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CJ Abrams

Washington Nationals National League EastSS

Age: 26
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 191 lb
Number: #5

Born: October 3, 2000 in Alpharetta, GA, United States
MLB debut: April 8, 2022
Drafted: 2019, round 1
High school: Blessed Trinity
Salary, 2026: $4.2M

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dbWAR: 17.0
PA: 654
AVG: .261
OBP: .336
SLG: .497
wRC+: 123

CJ Abrams is a shortstop for the Washington Nationals. In 2026 he hit 33 home runs and knocked in 106 RBIs, notching 151 hits across 654 plate appearances in 152 games. His batting average was .261, 6.9% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .336 clip and slugged .497, for an OPS of .834, 16.0% higher than the league mark of .719 — 4th of 16 on his team, and 39th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 89.6 mph off the bat, hit 40.6% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 9.6% of them and made contact on 70.4% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 123 wRC+ puts his offence 23% above average. That comes to 5.3 dbWAR — +21.9 runs with the bat, -1.7 for the ballpark, +3.5 on the bases, -0.5 on double plays, +7.8 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 regular season.

wRC+123

wOBA.359

ISO.237

BB%8.7%

WAR5.3

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +51.2 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.


2026	WSH	152	654	151	33	106	34	57	158	.261	.336	.497	.237	.299	8.7%	24.2%	.359	+21.9	123	5.3
2025	WSH	144	635	149	19	60	31	37	125	.257	.315	.433	.176	.296	5.8%	19.7%	.325	+5.2	107	4.3
2024	WSH	138	602	133	20	65	31	40	128	.246	.314	.433	.187	.285	6.6%	21.3%	.324	+5.9	109	3.8
2023	WSH	151	614	138	18	64	47	32	118	.245	.300	.412	.167	.279	5.2%	19.2%	.308	-6.2	90	3.3
2022	WSH/SD	88	302	70	2	21	7	5	50	.246	.280	.324	.077	.291	1.7%	16.6%	.268	-10.6	69	0.4

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	206	192	46	8	11	63	.240	.282	.448	.314	30.6%
vs RHP	448	387	105	25	46	95	.271	.362	.522	.380	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 426 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 9.6%
Exit velocity: 89.6
Max exit velo: 110.8
Hard hit: 40.6%
Sweet spot: 35.0%
Launch angle: 18.0°

Barrel rate9.6%

Exit velocity89.6 mph

Hard hit rate40.6%

Contact rate70.4%

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.

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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 CJ Abrams 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	654	—	—	—	—	—	—	.261	.336	.497	.359
Bases empty	368	332	79	17	17	29	95	.238	.313	.446	.332
Runner on first	129	112	29	10	25	15	29	.259	.357	.625	.416
Runners on	286	247	72	16	89	28	63	.291	.367	.567	.394
RISP	157	135	43	6	64	13	34	.319	.376	.519	.376

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.

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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.