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Graham Pauley

Age: 26
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 200 lb
Number: #21

Born: September 24, 2000 in Alpharetta, GA, United States
MLB debut: March 20, 2024
Drafted: 2022, round 13
College: Duke
High school: Milton

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dbWAR: .3
PA: 154
AVG: .211
OBP: .257
SLG: .373
wRC+: 72

Graham Pauley is a third baseman for the Miami Marlins. In 2026 he hit 4 home runs and knocked in 25 RBIs, notching 30 hits across 154 plate appearances in 53 games. His batting average was .211, 13.4% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .257 clip and slugged .373, for an OPS of .630, 12.4% lower than the league mark of .719 — 14th of 16 on his team, and 361st of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 84.0 mph off the bat, hit 26.2% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 6.5% of them and made contact on 77.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 72 wRC+ puts his offence 28% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -5.5 runs with the bat, +0.2 for the ballpark, -0.4 on the bases, -0.1 on double plays, +0.5 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+72

wOBA.275

ISO.162

BB%5.2%

WAR-.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to -0.4 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting Regular season

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


2026	MIA	53	154	30	4	25	1	8	37	.211	.257	.373	.162	.255	5.2%	24.0%	.275	-5.5	72	-0.0
2025	MIA	57	184	36	4	11	2	21	36	.224	.311	.366	.143	.262	11.4%	19.6%	.303	-1.8	96	0.7
2024	SD	13	32	4	2	5	0	0	15	.125	.125	.313	.188	.133	0.0%	46.9%	.183	-3.4	9	-0.3

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

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.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHP	10	8	1	0	0	3	.125	.125	.125	.112	30.0%
vs RHP	144	134	29	4	8	34	.216	.264	.388	.285	23.6%

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

Barrel rate: 6.5%
Exit velocity: 84.0
Max exit velo: 107.9
Hard hit: 26.2%
Sweet spot: 35.5%
Launch angle: 17.6°

Barrel rate6.5%

Exit velocity84.0 mph

Hard hit rate26.2%

Contact rate77.7%

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.

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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 Graham Pauley 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.
Situation	PA	AB	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
All situations	154	—	—	—	—	—	—	.211	.257	.373	.275
Bases empty	78	71	13	0	0	6	21	.183	.256	.225	.228
Runner on first	37	35	6	2	5	1	11	.171	.194	.400	.252
Runners on	76	71	17	4	25	2	16	.239	.257	.521	.325
RISP	39	36	11	2	20	1	5	.306	.316	.639	.395

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

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Nearest 2026 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Jeremiah JacksonBAL

wRC+: 64
HR: 10
AVG: .217
WAR: -0.4

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wRC+: 64
HR: 13
AVG: .219
WAR: 0.3

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Jacob GonzalezPIT

wRC+: 72
HR: 7
AVG: .220
WAR: 0.0

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wRC+: 80
HR: 8
AVG: .234
WAR: 0.5

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.