Players · R · SS · 2026
Ben Ross
- Age
- 25
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 0"
- Weight
- 180 lb
- Number
- #1
- Born
- June 6, 2001 in Springfield, OH, United States
- MLB debut
- September 1, 2026
- Drafted
- 2022, round 5
- College
- Notre Dame
- dbWAR
- -.1 1 season(s)
- PA
- 15
- AVG
- .133
- OBP
- .133
- SLG
- .267
- wRC+
- -6 100 = avg
Ben Ross is a shortstop for the Minnesota Twins. So far in 2026 he has hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 2 hits across 15 plate appearances in 7 games. His batting average is .133, 45.4% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .133 clip and slugged .267, for an OPS of .400, 44.4% lower than the league mark of .720. He averaged 67.1 mph off the bat, hit 28.6% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 14.3% of them and made contact on 51.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -6 wRC+ puts his offence 106% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -1.9 runs with the bat, +0.0 for the ballpark, +0.0 on the bases, +0.4 on double plays, +0.1 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.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to -0.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | MIN | 7 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | .133 | .133 | .267 | .133 | .286 | 0.0% | 53.3% | .167 | -1.9 | -6 | -0.1 | — |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .667 | .418 | 0.0% |
| vs RHP | 12 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | .083 | .083 | .167 | .105 | 66.7% |
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 7 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 14.3% 1 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 67.1 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 100.6 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 28.6% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 28.6% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 24.1° 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 Ben Ross 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 | 15 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .133 | .133 | .267 | .167 |
| Bases empty · thin | 10 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | .100 | .100 | .200 | .126 |
| Runner on first · thin | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .250 | .250 | .500 | .314 |
| Runners on · thin | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .200 | .200 | .400 | .251 |
| RISP · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
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.
Head to head
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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.