DH · 2026

Yohel Pozo

St. Louis Cardinals National League CentralDH

Age: 29
B/T: R/R
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 201 lb
Number: #79

Born: June 14, 1997 in Maracaibo, Venezuela
MLB debut: August 13, 2021

dbWAR: .0
PA: 43
AVG: .238
OBP: .233
SLG: .333
wRC+: 48

Yohel Pozo is a designated hitter for the St. Louis Cardinals. In 2026 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 7 RBIs, notching 10 hits across 43 plate appearances in 20 games. His batting average was .238, 2.3% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .233 clip and slugged .333, for an OPS of .566, 21.3% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 87.4 mph off the bat, hit 24.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 83.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 48 wRC+ puts his offence 52% below average. That comes to -0.2 dbWAR — -2.7 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, -0.4 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, 2026.

wRC+48

wOBA.242

ISO.095

BB%0.0%

WAR-.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to -1.7 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, 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	19	19	4	0	0	0	.211	.211	.211	.188	0.0%
vs RHP	24	23	6	1	0	6	.261	.250	.435	.285	25.0%

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

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 87.4
Max exit velo: 104.9
Hard hit: 24.3%
Sweet spot: 35.1%
Launch angle: 17.5°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity87.4 mph

Hard hit rate24.3%

Contact rate83.7%

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 Yohel Pozo 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	43	—	—	—	—	—	—	.238	.233	.333	.242
Bases empty · thin	15	15	5	1	1	0	3	.333	.333	.533	.372
Runner on first · thin	12	12	2	0	1	0	0	.167	.167	.250	.179
Runners on	28	27	5	0	6	0	3	.185	.179	.222	.172
RISP · thin	16	15	3	0	5	0	3	.200	.188	.200	.167

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.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2026	20	43	10	1	7	0	0	6	.238	.233	.333	.095	.250	0.0%	14.0%	.242	-2.7	48	-0.2
2025	63	168	37	5	19	0	7	22	.231	.262	.375	.144	.239	4.2%	13.1%	.276	-5.4	75	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.