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David Fry

Cleveland Guardians American League CentralLF

Age: 31
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 215 lb
Number: #6

Born: November 20, 1995 in Colleyville, TX, United States
MLB debut: May 1, 2023
Drafted: 2018, round 7
College: Northwestern State
Salary, 2026: $1.38M

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dbWAR: 1.4
PA: 214
AVG: .201
OBP: .313
SLG: .364
wRC+: 91

David Fry is a left fielder for the Cleveland Guardians. In 2026 he hit 8 home runs and knocked in 20 RBIs, notching 37 hits across 214 plate appearances in 90 games. His batting average was .201, 17.6% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .313 clip and slugged .364, for an OPS of .677, 5.8% lower than the league mark of .719 — 10th of 15 on his team, and 285th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 85.4 mph off the bat, hit 34.7% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 4.8% of them and made contact on 71.1% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 91 wRC+ puts his offence 9% below average. That comes to 0.2 dbWAR — -2.1 runs with the bat, -0.1 for the ballpark, -0.3 on the bases, -0.3 on double plays, -1.9 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+91

wOBA.307

ISO.163

BB%13.1%

WAR.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +1.9 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 — postseason games are listed separately below.


2026	CLE	90	214	37	8	20	0	28	59	.201	.313	.364	.163	.248	13.1%	27.6%	.307	-2.1	91	0.2
2025	CLE	66	157	25	8	23	1	9	58	.171	.229	.363	.192	.212	5.7%	36.9%	.258	-7.4	60	-0.7
2024	CLE	122	392	88	14	51	4	42	84	.263	.356	.448	.185	.307	10.7%	21.4%	.350	+12.1	123	1.7
2023	CLE	44	113	24	4	15	2	8	30	.238	.319	.416	.178	.299	7.1%	26.5%	.323	+0.3	105	0.6

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.

																				Trend
2023	CLE	2	0	5.0	0	0	0	10	7	0	1	12.60	11.66	2.20	0.0	1.8	291	269	-0.4	—

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason batting

Postseason David Fry's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2026 Post	CLE	Postseason total · through Oct 19	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
		ALDS	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
		ALCS	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
2024 Post	CLE	Postseason total	10	31	28	4	8	1	2	8	2	11	1	.286	.333	.536	.869
		ALDS	5	18	16	3	4	1	1	5	1	6	1	.250	.294	.500	.794
		ALCS	5	13	12	1	4	0	1	3	1	5	0	.333	.385	.583	.968
Career		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	13	34	31	4	8	1	2	8	2	13	1	.258	.303	.484	.787

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

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	148	123	22	5	23	45	.179	.318	.325	.301	30.4%
vs RHP	66	61	15	3	5	14	.246	.303	.443	.320	21.2%

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

Barrel rate: 4.8%
Exit velocity: 85.4
Max exit velo: 108.0
Hard hit: 34.7%
Sweet spot: 28.2%
Launch angle: 19.9°

Barrel rate4.8%

Exit velocity85.4 mph

Hard hit rate34.7%

Contact rate71.1%

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 David Fry 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	214	—	—	—	—	—	—	.201	.313	.364	.307
Bases empty	122	105	23	4	4	16	36	.219	.328	.371	.318
Runner on first	45	41	8	1	2	4	14	.195	.267	.293	.256
Runners on	92	79	14	4	16	12	23	.177	.293	.354	.291
RISP	47	38	6	3	14	8	9	.158	.319	.421	.325

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

Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.


Fastball	79.2%	57	56.9	1,532	26.3%	3.3%	21	.429	1.359
Eephus	20.8%	15	52.3	1,415	40.0%	0.0%	4	—	—

David Fry's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters. BAA and OPS are what hitters did against each pitch, credited to the one that ended the plate appearance, and are left blank under 15 at-bats.

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Similar players

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

LaMonte Wade Jr.HOU

wRC+: 89
HR: 4
AVG: .205
WAR: 0.0

Very close

Tyler O'NeillBAL

wRC+: 93
HR: 10
AVG: .212
WAR: 0.2

Kyle HigashiokaTEX

wRC+: 93
HR: 7
AVG: .218
WAR: 0.6

Cal RaleighSEA

wRC+: 90
HR: 23
AVG: .182
WAR: 1.5

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.