Jacob Wilson

Jacob Wilson

23-Year-Old ShortstopSS
Sacramento Athletics
2025 Fantasy Outlook
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. Read Past Outlooks
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Rest of Season From Preseason
#337
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$Signed a one-year contract with the Athletics in March of 2025.
Stays hot Wednesday
SSSacramento Athletics
May 28, 2025
Wilson went 2-for-3 with an RBI double and a solo home run in Wednesday's 5-3 loss to the Astros.
ANALYSIS
Wilson opened the scoring in the third inning with a two-out, two-strike double before launching his seventh homer of the year in the fifth. The 23-year-old Wilson has been on fire of late, going 15-for-33 (.455) in his last nine games. He's now slashing .353/.396/.512 with 30 RBI, 30 runs scored and four stolen bases across 223 plate appearances in his rookie campaign.
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Batting Order Slot Breakdown
vs Right-Handed Pitchers
vs RHP
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
#9
9
11
3
10
7
4
vs Left-Handed Pitchers
vs LHP
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
#9
6
1
1
1
1
Left/Right Batting Splits
Since 2023
 
 
+26%
OPS vs LHP
2025
 
 
+23%
OPS vs LHP
2024
 
 
+42%
OPS vs LHP
2023
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OPS PA R HR RBI SB AVG OBP SLG
Since 2023vs Left .975 68 9 1 5 2 .361 .418 .557
Since 2023vs Right .773 261 32 6 28 2 .307 .354 .419
2025vs Left 1.052 46 6 1 4 2 .415 .467 .585
2025vs Right .857 180 24 6 26 2 .331 .372 .485
2024vs Left .818 22 3 0 1 0 .250 .318 .500
2024vs Right .576 81 8 0 2 0 .250 .313 .264
2023vs Left 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2023vs Right 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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Home/Away Batting Splits
Since 2023
 
 
+17%
OPS at Home
2025
 
 
+14%
OPS at Home
2024
 
 
+16%
OPS at Home
2023
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OPS PA R HR RBI SB AVG OBP SLG
Since 2023Home .881 154 20 3 16 2 .352 .403 .479
Since 2023Away .754 175 21 4 17 2 .288 .335 .419
2025Home .954 113 16 3 14 2 .375 .425 .529
2025Away .838 113 14 4 16 2 .321 .357 .481
2024Home .684 41 4 0 2 0 .289 .341 .342
2024Away .591 62 7 0 1 0 .222 .295 .296
2023Home 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2023Away 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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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
1.08
 
BB Rate
5.8%
 
K Rate
5.3%
 
BABIP
.346
 
ISO
.157
 
AVG
.348
 
OBP
.391
 
SLG
.505
 
OPS
.896
 
wOBA
.392
 
Exit Velocity
86.8 mph
 
Hard Hit Rate
21.1%
 
Barrels/PA
2.7%
 
Expected BA
.311
 
Expected SLG
.403
 
Sprint Speed
23.9 ft/sec
 
Ground Ball %
55.1%
 
Line Drive %
21.9%
 
Fly Ball %
23.0%
 
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2024 Fantasy Outlook
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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Clubs sixth homer
SSSacramento Athletics
May 25, 2025
Wilson went 3-for-4 with a solo home run during Sunday's 5-4 win over Philadelphia.
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Gets on base four times
SSSacramento Athletics
May 25, 2025
Wilson went 3-for-5 with a double, a walk and an RBI in Saturday's 9-6 extra-innings loss to the Phillies.
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Back in lineup Thursday
SSSacramento Athletics
May 22, 2025
Wilson (forearm) will start at shortstop and bat second in Thursday's game against the Angels.
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Sitting down Wednesday
SSSacramento Athletics
Forearm
May 21, 2025
Wilson (forearm) isn't in the lineup for Wednesday's game against the Angels.
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Leaves with bruised forearm
SSSacramento Athletics
Forearm
May 20, 2025
Wilson was removed from Tuesday's game against the Angels after getting hit on the left forearm by a pitch, Martin Gallegos of MLB.com reports.
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