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Jac Caglianone
- Age
- 23
- B/T
- L/L
- Height
- 6' 4"
- Weight
- 250 lb
- Number
- #14
- Born
- February 9, 2003 in Tampa, FL, United States
- MLB debut
- June 3, 2025
- Drafted
- 2024, round 1
- College
- Florida
- High school
- Plant
- dbWAR
- 2.4 Regular season, 2 season(s)
- PA
- 553
- AVG
- .289
- OBP
- .340
- SLG
- .494
- wRC+
- 124 100 = avg
Jac Caglianone is a right fielder for the Kansas City Royals. In 2026 he hit 23 home runs and knocked in 75 RBIs, notching 148 hits across 553 plate appearances in 143 games. His batting average was .289, 18.5% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .340 clip and slugged .494, for an OPS of .834, 16.0% higher than the league mark of .719 — the best on his team, and 38th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 93.3 mph off the bat, hit 54.7% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 11.9% of them and made contact on 70.6% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 124 wRC+ puts his offence 24% above average. That comes to 3.4 dbWAR — +19.4 runs with the bat, -1.6 for the ballpark, -0.2 on the bases, +3.8 on double plays, -6.0 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 +32.7 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.
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 170 | 163 | 42 | 7 | 2 | 50 | .258 | .288 | .442 | .317 | 29.4% |
| vs RHP | 383 | 349 | 106 | 16 | 31 | 94 | .304 | .363 | .519 | .381 | 24.5% |
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 369 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 11.9% 44 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 93.3 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 116.1 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 54.7% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 36.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 7.7° 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 Jac Caglianone 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 | 553 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .289 | .340 | .494 | .361 |
| Bases empty | 292 | 268 | 72 | 11 | 11 | 21 | 91 | .269 | .329 | .466 | .348 |
| Runner on first | 144 | 136 | 44 | 7 | 22 | 6 | 27 | .324 | .361 | .559 | .396 |
| Runners on | 261 | 244 | 76 | 12 | 64 | 12 | 53 | .311 | .352 | .525 | .376 |
| RISP | 117 | 108 | 32 | 5 | 42 | 6 | 26 | .296 | .342 | .481 | .352 |
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.
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.