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2B · 2025

Brendan Rodgers

Age
29
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 0"
Weight
204 lb
Born
August 9, 1996 in Winter Park, FL, USA
MLB debut
May 17, 2019
Drafted
2015, round 1
High school
Lake Mary
Salary, 2025
$2M
dbWAR
1.8
2 season(s)
PA
128
AVG
.191
OBP
.266
SLG
.278
wRC+
54
100 = avg

Brendan Rodgers is a second baseman for the Houston Astros. In 2025 he hit 2 home runs and knocked in 11 RBIs, notching 22 hits across 128 plate appearances in 37 games. His batting average was .191, 22.0% lower than the league average of .245. He reached base at a .266 clip and slugged .278, for an OPS of .544, 24.4% lower than the league mark of .719 — the worst on his team, and 434th of 461 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 90.5 mph off the bat, hit 48.6% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 12.9% of them and made contact on 62.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 54 wRC+ puts his offence 46% below average. That comes to -0.3 dbWAR — -7.0 runs with the bat, -0.6 on the bases, +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, 2025.

wRC+54
wOBA.249
ISO.087
BB%8.6%
WAR-.3

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2025. These four terms sum to -3.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting-7.0Baserunning-0.6Position+0.4Replacement+4.3
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

2.10.9-0.32425

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2025. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP262461210.250.308.417.31738.5%
vs RHP10291161936.176.255.242.23235.3%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2025.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 70 tracked batted balls in 2025. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate
12.9%
9 barrels
Exit velocity
90.5
mph average
Max exit velo
112.2
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
48.6%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
40.0%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
10.7°
average
Barrel rate12.9%
Exit velocity90.5 mph
Hard hit rate48.6%
Contact rate62.2%

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, 2025.

.0006 AB6 AB6 AB.18211 AB.19021 AB.22218 AB3 AB.20010 AB.2508 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 .245.

Situational hitting

How Brendan Rodgers 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 situations128.191.266.278.249
Bases empty60561111418.196.250.286.242
Runner on first3430700412.233.324.233.267
Runners on685911110728.186.279.271.256
RISP34294110316.138.235.310.244

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2025.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2025371282221101146.191.266.278.087.2948.6%35.9%.249-7.054-0.3
20241325391341354131132.267.314.407.140.3385.8%24.5%.315+1.3972.1

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Nearest 2025 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.