Players · J · DH · 2026 regular season
Jace Jung
- Age
- 26
- B/T
- L/R
- Height
- 5' 11"
- Weight
- 205 lb
- Number
- #17
- Born
- October 4, 2000 in San Antonio, TX, United States
- MLB debut
- August 16, 2024
- Drafted
- 2022, round 1
- College
- Texas Tech
- High school
- MacArthur
- dbWAR
- -.2 Regular season, 3 season(s)
- PA
- 11
- AVG
- .222
- OBP
- .364
- SLG
- .222
- wRC+
- 85 100 = avg
Jace Jung is a designated hitter for the Detroit Tigers. In 2026 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 2 hits across 11 plate appearances in 6 games. His batting average was .222, 8.9% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .364 clip and slugged .222, for an OPS of .586, 18.5% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 84.2 mph off the bat, hit 16.7% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 76.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 85 wRC+ puts his offence 15% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -0.2 runs with the bat, +0.0 for the ballpark, -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 regular season.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to -0.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.
WAR by season
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
Separate from the regular season
Postseason Postseason
Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.
Postseason batting
| Season | Team | Round | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | AVG | OBP | SLG | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Post | DET | ALDS | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .333 | .000 | .333 |
Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs RHP | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | .222 | .364 | .222 | .294 | 27.3% |
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 6 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 84.2 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 107.1 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 16.7% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 83.3% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 22.7° 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 | 11 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .222 | .364 | .222 | .294 |
| Bases empty · thin | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .250 | .400 | .250 | .323 |
| 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 | .270 |
| 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.
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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.