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Players · F · 2B · 2026 regular season

Justin Foscue

Age
27
B/T
R/R
Height
5' 11"
Weight
205 lb
Number
#14
Born
March 2, 1999 in Huntsville, AL, United States
MLB debut
April 5, 2024
Drafted
2020, round 1
College
Mississippi State
High school
Grissom

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dbWAR
.6
Regular season, 3 season(s)
PA
247
AVG
.271
OBP
.332
SLG
.484
wRC+
129
100 = avg

Justin Foscue is a second baseman for the Texas Rangers. In 2026 he hit 11 home runs and knocked in 34 RBIs, notching 61 hits across 247 plate appearances in 98 games. His batting average was .271, 11.1% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .332 clip and slugged .484, for an OPS of .816, 13.6% higher than the league mark of .719 — the second best on his team, and 57th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 89.3 mph off the bat, hit 42.1% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 9.8% of them and made contact on 79.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 129 wRC+ puts his offence 29% above average. That comes to 1.5 dbWAR — +7.4 runs with the bat, +0.4 for the ballpark, -0.3 on the bases, -0.5 on double plays, -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 regular season.

wRC+129
wOBA.355
ISO.213
BB%6.9%
WAR1.5

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +14.6 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting+7.4Ballpark+0.4Baserunning-0.3Double plays-0.5Position-0.1Replacement+7.6
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

1.50.4-0.8242526

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.

Trend
2026TEX9824761113401762.271.332.484.213.3276.9%25.1%.355+7.41291.5
2025TEX49102003.111.111.222.111.1670.0%33.3%.140-1.3-24-0.1
2024TEX15442010218.048.091.071.024.0834.5%40.9%.081-8.4-66-0.8

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 LHP1621454781439.324.395.586.42324.1%
vs RHP8681143323.173.209.296.22326.7%

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

Barrel rate
9.8%
16 barrels
Exit velocity
89.3
mph average
Max exit velo
111.0
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
42.1%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
36.0%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
18.9°
average
Barrel rate9.8%
Exit velocity89.3 mph
Hard hit rate42.1%
Contact rate79.7%

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.

—.091.083.185.10010 AB.21414 AB.23113 AB.33318 AB.29434 AB.33318 AB.40015 AB.42326 AB.31822 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 Justin Foscue 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 situations247——————.271.332.484.355
Bases empty1271192988733.244.291.487.335
Runner on first53501728214.340.377.560.405
Runners on121107323261029.299.372.477.373
RISP685715118815.263.368.404.348

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.