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Ty France headshot

1B · 2026

Ty France

Age
32
B/T
R/R
Height
5' 10"
Weight
215 lb
Number
#25
Born
July 13, 1994 in Downey, CA, USA
MLB debut
April 26, 2019
Drafted
2015, round 34
College
San Diego State
dbWAR
1.7
3 season(s)
PA
326
AVG
.287
OBP
.342
SLG
.515
wRC+
139
100 = avg

Ty France is a first baseman for the San Diego Padres. In 2026 he hit 16 home runs and knocked in 50 RBIs, notching 84 hits across 326 plate appearances in 88 games. His batting average was .287, 17.7% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .342 clip and slugged .515, for an OPS of .857, 19.1% higher than the league mark of .719 — the second best on his team, and 30th of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 92.2 mph off the bat, hit 48.9% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 72.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 139 wRC+ puts his offence 39% above average. That comes to 1.7 dbWAR — +13.2 runs with the bat, -0.7 on the bases, -6.6 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+139
wOBA.367
ISO.229
BB%5.2%
WAR1.7

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +16.8 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting+13.2Baserunning-0.7Position-6.6Replacement+10.9
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

1.70.8-0.1242526

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 LHP9886263624.302.367.488.36924.5%
vs RHP22820758131150.280.330.527.36721.9%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2026.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2026.

.214.130.190.14314 AB.15426 AB.23113 AB.31619 AB.39543 AB.14328 AB.46715 AB.50032 AB.42921 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.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
20268832684165011774.287.342.515.229.3275.2%22.7%.367+13.21391.7
202513649011475212283.257.320.360.104.3004.5%16.9%.304-4.4890.1
20241395351121351138114.234.305.365.132.2777.1%21.3%.298-6.296-0.1

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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.