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Rowdy Tellez

Age: 31
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 273 lb
Number: #44

Born: March 16, 1995 in Sacramento, CA, United States
MLB debut: September 5, 2018
Drafted: 2013, round 30
High school: Elk Grove

dbWAR: 2.6
PA: 11
AVG: .200
OBP: .273
SLG: .500
wRC+: 107

Rowdy Tellez is a designated hitter for the Atlanta Braves. So far in 2026 he has hit 1 home run and knocked in 4 RBIs, notching 2 hits across 11 plate appearances in 7 games. His batting average is .200, 18.0% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .273 clip and slugged .500, for an OPS of .773, 7.5% higher than the league mark of .719. He averaged 91.8 mph off the bat, hit 42.9% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 28.6% of them and made contact on 69.6% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 107 wRC+ puts his offence 7% above average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — +0.1 runs with the bat, -0.0 for the ballpark, -0.0 on the bases, -0.2 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+107

wOBA.331

ISO.300

BB%9.1%

WAR.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +0.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2026	ATL	7	11	2	1	4	0	1	3	.200	.273	.500	.300	.167	9.1%	27.3%	.331	+0.1	107	0.0
2025	SEA/TEX	110	312	66	17	49	1	17	83	.228	.276	.443	.215	.255	5.4%	26.6%	.308	-1.9	100	0.4
2024	PIT	126	421	93	13	56	1	31	89	.243	.299	.392	.149	.280	7.4%	21.1%	.303	-3.3	91	0.3
2023	MIL	104	351	67	13	47	0	35	86	.215	.291	.376	.161	.249	10.0%	24.5%	.290	-9.0	78	-0.6
2022	MIL	151	599	116	35	89	2	62	121	.219	.306	.461	.242	.215	10.4%	20.2%	.329	+8.3	114	1.5
2021	MIL/TOR	106	325	72	11	36	0	23	65	.242	.305	.414	.172	.275	7.1%	20.0%	.308	-2.5	92	-0.0
2020	TOR	35	127	32	8	23	0	11	20	.283	.346	.540	.257	.276	8.7%	15.7%	.370	+5.2	131	0.7
2019	TOR	111	409	84	21	54	1	29	116	.227	.293	.449	.222	.267	7.1%	28.4%	.311	-4.2	91	-0.1
2018	TOR	22	73	22	4	14	0	2	21	.314	.329	.614	.300	.391	2.7%	28.8%	.397	+4.7	156	0.6

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2025	TEX	1	2.0	5	3	0	0	13.50	11.14	2.50	0.0	0.0	325	268	-0.2
2024	PIT	3	2.2	5	2	0	1	6.75	6.54	2.25	0.0	3.4	165	160	-0.1
2023	MIL	1	1.0	1	0	1	0	0.00	1.26	1.00	9.0	0.0	0	29	0.0

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	2	2	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%
vs RHP	9	8	2	1	1	3	.250	.333	.625	.405	33.3%

Season

No pitching splits recorded for 2026.

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

Barrel rate: 28.6%
Exit velocity: 91.8
Max exit velo: 105.9
Hard hit: 42.9%
Sweet spot: 57.1%
Launch angle: 26.7°

Barrel rate28.6%

Exit velocity91.8 mph

Hard hit rate42.9%

Contact rate69.6%

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, 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 Rowdy Tellez 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	11	—	—	—	—	—	—	.200	.273	.500	.331
Bases empty · thin	3	3	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
Runner on first · thin	2	2	1	1	2	0	0	.500	.500	2.000	1.013
Runners on · thin	8	7	2	1	4	1	2	.286	.375	.714	.456
RISP · thin	6	5	1	0	2	1	2	.200	.333	.200	.270

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, 2026.

Pitch arsenal

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

Season


Eephus	95.7%	22	56.0	1,398	18.2%	0.0%	9	—	—

Rowdy Tellez'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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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.