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RF · 2026

Brandon Nimmo

Age
33
B/T
L/R
Height
6' 1"
Weight
206 lb
Number
#24
Born
March 27, 1993 in Cheyenne, WY, USA
MLB debut
June 26, 2016
Drafted
2011, round 1
High school
Cheyenne East
Salary, 2026
$20.5M
dbWAR
6.6
3 season(s)
PA
473
AVG
.274
OBP
.340
SLG
.447
wRC+
121
100 = avg

Brandon Nimmo is a right fielder for the Texas Rangers. In 2026 he hit 13 home runs and knocked in 46 RBIs, notching 117 hits across 473 plate appearances in 112 games. His batting average was .274, 12.5% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .340 clip and slugged .447, for an OPS of .788, 9.5% higher than the league mark of .719 — 5th of 15 on his team, and 91st of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 92.0 mph off the bat, hit 51.4% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 77.8% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 121 wRC+ puts his offence 21% above average. That comes to 2.0 dbWAR — +10.8 runs with the bat, +0.1 on the bases, -6.5 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+121
wOBA.346
ISO.173
BB%8.0%
WAR2.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +20.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting+10.8Baserunning+0.1Position-6.5Replacement+15.8
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

2.31.20.0242526

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 LHP124113395822.345.395.566.41417.7%
vs RHP3493147883080.248.321.404.32122.9%

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.

.111.217.171.118.15819 AB.26926 AB.31619 AB.29341 AB.44656 AB.41234 AB.24233 AB.30060 AB.21932 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
20261124731171346638102.274.340.447.173.3318.0%21.6%.346+10.81212.0
202515565215425921350141.262.324.436.174.3017.7%21.6%.331+8.41112.3
202415166312823901577158.224.327.399.175.26711.6%23.8%.323+6.11092.2

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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.