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Andrew Vaughn

Age
28
B/T
R/R
Height
5' 10"
Weight
215 lb
Number
#28
Born
April 3, 1998 in Santa Rosa, CA, United States
MLB debut
April 2, 2021
Drafted
2019, round 1
College
California
Salary, 2026
$7.65M
dbWAR
5.3
7 season(s)
PA
331
AVG
.306
OBP
.390
SLG
.444
wRC+
136
100 = avg

Andrew Vaughn is a first baseman for the Milwaukee Brewers. So far in 2026 he has hit 6 home runs and knocked in 44 RBIs, notching 88 hits across 331 plate appearances in 104 games. His batting average is .306, 25.3% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .390 clip and slugged .444, for an OPS of .834, 16.1% higher than the league mark of .719 — the second best on his team, and 36th of 462 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 90.1 mph off the bat, hit 43.5% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 5.1% of them and made contact on 80.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 136 wRC+ puts his offence 36% above average. That comes to 2.0 dbWAR — +14.4 runs with the bat, -0.1 for the ballpark, -0.6 on the bases, -1.1 on double plays, -4.0 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+136
wOBA.371
ISO.139
BB%10.6%
WAR2.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +18.8 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting+14.4Ballpark-0.1Baserunning-0.6Double plays-1.1Position-4.0Replacement+10.1
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

2.01.00.0212223242526

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2026MIL1043318864403553.306.390.444.139.35510.6%16.0%.371+14.41362.0
2025MIL/CWS112447103146503180.254.307.411.158.2806.9%17.9%.313-0.71010.5
2024CWS1496191401970238132.246.297.402.156.2856.1%21.3%.305-3.5970.6
2023CWS1516151462180036129.258.314.429.171.2995.9%21.0%.323+1.41020.9
2022CWS134555138177603196.271.321.429.159.3015.6%17.3%.328+7.41071.7
2021CWS127469981548141101.235.309.396.161.2718.7%21.5%.309-3.1940.4

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2026MIL203.000012101530.0025.775.673.015.0718617-0.7—

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 LHP1331163921618.336.421.517.41013.5%
vs RHP1981724941935.285.369.395.34517.7%
Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2026. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB853130.600.7501.200.7480.0%
vs RHB18159321.600.6671.200.7585.6%

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

Barrel rate
5.1%
12 barrels
Exit velocity
90.1
mph average
Max exit velo
111.6
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
43.5%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
31.6%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
11.2°
average
Barrel rate5.1%
Exit velocity90.1 mph
Hard hit rate43.5%
Contact rate80.5%

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.

.250.333.350.091.35714 AB.23821 AB.46715 AB.30826 AB.44747 AB.18527 AB.35317 AB.31619 AB.31822 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 Andrew Vaughn 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 situations331——————.306.390.444.371
Bases empty15613445442021.336.429.507.415
Runner on first77671604915.239.338.328.309
Runners on175154432401532.279.354.390.332
RISP988727236617.310.367.437.351

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2026.

Pitch sequencing

What Andrew Vaughn throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Knuckle Ball44.0%3745.590713.5%27.3%8——
Fastball29.8%2551.866544.0%18.2%5——
Eephus20.2%1737.187929.4%0.0%6——
Andrew Vaughn's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters. BAA and OPS are what hitters did against each pitch, credited to the one that ended the plate appearance, and are left blank under 15 at-bats.

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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.