Travis Jankowski

Travis Jankowski

31-Year-Old OutfielderOF
Texas Rangers
2023 Fantasy Outlook
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$Signed a one-year contract with the Rangers in January of 2023.
Steals base off bench
OFTexas Rangers
May 30, 2023
Jankowski went 1-for-2 with a stolen base in Monday's 5-0 win over the Tigers.
ANALYSIS
Jankowski entered the game as a pinch hitter for Bubba Thompson and finished out in left field. It was his second appearance (one start) in three games since being activated off the injured list. He's been an unlikely but valued presence early in the season for Texas. Jankowski seemingly would survive the pending return of Mitch Garver (knee), which is expected this week. The next hurdle fpr playing time would be when Ezequiel Duran (oblique) returns early June. Jankowski is batting .301 with six steals over 27 games.
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vs Right-Handed Pitchers
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3
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1
vs Left-Handed Pitchers
vs LHP
#1
#2
#3
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#9
2
Left/Right Batting Splits
Since 2021
 
 
+14%
OPS vs LHP
2023
 
 
+70%
OPS vs LHP
2022
 
 
+19%
OPS vs LHP
2021
 
 
+3%
OPS vs LHP
OPS PA R HR RBI SB AVG OBP SLG
Since 2021vs Left .750 53 7 0 2 1 .289 .373 .378
Since 2021vs Right .660 257 42 1 21 13 .240 .344 .317
2023vs Left 1.212 12 3 0 1 1 .444 .545 .667
2023vs Right .712 78 11 0 10 5 .282 .346 .366
2022vs Left .503 19 2 0 0 0 .188 .316 .188
2022vs Right .421 45 9 0 2 3 .154 .267 .154
2021vs Left .733 22 2 0 1 0 .300 .333 .400
2021vs Right .711 134 22 1 9 5 .243 .368 .342
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Home/Away Batting Splits
Since 2021
 
 
+4%
OPS at Home
2023
 
 
+16%
OPS on Road
2022
 
 
+15%
OPS at Home
2021
 
 
+23%
OPS at Home
OPS PA R HR RBI SB AVG OBP SLG
Since 2021Home .691 135 20 1 15 6 .261 .338 .353
Since 2021Away .662 175 29 0 8 8 .238 .356 .306
2023Home .705 37 5 0 5 3 .281 .361 .344
2023Away .815 53 9 0 6 3 .313 .377 .438
2022Home .473 33 7 0 1 1 .200 .273 .200
2022Away .410 31 4 0 1 2 .120 .290 .120
2021Home .798 65 8 1 9 2 .281 .359 .439
2021Away .650 91 16 0 1 3 .230 .367 .284
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Stat Review
How does Travis Jankowski 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
0.44
 
