DH · 2026
Jace Jung
- Age
- 26
- B/T
- L/R
- Height
- 5' 11"
- Weight
- 205 lb
- Number
- #17
- Born
- October 4, 2000 in San Antonio, TX, USA
- MLB debut
- August 16, 2024
- Drafted
- 2022, round 1
- College
- Texas Tech
- High school
- MacArthur
- dbWAR
- -.1 3 season(s)
- PA
- 8
- AVG
- .167
- OBP
- .375
- SLG
- .167
- wRC+
- 82 100 = avg
Jace Jung is a designated hitter for the Detroit Tigers. In 2026 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 8 plate appearances in 3 games. His batting average was .167, 31.6% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .375 clip and slugged .167, for an OPS of .542, 24.7% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 85.5 mph off the bat, hit 20.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 93.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 82 wRC+ puts his offence 18% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -0.2 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, -0.2 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.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to -0.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs RHP | 8 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | .167 | .375 | .167 | .292 | 12.5% |
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 5 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 85.5 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 107.1 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 20.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 80.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 23.4° average
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.
Situational hitting
How Jace Jung hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.
| Situation | PA | AB | H | HR | RBI | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All situations | 8 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .167 | .375 | .167 | .292 |
| Bases empty · thin | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 | .500 | .000 | .362 |
| Runner on first · thin | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .223 |
| Runners on · thin | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .200 | .333 | .200 | .269 |
| RISP · thin | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 | .500 | .000 | .362 |
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.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | .167 | .375 | .167 | .000 | .200 | 25.0% | 12.5% | .292 | -0.2 | 82 | -0.0 | |
| 2025 | 19 | 55 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 16 | .106 | .236 | .106 | .000 | .161 | 12.7% | 29.1% | .186 | -5.9 | 9 | -0.4 | |
| 2024 | 34 | 94 | 19 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 15 | 29 | .241 | .362 | .304 | .063 | .380 | 16.0% | 30.9% | .312 | -0.0 | 100 | 0.3 |
Head to head
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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.