LF · 2026
JJ Bleday
- Age
- 29
- B/T
- L/L
- Height
- 6' 2"
- Weight
- 205 lb
- Number
- #22
- Born
- November 10, 1997 in Danville, PA, USA
- MLB debut
- July 23, 2022
- Drafted
- 2016, round 39
- College
- Vanderbilt
- High school
- A. Crawford Mosley
- Salary, 2026
- $1.4M
- dbWAR
- 5.6 3 season(s)
- PA
- 373
- AVG
- .225
- OBP
- .339
- SLG
- .460
- wRC+
- 124 100 = avg
JJ Bleday is a left fielder for the Cincinnati Reds. In 2026 he hit 20 home runs and knocked in 47 RBIs, notching 71 hits across 373 plate appearances in 89 games. His batting average was .225, 7.5% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .339 clip and slugged .460, for an OPS of .799, 11.1% higher than the league mark of .719 — 4th of 15 on his team, and 79th of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 88.3 mph off the bat, hit 40.6% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 73.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 124 wRC+ puts his offence 24% above average. That comes to 1.6 dbWAR — +10.0 runs with the bat, -1.4 on the bases, -5.2 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 four terms sum to +15.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR 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 | 98 | 85 | 17 | 5 | 12 | 23 | .200 | .296 | .400 | .308 | 23.5% |
| vs RHP | 275 | 230 | 54 | 15 | 41 | 58 | .235 | .354 | .483 | .366 | 21.1% |
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.
Situational hitting
How JJ Bleday 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 | 373 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .225 | .339 | .460 | .351 |
| Bases empty | 211 | 182 | 46 | 14 | 14 | 27 | 39 | .253 | .355 | .522 | .381 |
| Runner on first | 86 | 73 | 14 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 21 | .192 | .306 | .397 | .315 |
| Runners on | 162 | 133 | 25 | 6 | 33 | 26 | 42 | .188 | .317 | .376 | .311 |
| RISP | 76 | 60 | 11 | 2 | 23 | 14 | 21 | .183 | .329 | .350 | .306 |
Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2026.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 89 | 373 | 71 | 20 | 47 | 6 | 53 | 81 | .225 | .339 | .460 | .235 | .236 | 14.2% | 21.7% | .351 | +10.0 | 124 | 1.6 | |
| 2025 | 97 | 344 | 65 | 14 | 39 | 1 | 36 | 91 | .212 | .294 | .404 | .192 | .251 | 10.5% | 26.5% | .304 | -3.1 | 90 | 0.6 | |
| 2024 | 158 | 642 | 139 | 20 | 60 | 2 | 67 | 125 | .243 | .324 | .437 | .194 | .279 | 10.4% | 19.5% | .332 | +10.5 | 114 | 3.3 |
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Nearest 2026 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.
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.