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Freddy Fermin

Age: 31
B/T: R/R
Height: 5' 10"
Weight: 200 lb
Number: #54

Born: May 16, 1995 in Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela
MLB debut: July 15, 2022
Salary, 2026: $2.1M

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dbWAR: 2.8
PA: 265
AVG: .203
OBP: .274
SLG: .315
wRC+: 66

Freddy Fermin is a catcher for the San Diego Padres. In 2026 he hit 4 home runs and knocked in 24 RBIs, notching 47 hits across 265 plate appearances in 80 games. His batting average was .203, 17.0% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .274 clip and slugged .315, for an OPS of .589, 18.1% lower than the league mark of .719 — 14th of 17 on his team, and 410th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 85.6 mph off the bat, hit 29.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 2.7% of them and made contact on 73.4% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 66 wRC+ puts his offence 34% below average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — -11.4 runs with the bat, +0.6 for the ballpark, -0.5 on the bases, -0.5 on double plays, +4.8 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+66

wOBA.266

ISO.112

BB%7.9%

WAR.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +1.2 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 — postseason games are listed separately below.


2026	SD	80	265	47	4	24	1	21	56	.203	.274	.315	.112	.246	7.9%	21.1%	.266	-11.4	66	0.1
2025	KC/SD	103	347	80	5	26	1	19	65	.251	.297	.339	.088	.301	5.5%	18.7%	.283	-9.4	79	0.7
2024	KC	102	368	92	6	36	2	23	66	.271	.319	.366	.094	.319	6.3%	17.9%	.302	-3.0	90	0.9
2023	KC	62	235	61	9	32	0	13	50	.281	.321	.461	.180	.323	5.5%	21.3%	.335	+2.9	105	1.1
2022	KC	3	7	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	42.9%	.000	-1.8	-119	-0.1

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason batting

Postseason Freddy Fermin's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	H	2B	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2026 Post	SD	NLDS · through Oct 4	1	1	1	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
2025 Post	SD	Wild Card	3	11	11	4	2	1	.364	.364	.545	.909
Career		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	4	12	12	4	2	1	.333	.333	.500	.833

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

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	75	69	12	2	5	15	.174	.230	.319	.244	20.0%
vs RHP	190	163	35	2	16	41	.215	.292	.313	.275	21.6%

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

Barrel rate: 2.7%
Exit velocity: 85.6
Max exit velo: 104.9
Hard hit: 29.0%
Sweet spot: 37.2%
Launch angle: 14.2°

Barrel rate2.7%

Exit velocity85.6 mph

Hard hit rate29.0%

Contact rate73.4%

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 Freddy Fermin 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	265	—	—	—	—	—	—	.203	.274	.315	.266
Bases empty	136	120	20	1	1	12	30	.167	.259	.250	.240
Runner on first	61	57	20	3	11	2	14	.351	.373	.561	.403
Runners on	129	112	27	3	23	9	26	.241	.290	.384	.295
RISP	68	55	7	0	12	7	12	.127	.215	.200	.196

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.