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CF · 2026

Julio Rodríguez

Age
26
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 4"
Weight
228 lb
Number
#44
Born
December 29, 2000 in Loma de Cabrera, Dominican Republic
MLB debut
April 8, 2022
Salary, 2026
$20.2M
dbWAR
9.5
3 season(s)
PA
466
AVG
.258
OBP
.322
SLG
.424
wRC+
109
100 = avg

Julio Rodríguez is a center fielder for the Seattle Mariners. In 2026 he hit 18 home runs and knocked in 51 RBIs, notching 109 hits across 466 plate appearances in 108 games. His batting average was .258, 6.0% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .322 clip and slugged .424, for an OPS of .746, 3.7% higher than the league mark of .719 — 4th of 15 on his team, and 134th of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 89.9 mph off the bat, hit 43.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 73.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 109 wRC+ puts his offence 9% above average. That comes to 2.1 dbWAR — +3.2 runs with the bat, +1.1 on the bases, +1.1 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+109
wOBA.327
ISO.166
BB%7.7%
WAR2.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +21.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting+3.2Baserunning+1.1Position+1.1Replacement+15.5
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

4.52.30.0242526

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 LHP1301152881425.243.331.478.35019.2%
vs RHP33630781102271.264.318.404.31821.1%

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.

.125.050.258.211.26123 AB.42921 AB.15413 AB.36136 AB.38121 AB.26123 AB.20544 AB.30636 AB.31145 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
20261084661091851153696.258.322.424.166.2937.7%20.6%.327+3.21092.1
202516071017432953044152.267.324.474.207.3026.2%21.4%.342+15.71254.5
202414161315520682438156.273.325.409.136.3446.2%25.4%.322+5.21152.9

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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.