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Mitch Garver

Age: 35
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 220 lb
Number: #18

Born: January 15, 1991 in Albuquerque, NM, United States
MLB debut: August 19, 2017
Drafted: 2013, round 9
College: New Mexico
High school: La Cueva
Salary, 2026: $1M

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dbWAR: 10.2
PA: 149
AVG: .175
OBP: .302
SLG: .294
wRC+: 77

Mitch Garver is a catcher for the Seattle Mariners. In 2026 he hit 4 home runs and knocked in 15 RBIs, notching 22 hits across 149 plate appearances in 47 games. His batting average was .175, 28.4% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .302 clip and slugged .294, for an OPS of .596, 17.1% lower than the league mark of .719 — 12th of 16 on his team, and 400th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 90.6 mph off the bat, hit 48.1% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 9.1% of them and made contact on 66.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 77 wRC+ puts his offence 23% below average. That comes to 0.2 dbWAR — -4.6 runs with the bat, +0.3 for the ballpark, -0.0 on the bases, -0.2 on double plays, +1.7 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 regular season.

wRC+77

wOBA.281

ISO.119

BB%14.8%

WAR.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +2.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2026	SEA	47	149	22	4	15	1	22	49	.175	.302	.294	.119	.247	14.8%	32.9%	.281	-4.6	77	0.2
2025	SEA	87	290	53	9	30	3	30	80	.209	.297	.343	.134	.262	10.3%	27.6%	.286	-7.0	84	0.3
2024	SEA	113	430	63	15	51	0	53	133	.172	.286	.341	.169	.216	12.3%	30.9%	.284	-10.0	86	-0.3
2023	TEX	87	344	80	19	50	0	44	82	.270	.370	.500	.230	.313	12.8%	23.8%	.376	+16.0	131	2.1
2022	TEX	54	215	39	10	24	1	23	53	.207	.298	.404	.197	.228	10.7%	24.7%	.310	-0.2	98	0.4
2021	MIN	68	243	53	13	34	1	31	71	.256	.358	.517	.261	.320	12.8%	29.2%	.375	+11.9	141	2.3
2020	MIN	22	81	12	2	5	0	7	37	.167	.247	.264	.097	.294	8.6%	45.7%	.233	-6.1	40	-0.2
2019	MIN	90	359	85	31	67	0	41	87	.273	.365	.630	.357	.277	11.4%	24.2%	.408	+26.3	159	4.1
2018	MIN	95	335	81	7	45	0	29	72	.268	.335	.414	.146	.330	8.7%	21.5%	.328	+2.8	107	1.6
2017	MIN	20	52	9	0	3	0	6	15	.196	.288	.348	.152	.290	11.5%	28.8%	.284	-1.8	70	-0.1

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.

																				Trend
2018	MIN	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.00	3.16	1.00	0.0	0.0	0	76	0.0	—

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason batting

Postseason Mitch Garver's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2025 Post	SEA	Postseason total	6	9	7	0	2	0	1	0	1	1	2	.286	.333	.571	.905
		ALDS	4	7	5	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	2	.200	.286	.200	.486
		ALCS	2	2	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	1.500	2.000
2023 Post	TEX	Postseason total	14	60	53	8	12	2	0	3	14	6	12	.226	.317	.434	.751
		ALDS	2	10	10	3	4	1	0	1	7	0	1	.400	.400	.800	1.200
		ALCS	7	28	24	4	6	1	0	1	4	3	5	.250	.357	.417	.774
		World Series	5	22	19	1	2	0	0	1	3	3	6	.105	.227	.263	.490
2020 Post	MIN	Wild Card	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
2019 Post	MIN	ALDS	3	13	12	1	2	0	0	0	1	1	5	.167	.231	.167	.397
Career		Postseason total · 4 Octobers	24	83	73	9	16	2	1	3	16	8	20	.219	.301	.397	.698

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

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	64	54	12	1	9	17	.222	.344	.315	.310	26.6%
vs RHP	85	72	10	3	13	32	.139	.271	.278	.260	37.6%

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

Barrel rate: 9.1%
Exit velocity: 90.6
Max exit velo: 110.5
Hard hit: 48.1%
Sweet spot: 29.9%
Launch angle: 18.3°

Barrel rate9.1%

Exit velocity90.6 mph

Hard hit rate48.1%

Contact rate66.3%

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 Mitch Garver 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	149	—	—	—	—	—	—	.175	.302	.294	.281
Bases empty	82	69	8	0	0	13	29	.116	.256	.130	.206
Runner on first	30	23	6	3	6	7	10	.261	.433	.696	.473
Runners on	67	57	14	4	15	9	20	.246	.358	.491	.373
RISP	37	34	8	1	9	2	10	.235	.297	.353	.293

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

Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.


Curveball	92.9%	13	66.7	1,739	30.8%	14.3%	4	—	—

Mitch Garver's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters. BAA and OPS are what hitters did against each pitch, credited to the one that ended the plate appearance, and are left blank under 15 at-bats.

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

Will BensonCIN

wRC+: 85
HR: 3
AVG: .188
WAR: 0.1

Yoán MoncadaLAA

wRC+: 81
HR: 3
AVG: .189
WAR: 0.1

Jake RogersDET

wRC+: 63
HR: 4
AVG: .161
WAR: -0.1

Nolan GormanSTL

wRC+: 63
HR: 9
AVG: .184
WAR: -0.4

Comparable

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.