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Justin Crawford

Philadelphia PhilliesNational League EastCF
Age
22
B/T
L/R
Height
6' 2"
Weight
188 lb
Number
#2
Born
January 13, 2004 in Phoenix, AZ, United States
MLB debut
March 26, 2026
Drafted
2022, round 1
High school
Bishop Gorman

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dbWAR
1.2
Regular season, 1 season(s)
PA
465
AVG
.264
OBP
.309
SLG
.353
wRC+
81
100 = avg

Justin Crawford is a center fielder for the Philadelphia Phillies. In 2026 he hit 3 home runs and knocked in 41 RBIs, notching 112 hits across 465 plate appearances in 145 games. His batting average was .264, 8.0% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .309 clip and slugged .353, for an OPS of .662, 7.9% lower than the league mark of .719 — 9th of 11 on his team, and 315th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 85.4 mph off the bat, hit 35.5% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 1.4% of them and made contact on 82.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 81 wRC+ puts his offence 19% below average. That comes to 1.2 dbWAR — -8.6 runs with the bat, -1.2 for the ballpark, +1.1 on the bases, +2.3 on double plays, +3.5 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.

wRC+81
wOBA.296
ISO.089
BB%5.8%
WAR1.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +11.4 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting-8.6Ballpark-1.2Baserunning+1.1Double plays+2.3Position+3.5Replacement+14.4
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.

Trend
2026PHI145465112341172782.264.309.353.089.3175.8%17.6%.296-8.6811.2—

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

Postseason Justin Crawford's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
SeasonTeamRoundGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBAVGOBPSLGOPS
2026 PostPHIWild Card · through Oct 1377010000000.143.143.143.286

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.

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 LHP6660141413.233.303.300.27919.7%
vs RHP3993659822369.268.310.362.29917.3%

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 349 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate
1.4%
5 barrels
Exit velocity
85.4
mph average
Max exit velo
109.2
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
35.5%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
30.6%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
0.7°
average
Barrel rate1.4%
Exit velocity85.4 mph
Hard hit rate35.5%
Contact rate82.3%

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.

.188.100.275.148.22218 AB.31822 AB.13622 AB.15233 AB.44738 AB.40035 AB.27333 AB.24337 AB.37046 AB
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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.

Situational hitting

How Justin Crawford hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.

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By who is on base when he comes up. The season line is repeated as the baseline.
SituationPAABHHRRBIBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBA
All situations465——————.264.309.353.296
Bases empty2662556223953.243.274.322.266
Runner on first92811902713.235.303.321.284
Runners on199170501381829.294.358.400.337
RISP10789311361116.348.404.472.382

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2026.

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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.