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Heriberto Hernández

Age: 27
B/T: R/R
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 195 lb
Number: #13

Born: December 16, 1999 in Bonao, Dominican Republic
MLB debut: May 30, 2025

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dbWAR: 3.2
PA: 505
AVG: .230
OBP: .315
SLG: .444
wRC+: 113

Heriberto Hernández is a left fielder for the Miami Marlins. In 2026 he hit 25 home runs and knocked in 67 RBIs, notching 103 hits across 505 plate appearances in 130 games. His batting average was .230, 5.8% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .315 clip and slugged .444, for an OPS of .759, 5.6% higher than the league mark of .719 — 6th of 16 on his team, and 130th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 91.5 mph off the bat, hit 48.4% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 12.1% of them and made contact on 67.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 113 wRC+ puts his offence 13% above average. That comes to 2.0 dbWAR — +6.1 runs with the bat, +0.8 for the ballpark, -0.1 on the bases, +1.3 on double plays, -4.4 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+113

wOBA.333

ISO.214

BB%10.3%

WAR2.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +19.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting Regular season

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

																					Trend
2026	MIA	130	505	103	25	67	13	52	134	.230	.315	.444	.214	.269	10.3%	26.5%	.333	+6.1	113	2.0
2025	MIA	86	294	68	10	45	1	31	77	.266	.347	.438	.172	.335	10.5%	26.2%	.344	+7.0	125	1.2

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	164	145	33	10	16	35	.228	.311	.490	.344	21.3%
vs RHP	341	303	70	15	36	99	.231	.317	.422	.328	29.0%

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

Barrel rate: 12.1%
Exit velocity: 91.5
Max exit velo: 111.3
Hard hit: 48.4%
Sweet spot: 33.8%
Launch angle: 13.2°

Barrel rate12.1%

Exit velocity91.5 mph

Hard hit rate48.4%

Contact rate67.5%

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.

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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 Heriberto Hernández 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	505	—	—	—	—	—	—	.230	.315	.444	.333
Bases empty	266	239	55	16	16	24	75	.230	.308	.469	.339
Runner on first	119	102	23	3	9	16	26	.225	.336	.392	.329
Runners on	239	209	48	9	51	28	59	.230	.322	.416	.327
RISP	120	107	25	6	42	12	33	.234	.308	.439	.324

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2026.

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Similar players

Nearest 2026 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Sal StewartCIN

wRC+: 119
HR: 32
AVG: .263
WAR: 2.9

Jake BurgerTEX

wRC+: 102
HR: 28
AVG: .228
WAR: 1.4

Corey SeagerTEX

wRC+: 105
HR: 20
AVG: .227
WAR: 1.9

Michael ConfortoCHC

wRC+: 118
HR: 15
AVG: .240
WAR: 1.1

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.