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Fernando Tatis Jr.

Age: 27
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 217 lb
Number: #23

Born: January 2, 1999 in San Pedro De Macoris, Dominican Republic
MLB debut: March 28, 2019
Salary, 2026: $20.7M

dbWAR: 28.7
PA: 699
AVG: .291
OBP: .360
SLG: .473
wRC+: 136

Fernando Tatis Jr. is a right fielder for the San Diego Padres. So far in 2026 he has hit 25 home runs and knocked in 82 RBIs, notching 181 hits across 699 plate appearances in 158 games. His batting average is .291, 19.3% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .360 clip and slugged .473, for an OPS of .832, 15.8% higher than the league mark of .719 — the second best on his team, and 37th of 462 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 92.3 mph off the bat, hit 53.9% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 12.0% of them and made contact on 73.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 136 wRC+ puts his offence 36% above average. That comes to 4.7 dbWAR — +25.0 runs with the bat, +1.8 for the ballpark, +1.2 on the bases, -1.6 on double plays, -3.1 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.

wRC+136

wOBA.362

ISO.182

BB%9.0%

WAR4.7

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +44.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2026	SD	158	699	181	25	82	38	63	130	.291	.360	.473	.182	.330	9.0%	18.6%	.362	+25.0	136	4.7
2025	SD	155	691	159	25	71	32	89	129	.268	.368	.446	.178	.303	12.9%	18.7%	.356	+23.5	131	4.5
2024	SD	101	438	110	21	49	11	32	96	.276	.340	.492	.216	.316	7.3%	21.9%	.360	+17.4	135	2.9
2023	SD	141	635	148	25	78	29	53	141	.257	.322	.449	.191	.299	8.3%	22.2%	.333	+7.0	112	2.5
2021	SD	130	546	135	42	97	25	62	153	.282	.364	.611	.328	.324	11.4%	28.0%	.405	+40.3	165	6.9
2020	SD	59	257	62	17	45	11	27	61	.277	.366	.571	.295	.306	10.5%	23.7%	.394	+15.9	151	2.9
2019	SD	84	372	106	22	53	16	30	110	.317	.379	.590	.272	.410	8.1%	29.6%	.402	+25.2	160	4.3

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	161	139	43	9	22	29	.309	.404	.583	.424	18.0%
vs RHP	538	483	138	16	41	101	.286	.346	.441	.343	18.8%

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

Barrel rate: 12.0%
Exit velocity: 92.3
Max exit velo: 115.7
Hard hit: 53.9%
Sweet spot: 34.1%
Launch angle: 5.3°

Barrel rate12.0%

Exit velocity92.3 mph

Hard hit rate53.9%

Contact rate73.9%

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 Fernando Tatis Jr. 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	699	—	—	—	—	—	—	.291	.360	.473	.362
Bases empty	454	412	108	21	21	36	89	.262	.329	.481	.352
Runner on first	118	107	34	3	7	10	23	.318	.381	.449	.366
Runners on	245	210	73	4	61	27	41	.348	.416	.457	.380
RISP	127	103	39	1	54	17	18	.379	.449	.466	.393

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

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Similar players

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

Randy ArozarenaSEA

wRC+: 149
HR: 26
AVG: .280
WAR: 5.1

Jackson ChourioMIL

wRC+: 128
HR: 25
AVG: .286
WAR: 3.7

Bobby Witt Jr.KC

wRC+: 115
HR: 18
AVG: .280
WAR: 5.0

Ronald Acuña Jr.ATL

wRC+: 123
HR: 20
AVG: .258
WAR: 2.4

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.