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RF · 2026

Jac Caglianone

Age
23
B/T
L/L
Height
6' 4"
Weight
250 lb
Number
#14
Born
February 9, 2003 in Tampa, FL, USA
MLB debut
June 3, 2025
Drafted
2024, round 1
College
Florida
High school
Plant
dbWAR
.6
2 season(s)
PA
426
AVG
.264
OBP
.317
SLG
.480
wRC+
116
100 = avg

Jac Caglianone is a right fielder for the Kansas City Royals. In 2026 he hit 20 home runs and knocked in 49 RBIs, notching 104 hits across 426 plate appearances in 110 games. His batting average was .264, 8.3% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .317 clip and slugged .480, for an OPS of .797, 10.7% higher than the league mark of .719 — the second best on his team, and 83rd of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 93.0 mph off the bat, hit 55.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 71.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 116 wRC+ puts his offence 16% above average. That comes to 1.6 dbWAR — +9.4 runs with the bat, -0.5 on the bases, -7.0 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.

wRC+116
wOBA.345
ISO.216
BB%6.3%
WAR1.6

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +16.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting+9.4Baserunning-0.5Position-7.0Replacement+14.2
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

1.60.3-1.02526

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

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.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP121117285137.239.264.419.29530.6%
vs RHP30527776152676.274.338.505.36524.9%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2026.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2026.

.150.118.125.276.30423 AB.26715 AB.41217 AB.40632 AB.43957 AB.31332 AB.11435 AB.19436 AB.28025 AB
Below averageLeague averageAbove average
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.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
20261104261042049427113.264.317.480.216.3216.3%26.5%.345+9.41161.6
2025622323371811852.157.237.295.138.1727.8%22.4%.241-14.349-1.0

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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.