DH · 2026

Andrew McCutchen

Age: 40
B/T: R/R
Height: 5' 10"
Weight: 190 lb
Number: #24

Born: October 10, 1986 in Fort Meade, FL, USA
MLB debut: June 4, 2009
Drafted: 2005, round 1
High school: Fort Meade

dbWAR: .4
PA: 83
AVG: .192
OBP: .277
SLG: .260
wRC+: 54

Andrew McCutchen is a designated hitter for the Texas Rangers. In 2026 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 5 RBIs, notching 14 hits across 83 plate appearances in 37 games. His batting average was .192, 21.3% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .277 clip and slugged .260, for an OPS of .537, 25.3% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 87.1 mph off the bat, hit 28.8% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 5.8% of them and made contact on 67.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 54 wRC+ puts his offence 46% below average. That comes to -0.4 dbWAR — -4.6 runs with the bat, -0.1 on the bases, -1.9 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.

wRC+54

wOBA.251

ISO.068

BB%10.8%

WAR-.4

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to -3.8 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

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	50	43	8	1	7	8	.186	.300	.302	.281	16.0%
vs RHP	33	30	6	0	2	14	.200	.242	.200	.206	42.4%

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

Barrel rate: 5.8%
Exit velocity: 87.1
Max exit velo: 106.0
Hard hit: 28.8%
Sweet spot: 30.8%
Launch angle: 22.8°

Barrel rate5.8%

Exit velocity87.1 mph

Hard hit rate28.8%

Contact rate67.5%

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 Andrew McCutchen 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	83	—	—	—	—	—	—	.192	.277	.260	.251
Bases empty	52	46	7	0	0	6	11	.152	.250	.196	.218
Runner on first · thin	11	9	4	0	0	2	0	.444	.545	.444	.456
Runners on	31	27	7	1	5	3	11	.259	.323	.370	.307
RISP · thin	20	18	3	1	5	1	11	.167	.200	.333	.226

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Rows under 25 plate appearances are marked thin — at that size a rate moves several dozen points on one hit. Counted from play-by-play, 2026.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2026	37	83	14	1	5	0	9	22	.192	.277	.260	.068	.255	10.8%	26.5%	.251	-4.6	54	-0.4
2025	135	551	114	13	57	1	67	118	.239	.333	.367	.128	.289	12.2%	21.4%	.312	-1.3	98	0.0
2024	120	515	104	20	50	3	58	133	.232	.328	.411	.179	.283	11.3%	25.8%	.327	+6.3	108	0.8

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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.