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Bryce Eldridge

Age
22
B/T
L/R
Height
6' 7"
Weight
251 lb
Number
#8
Born
October 20, 2004 in Fairfax, VA, United States
MLB debut
September 15, 2025
Drafted
2023, round 1
High school
Madison
dbWAR
2.3
2 season(s)
PA
448
AVG
.269
OBP
.364
SLG
.461
wRC+
134
100 = avg

Bryce Eldridge is a designated hitter for the San Francisco Giants. So far in 2026 he has hit 17 home runs and knocked in 57 RBIs, notching 104 hits across 448 plate appearances in 107 games. His batting average is .269, 10.5% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .364 clip and slugged .461, for an OPS of .825, 14.8% higher than the league mark of .719 — the second best on his team, and 47th of 462 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 92.7 mph off the bat, hit 52.2% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 10.8% of them and made contact on 72.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 134 wRC+ puts his offence 34% above average. That comes to 2.4 dbWAR — +16.7 runs with the bat, +0.5 for the ballpark, -0.9 on the bases, +1.3 on double plays, -8.0 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+134
wOBA.364
ISO.192
BB%13.2%
WAR2.4

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +23.4 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting+16.7Ballpark+0.5Baserunning-0.9Double plays+1.3Position-8.0Replacement+13.9
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

2.41.1-0.12526

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2026SF1074481041757159119.269.364.461.192.34413.2%26.6%.364+16.71342.4
2025SF10373040713.107.297.179.071.18818.9%35.1%.248-2.054-0.1

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 LHP1431263761739.294.378.500.38527.3%
vs RHP30526067114280.258.357.442.35326.2%

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

Barrel rate
10.8%
29 barrels
Exit velocity
92.7
mph average
Max exit velo
113.4
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
52.2%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
37.3%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
13.7°
average
Barrel rate10.8%
Exit velocity92.7 mph
Hard hit rate52.2%
Contact rate72.9%

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.

.158.333.125.129.21414 AB.28025 AB.28025 AB.33333 AB.33342 AB.41039 AB.29544 AB.27344 AB.21723 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.

Situational hitting

How Bryce Eldridge 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.
SituationPAABHHRRBIBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBA
All situations448——————.269.364.461.364
Bases empty2522175613133564.258.361.507.379
Runner on first938423310927.274.344.417.339
Runners on196169484442455.284.367.402.343
RISP10385251341528.294.388.388.347

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

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Similar players

Nearest 2026 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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.