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Jacob Wilson

Age: 24
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 190 lb
Number: #5

Born: March 30, 2002 in Los Angeles, CA, United States
MLB debut: July 19, 2024
Drafted: 2023, round 1
College: Grand Canyon
Salary, 2026: $1.43M

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dbWAR: 4.8
PA: 337
AVG: .266
OBP: .298
SLG: .388
wRC+: 79

Jacob Wilson is a shortstop for the Athletics. In 2026 he hit 7 home runs and knocked in 37 RBIs, notching 85 hits across 337 plate appearances in 80 games. His batting average was .266, 8.9% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .298 clip and slugged .388, for an OPS of .685, 4.7% lower than the league mark of .719 — 10th of 17 on his team, and 271st of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 83.5 mph off the bat, hit 27.9% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 1.8% of them and made contact on 85.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 79 wRC+ puts his offence 21% below average. That comes to 0.8 dbWAR — -4.7 runs with the bat, -2.4 for the ballpark, +0.4 on the bases, -0.3 on double plays, +4.3 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+79

wOBA.302

ISO.122

BB%3.6%

WAR.8

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +7.6 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.


2026	ATH	80	337	85	7	37	4	12	39	.266	.298	.388	.122	.284	3.6%	11.6%	.302	-4.7	79	0.8
2025	ATH	125	523	151	13	63	5	27	39	.311	.355	.444	.134	.317	5.2%	7.5%	.350	+15.0	121	3.8
2024	OAK	27	103	23	0	3	0	8	10	.250	.314	.315	.065	.277	7.8%	9.7%	.284	-2.4	81	0.2

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

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.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHP	116	108	26	2	5	12	.241	.278	.370	.285	10.3%
vs RHP	221	212	59	5	7	27	.278	.308	.396	.310	12.2%

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

Barrel rate: 1.8%
Exit velocity: 83.5
Max exit velo: 105.6
Hard hit: 27.9%
Sweet spot: 32.9%
Launch angle: 7.1°

Barrel rate1.8%

Exit velocity83.5 mph

Hard hit rate27.9%

Contact rate85.2%

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.

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

Split by

By who is on base when he comes up. The season line is repeated as the baseline.
Situation	PA	AB	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
All situations	337	—	—	—	—	—	—	.266	.298	.388	.302
Bases empty	196	188	49	3	3	7	22	.261	.291	.356	.287
Runner on first	60	55	15	3	8	2	9	.273	.322	.509	.359
Runners on	141	132	36	4	34	5	17	.273	.307	.432	.322
RISP	81	77	21	1	26	3	8	.273	.296	.377	.295

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.

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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.