Players · J · CF · 2026

Daniel Johnson

Age: 31
B/T: L/L
Height: 5' 10"
Weight: 200 lb

Born: July 11, 1995 in Vallejo, CA, United States
MLB debut: July 25, 2020
Drafted: 2016, round 5
College: New Mexico State

dbWAR: -.6
PA: 17
AVG: .143
OBP: .294
SLG: .143
wRC+: 42

Daniel Johnson is a center fielder for the Houston Astros. So far in 2026 he has hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 2 hits across 17 plate appearances in 7 games. His batting average is .143, 41.4% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .294 clip and slugged .143, for an OPS of .437, 39.2% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 86.8 mph off the bat, hit 45.5% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 78.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 42 wRC+ puts his offence 58% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -1.2 runs with the bat, +0.0 for the ballpark, -0.0 on the bases, -0.3 on double plays, +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+42

wOBA.234

ISO.000

BB%11.8%

WAR-.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to -0.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2026	HOU	7	17	2	0	0	0	2	3	.143	.294	.143	.000	.182	11.8%	17.6%	.234	-1.2	42	-0.1
2025	SF/BAL	24	57	10	1	1	2	4	13	.189	.246	.302	.113	.231	7.0%	22.8%	.245	-3.3	51	-0.1
2024	BAL	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.3	-121	-0.0
2021	CLE	28	81	17	4	5	1	4	27	.221	.259	.377	.156	.283	4.9%	33.3%	.275	-2.9	72	-0.1
2020	CLE	4	13	1	0	0	0	1	5	.083	.154	.083	.000	.143	7.7%	38.5%	.074	-2.8	-68	-0.3

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	4	3	1	0	0	0	.333	.500	.333	.411	0.0%
vs RHP	13	11	1	0	2	3	.091	.231	.091	.180	23.1%

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

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 86.8
Max exit velo: 107.2
Hard hit: 45.5%
Sweet spot: 18.2%
Launch angle: 15.3°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity86.8 mph

Hard hit rate45.5%

Contact rate78.3%

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 Daniel Johnson 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	17	—	—	—	—	—	—	.143	.294	.143	.234
Bases empty · thin	10	9	2	0	0	1	3	.222	.300	.222	.251
Runner on first · thin	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
Runners on · thin	7	5	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.286	.000	.210
RISP · thin	4	2	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.500	.000	.368

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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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.