286 PA · week 10
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James Wood
data as of June 3, 2026·week 10
Wood is a buy — elite contact quality, production is earned.
His expected wOBA is .438 — .123 above league average — and he has enough plate appearances for that number to be reliable. His contact quality is elite: 59.7% hard-hit rate, 25.5% barrel rate, and 96.3 mph average exit velocity, all well above league and on stable samples. His actual wOBA of .410 tracks close to his xwOBA, so luck is not inflating his line. The one caveat is his strikeout rate at 29%, which is high and trending up — that caps the floor in terms of batting average. But the skill is real, and the numbers say this is no fluke. Buy.
Buy
high0.85
Drivers
- xwobaSIGNALstable xwOBA 0.438, +0.123 vs league — production is earned
- hard_hit_pctSIGNALelite, already-stable contact quality
- k_pctSIGNALstrikeout rate 29% is stable and high — caps the floor
metric · nowrolling trajectoryvs. leaguestabilized?
Avg Exit Velo96.3 mph
lg avg 89.0 mph ▲+7.3 mphtrustworthy at this sample
SIGNAL149 / 50 BBE
Hard-Hit %59.7%
lg avg 40.0% ▲+19.7%trustworthy at this sample
SIGNAL149 / 50 BBE
Barrel %25.5%
lg avg 8.0% ▲+17.5%trustworthy at this sample
SIGNAL149 / 60 BBE
xwOBA.438
lg avg .315 ▲+.123trustworthy at this sample
SIGNAL286 / 160 PA
wOBA.410
lg avg .315 ▲+.095trustworthy at this sample
SIGNAL286 / 200 PA
Strikeout %29.0%
lg avg 22.0% ▲+7.0%trustworthy at this sample
SIGNAL286 / 60 PA
Walk %17.5%
lg avg 8.5% ▲+9.0%trustworthy at this sample
SIGNAL286 / 120 PA
BABIP.353
lg avg .295 ▲+.058too early to trust
NOISE149 / 800 BIP