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Jung Hoo Lee

San Francisco Giants National League WestRF

Age: 28
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 196 lb
Number: #51

Born: August 20, 1998 in Seoul, South Korea
MLB debut: March 28, 2024
Salary, 2026: $22.8M

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dbWAR: 5.2
PA: 579
AVG: .276
OBP: .320
SLG: .404
wRC+: 102

Jung Hoo Lee is a right fielder for the San Francisco Giants. In 2026 he hit 10 home runs and knocked in 57 RBIs, notching 149 hits across 579 plate appearances in 143 games. His batting average was .276, 13.3% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .320 clip and slugged .404, for an OPS of .724, 0.7% higher than the league mark of .719 — 6th of 18 on his team, and 190th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 87.2 mph off the bat, hit 31.5% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 2.3% of them and made contact on 87.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 102 wRC+ puts his offence 2% above average. That comes to 1.8 dbWAR — +0.0 runs with the bat, +0.8 for the ballpark, +1.2 on the bases, +1.5 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+102

wOBA.319

ISO.128

BB%5.0%

WAR1.8

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +17.1 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	SF	143	579	149	10	57	12	29	57	.276	.320	.404	.128	.292	5.0%	9.8%	.319	+0.0	102	1.8
2025	SF	149	617	149	8	55	10	47	71	.266	.327	.407	.141	.291	7.6%	11.5%	.322	+3.3	105	3.2
2024	SF	36	158	38	2	8	2	10	13	.262	.310	.331	.069	.273	6.3%	8.2%	.287	-3.3	84	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	178	169	41	2	6	22	.243	.275	.337	.272	12.4%
vs RHP	401	370	108	8	23	35	.292	.339	.435	.339	8.7%

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

Barrel rate: 2.3%
Exit velocity: 87.2
Max exit velo: 107.6
Hard hit: 31.5%
Sweet spot: 37.3%
Launch angle: 11.0°

Barrel rate2.3%

Exit velocity87.2 mph

Hard hit rate31.5%

Contact rate87.5%

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 Jung Hoo Lee 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	579	—	—	—	—	—	—	.276	.320	.404	.319
Bases empty	360	339	88	7	7	19	35	.260	.303	.381	.303
Runner on first	98	93	30	1	4	5	6	.323	.357	.452	.355
Runners on	219	200	61	3	50	10	22	.305	.347	.445	.344
RISP	121	107	31	2	46	5	16	.290	.339	.439	.335

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.