DH · 2026

Giancarlo Stanton

Age: 37
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 5"
Weight: 245 lb
Number: #27

Born: November 8, 1989 in Panorama, CA, USA
MLB debut: June 8, 2010
Drafted: 2007, round 2
High school: Notre Dame
Salary, 2026: $29M

dbWAR: 3.0
PA: 96
AVG: .256
OBP: .302
SLG: .422
wRC+: 96

Giancarlo Stanton is a designated hitter for the New York Yankees. In 2026 he hit 3 home runs and knocked in 14 RBIs, notching 23 hits across 96 plate appearances in 24 games. His batting average was .256, 4.9% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .302 clip and slugged .422, for an OPS of .724, 0.7% higher than the league mark of .719. He averaged 94.1 mph off the bat, hit 44.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 18.0% of them and made contact on 61.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 96 wRC+ puts his offence 4% below average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — -0.1 runs with the bat, +0.1 on the bases, -2.8 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+96

wOBA.317

ISO.167

BB%6.3%

WAR.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +0.4 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	30	26	4	1	4	10	.154	.267	.385	.290	33.3%
vs RHP	66	64	19	2	2	19	.297	.318	.438	.329	28.8%

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

Barrel rate: 18.0%
Exit velocity: 94.1
Max exit velo: 116.3
Hard hit: 44.3%
Sweet spot: 39.3%
Launch angle: 21.5°

Barrel rate18.0%

Exit velocity94.1 mph

Hard hit rate44.3%

Contact rate61.3%

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 Giancarlo Stanton 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	96	—	—	—	—	—	—	.256	.302	.422	.317
Bases empty	44	41	10	2	2	3	12	.244	.295	.439	.320
Runner on first · thin	21	19	5	1	2	2	6	.263	.333	.526	.370
Runners on	52	49	13	1	12	3	17	.265	.308	.408	.315
RISP	31	30	8	0	10	1	11	.267	.290	.333	.277

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	24	96	23	3	14	1	6	29	.256	.302	.422	.167	.345	6.3%	30.2%	.317	-0.1	96	0.0
2025	77	281	68	24	66	0	29	96	.273	.350	.594	.321	.338	10.3%	34.2%	.395	+18.7	160	2.1
2024	114	459	97	27	72	0	38	143	.233	.298	.475	.242	.281	8.3%	31.2%	.331	+7.1	113	0.9

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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.