SS · 2026
CJ Abrams
- Age
- 26
- B/T
- L/R
- Height
- 6' 0"
- Weight
- 191 lb
- Number
- #5
- Born
- October 3, 2000 in Alpharetta, GA, USA
- MLB debut
- April 8, 2022
- Drafted
- 2019, round 1
- High school
- Blessed Trinity
- Salary, 2026
- $4.2M
- dbWAR
- 12.5 3 season(s)
- PA
- 498
- AVG
- .287
- OBP
- .359
- SLG
- .544
- wRC+
- 144 100 = avg
CJ Abrams is a shortstop for the Washington Nationals. In 2026 he hit 28 home runs and knocked in 89 RBIs, notching 126 hits across 498 plate appearances in 116 games. His batting average was .287, 17.8% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .359 clip and slugged .544, for an OPS of .904, 25.6% higher than the league mark of .719 — the second best on his team, and 11th of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 89.8 mph off the bat, hit 42.4% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 71.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 144 wRC+ puts his offence 44% above average. That comes to 5.2 dbWAR — +28.2 runs with the bat, +1.6 on the bases, +5.3 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.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +51.7 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 154 | 143 | 37 | 5 | 8 | 47 | .259 | .299 | .448 | .322 | 30.5% |
| vs RHP | 344 | 296 | 89 | 23 | 34 | 67 | .301 | .387 | .591 | .416 | 19.5% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2026.
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Hot and cold zones
Batting average by pitch location, 2026.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 116 | 498 | 126 | 28 | 89 | 22 | 42 | 114 | .287 | .359 | .544 | .257 | .323 | 8.4% | 22.9% | .387 | +28.2 | 144 | 5.2 | |
| 2025 | 144 | 635 | 149 | 19 | 60 | 31 | 37 | 125 | .257 | .315 | .433 | .176 | .296 | 5.8% | 19.7% | .325 | +5.2 | 107 | 3.9 | |
| 2024 | 138 | 602 | 133 | 20 | 65 | 31 | 40 | 128 | .246 | .314 | .433 | .187 | .285 | 6.6% | 21.3% | .324 | +5.9 | 109 | 3.5 |
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Nearest 2026 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.
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.