DH · 2025

Cavan Biggio

Kansas City Royals American League CentralDH

Age: 30
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 200 lb
Number: #4

Born: April 11, 1995 in Houston, TX, USA
MLB debut: May 24, 2019
Drafted: 2016, round 5
College: Notre Dame
High school: Saint Thomas

dbWAR: -.1
PA: 83
AVG: .174
OBP: .296
SLG: .246
wRC+: 64

Cavan Biggio is a designated hitter for the Kansas City Royals. In 2025 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 4 RBIs, notching 12 hits across 83 plate appearances in 32 games. His batting average was .174, 29.1% lower than the league average of .245. He reached base at a .296 clip and slugged .246, for an OPS of .543, 24.5% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 87.0 mph off the bat, hit 36.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 2.0% of them and made contact on 74.6% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 64 wRC+ puts his offence 36% below average. That comes to -0.2 dbWAR — -3.7 runs with the bat, +0.1 on the bases, -1.4 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, 2025.

wRC+64

wOBA.261

ISO.072

BB%13.3%

WAR-.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2025. These four terms sum to -2.3 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, 2025. 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	9	6	1	0	1	2	.167	.286	.167	.230	22.2%
vs RHP	74	63	11	1	10	19	.175	.297	.254	.264	25.7%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2025.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 50 tracked batted balls in 2025. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 2.0%
Exit velocity: 87.0
Max exit velo: 104.0
Hard hit: 36.0%
Sweet spot: 38.0%
Launch angle: 20.4°

Barrel rate2.0%

Exit velocity87.0 mph

Hard hit rate36.0%

Contact rate74.6%

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, 2025.

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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 .245.

Situational hitting

How Cavan Biggio 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	—	—	—	—	—	—	.174	.296	.246	.261
Bases empty	48	40	7	1	1	6	10	.175	.283	.275	.261
Runner on first · thin	13	9	1	0	0	4	3	.111	.385	.111	.290
Runners on	35	29	5	0	3	5	11	.172	.314	.207	.261
RISP · thin	22	20	4	0	3	1	8	.200	.273	.250	.244

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, 2025.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2025	32	83	12	1	4	1	11	21	.174	.296	.246	.072	.234	13.3%	25.3%	.261	-3.7	64	-0.2
2024	71	224	37	5	19	2	24	72	.197	.314	.303	.106	.288	10.7%	32.1%	.288	-4.5	81	0.2

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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.