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TJ Friedl

Cincinnati Reds National League CentralLF

Age: 31
B/T: L/L
Height: 5' 8"
Weight: 180 lb
Number: #29

Born: August 14, 1995 in Sewickley, PA, United States
MLB debut: September 18, 2021
College: Nevada
Salary, 2026: $3.8M

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dbWAR: 10.0
PA: 272
AVG: .172
OBP: .255
SLG: .255
wRC+: 46

TJ Friedl is a left fielder for the Cincinnati Reds. In 2026 he hit 4 home runs and knocked in 13 RBIs, notching 41 hits across 272 plate appearances in 81 games. His batting average was .172, 29.7% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .255 clip and slugged .255, for an OPS of .510, 29.1% lower than the league mark of .719 — the second worst on his team, and 454th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 82.9 mph off the bat, hit 29.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 2.9% of them and made contact on 75.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 46 wRC+ puts his offence 54% below average. That comes to -0.8 dbWAR — -17.9 runs with the bat, +0.4 for the ballpark, +0.3 on the bases, +0.9 on double plays, -0.2 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 regular season.

wRC+46

wOBA.239

ISO.084

BB%8.1%

WAR-.8

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to -8.1 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	CIN	81	272	41	4	13	5	22	63	.172	.255	.255	.084	.214	8.1%	23.2%	.239	-17.9	46	-0.8
2025	CIN	151	685	151	14	53	12	81	115	.261	.364	.378	.117	.301	11.8%	16.8%	.336	+12.1	115	4.1
2024	CIN	85	341	67	13	55	9	26	52	.226	.310	.380	.155	.229	7.6%	15.2%	.308	-1.3	93	1.4
2023	CIN	138	556	136	18	66	27	47	90	.279	.352	.467	.189	.308	8.5%	16.2%	.355	+16.3	124	4.2
2022	CIN	70	258	54	8	25	7	20	40	.240	.314	.436	.196	.251	7.8%	15.5%	.325	+2.8	104	1.0
2021	CIN	14	36	9	1	2	0	4	2	.290	.361	.419	.129	.276	11.1%	5.6%	.341	+0.7	108	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 TJ Friedl'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
2025 Post	CIN	Wild Card	2	10	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	3	0	.125	.300	.125	.425

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	38	36	8	0	2	9	.222	.263	.222	.226	23.7%
vs RHP	234	203	33	4	20	54	.163	.253	.261	.241	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 174 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 2.9%
Exit velocity: 82.9
Max exit velo: 106.4
Hard hit: 29.3%
Sweet spot: 29.3%
Launch angle: 17.1°

Barrel rate2.9%

Exit velocity82.9 mph

Hard hit rate29.3%

Contact rate75.0%

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 TJ Friedl 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	272	—	—	—	—	—	—	.172	.255	.255	.239
Bases empty	175	158	27	3	3	14	39	.171	.251	.259	.238
Runner on first	49	40	8	1	2	4	11	.200	.289	.275	.265
Runners on	97	81	14	1	10	8	24	.173	.261	.247	.240
RISP	48	41	6	0	8	4	13	.146	.234	.220	.215

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2026.

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

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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.