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Jake Rogers

Age
31
B/T
R/R
Height
5' 11"
Weight
201 lb
Number
#28
Born
April 18, 1995 in Canyon, TX, United States
MLB debut
July 30, 2019
Drafted
2016, round 3
College
Tulane
Salary, 2026
$3.05M

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dbWAR
1.9
Regular season, 9 season(s)
PA
171
AVG
.161
OBP
.276
SLG
.287
wRC+
63
100 = avg

Jake Rogers is a catcher for the Detroit Tigers. In 2026 he hit 4 home runs and knocked in 14 RBIs, notching 23 hits across 171 plate appearances in 54 games. His batting average was .161, 34.1% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .276 clip and slugged .287, for an OPS of .563, 21.7% lower than the league mark of .719 — the second worst on his team, and 430th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 86.9 mph off the bat, hit 36.5% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 6.3% of them and made contact on 73.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 63 wRC+ puts his offence 37% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -7.9 runs with the bat, +0.2 for the ballpark, -0.0 on the bases, -0.7 on double plays, +2.6 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 regular season.

wRC+63
wOBA.263
ISO.126
BB%13.5%
WAR-.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to -0.6 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting-7.9Ballpark+0.2Baserunning-0.0Double plays-0.7Position+2.6Replacement+5.2
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

1.30.3-0.6192123242526

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.

Trend
2026DET/CWS/BAL/BOS541712341412351.161.276.287.126.20913.5%29.8%.263-7.963-0.1
2025DET451422331901539.187.277.333.146.24110.6%27.5%.272-5.0680.1
2024DET9733761103612299.197.255.352.155.2516.5%29.4%.265-13.0670.2
2023DET102365732149128118.221.286.444.224.2687.7%32.3%.313-2.3921.3
2021DET371272761711146.239.306.496.257.3448.7%36.2%.342+2.61210.9
2019DET35128144801351.125.222.259.134.17510.2%39.8%.219-11.428-0.6

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.

Trend
2026DET302.100030310.003.101.7111.63.90740.0
2025DET403.200051002.453.951.360.00.059950.0
2021DET101.0000220118.006.173.000.09.0422145-0.0

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 Jake Rogers's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
SeasonTeamRoundGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBAVGOBPSLGOPS
2025 PostDETALDS1111100000001.0001.0001.0002.000
2024 PostDETPostseason total72522361002380.273.360.318.678
Wild Card288130001030.375.375.375.750
ALDS51714231001350.214.353.286.639
CareerPostseason total · 2 Octobers82623471002380.304.385.348.732

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.

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 LHP453682813.222.356.417.34628.9%
vs RHP1261071521538.140.248.243.23330.2%
Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2026. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB543010.750.8001.000.7530.0%
vs RHB760003.000.143.000.10742.9%

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

Barrel rate
6.3%
6 barrels
Exit velocity
86.9
mph average
Max exit velo
109.3
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
36.5%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
31.3%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
20.3°
average
Barrel rate6.3%
Exit velocity86.9 mph
Hard hit rate36.5%
Contact rate73.2%

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.

—.000—.063—6 AB.15413 AB.27311 AB.2229 AB.27322 AB.21414 AB—5 AB.13315 AB.14314 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 Jake Rogers 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 situations171——————.161.276.287.263
Bases empty1058614231727.163.305.279.279
Runner on first3430413316.133.212.267.219
Runners on66579211624.158.231.298.236
RISP322751838.185.250.333.254

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

Pitch sequencing

What Jake Rogers throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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EephusFastball

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Eephus55.8%2451.81,16620.8%0.0%4——
Fastball41.9%1877.41,91055.6%16.7%5——
Jake Rogers's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters. BAA and OPS are what hitters did against each pitch, credited to the one that ended the plate appearance, and are left blank under 15 at-bats.

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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.