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RF · 2026

Sal Frelick

Age
26
B/T
L/R
Height
5' 9"
Weight
191 lb
Number
#10
Born
April 19, 2000 in Boston, MA, USA
MLB debut
July 22, 2023
Drafted
2021, round 1
College
Boston College
dbWAR
2.7
3 season(s)
PA
313
AVG
.236
OBP
.301
SLG
.330
wRC+
76
100 = avg

Sal Frelick is a right fielder for the Milwaukee Brewers. In 2026 he hit 4 home runs and knocked in 34 RBIs, notching 65 hits across 313 plate appearances in 88 games. His batting average was .236, 3.3% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .301 clip and slugged .330, for an OPS of .630, 12.4% lower than the league mark of .719 — 12th of 14 on his team, and 335th of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 85.1 mph off the bat, hit 27.9% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 89.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 76 wRC+ puts his offence 24% below average. That comes to -0.3 dbWAR — -9.0 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, -3.9 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+76
wOBA.283
ISO.094
BB%8.0%
WAR-.3

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to -2.6 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting-9.0Baserunning-0.0Position-3.9Replacement+10.4
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

2.31.0-0.3242526

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 LHP756812148.176.240.250.22610.7%
vs RHP2382085332123.255.320.356.3029.7%

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.

.214.100.083.167.43816 AB.26730 AB.31316 AB.28025 AB.13936 AB.20729 AB.25016 AB.27333 AB.37516 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.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2026883136543462531.236.301.330.094.2508.0%9.9%.283-9.076-0.3
20251415941521263194780.288.351.405.117.3177.9%13.5%.335+9.61172.3
2024143524123232183978.259.320.335.076.3067.4%14.9%.295-7.6890.6

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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.