Jacob Wilson

Jacob Wilson

24-Year-Old ShortstopSS
Sacramento Athletics
2026 Fantasy Outlook
Wilson was looking like a fantasy league winner after slashing .339/.380/.473 with nine home runs, 40 RBI and 42 runs scored through the first three months of the 2025 season. The unexpected power didn't stick, though, and he also missed time with a fractured forearm, hitting .257/.307/.389 with four long balls across his final 44 games of the season. Wilson is basically the right-handed version of Luis Arraez. He offers very little power and speed, but the 24-year-old is built to hit for average, sporting a strikeout rate in the 100th percentile and squared-up rate in the 97th percentile in 2025. Wilson could also be a non-zero in the home run department again simply due to Sutter Health Park in Sacramento, where he slashed .328/.385/.489 with seven homers last season. Read Past Outlooks
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Signed a seven-year, $70 million contract extension with the Athletics in January of 2026. The deal includes a club option for 2033.
Blasts homer in win
SSSacramento Athletics
April 15, 2026
Wilson went 2-for-4 with a two-run home run in Wednesday's 6-5 win over the Rangers.
Analysis
Wilson's seventh-inning homer was his first of the year, and it was a crucial one. He gave the Athletics their last runs of the game, which would ultimately be needed when the Rangers got three runs back in the eighth. The shortstop is off to a modest start to the season, hitting .254 with a .602 OPS, seven RBI, six runs scored, three doubles and no stolen bases over 17 contests. He had 13 long balls over 125 games and hit .311 with a .799 OPS in 2025, though power is never likely to be his calling card.
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Batting Order Slot Breakdown
vs Right-Handed Pitchers
vs RHP
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#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
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#8
#9
13
vs Left-Handed Pitchers
vs LHP
#1
#2
#3
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3
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1
Left/Right Batting Splits
Since 2024
 
 
+15%
OPS vs LHP
2026
 
 
+20%
OPS vs LHP
2025
 
 
+10%
OPS vs LHP
2024
 
 
+42%
OPS vs LHP
OPS PA R HR RBI SB AVG OBP SLG
Since 2024vs Left .838 156 20 4 15 2 .320 .355 .483
Since 2024vs Right .730 547 60 10 60 4 .290 .336 .394
2026vs Left .706 17 1 0 4 0 .294 .294 .412
2026vs Right .589 60 6 1 5 1 .254 .267 .322
2025vs Left .862 117 16 4 10 2 .336 .371 .491
2025vs Right .781 406 46 9 53 3 .303 .351 .431
2024vs Left .818 22 3 0 1 0 .250 .318 .500
2024vs Right .576 81 8 0 2 0 .250 .313 .264
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Home/Away Batting Splits
Since 2024
 
 
+23%
OPS at Home
2026
 
 
+40%
OPS at Home
2025
 
 
+20%
OPS at Home
2024
 
 
+16%
OPS at Home
OPS PA R HR RBI SB AVG OBP SLG
Since 2024Home .839 328 38 8 47 3 .321 .375 .464
Since 2024Away .681 375 42 6 28 3 .276 .309 .372
2026Home .747 30 3 1 7 1 .310 .333 .414
2026Away .532 47 4 0 2 0 .234 .234 .298
2025Home .875 257 31 7 38 2 .328 .385 .489
2025Away .728 266 31 6 25 3 .295 .326 .402
2024Home .684 41 4 0 2 0 .289 .341 .342
2024Away .591 62 7 0 1 0 .222 .295 .296
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Stat Review
How does Jacob Wilson compare to other hitters?
This section compares his stats with all batting seasons from the previous three seasons (minimum 400 plate appearances)*. The bar represents the player's percentile rank. For example, if the bar is halfway across, then the player falls into the 50th percentile for that stat and it would be considered average.

