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1B · 2026

Jonathan Aranda

Tampa Bay RaysAmerican League East1B
Age
28
B/T
L/R
Height
6' 0"
Weight
215 lb
Number
#8
Born
May 23, 1998 in Tijuana, BC, Mexico
MLB debut
June 24, 2022
dbWAR
5.1
3 season(s)
PA
497
AVG
.286
OBP
.372
SLG
.436
wRC+
128
100 = avg

Jonathan Aranda is a first baseman for the Tampa Bay Rays. In 2026 he hit 15 home runs and knocked in 72 RBIs, notching 122 hits across 497 plate appearances in 114 games. His batting average was .286, 17.3% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .372 clip and slugged .436, for an OPS of .808, 12.3% higher than the league mark of .719 — the third best on his team, and 66th of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 90.8 mph off the bat, hit 44.7% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 78.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 128 wRC+ puts his offence 28% above average. That comes to 2.1 dbWAR — +15.8 runs with the bat, -0.8 on the bases, -10.5 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+128
wOBA.357
ISO.150
BB%11.1%
WAR2.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +21.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting+15.8Baserunning-0.8Position-10.5Replacement+16.6
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

2.81.40.0242526

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 LHP1451243211639.258.352.306.30726.9%
vs RHP35230390143975.297.381.488.37721.3%

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.

.188.200.291.333.30423 AB.22227 AB.05319 AB.21233 AB.41251 AB.22631 AB.19436 AB.39041 AB.38234 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
20261144971221572055114.286.372.436.150.35111.1%22.9%.357+15.81282.1
20251064221171459041107.316.393.489.173.4099.7%25.4%.384+24.01472.8
2024441433061401232.234.308.430.195.2648.4%22.4%.322+1.11070.3

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Similar players

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

Riley GreeneDET
wRC+
128
HR
16
AVG
.273
WAR
2.5
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Chase MeidrothCWS
wRC+
115
HR
11
AVG
.274
WAR
2.4
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Trevor LarnachMIN
wRC+
131
HR
10
AVG
.276
WAR
1.8
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Bryan ReynoldsPIT
wRC+
129
HR
15
AVG
.268
WAR
3.1
Close
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.