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Players · H · 1B · 2026

Bryce Harper

Age
34
B/T
L/R
Height
6' 1"
Weight
210 lb
Number
#3
Born
October 16, 1992 in Las Vegas, NV, United States
MLB debut
April 28, 2012
Drafted
2010, round 1
College
CC of Southern Nevada
High school
Las Vegas
Salary, 2026
$27.5M
dbWAR
54.5
12 season(s)
PA
683
AVG
.270
OBP
.382
SLG
.485
wRC+
137
100 = avg

Bryce Harper is a first baseman for the Philadelphia Phillies. So far in 2026 he has hit 28 home runs and knocked in 86 RBIs, notching 153 hits across 683 plate appearances in 159 games. His batting average is .270, 10.6% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .382 clip and slugged .485, for an OPS of .867, 20.7% higher than the league mark of .719 — the best on his team, and 18th of 462 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 89.8 mph off the bat, hit 43.2% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 10.0% of them and made contact on 69.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 137 wRC+ puts his offence 37% above average. That comes to 4.3 dbWAR — +34.6 runs with the bat, -1.7 for the ballpark, -2.2 on the bases, -2.4 on double plays, -8.2 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+137
wOBA.380
ISO.215
BB%15.7%
WAR4.3

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +41.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting+34.6Ballpark-1.7Baserunning-2.2Double plays-2.4Position-8.2Replacement+21.1
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

9.64.80.0151617181920212223242526

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2026PHI15968315328867107146.270.382.485.215.31215.7%21.4%.380+34.61374.3
2025PHI13258013127751270121.261.357.487.226.29212.1%20.9%.364+23.31283.7
2024PHI1456311573087776138.285.373.525.240.33112.0%21.9%.382+36.21494.5
2023PHI12654613421721180119.293.401.499.206.35214.7%21.8%.386+30.41463.7
2022PHI994261061865114687.286.364.514.227.32410.8%20.4%.372+20.61402.6
2021PHI141599151358413100134.309.429.615.305.35916.7%22.4%.435+59.51847.3
2020PHI5824451133384943.268.420.542.274.27920.1%17.6%.403+17.01562.3
2019PHI157682149351141599178.260.372.510.250.31314.5%26.1%.369+27.21304.1
2018WSH1596951373410013130169.249.393.496.247.28918.7%24.3%.380+35.01385.2
2017WSH111492134298746899.319.413.595.276.35613.8%20.1%.420+39.41634.6
2016WSH147627123248621108117.243.373.441.198.26417.2%18.7%.348+13.01192.7
2015WSH15365417242996124131.330.460.649.319.36919.0%20.0%.468+78.32079.6

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.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP2662235043769.224.331.332.30525.9%
vs RHP417344103247077.299.415.584.42818.5%

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

Barrel rate
10.0%
43 barrels
Exit velocity
89.8
mph average
Max exit velo
113.5
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
43.2%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
39.4%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
12.5°
average
Barrel rate10.0%
Exit velocity89.8 mph
Hard hit rate43.2%
Contact rate69.2%

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.

.129.300.216.163.29417 AB.21233 AB.30423 AB.31638 AB.48843 AB.25044 AB.24370 AB.37769 AB.23534 AB
Below averageLeague averageAbove average
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 Bryce Harper 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.
SituationPAABHHRRBIBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBA
All situations683——————.270.382.485.380
Bases empty3863299317175693.283.389.502.392
Runner on first159132288182728.212.346.439.351
Runners on2972386011695153.252.374.462.364
RISP138106323512425.302.406.491.379

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2026.

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Similar players

Nearest 2026 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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.