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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

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dbWAR
21.4
Regular season, 5 season(s)
PA
654
AVG
.247
OBP
.307
SLG
.401
wRC+
99
100 = avg

Julio Rodríguez is a center fielder for the Seattle Mariners. In 2026 he hit 22 home runs and knocked in 71 RBIs, notching 147 hits across 654 plate appearances in 150 games. His batting average was .247, 1.1% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .307 clip and slugged .401, for an OPS of .708, 1.5% lower than the league mark of .719 — 6th of 16 on his team, and 225th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 90.1 mph off the bat, hit 43.8% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 7.9% of them and made contact on 73.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 99 wRC+ puts his offence 1% below average. That comes to 2.6 dbWAR — -3.9 runs with the bat, +1.5 for the ballpark, +2.3 on the bases, +0.8 on double plays, +4.1 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 regular season.

wRC+99
wOBA.311
ISO.154
BB%7.2%
WAR2.6

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +25.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting-3.9Ballpark+1.5Baserunning+2.3Double plays+0.8Position+4.1Replacement+20.2
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

5.32.60.02223242526

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.

Trend
2026SEA15065414722712247145.247.307.401.154.2897.2%22.2%.311-3.9992.6
2025SEA16071017432953044152.267.324.474.207.3026.2%21.4%.342+15.71255.1
2024SEA14161315520682438156.273.325.409.136.3446.2%25.4%.322+5.21153.3
2023SEA155714180321033747175.275.333.485.209.3306.6%24.5%.349+17.21235.1
2022SEA13256014528752540145.284.345.509.225.3457.1%25.9%.367+25.21445.3

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 Julio Rodríguez's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
SeasonTeamRoundGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBAVGOBPSLGOPS
2025 PostSEAPostseason total12554861020497190.208.309.500.809
ALDS52523141013290.174.240.348.588
ALCS730255610365100.240.367.6401.007
2022 PostSEAPostseason total52823553102371.217.357.435.792
Wild Card2107210000120.143.400.143.543
ALDS31816343102251.250.333.563.896
CareerPostseason total · 2 Octobers17837111155141110261.211.325.479.804

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.

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 LHP2071864182052.220.300.376.29925.1%
vs RHP447410106142793.259.311.412.31720.8%

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

Barrel rate
7.9%
36 barrels
Exit velocity
90.1
mph average
Max exit velo
114.6
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
43.8%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
32.8%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
12.9°
average
Barrel rate7.9%
Exit velocity90.1 mph
Hard hit rate43.8%
Contact rate73.5%

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.

.174.077.196.197.23534 AB.41931 AB.21119 AB.34749 AB.30636 AB.25831 AB.25862 AB.26050 AB.27159 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.

Situational hitting

How Julio Rodríguez 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.
SituationPAABHHRRBIBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBA
All situations654——————.247.307.401.311
Bases empty3683408211112285.241.299.385.304
Runner on first147134387151335.284.347.478.361
Runners on2862566511602560.254.318.422.321
RISP139122274451225.221.288.361.277

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.