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Corey Julks
- Age
- 30
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 5' 11"
- Weight
- 220 lb
- Number
- #44
- Born
- February 27, 1996 in Friendswood, TX, United States
- MLB debut
- March 31, 2023
- Drafted
- 2017, round 8
- College
- Houston
- High school
- Clear Brook
- dbWAR
- -.5 4 season(s)
- PA
- 7
- AVG
- .286
- OBP
- .286
- SLG
- .429
- wRC+
- 94 100 = avg
Corey Julks is a right fielder for the Detroit Tigers. So far in 2026 he has hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 2 hits across 7 plate appearances in 4 games. His batting average is .286, 17.1% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .286 clip and slugged .429, for an OPS of .714, 0.6% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 87.9 mph off the bat, hit 33.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 90.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 94 wRC+ puts his offence 6% below average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — -0.1 runs with the bat, +0.0 for the ballpark, -0.0 on the bases, -0.1 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.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +0.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 7 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .286 | .286 | .429 | .307 | 14.3% |
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 6 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 87.9 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 96.4 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 33.3% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 33.3% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 25.5° average
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.
Situational hitting
How Corey Julks hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.
| Situation | PA | AB | H | HR | RBI | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All situations | 7 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .286 | .286 | .429 | .307 |
| Bases empty · thin | 6 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .333 | .333 | .500 | .358 |
| Runner on first · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Rows under 25 plate appearances are marked thin — at that size a rate moves several dozen points on one hit. Counted from play-by-play, 2026.
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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.