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Players · G · SS · 2026

Andrés Giménez

Age
28
B/T
L/R
Height
5' 11"
Weight
161 lb
Number
#0
Born
September 4, 1998 in Barquisimeto, Venezuela
MLB debut
July 24, 2020
Salary, 2026
$15.6M
dbWAR
12.4
7 season(s)
PA
502
AVG
.244
OBP
.290
SLG
.361
wRC+
78
100 = avg

Andrés Giménez is a shortstop for the Toronto Blue Jays. So far in 2026 he has hit 9 home runs and knocked in 58 RBIs, notching 113 hits across 502 plate appearances in 140 games. His batting average is .244, level with the league average of .244. He reached base at a .290 clip and slugged .361, for an OPS of .651, 9.4% lower than the league mark of .719 — 13th of 16 on his team, and 330th of 462 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 84.1 mph off the bat, hit 24.8% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 3.2% of them and made contact on 75.6% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 78 wRC+ puts his offence 22% below average. That comes to 1.4 dbWAR — -13.0 runs with the bat, -0.1 for the ballpark, +1.7 on the bases, +1.2 on double plays, +7.6 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+78
wOBA.287
ISO.117
BB%3.4%
WAR1.4

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +13.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting-13.0Ballpark-0.1Baserunning+1.7Double plays+1.2Position+7.6Replacement+15.5
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

5.32.70.020212223242526

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2026TOR140502113958201794.244.290.361.117.2853.4%18.7%.287-13.0781.4
2025TOR9836969735122566.210.285.313.103.2396.8%17.9%.271-13.4690.3
2024CLE151633147963302697.252.298.340.087.2864.1%15.3%.283-15.0771.5
2023CLE15361614015623032112.251.314.399.147.2895.2%18.2%.311-4.7972.5
2022CLE14455714617692034112.297.371.466.169.3536.1%20.1%.366+24.41415.3
2021CLE6621041516111154.218.282.351.133.2735.2%25.7%.280-6.6750.6
2020NYM43132313128728.263.333.398.136.3185.3%21.2%.324+0.21010.8

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 LHP143133313322.233.282.346.28115.4%
vs RHP3593308261472.248.293.367.29020.1%

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

Barrel rate
3.2%
12 barrels
Exit velocity
84.1
mph average
Max exit velo
108.9
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
24.8%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
31.5%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
12.6°
average
Barrel rate3.2%
Exit velocity84.1 mph
Hard hit rate24.8%
Contact rate75.6%

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.

.121.313.169.086.32025 AB.21233 AB.26123 AB.30333 AB.30852 AB.34335 AB.15439 AB.27333 AB.37532 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 Andrés Giménez 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 situations502——————.244.290.361.287
Bases empty2862675966954.221.270.337.272
Runner on first97912928416.319.361.451.358
Runners on21619654352840.276.316.393.308
RISP11910525144424.238.280.343.266

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.

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.