Players · S · 3B · 2026 regular season
Javier Sanoja
- Age
- 24
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 5' 7"
- Weight
- 150 lb
- Number
- #8
- Born
- September 3, 2002 in Maracay, Venezuela
- MLB debut
- September 7, 2024
- dbWAR
- 2.8 Regular season, 5 season(s)
- PA
- 490
- AVG
- .295
- OBP
- .333
- SLG
- .458
- wRC+
- 121 100 = avg
Javier Sanoja is a third baseman for the Miami Marlins. In 2026 he hit 11 home runs and knocked in 69 RBIs, notching 136 hits across 490 plate appearances in 136 games. His batting average was .295, 20.9% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .333 clip and slugged .458, for an OPS of .791, 10.0% higher than the league mark of .719 — the third best on his team, and 86th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 86.2 mph off the bat, hit 32.5% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 2.4% of them and made contact on 88.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 121 wRC+ puts his offence 21% above average. That comes to 2.6 dbWAR — +10.2 runs with the bat, +0.7 for the ballpark, -0.5 on the bases, -0.4 on double plays, +0.8 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 +25.4 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.
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 153 | 144 | 47 | 4 | 9 | 16 | .326 | .366 | .507 | .378 | 10.5% |
| vs RHP | 337 | 317 | 89 | 7 | 18 | 23 | .281 | .318 | .435 | .328 | 6.8% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 17 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .400 | .412 | .667 | .447 | 5.9% |
| vs RHB | 10 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .556 | .600 | 1.111 | .704 | 0.0% |
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 422 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 2.4% 10 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 86.2 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 108.4 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 32.5% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 34.5% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 11.3° 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 Javier Sanoja 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 | 490 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .295 | .333 | .458 | .344 |
| Bases empty | 272 | 257 | 75 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 22 | .292 | .331 | .440 | .338 |
| Runner on first | 79 | 75 | 22 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 8 | .293 | .329 | .427 | .332 |
| Runners on | 218 | 204 | 61 | 6 | 64 | 12 | 17 | .299 | .336 | .480 | .351 |
| RISP | 139 | 129 | 39 | 5 | 59 | 8 | 9 | .302 | .341 | .512 | .362 |
Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2026.
Pitch sequencing
What Javier Sanoja 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, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.
| Fastball | 73 | 60.2 | 1,415 | 31.5% | 2.6% | 24 | .458 | 1.315 |
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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.