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Jake Burger

Age: 30
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 230 lb
Number: #21

Born: April 10, 1996 in St. Louis, MO, United States
MLB debut: July 2, 2021
Drafted: 2017, round 1
College: Missouri State
Salary, 2026: $3.2M

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dbWAR: 7.2
PA: 620
AVG: .228
OBP: .302
SLG: .421
wRC+: 102

Jake Burger is a first baseman for the Texas Rangers. In 2026 he hit 28 home runs and knocked in 90 RBIs, notching 127 hits across 620 plate appearances in 155 games. His batting average was .228, 6.4% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .302 clip and slugged .421, for an OPS of .722, level with the league mark of .719 — 8th of 15 on his team, and 194th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 90.1 mph off the bat, hit 45.5% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 11.3% of them and made contact on 65.8% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 102 wRC+ puts his offence 2% above average. That comes to 1.4 dbWAR — -0.4 runs with the bat, +1.1 for the ballpark, -0.8 on the bases, +1.8 on double plays, -7.7 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+102

wOBA.318

ISO.192

BB%9.0%

WAR1.4

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +13.1 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 — postseason games are listed separately below.


2026	TEX	155	620	127	28	90	4	56	167	.228	.302	.421	.192	.271	9.0%	26.9%	.318	-0.4	102	1.4
2025	TEX	103	376	84	16	53	1	12	93	.236	.269	.419	.183	.272	3.2%	24.7%	.295	-6.3	91	0.2
2024	MIA	137	579	134	29	76	1	31	150	.250	.301	.460	.209	.292	5.4%	25.9%	.326	+6.8	102	1.6
2023	CWS/MIA	141	540	123	34	80	1	32	149	.250	.309	.518	.268	.284	5.9%	27.6%	.350	+13.5	121	3.3
2022	CWS	49	183	42	8	26	0	10	56	.250	.302	.458	.208	.324	5.5%	30.6%	.328	+2.4	107	0.7
2021	CWS	15	42	10	1	3	0	4	15	.263	.333	.474	.211	.409	9.5%	35.7%	.348	+1.1	121	0.2

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 Burger's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2023 Post	MIA	Wild Card	2	7	7	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.286	.286	.286	.571

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.

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	170	151	40	12	16	44	.265	.335	.556	.380	25.9%
vs RHP	450	405	87	16	40	123	.215	.289	.370	.294	27.3%

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

Barrel rate: 11.3%
Exit velocity: 90.1
Max exit velo: 113.6
Hard hit: 45.5%
Sweet spot: 30.2%
Launch angle: 13.9°

Barrel rate11.3%

Exit velocity90.1 mph

Hard hit rate45.5%

Contact rate65.8%

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 Jake Burger 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	620	—	—	—	—	—	—	.228	.302	.421	.318
Bases empty	331	302	60	14	14	25	88	.199	.269	.381	.288
Runner on first	129	111	30	6	14	18	28	.270	.372	.477	.375
Runners on	289	254	67	14	76	31	79	.264	.339	.469	.352
RISP	160	143	37	8	62	13	51	.259	.313	.462	.333

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. 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.