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Ty France

Age: 32
B/T: R/R
Height: 5' 10"
Weight: 215 lb
Number: #25

Born: July 13, 1994 in Downey, CA, United States
MLB debut: April 26, 2019
Drafted: 2015, round 34
College: San Diego State

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dbWAR: 10.7
PA: 500
AVG: .295
OBP: .363
SLG: .502
wRC+: 145

Ty France is a first baseman for the San Diego Padres. In 2026 he hit 21 home runs and knocked in 72 RBIs, notching 130 hits across 500 plate appearances in 128 games. His batting average was .295, 21.1% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .363 clip and slugged .502, for an OPS of .865, 20.3% higher than the league mark of .719 — the best on his team, and 18th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 91.5 mph off the bat, hit 47.5% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 8.3% of them and made contact on 71.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 145 wRC+ puts his offence 45% above average. That comes to 3.1 dbWAR — +23.2 runs with the bat, +1.1 for the ballpark, -1.0 on the bases, -3.2 on double plays, -6.1 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+145

wOBA.375

ISO.207

BB%7.4%

WAR3.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +29.6 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	SD	128	500	130	21	72	1	37	108	.295	.363	.502	.207	.342	7.4%	21.6%	.375	+23.2	145	3.1
2025	MIN/TOR	136	490	114	7	52	1	22	83	.257	.320	.360	.104	.300	4.5%	16.9%	.304	-4.4	89	0.1
2024	SEA/CIN	139	535	112	13	51	1	38	114	.234	.305	.365	.132	.277	7.1%	21.3%	.298	-6.2	96	0.0
2023	SEA	158	665	147	12	58	1	43	117	.250	.337	.366	.116	.294	6.5%	17.6%	.317	-1.9	101	0.7
2022	SEA	140	613	151	20	83	0	35	94	.274	.338	.436	.162	.296	5.7%	15.3%	.339	+13.5	123	2.5
2021	SEA	152	650	166	18	73	0	46	106	.291	.368	.445	.154	.327	7.1%	16.3%	.356	+21.3	132	3.4
2020	SEA/SD	43	155	43	4	23	0	11	37	.305	.368	.468	.163	.390	7.1%	23.9%	.364	+5.6	131	0.9
2019	SD	69	201	43	7	24	0	9	49	.234	.294	.402	.168	.279	4.5%	24.4%	.299	-4.1	87	0.1

Pitching Regular season

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

																				Trend
2019	SD	2	0	2.0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	4.50	9.71	1.00	0.0	0.0	100	216	-0.1	—

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 Ty France'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	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2026 Post	SD	Postseason total · through Oct 7	6	25	22	2	7	1	2	1	4	.318	.400	.364	.764
		Wild Card	2	8	8	2	4	1	0	0	1	.500	.500	.625	1.125
		NLDS	4	17	14	0	3	0	2	1	3	.214	.353	.214	.567
2025 Post	TOR	World Series	2	4	4	0	1	0	1	0	1	.250	.250	.250	.500
2022 Post	SEA	Postseason total	5	27	26	1	6	1	2	1	6	.231	.259	.269	.528
		Wild Card	2	10	10	1	2	0	0	0	1	.200	.200	.200	.400
		ALDS	3	17	16	0	4	1	2	1	5	.250	.294	.313	.607
Career		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	13	56	52	3	14	2	5	2	11	.269	.321	.308	.629

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	138	118	34	5	12	34	.288	.370	.483	.370	24.6%
vs RHP	362	322	96	16	25	74	.298	.360	.509	.377	20.4%

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

Barrel rate: 8.3%
Exit velocity: 91.5
Max exit velo: 109.6
Hard hit: 47.5%
Sweet spot: 41.3%
Launch angle: 14.6°

Barrel rate8.3%

Exit velocity91.5 mph

Hard hit rate47.5%

Contact rate71.9%

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.

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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 Ty France 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	500	—	—	—	—	—	—	.295	.363	.502	.375
Bases empty	273	243	68	13	14	22	65	.280	.353	.510	.375
Runner on first	110	102	36	4	12	7	22	.353	.400	.500	.396
Runners on	227	197	62	8	58	15	43	.315	.374	.492	.374
RISP	117	95	26	4	46	8	21	.274	.350	.484	.353

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

Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.


Slider	50.0%	14	81.6	1,904	14.3%	0.0%	4	—	—

Ty France's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters. BAA and OPS are what hitters did against each pitch, credited to the one that ended the plate appearance, and are left blank under 15 at-bats.

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Similar players

Nearest 2026 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Justin FoscueTEX

wRC+: 129
HR: 11
AVG: .271
WAR: 1.5

Drake BaldwinATL

wRC+: 126
HR: 25
AVG: .284
WAR: 4.0

Leo BernalSTL

wRC+: 128
HR: 5
AVG: .284
WAR: 0.7

Alec BurlesonSTL

wRC+: 130
HR: 26
AVG: .279
WAR: 3.8

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.