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RF · 2026

Joey Wiemer

Age
27
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 4"
Weight
226 lb
Born
February 11, 1999 in Sylvania, OH, USA
MLB debut
April 1, 2023
Drafted
2020, round 4
College
Cincinnati
dbWAR
.3
4 season(s)
PA
83
AVG
.286
OBP
.398
SLG
.514
wRC+
154
100 = avg

Joey Wiemer is a right fielder for the Washington Nationals. In 2026 he hit 3 home runs and knocked in 12 RBIs, notching 20 hits across 83 plate appearances in 27 games. His batting average was .286, 17.3% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .398 clip and slugged .514, for an OPS of .912, 26.8% higher than the league mark of .719. He averaged 87.4 mph off the bat, hit 40.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 68.1% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 154 wRC+ puts his offence 54% above average. That comes to 0.8 dbWAR — +5.7 runs with the bat, +0.1 on the bases, -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.

wRC+154
wOBA.401
ISO.229
BB%14.5%
WAR.8

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +7.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting+5.7Baserunning+0.1Position-0.6Replacement+2.8
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

0.80.3-0.3242526

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 LHP4337133614.351.442.757.50132.6%
vs RHP403370615.212.350.242.29237.5%
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 LHB432000.667.750.667.6320.0%
vs RHB1295120.556.5831.000.6160.0%

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.

.200.2004 AB4 AB2 AB6 AB6 AB7 AB4 AB6 AB5 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.

Pitch sequencing

What Joey Wiemer 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, and how often it misses in 2026.

Fastball48.9%2278.22,08931.8%0.0%
Slider35.6%1661.91,48425.0%0.0%
Joey Wiemer'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.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
202627832031211229.286.398.514.229.44714.5%34.9%.401+5.71540.8
20252061133120223.236.279.436.200.3233.3%37.7%.297-0.9910.0
20241328400129.154.214.154.000.2357.1%32.1%.178-3.16-0.3

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2026202.0000750222.5014.094.500.09.0539337-0.2

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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.