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Angel Martínez

Age
24
B/T
S/R
Height
5' 11"
Weight
200 lb
Number
#1
Born
January 27, 2002 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
MLB debut
June 22, 2024
dbWAR
1.7
3 season(s)
PA
408
AVG
.260
OBP
.296
SLG
.475
wRC+
108
100 = avg

Angel Martínez is a right fielder for the Cleveland Guardians. So far in 2026 he has hit 18 home runs and knocked in 62 RBIs, notching 99 hits across 408 plate appearances in 105 games. His batting average is .260, 6.5% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .296 clip and slugged .475, for an OPS of .771, 7.3% higher than the league mark of .719 — the second best on his team, and 109th of 462 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 86.1 mph off the bat, hit 35.9% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 7.0% of them and made contact on 79.4% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 108 wRC+ puts his offence 8% above average. That comes to 1.4 dbWAR — +4.7 runs with the bat, -0.3 for the ballpark, +0.5 on the bases, -1.1 on double plays, -3.2 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.

wRC+108
wOBA.332
ISO.215
BB%3.2%
WAR1.4

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +13.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting+4.7Ballpark-0.3Baserunning+0.5Double plays-1.1Position-3.2Replacement+12.6
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

1.40.70.0242526

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2026CLE105408991862111389.260.296.475.215.2953.2%21.8%.332+4.71081.4
2025CLE1364841001145823110.224.269.359.135.2714.8%22.7%.275-16.1720.2
2024CLE431693531131533.232.298.338.106.2748.9%19.5%.284-3.9780.1

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 LHP148141437325.305.322.532.36516.9%
vs RHP26024056111064.233.281.442.31424.6%

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

Barrel rate
7.0%
21 barrels
Exit velocity
86.1
mph average
Max exit velo
110.1
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
35.9%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
37.9%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
13.7°
average
Barrel rate7.0%
Exit velocity86.1 mph
Hard hit rate35.9%
Contact rate79.4%

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.

.188.083.222.160.2229 AB.52223 AB.10519 AB.30333 AB.18937 AB.32128 AB.24025 AB.38644 AB.36422 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 Angel Martínez 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 situations408——————.260.296.475.332
Bases empty2122014878752.239.278.418.303
Runner on first1019329715215.312.347.613.409
Runners on196180511154637.283.316.539.365
RISP958722439422.253.283.460.318

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.