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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
dbWAR
3.0
2 season(s)
PA
497
AVG
.227
OBP
.314
SLG
.432
wRC+
110
100 = avg

Heriberto Hernández is a left fielder for the Miami Marlins. So far in 2026 he has hit 24 home runs and knocked in 65 RBIs, notching 100 hits across 497 plate appearances in 128 games. His batting average is .227, 6.8% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .314 clip and slugged .432, for an OPS of .746, 3.8% higher than the league mark of .719 — 6th of 16 on his team, and 147th of 462 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 91.3 mph off the bat, hit 47.7% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 11.7% of them and made contact on 67.6% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 110 wRC+ puts his offence 10% above average. That comes to 1.8 dbWAR — +4.2 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.

wRC+110
wOBA.329
ISO.205
BB%10.5%
WAR1.8

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +17.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting+4.2Ballpark+0.8Baserunning-0.1Double plays+1.3Position-4.4Replacement+15.4
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

1.80.90.02526

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2026MIA12849710024651352132.227.314.432.205.26710.5%26.6%.329+4.21101.8
2025MIA8629468104513177.266.347.438.172.33510.5%26.2%.344+7.01251.2

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 LHP16214333101635.231.315.497.34821.6%
vs RHP33529767143697.226.313.401.31929.0%

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

Barrel rate
11.7%
36 barrels
Exit velocity
91.3
mph average
Max exit velo
111.3
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
47.7%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
32.8%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
13.0°
average
Barrel rate11.7%
Exit velocity91.3 mph
Hard hit rate47.7%
Contact rate67.6%

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.

.000.350.053.100.32025 AB.17634 AB.29031 AB.09731 AB.31760 AB.31969 AB.35317 AB.22540 AB.16237 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 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.
SituationPAABHHRRBIBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBA
All situations497——————.227.314.432.329
Bases empty2612345315152474.226.307.453.333
Runner on first1169922381625.222.336.374.324
Runners on236206479502858.228.322.408.324
RISP120107256421233.234.308.439.324

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

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

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.