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2B · 2026

Ernie Clement

Age
30
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 0"
Weight
170 lb
Number
#22
Born
March 22, 1996 in Rochester, NY, USA
MLB debut
June 13, 2021
Drafted
2017, round 4
College
Virginia
High school
Brighton
Salary, 2026
$4.6M
dbWAR
4.7
4 season(s)
PA
471
AVG
.284
OBP
.308
SLG
.411
wRC+
96
100 = avg

Ernie Clement is a second baseman for the Toronto Blue Jays. In 2026 he hit 9 home runs and knocked in 39 RBIs, notching 128 hits across 471 plate appearances in 116 games. His batting average was .284, 16.7% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .308 clip and slugged .411, for an OPS of .719, level with the league mark of .719 — the third best on his team, and 188th of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 84.5 mph off the bat, hit 21.2% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 83.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 96 wRC+ puts his offence 4% below average. That comes to 1.6 dbWAR — -1.9 runs with the bat, -0.2 on the bases, +2.1 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+96
wOBA.313
ISO.127
BB%3.2%
WAR1.6

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +15.7 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting-1.9Baserunning-0.2Position+2.1Replacement+15.7
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

1.70.90.0242526

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

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.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP141133354617.263.298.406.30812.1%
vs RHP330317935930.293.312.413.3169.1%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2026.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2026.

.316.132.462.203.22218 AB.38936 AB.29627 AB.25032 AB.36552 AB.25927 AB.17229 AB.22227 AB.43832 AB
Below averageLeague averageAbove average
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.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
202611647112893941547.284.308.411.127.2993.2%10.0%.313-1.9961.6
202514958815195062761.277.313.398.121.2964.6%10.4%.310-2.5961.7
20241304521141251121141.263.284.408.145.2662.4%9.1%.298-5.2891.4

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2024101.000021009.003.172.000.00.0221780.0

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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.