Players · M · 1B · 2026
BJ Murray Jr.
- Age
- 26
- B/T
- S/R
- Height
- 5' 11"
- Weight
- 205 lb
- Number
- #83
- Born
- January 5, 2000 in Nassau, Bahamas
- MLB debut
- September 1, 2026
- Drafted
- 2021, round 15
- College
- Florida Atlantic
- High school
- Trinity Christian
- dbWAR
- -.2 1 season(s)
- PA
- 11
- AVG
- .091
- OBP
- .091
- SLG
- .091
- wRC+
- -65 100 = avg
BJ Murray Jr. is a first baseman for the Chicago Cubs. So far in 2026 he has hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 11 plate appearances in 6 games. His batting average is .091, 62.8% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .091 clip and slugged .091, for an OPS of .182, 74.7% lower than the league mark of .720. He averaged 86.5 mph off the bat, hit 42.9% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 83.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -65 wRC+ puts his offence 165% below average. That comes to -0.2 dbWAR — -2.2 runs with the bat, -0.0 for the ballpark, -0.0 on the bases, -0.2 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.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to -2.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | CHC | 6 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .091 | .091 | .091 | .000 | .143 | 0.0% | 36.4% | .081 | -2.2 | -65 | -0.2 | — |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 7 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .143 | .143 | .143 | .128 | 14.3% |
| vs RHP | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 75.0% |
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 7 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 86.5 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 97.9 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 42.9% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 14.3% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 27.6° average
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.
Situational hitting
How BJ Murray Jr. hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.
| Situation | PA | AB | H | HR | RBI | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All situations | 11 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .091 | .091 | .091 | .081 |
| Bases empty · thin | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runner on first · thin | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | .894 |
| Runners on · thin | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .298 |
| RISP · thin | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .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.
Head to head
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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.