Players · B · 2B · 2026

Jihwan Bae

Milwaukee Brewers National League Central2B

Age: 27
B/T: L/R
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 185 lb
Number: #0

Born: July 26, 1999 in Daegu, South Korea
MLB debut: September 23, 2022

dbWAR: .4
PA: 4
AVG: .500
OBP: .667
SLG: .500
wRC+: 259

Jihwan Bae is a second baseman for the Milwaukee Brewers. So far in 2026 he has hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 4 plate appearances in 4 games. His batting average is .500, 105.0% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .667 clip and slugged .500, for an OPS of 1.167, 62.4% higher than the league mark of .719. He averaged 29.8 mph off the bat and made contact on 71.4% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 259 wRC+ puts his offence 159% above average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — +0.8 runs with the bat, -0.0 for the ballpark, +0.2 on the bases, +0.0 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+259

wOBA.547

ISO.000

BB%0.0%

WAR.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +1.1 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	MIL	4	4	1	0	0	1	0	1	.500	.667	.500	.000	1.000	0.0%	25.0%	.547	+0.8	259	0.1
2025	PIT	10	25	1	0	0	4	5	9	.050	.240	.050	.000	.091	20.0%	36.0%	.180	-2.8	5	-0.2
2024	PIT	26	81	14	0	6	6	6	24	.189	.247	.216	.027	.275	7.4%	29.6%	.215	-6.5	31	-0.3
2023	PIT	103	371	77	2	32	24	30	92	.231	.296	.311	.081	.310	8.1%	24.8%	.274	-14.3	68	0.4
2022	PIT	10	37	11	0	6	3	2	6	.333	.405	.424	.091	.407	5.4%	16.2%	.372	+1.8	140	0.4

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	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	.894	0.0%
vs RHP	2	1	0	0	0	1	.000	.500	.000	.374	50.0%

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

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 29.8
Max exit velo: 37.4
Hard hit: 0.0%
Sweet spot: 0.0%
Launch angle: -54.5°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity29.8 mph

Hard hit rate0.0%

Contact rate71.4%

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 Jihwan Bae 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	4	—	—	—	—	—	—	.500	.667	.500	.547
Bases empty · thin	2	2	1	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	.447
Runner on first · thin	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	1.000	—	.748
Runners on · thin	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	1.000	—	.748

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.