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Jake Mangum

Pittsburgh PiratesNational League CentralLF
Age
30
B/T
S/L
Height
5' 11"
Weight
191 lb
Number
#28
Born
March 8, 1996 in Flowood, MS, United States
MLB debut
March 30, 2025
Drafted
2018, round 32
College
Mississippi State
High school
Jackson Prep

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dbWAR
2.7
Regular season, 2 season(s)
PA
479
AVG
.276
OBP
.331
SLG
.363
wRC+
92
100 = avg

Jake Mangum is a left fielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates. In 2026 he hit 5 home runs and knocked in 33 RBIs, notching 120 hits across 479 plate appearances in 127 games. His batting average was .276, 13.1% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .331 clip and slugged .363, for an OPS of .694, 3.4% lower than the league mark of .719 — 11th of 18 on his team, and 249th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 83.4 mph off the bat, hit 28.1% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 2.3% of them and made contact on 78.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 92 wRC+ puts his offence 8% below average. That comes to 1.2 dbWAR — -2.6 runs with the bat, -1.2 for the ballpark, +0.1 on the bases, +2.3 on double plays, -1.8 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+92
wOBA.312
ISO.087
BB%5.2%
WAR1.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +11.8 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting-2.6Ballpark-1.2Baserunning+0.1Double plays+2.3Position-1.8Replacement+14.8
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

1.40.70.02526

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.

Trend
2026PIT127479120533232593.276.331.363.087.3395.2%19.4%.312-2.6921.2
2025TB117428120340271964.296.330.368.072.3454.4%15.0%.310-2.0951.4

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 LHP134121322627.264.323.355.30620.1%
vs RHP3453148831966.280.334.366.31419.1%

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

Barrel rate
2.3%
8 barrels
Exit velocity
83.4
mph average
Max exit velo
107.1
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
28.1%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
29.9%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
2.9°
average
Barrel rate2.3%
Exit velocity83.4 mph
Hard hit rate28.1%
Contact rate78.7%

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.

.136.174.233.250.14314 AB.37929 AB.24025 AB.34626 AB.34749 AB.29737 AB.32331 AB.22236 AB.33345 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 Jake Mangum 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 situations479——————.276.331.363.312
Bases empty26324468331359.279.331.373.316
Runner on first1121013318416.327.364.426.351
Runners on216191522301234.272.332.351.307
RISP1049019122818.211.298.267.261

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.

Blake DunnCIN
wRC+
106
HR
2
AVG
.282
WAR
0.6
Close
Justin CrawfordPHI
wRC+
81
HR
3
AVG
.264
WAR
1.2
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Jose FernandezAZ
wRC+
79
HR
3
AVG
.255
WAR
0.1
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wRC+
85
HR
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AVG
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WAR
0.4
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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.