Players · F · CF · 2026
Stuart Fairchild
- Age
- 30
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 5' 11"
- Weight
- 205 lb
- Number
- #17
- Born
- March 17, 1996 in Seattle, WA, United States
- MLB debut
- July 6, 2021
- Drafted
- 2017, round 2
- College
- Wake Forest
- High school
- Seattle Prep
- dbWAR
- 1.7 6 season(s)
- PA
- 27
- AVG
- .158
- OBP
- .407
- SLG
- .158
- wRC+
- 96 100 = avg
Stuart Fairchild is a center fielder for the Cleveland Guardians. So far in 2026 he has hit 0 home runs and knocked in 1 RBI, notching 3 hits across 27 plate appearances in 13 games. His batting average is .158, 35.3% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .407 clip and slugged .158, for an OPS of .565, 21.3% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 83.2 mph off the bat, hit 40.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 31.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 96 wRC+ puts his offence 4% below average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — -0.1 runs with the bat, -0.0 for the ballpark, +0.3 on the bases, -0.0 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.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +1.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | CLE/SEA | 13 | 27 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 14 | .158 | .407 | .158 | .000 | .600 | 25.9% | 51.9% | .315 | -0.1 | 96 | 0.1 | |
| 2025 | ATL | 25 | 55 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 15 | .216 | .273 | .333 | .118 | .306 | 7.3% | 27.3% | .268 | -2.1 | 67 | -0.2 | |
| 2024 | CIN | 85 | 233 | 45 | 8 | 30 | 13 | 17 | 60 | .215 | .286 | .368 | .153 | .261 | 7.3% | 25.8% | .290 | -4.2 | 81 | 0.5 | |
| 2023 | CIN | 92 | 255 | 50 | 5 | 28 | 10 | 25 | 69 | .228 | .321 | .388 | .160 | .306 | 9.8% | 27.1% | .315 | -1.1 | 97 | 0.8 | |
| 2022 | CIN/SF/SEA | 39 | 110 | 24 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 34 | .247 | .336 | .464 | .216 | .328 | 7.3% | 30.9% | .352 | +3.6 | 123 | 0.6 | |
| 2021 | AZ | 11 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | .133 | .235 | .200 | .067 | .167 | 5.9% | 17.6% | .212 | -1.5 | 27 | -0.1 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 22 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 11 | .133 | .409 | .133 | .313 | 50.0% |
| vs RHP | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | .250 | .400 | .250 | .324 | 60.0% |
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 5 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 83.2 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 104.2 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 40.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 40.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 5.0° average
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.
Situational hitting
How Stuart Fairchild hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.
| Situation | PA | AB | H | HR | RBI | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All situations | 27 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .158 | .407 | .158 | .315 |
| Bases empty · thin | 15 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 7 | .111 | .467 | .111 | .349 |
| Runner on first · thin | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | .250 | .500 | .250 | .394 |
| Runners on · thin | 12 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 | .200 | .333 | .200 | .272 |
| RISP · thin | 6 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | .167 | .167 | .167 | .149 |
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.
Head to head
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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.