Replacement+6.9
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

3.01.50.0242526

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 LHP555081515.160.236.280.23627.3%
vs RHP1511322961550.220.305.409.31533.1%

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

Barrel rate
10.9%
13 barrels
Exit velocity
88.0
mph average
Max exit velo
109.7
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
41.2%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
37.0%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
12.0°
average
Barrel rate10.9%
Exit velocity88.0 mph
Hard hit rate41.2%
Contact rate68.9%

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.

.190.000.050.1119 AB.00012 AB6 AB.30020 AB.30423 AB.41217 AB.30010 AB.30010 AB.12516 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 Ramón Laureano 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 situations206.203.286.374.294
Bases empty13011523441440.200.292.357.293
Runner on first3934615413.176.282.382.298
Runners on766714317625.209.276.403.295
RISP37338212212.242.270.424.292

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

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2026532063772172065.203.286.374.170.2689.7%31.6%.294-4.1860.0
20251294881242476735119.281.342.512.231.3317.2%24.4%.366+20.41333.0
20249230974113381596.259.311.437.178.3504.9%31.1%.325+3.41121.1

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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.