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Gabriel Arias

Cleveland Guardians American League Central3B

Age: 26
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 217 lb
Number: #43

Born: February 27, 2000 in La Victoria, Venezuela
MLB debut: April 20, 2022

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dbWAR: .7
PA: 149
AVG: .243
OBP: .282
SLG: .371
wRC+: 76

Gabriel Arias is a third baseman for the Cleveland Guardians. In 2026 he hit 5 home runs and knocked in 14 RBIs, notching 34 hits across 149 plate appearances in 47 games. His batting average was .243, level with the league average of .244. He reached base at a .282 clip and slugged .371, for an OPS of .653, 9.1% lower than the league mark of .719 — 11th of 15 on his team, and 329th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 89.3 mph off the bat, hit 42.5% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 10.0% of them and made contact on 54.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 76 wRC+ puts his offence 24% below average. That comes to 0.3 dbWAR — -4.1 runs with the bat, -0.1 for the ballpark, +0.6 on the bases, +1.0 on double plays, +1.2 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+76

wOBA.285

ISO.129

BB%5.4%

WAR.3

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +3.2 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	CLE/CHC/NYM	47	149	34	5	14	4	8	60	.243	.282	.371	.129	.382	5.4%	40.3%	.285	-4.1	76	0.3
2025	CLE	128	471	95	11	54	8	27	162	.220	.274	.363	.144	.319	5.7%	34.4%	.279	-14.0	75	0.6
2024	CLE	49	161	34	3	15	5	6	53	.222	.255	.353	.131	.316	3.7%	32.9%	.264	-6.3	64	-0.2
2023	CLE	105	345	66	10	26	3	28	113	.210	.275	.352	.143	.290	8.1%	32.8%	.277	-12.5	73	-0.2
2022	CLE	16	57	9	1	5	1	8	16	.191	.321	.319	.128	.267	14.0%	28.1%	.297	-0.7	91	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 Gabriel Arias'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	RBI	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2025 Post	CLE	Wild Card	3	10	10	0	2	0	1	3	.200	.200	.200	.400
2022 Post	CLE	ALDS	3	11	11	1	3	1	0	5	.273	.273	.364	.636
Career		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	6	21	21	1	5	1	1	8	.238	.238	.286	.524

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	52	49	6	0	2	25	.122	.154	.122	.119	48.1%
vs RHP	97	91	28	5	6	35	.308	.351	.505	.372	36.1%

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

Barrel rate: 10.0%
Exit velocity: 89.3
Max exit velo: 111.6
Hard hit: 42.5%
Sweet spot: 35.8%
Launch angle: 4.5°

Barrel rate10.0%

Exit velocity89.3 mph

Hard hit rate42.5%

Contact rate54.7%

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 Gabriel Arias 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	149	—	—	—	—	—	—	.243	.282	.371	.285
Bases empty	79	75	21	3	3	4	30	.280	.316	.440	.331
Runner on first	34	33	6	0	0	1	17	.182	.206	.182	.179
Runners on	70	65	13	2	11	4	30	.200	.243	.292	.233
RISP	36	32	7	2	11	3	13	.219	.278	.406	.285

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.