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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, USA
MLB debut
April 28, 2012
Drafted
2010, round 1
College
CC of Southern Nevada
High school
Las Vegas
Salary, 2026
$27.5M
dbWAR
10.4
3 season(s)
PA
505
AVG
.255
OBP
.368
SLG
.501
wRC+
135
100 = avg

Bryce Harper is a first baseman for the Philadelphia Phillies. In 2026 he hit 25 home runs and knocked in 71 RBIs, notching 107 hits across 505 plate appearances in 118 games. His batting average was .255, 4.8% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .368 clip and slugged .501, for an OPS of .870, 20.9% higher than the league mark of .719 — the second best on his team, and 22nd of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 90.2 mph off the bat, hit 44.8% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 69.4% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 135 wRC+ puts his offence 35% above average. That comes to 2.9 dbWAR — +24.3 runs with the bat, -1.4 on the bases, -10.6 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+135
wOBA.376
ISO.246
BB%15.4%
WAR2.9

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +29.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting+24.3Baserunning-1.4Position-10.6Replacement+16.8
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

4.42.20.0242526

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 LHP1911553143049.200.325.316.29825.7%
vs RHP31426476214858.288.395.610.42518.5%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2026.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2026.

.160.133.243.135.30010 AB.20025 AB.25012 AB.30333 AB.51729 AB.22935 AB.22050 AB.33348 AB.26926 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.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
20261185051072571778107.255.368.501.246.27915.4%21.2%.376+24.31352.9
202513258013127751270121.261.357.487.226.29212.1%20.9%.364+23.31283.1
20241456311573087776138.285.373.525.240.33112.0%21.9%.382+36.21494.4

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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.