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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, United States
MLB debut: August 12, 2019
Drafted: 2017, round 26
College: Hawaii
High school: Millennium

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dbWAR: 5.7
PA: 115
AVG: .226
OBP: .265
SLG: .321
wRC+: 57

Josh Rojas is a third baseman for the Kansas City Royals. In 2026 he hit 2 home runs and knocked in 14 RBIs, notching 24 hits across 115 plate appearances in 41 games. His batting average was .226, 7.2% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .265 clip and slugged .321, for an OPS of .586, 18.5% lower than the league mark of .719 — the worst on his team, and 413th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 84.3 mph off the bat, hit 28.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 1.1% of them and made contact on 80.8% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 57 wRC+ puts his offence 43% below average. That comes to -0.2 dbWAR — -5.4 runs with the bat, -0.3 for the ballpark, +0.1 on the bases, +0.2 on double plays, +0.4 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+57

wOBA.261

ISO.094

BB%4.3%

WAR-.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to -1.6 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.


2026	KC	41	115	24	2	14	1	5	17	.226	.265	.321	.094	.250	4.3%	14.8%	.261	-5.4	57	-0.2
2025	CWS	65	211	34	2	11	4	19	48	.180	.252	.259	.079	.227	9.0%	22.7%	.235	-14.0	44	-0.7
2024	SEA	138	476	95	8	31	10	46	108	.225	.304	.336	.111	.282	9.7%	22.7%	.288	-9.5	89	1.1
2023	AZ/SEA	102	350	77	4	40	12	27	81	.245	.303	.338	.092	.313	7.7%	23.1%	.285	-10.2	77	0.7
2022	AZ	123	510	119	9	56	23	55	98	.269	.349	.391	.122	.323	10.8%	19.2%	.328	+6.9	113	3.2
2021	AZ	138	550	128	11	44	9	58	137	.264	.341	.411	.147	.345	10.5%	24.9%	.331	+6.3	107	2.4
2020	AZ	17	70	11	0	2	1	7	16	.180	.257	.180	.000	.234	10.0%	22.9%	.211	-6.6	24	-0.4
2019	AZ	41	157	30	2	16	4	18	41	.217	.312	.312	.094	.295	11.5%	26.1%	.282	-5.5	73	-0.2

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.


2026	KC	1	1.0	1	0	0	0	0.00	3.10	1.00	0.0	0.0	0	74	0.0
2024	SEA	2	2.0	1	2	0	2	9.00	12.67	1.50	0.0	9.0	221	311	-0.2
2023	AZ	2	2.0	6	4	1	1	18.00	3.76	3.50	4.5	4.5	416	87	0.0

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	22	19	4	1	1	4	.211	.286	.368	.294	18.2%
vs RHP	93	87	20	1	4	13	.230	.261	.310	.254	14.0%

Season

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	.298	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 92 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 1.1%
Exit velocity: 84.3
Max exit velo: 104.2
Hard hit: 28.3%
Sweet spot: 32.6%
Launch angle: 15.9°

Barrel rate1.1%

Exit velocity84.3 mph

Hard hit rate28.3%

Contact rate80.8%

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	115	—	—	—	—	—	—	.226	.265	.321	.261
Bases empty	70	65	14	1	1	4	11	.215	.271	.292	.257
Runner on first · thin	18	17	6	1	5	0	2	.353	.353	.588	.403
Runners on	45	41	10	1	13	1	6	.244	.256	.366	.268
RISP	27	24	4	0	8	1	4	.167	.192	.208	.179

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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Pitch arsenal

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

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Similar players

Nearest 2026 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Lourdes Gurriel Jr.AZ

wRC+: 50
HR: 2
AVG: .210
WAR: -0.8

Matt VierlingDET

wRC+: 61
HR: 5
AVG: .207
WAR: -0.5

Jake MeyersHOU

wRC+: 65
HR: 3
AVG: .213
WAR: -0.1

Jim JarvisATL

wRC+: 56
HR: 1
AVG: .207
WAR: 0.0

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.