* Exit Velocity and Barrels/PA % are benchmarked against 2019 data (min 400 PA) and Hard Hit Rate is benchmarked against last season's data (min 400 PA). See here for more exit velocity/barrels stats plus an explanation of current limitations with that data set.
  • BB/K
    Walk to strikeout ratio
  • BB Rate
    The percentage of plate appearances resulting in a walk.
  • K Rate
    The percentage of plate appearances resulting in a strikeout.
  • BABIP
    Batting average on balls in play. Measures how many of a batter’s balls in play go for hits.
  • ISO
    Isolated Power. Slugging percentage minus batting average. A computation used to measure a batter's raw power.
  • AVG
    Batting average. Hits divided by at bats.
  • OBP
    On Base Percentage. A measure of how often a batters reaches base. Roughly equal to number of times on base divided by plate appearances.
  • SLG
    Slugging Percentage. A measure of the batting productivity of a hitter. It is calculated as total bases divided by at bats.
  • OPS
    On base plus slugging. THe sum of a batter's on-base percentage and slugging percentage.
  • wOBA
    Weighted on-base average. Measures a player's overall offensive contributions per plate appearance. wOBA combines all the different aspects of hitting into one metric, weighting each of them in proportion to their actual run value.
  • Exit Velocity
    The speed of the baseball as it comes off the bat, immediately after a batter makes contact.
  • Hard Hit Rate
    A measure of contact quality from Sports Info Solutions. This stat explains what percentage of batted balls were hit hard vs. medium or soft.
  • Barrels/PA
    The percentage of plate appearances where a batter had a batted ball classified as a Barrel. A Barrel is a batted ball with similar exit velocity and launch angle to past ones that led to a minimum .500 batting average and 1.500 slugging percentage.
  • Expected BA
    Expected Batting Average.
  • Expected SLG
    Expected Slugging Percentage.
  • Sprint Speed
    The speed of a runner from home to first, in feet per second.
  • Ground Ball %
    The percentage of balls put in play that are on the ground.
  • Line Drive %
    The percentage of balls put in play that are line drives.
  • Fly Ball %
    The percentage of balls put in play that are fly balls.
BB/K
0.10
 
BB Rate
1.4%
 
K Rate
13.9%
 
BABIP
.283
 
ISO
.085
 
AVG
.254
 
OBP
.264
 
SLG
.338
 
OPS
.602
 
wOBA
.265
 
Exit Velocity
84.5 mph
 
Hard Hit Rate
23.0%
 
Barrels/PA
0.0%
 
Expected BA
.267
 
Expected SLG
.316
 
Sprint Speed
23.3 ft/sec
 
Ground Ball %
53.3%
 
Line Drive %
23.3%
 
Fly Ball %
23.3%
 
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Past Fantasy Outlooks
2025
2024
Wilson rarely strikes out and is a big-league caliber defensive shortstop. Beyond that, he may not bring much to the table. The No. 6 overall pick in 2023, Wilson has only needed around 25 games at each of the three highest levels of the minors en route to his big-league debut just after the All-Star break. He quickly suffered a hamstring strain that kept him out until late-August, so he didn't end up playing enough to exhaust his prospect eligibility. Wilson struck out just over 10 percent of the time at High-A and Double-A and he struck out 4.3 percent of the time at Triple-A and 9.7 percent of the time in the majors. He is an elite contact hitter, but he is also aggressive at the dish, and he needs the pitcher to make a mistake for him to get a ball he can drive out of the park. He had a poor 24.4 percent hard-hit rate and a 22.2 percent soft-hit rate in the minors, and of his eight pro homers in 107 games, three came in the Pacific Coast League bandbox in Las Vegas and one came in the hitter-friendly road park at Amarillo when he as at Double-A. Wilson is hit-over-power to the extreme, and there's little evidence that there's more than 10-15 homer juice in his bat at peak. He's also attempted just eight steals in pro ball, with zero attempted steals in 28 games in the majors. Wilson should play every day and help your batting average while potentially hurting you everywhere else.
Wilson hit .438 with two doubles, one walk and one strikeout in 16 at-bats during big-league spring training. He slashed .318/.378/.455 with one home run, four steals and a 10.1 percent strikeout rate in 23 games at High-A last season. An extreme hit-over-power shortstop prospect, Wilson does not project to hit for double-digit homer power in the majors, but he has an excellent hit tool and projects as Oakland's shortstop of the future.
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Getting first day off
SSSacramento Athletics
April 12, 2026
Wilson is out of the lineup for Sunday's game against the Mets.
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Drives in pair of runs
SSSacramento Athletics
March 31, 2026
Wilson went 2-for-4 with a two-run double during Tuesday's 5-2 win over Atlanta.
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Tallies RBI in spring win
SSSacramento Athletics
March 17, 2026
Wilson went 1-for-3 with an RBI in Monday's Cactus League win over the Angels.
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Signs seven-year, $70M extension
SSSacramento Athletics
January 30, 2026
The Athletics signed Wilson to a seven-year, $70 million contract extension Friday, Jeff Passan of ESPN.com reports. The deal includes a club option for 2033.
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Working on bulking up
SSSacramento Athletics
January 29, 2026
Wilson said earlier this month that adding strength has "been the main focus for the last couple of offseasons now," Martin Gallegos of MLB.com reports.
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Could receive new deal
SSSacramento Athletics
December 11, 2025
Wilson is rumored to be a candidate to receive an extension from the Athletics in the near future, Martin Gallegos of MLB.com speculates.
Analysis
The Athletics are expected to engage in extension talks with several of their core players, and Wilson fits that mold. Wilson finished his first full big-league season in 2025 with a .311/.355/.444 slash line while adding 13 home runs, five stolen bases, 63 RBI and 62 runs in 125 regular-season games.
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