CF · 2026

Stuart Fairchild

Cleveland Guardians American League CentralCF

Age: 30
B/T: R/R
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 205 lb
Number: #17

Born: March 17, 1996 in Seattle, WA, USA
MLB debut: July 6, 2021
Drafted: 2017, round 2
College: Wake Forest
High school: Seattle Prep

dbWAR: .5
PA: 27
AVG: .158
OBP: .407
SLG: .158
wRC+: 95

Stuart Fairchild is a center fielder for the Cleveland Guardians. In 2026 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 1 RBI, notching 3 hits across 27 plate appearances in 13 games. His batting average was .158, 35.2% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .407 clip and slugged .158, for an OPS of .565, 21.4% 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 95 wRC+ puts his offence 5% below average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — -0.1 runs with the bat, +0.3 on the bases, -0.1 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+95

wOBA.314

ISO.000

BB%25.9%

WAR.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +1.0 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	22	15	2	0	6	11	.133	.409	.133	.312	50.0%
vs RHP	5	4	1	0	1	3	.250	.400	.250	.323	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%
Exit velocity: 83.2
Max exit velo: 104.2
Hard hit: 40.0%
Sweet spot: 40.0%
Launch angle: 5.0°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity83.2 mph

Hard hit rate40.0%

Contact rate31.0%

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 Stuart Fairchild 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	27	—	—	—	—	—	—	.158	.407	.158	.314
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	.393
Runners on · thin	12	10	2	0	1	1	7	.200	.333	.200	.271
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.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2026	13	27	3	0	1	2	7	14	.158	.407	.158	.000	.600	25.9%	51.9%	.314	-0.1	95	0.1
2025	25	55	11	0	2	2	4	15	.216	.273	.333	.118	.306	7.3%	27.3%	.268	-2.1	67	-0.1
2024	85	233	45	8	30	13	17	60	.215	.286	.368	.153	.261	7.3%	25.8%	.290	-4.2	81	0.5

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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.