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Players · F · 3B · 2026 regular season

Cody Freeman

Age
25
B/T
R/R
Height
5' 9"
Weight
180 lb
Number
#39
Born
January 5, 2001 in Pomona, CA, United States
MLB debut
July 18, 2025
Drafted
2019, round 4
High school
Etiwanda

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dbWAR
-.1
Regular season, 2 season(s)
PA
97
AVG
.247
OBP
.319
SLG
.318
wRC+
85
100 = avg

Cody Freeman is a third baseman for the Texas Rangers. In 2026 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 6 RBIs, notching 21 hits across 97 plate appearances in 34 games. His batting average was .247, 1.3% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .319 clip and slugged .318, for an OPS of .637, 11.4% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 80.1 mph off the bat, hit 22.5% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 1.4% of them and made contact on 83.1% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 85 wRC+ puts his offence 15% below average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — -2.0 runs with the bat, +0.2 for the ballpark, -0.4 on the bases, -0.6 on double plays, +0.6 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+85
wOBA.293
ISO.071
BB%8.2%
WAR.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +0.7 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting-2.0Ballpark+0.2Baserunning-0.4Double plays-0.6Position+0.6Replacement+3.0
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

0.1-0.1-0.22526

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.

Trend
2026TEX349721161815.247.319.318.071.2908.2%15.5%.293-2.0850.1
2025TEX36121263151519.228.258.342.114.2474.1%15.7%.262-5.367-0.2

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 LHP494112147.293.370.415.35314.3%
vs RHP48449048.205.271.227.23516.7%

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

Barrel rate
1.4%
1 barrels
Exit velocity
80.1
mph average
Max exit velo
104.5
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
22.5%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
25.0%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
5.9°
average
Barrel rate1.4%
Exit velocity80.1 mph
Hard hit rate22.5%
Contact rate83.1%

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.

—————7 AB—5 AB—2 AB—4 AB.2229 AB.18211 AB—7 AB.3339 AB.1119 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 Cody Freeman 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 situations97——————.247.319.318.293
Bases empty6156131149.232.295.304.275
Runner on first · thin221840123.222.300.333.289
Runners on362980546.276.364.345.327
RISP · thin141140423.364.462.364.386

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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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.