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Ronald Acuña Jr.

Age: 29
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 205 lb
Number: #13

Born: December 18, 1997 in La Guaira, Venezuela
MLB debut: April 25, 2018
Salary, 2026: $17M

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dbWAR: 34.4
PA: 469
AVG: .255
OBP: .345
SLG: .451
wRC+: 120

Ronald Acuña Jr. is a right fielder for the Atlanta Braves. In 2026 he hit 20 home runs and knocked in 55 RBIs, notching 104 hits across 469 plate appearances in 107 games. His batting average was .255, 4.5% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .345 clip and slugged .451, for an OPS of .796, 10.8% higher than the league mark of .719 — 4th of 14 on his team, and 79th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 89.6 mph off the bat, hit 43.5% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 11.4% of them and made contact on 71.1% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 120 wRC+ puts his offence 20% above average. That comes to 2.3 dbWAR — +12.2 runs with the bat, -0.5 for the ballpark, +0.2 on the bases, -0.1 on double plays, -4.7 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 regular season.

wRC+120

wOBA.350

ISO.196

BB%11.3%

WAR2.3

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +21.7 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2026	ATL	107	469	104	20	55	21	53	103	.255	.345	.451	.196	.292	11.3%	22.0%	.350	+12.2	120	2.3
2025	ATL	95	412	98	21	42	9	71	102	.290	.417	.518	.228	.358	17.2%	24.8%	.407	+31.2	165	4.3
2024	ATL	49	222	48	4	15	16	27	53	.250	.351	.365	.115	.326	12.2%	23.9%	.325	+2.4	111	0.9
2023	ATL	159	735	217	41	106	73	80	84	.337	.416	.596	.258	.338	10.9%	11.4%	.429	+67.4	173	9.1
2022	ATL	119	533	124	15	50	29	53	126	.266	.351	.413	.148	.331	9.9%	23.6%	.338	+11.3	121	2.4
2021	ATL	82	360	84	24	52	17	49	85	.283	.394	.596	.313	.311	13.6%	23.6%	.416	+29.9	164	3.9
2020	ATL	46	202	40	14	29	8	38	60	.250	.406	.581	.331	.302	18.8%	29.7%	.416	+16.3	163	2.4
2019	ATL	156	715	175	41	101	37	76	188	.280	.365	.518	.238	.337	10.6%	26.3%	.372	+30.3	134	5.3
2018	ATL	111	487	127	26	64	16	45	123	.293	.366	.552	.259	.352	9.2%	25.3%	.392	+29.1	146	4.0

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason batting

Postseason Ronald Acuña Jr.'s postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2026 Post	ATL	Postseason total · through Oct 7	7	30	24	4	3	0	0	0	0	5	6	3	.125	.300	.125	.425
		Wild Card	3	13	9	2	1	0	0	0	0	3	2	2	.111	.385	.111	.496
		NLDS	4	17	15	2	2	0	0	0	0	2	4	1	.133	.235	.133	.369
2023 Post	ATL	NLDS	4	17	14	3	2	1	0	0	0	2	2	2	.143	.294	.214	.508
2022 Post	ATL	NLDS	4	17	15	2	5	1	0	0	0	1	5	0	.333	.412	.400	.812
2020 Post	ATL	Postseason total	12	54	46	10	10	4	0	1	3	7	17	3	.217	.333	.370	.703
		Wild Card	2	11	11	0	4	2	0	0	1	0	4	1	.364	.364	.545	.909
		NLDS	3	14	11	4	2	0	0	1	1	2	7	1	.182	.357	.455	.812
		NLCS	7	29	24	6	4	2	0	0	1	5	6	1	.167	.310	.250	.560
2019 Post	ATL	NLDS	5	23	18	1	8	3	1	1	2	4	5	0	.444	.565	.889	1.454
2018 Post	ATL	NLDS	4	17	16	1	3	1	0	1	4	1	5	0	.188	.235	.438	.673
Career		Postseason total · 6 Octobers	36	158	133	21	31	10	1	3	9	20	40	8	.233	.354	.391	.745

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

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	145	124	28	5	20	35	.226	.338	.411	.334	24.1%
vs RHP	324	284	76	15	33	68	.268	.349	.468	.357	21.0%

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

Barrel rate: 11.4%
Exit velocity: 89.6
Max exit velo: 115.2
Hard hit: 43.5%
Sweet spot: 35.7%
Launch angle: 15.7°

Barrel rate11.4%

Exit velocity89.6 mph

Hard hit rate43.5%

Contact rate71.1%

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.

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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 Ronald Acuña Jr. 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	469	—	—	—	—	—	—	.255	.345	.451	.350
Bases empty	301	264	68	12	12	35	68	.258	.349	.455	.355
Runner on first	77	69	17	4	9	7	19	.246	.325	.449	.341
Runners on	168	144	36	8	43	18	35	.250	.339	.444	.340
RISP	91	75	19	4	34	11	16	.253	.352	.440	.340

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. 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.