BB Rate
8.9%
 
K Rate
20.0%
 
BABIP
.387
 
ISO
.100
 
AVG
.300
 
OBP
.371
 
SLG
.400
 
OPS
.771
 
wOBA
.344
 
Exit Velocity
85.1 mph
 
Hard Hit Rate
19.0%
 
Barrels/PA
0.0%
 
Expected BA
.246
 
Expected SLG
.288
 
Sprint Speed
26.4 ft/sec
 
Ground Ball %
60.0%
 
Line Drive %
25.0%
 
Fly Ball %
15.0%
 
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Jankowski will push for a bench outfield spot with the Mets this spring. While he's misplaced as a starter, he's been a capable fourth or fifth outfielder at times during his career, including last season, when he hit a respectable .252/.364/.351 in 157 trips to the plate for the Phillies.
Jankowski stole 30 bases with the Padres in 2016 and 24 in 2018, but he has totaled four bags over the past two seasons. He missed the first half of 2019 with a wrist injury and spent time in the minors, coming to the plate just 43 times for the big-league club that season. The Reds brought him in last winter to provide depth to their outfield. He was on the Opening Day roster and remained with the club for a month before being sent down, logging 17 PA without an extra-base hit. Cincinnati outrighted him off the 40-man roster in October. Jankowski's speed seems to be declining at close to 30 years old and it does not look like he will get the playing time to put what he has left to use. This may be it for him in the majors entirely.
After a wrist injury forced Jankowski to miss the first half of the season, he was relegated to a minor-league role for a month prior to joining the Padres in mid-August. He recorded just a .432 OPS in limited major-league action with a .202 wOBA. He was much more effective in Triple-A, as he carried a .388 BABIP with seven stolen bases in 160 at-bats. Jankowski has above-average contact rates, with a career 89.3 Z-Contact%, but so far he's failed to do much with his contact in the majors. In fact, his barrel rate and average exit velocity both ranking in the bottom 2% of the league in his larger sample in 2018. He was traded in the offseason to Cincinnati, where he will serve as the fourth outfielder although he may be forced into a starting role in center field to begin the season if Nick Senzel is not fully recovered from offseason shoulder surgery.
Jankowski enjoyed a bounce-back season in 2018 after injuries derailed his 2017 campaign. The 27-year-old opened the year in the minors, but was promoted to the big club at the end of April after Wil Myers was placed on the DL. Jankowski immediately settled into the strong side of an outfield platoon, appearing in 117 games (78 of which were starts) and finishing the season with a career-best .259/.332/.346 slash line. The outfielder benefited from improved plate discipline, as he was able to maintain a strong walk rate (9.6%) while dropping his strikeout rate below 20 percent (18.9%) for the first time in his big-league career. Though Jankowski lacks any sort of power (his four homers in 2018 doubled his career total), he's stolen at least 24 bases in two of the last three seasons and the fact that he bats lefty helps in a San Diego outfield consisting mostly of right-handed hitters.
Jankowski's season was abruptly cut short after he suffered a bone bruise in April. He returned, but only in the minors and only for 40 ineffective games at Triple-A. Jankowski is a speed demon, as he needed just 383 plate appearances to steal 30 bases for the Padres in 2016. But Jankowski has never hit more than three home runs in any professional campaign, across any minor-league level. Jankowski's speed, plate discipline and ability to play all three outfield positions make him an option for NL-only reserves, but without the pop, his appeal in mixed leagues is limited. It looks like Jankowski will head into spring training as the team's fourth outfielder, behind Jose Pirela, Manuel Margot and Hunter Renfroe.
Jankowski emerged as a fantasy darling of sorts, piling up 30 stolen bases despite a part-time role for a significant portion of the season. Just as he did in the minors between Double-A and Triple-A in 2015, Jankowski showed a good eye at the plate (11 percent walk rate), which buoyed a .332 OBP and enabled him to lead off in 71 of the 82 games he started. The Padres scaled back his playing time slightly down the stretch following a late-season promotion of Manuel Margot, and it's possible that Jankowski will be placed in a fourth outfielder role to begin 2017, with Margot and Hunter Renfroe in the mix for Opening Day roster spots. A good defender, Jankowski has the speed and instincts necessary to be an above average center fielder, but he has very limited power and will need to put the ball in play more often (26.1 percent strikeout rate) in order to solidify a starting job, and it's likely that he would be used as part of a strict platoon against right-handed starters.
The Padres pushed Jankowski to San Diego for a late-season callup in 2015, after he started the season at Double-A. Listed at 6-foot-2 and 190 pounds, Jankowski is a speedster with minimal pop and a still developing bat, but his numbers at Double-A and Triple-A point to a potential leadoff hitter at the big league level if everything clicks. His 34-game taste of big league pitching brought a spike in his strikeout rate (25.0-percent), but he's whiffed half that often at each stop going back to High-A in 2014, and he delivered a walk rate north of 10.0 percent at both of his minor-league stops last season. As a basestealer, Jankowski finished 2015 with a 34-for-46 mark across all three levels, hinting at his potential to contribute in that category with steady playing time. The acquisition of Jon Jay from the Cardinals during the offseason gives the Padres a capable alternative to roam center field if it's determined that Jankowski needs more time at Triple-A.
A second-round pick of the Padres in 2012, Jankowski upped his walk rate significantly from his initial abbreviated season (5.1% at Low-A Fort Wayne) to 2013's first full campaign (9.7% at High-A Lake Elsinore), finishing with a slash line of .286/.356/.355 in 493 at-bats. Furthermore, he's a stud on the basepaths, swiping 71 bags in 85 tries. Considering his progress to date, it isn't out of the question that he begins the year at Double-A San Antonio.
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Starts Sunday
OFTexas Rangers
May 29, 2023
Jankowski started in left field and went 0-for-3 in Sunday's 3-2 loss to the Orioles.
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Activated from IL
OFTexas Rangers
May 27, 2023
Jankowski (hamstring) was activated from the 10-day injured list Saturday.
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Begins rehab assignment
OFTexas Rangers
Hamstring
May 24, 2023
Jankowski (hamstring) went 0-for-3 for Triple-A Round Rock on Tuesday.
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Rehab assignment kicking off
OFTexas Rangers
Hamstring
May 23, 2023
Jankowski (hamstring) will begin a rehab assignment with Triple-A Round Rock on Tuesday, MLB.com reports.
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Unlikely to return when eligible
OFTexas Rangers
Hamstring
May 14, 2023
Rangers manager Bruce Bochy said Sunday that Jankowski (hamstring) will spend more than the minimum 15 days on the injured list, Sonja Chen of MLB.com reports.
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