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Players · B · 2B · 2026

Juan Brito

Age
25
B/T
S/R
Height
6' 0"
Weight
202 lb
Number
#46
Born
September 24, 2001 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
MLB debut
April 7, 2026
dbWAR
.3
1 season(s)
PA
107
AVG
.263
OBP
.308
SLG
.414
wRC+
97
100 = avg

Juan Brito is a second baseman for the Cleveland Guardians. So far in 2026 he has hit 3 home runs and knocked in 14 RBIs, notching 26 hits across 107 plate appearances in 29 games. His batting average is .263, 7.7% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .308 clip and slugged .414, for an OPS of .723, 0.6% higher than the league mark of .719 — 4th of 16 on his team, and 188th of 462 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 85.7 mph off the bat, hit 32.9% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 6.6% of them and made contact on 73.1% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 97 wRC+ puts his offence 3% below average. That comes to 0.3 dbWAR — -0.2 runs with the bat, -0.1 for the ballpark, +0.1 on the bases, -0.9 on double plays, +0.8 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+97
wOBA.317
ISO.152
BB%5.6%
WAR.3

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +3.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting-0.2Ballpark-0.1Baserunning+0.1Double plays-0.9Position+0.8Replacement+3.3
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2026CLE/CIN29107263141624.263.308.414.152.3155.6%22.4%.317-0.2970.3—

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 LHP4441162211.390.409.634.44225.0%
vs RHP6358101413.172.238.259.22920.6%

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

Barrel rate
6.6%
5 barrels
Exit velocity
85.7
mph average
Max exit velo
107.2
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
32.9%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
38.2%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
16.6°
average
Barrel rate6.6%
Exit velocity85.7 mph
Hard hit rate32.9%
Contact rate73.1%

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.

——.059.375—3 AB.2229 AB—6 AB.50012 AB.33312 AB—5 AB—6 AB.18211 AB—3 AB
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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 Juan Brito 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 situations107——————.263.308.414.317
Bases empty58541211311.222.276.333.273
Runner on first · thin232380106.348.348.391.327
Runners on494514213313.311.347.511.368
RISP2622621237.273.346.636.405

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.

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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.