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Jake McCarthy

Age: 29
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 213 lb
Number: #31

Born: July 30, 1997 in Scranton, PA, United States
MLB debut: August 27, 2021
Drafted: 2018, round CB-A
College: Virginia
High school: Scranton
Salary, 2026: $1.52M

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dbWAR: 8.9
PA: 596
AVG: .291
OBP: .334
SLG: .475
wRC+: 117

Jake McCarthy is a left fielder for the Colorado Rockies. In 2026 he hit 15 home runs and knocked in 83 RBIs, notching 159 hits across 596 plate appearances in 145 games. His batting average was .291, 19.1% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .334 clip and slugged .475, for an OPS of .809, 12.6% higher than the league mark of .719 — 4th of 14 on his team, and 65th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 82.7 mph off the bat, hit 28.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 5.0% of them and made contact on 78.8% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 117 wRC+ puts his offence 17% above average. That comes to 3.6 dbWAR — +15.9 runs with the bat, -1.6 for the ballpark, +3.1 on the bases, +0.9 on double plays, -2.1 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+117

wOBA.351

ISO.185

BB%5.0%

WAR3.6

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +34.6 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.


2026	COL	145	596	159	15	83	32	30	95	.291	.334	.475	.185	.326	5.0%	15.9%	.351	+15.9	117	3.6
2025	AZ	65	222	42	4	20	6	10	40	.204	.247	.345	.141	.233	4.5%	18.0%	.256	-10.8	59	-0.4
2024	AZ	132	495	126	8	56	25	31	78	.285	.349	.400	.115	.329	6.3%	15.8%	.332	+8.1	111	2.7
2023	AZ	94	312	67	2	16	26	26	62	.243	.318	.326	.083	.305	8.3%	19.9%	.292	-7.4	82	0.4
2022	AZ	95	354	91	8	43	23	23	76	.283	.342	.427	.143	.349	6.5%	21.5%	.338	+7.7	120	2.2
2021	AZ	24	70	13	2	4	3	8	23	.220	.333	.373	.153	.324	11.4%	32.9%	.319	+0.1	100	0.3

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	182	166	53	4	8	26	.319	.372	.524	.391	14.3%
vs RHP	414	381	106	11	22	69	.278	.317	.454	.333	16.7%

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

Barrel rate: 5.0%
Exit velocity: 82.7
Max exit velo: 110.4
Hard hit: 28.3%
Sweet spot: 38.5%
Launch angle: 9.6°

Barrel rate5.0%

Exit velocity82.7 mph

Hard hit rate28.3%

Contact rate78.8%

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 Jake McCarthy 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	596	—	—	—	—	—	—	.291	.334	.475	.351
Bases empty	364	342	84	7	7	14	61	.246	.287	.404	.302
Runner on first	93	86	34	3	11	6	16	.395	.441	.640	.465
Runners on	232	205	75	8	76	16	34	.366	.408	.595	.428
RISP	139	119	41	5	65	10	18	.345	.385	.563	.403

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.