3B · 2026

Josh Rojas

Kansas City Royals American League Central3B

Age: 32
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 200 lb
Number: #40

Born: June 30, 1994 in Litchfield Park, AZ, USA
MLB debut: August 12, 2019
Drafted: 2017, round 26
College: Hawaii
High school: Millennium

dbWAR: -.1
PA: 72
AVG: .235
OBP: .268
SLG: .324
wRC+: 60

Josh Rojas is a third baseman for the Kansas City Royals. In 2026 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 8 RBIs, notching 16 hits across 72 plate appearances in 27 games. His batting average was .235, 3.4% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .268 clip and slugged .324, for an OPS of .591, 17.8% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 84.0 mph off the bat, hit 30.5% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 1.7% of them and made contact on 76.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 60 wRC+ puts his offence 40% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -3.3 runs with the bat, +0.1 on the bases, +0.0 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+60

wOBA.263

ISO.088

BB%4.2%

WAR-.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to -0.8 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

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WAR by season

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.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHP	14	12	1	0	1	2	.083	.154	.083	.124	14.3%
vs RHP	58	56	15	1	2	8	.268	.293	.375	.294	13.8%

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.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHB	1	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%
vs RHB	3	3	1	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.297	0.0%

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

Barrel rate: 1.7%
Exit velocity: 84.0
Max exit velo: 104.2
Hard hit: 30.5%
Sweet spot: 30.5%
Launch angle: 14.5°

Barrel rate1.7%

Exit velocity84.0 mph

Hard hit rate30.5%

Contact rate76.9%

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 Josh Rojas 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	72	—	—	—	—	—	—	.235	.268	.324	.263
Bases empty	43	41	10	1	1	2	7	.244	.279	.341	.276
Runner on first · thin	11	10	3	0	2	0	1	.300	.300	.400	.304
Runners on	29	27	6	0	7	1	3	.222	.250	.296	.243
RISP · thin	18	17	3	0	5	1	2	.176	.222	.235	.209

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.

Pitch sequencing

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

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Eephus

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, and how often it misses in 2026.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2026	27	72	16	1	8	1	3	10	.235	.268	.324	.088	.263	4.2%	13.9%	.263	-3.3	60	-0.1
2025	65	211	34	2	11	4	19	48	.180	.252	.259	.079	.227	9.0%	22.7%	.235	-14.0	44	-0.6
2024	138	476	95	8	31	10	46	108	.225	.304	.336	.111	.282	9.7%	22.7%	.288	-9.5	89	0.8

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																			Trend
2026	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.00	3.09	1.00	0.0	0.0	0	74	0.0
2024	2	0	2.0	0	0	0	1	2	0	2	9.00	12.67	1.50	0.0	9.0	221	311	-0.2

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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.