Players · B · SS · 2026

José Barrero

Baltimore Orioles American League EastSS

Age: 28
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 211 lb
Number: #54

Born: April 5, 1998 in Havana, Cuba
MLB debut: August 27, 2020

dbWAR: -1.8
PA: 6
AVG: .167
OBP: .167
SLG: .167
wRC+: -19

José Barrero is a shortstop for the Baltimore Orioles. So far in 2026 he has hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 6 plate appearances in 2 games. His batting average is .167, 31.7% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .167 clip and slugged .167, for an OPS of .333, 53.6% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 90.6 mph off the bat and made contact on 53.8% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -19 wRC+ puts his offence 119% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -0.8 runs with the bat, +0.0 for the ballpark, -0.0 on the bases, +0.1 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+-19

wOBA.149

ISO.000

BB%0.0%

WAR-.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to -0.6 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	BAL	2	6	1	0	0	0	0	3	.167	.167	.167	.000	.333	0.0%	50.0%	.149	-0.8	-19	-0.1
2025	STL	14	31	4	1	3	0	1	9	.138	.194	.276	.138	.158	3.2%	29.0%	.209	-2.7	27	-0.1
2023	CIN	43	149	29	2	17	3	15	44	.218	.295	.323	.105	.307	10.1%	29.5%	.278	-5.2	71	0.1
2022	CIN	47	174	25	2	10	4	9	76	.152	.195	.206	.055	.264	5.2%	43.7%	.184	-17.9	9	-1.2
2021	CIN	21	56	10	0	3	1	3	17	.200	.286	.320	.120	.303	5.4%	30.4%	.275	-2.0	66	-0.1
2020	CIN	23	68	13	0	2	1	1	26	.194	.206	.194	.000	.317	1.5%	38.2%	.180	-8.3	3	-0.5

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	2	2	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	100.0%
vs RHP	4	4	1	0	0	1	.250	.250	.250	.223	25.0%

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

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 90.6
Max exit velo: 92.6
Hard hit: 0.0%
Sweet spot: 0.0%
Launch angle: 37.3°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity90.6 mph

Hard hit rate0.0%

Contact rate53.8%

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.

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.

Situational hitting

How José Barrero 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	6	—	—	—	—	—	—	.167	.167	.167	.149
Bases empty · thin	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
Runner on first · thin	2	2	1	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	.447
Runners on · thin	4	4	1	0	0	0	2	.250	.250	.250	.223
RISP · thin	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000

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.