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Derek Hill

Age
31
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 0"
Weight
206 lb
Number
#49
Born
December 30, 1995 in Des Moines, IA, United States
MLB debut
September 4, 2020
Drafted
2014, round 1
High school
Elk Grove
Salary, 2026
$900,000

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dbWAR
1.2
Regular season, 7 season(s)
PA
216
AVG
.241
OBP
.291
SLG
.442
wRC+
96
100 = avg

Derek Hill is a right fielder for the Philadelphia Phillies. In 2026 he hit 11 home runs and knocked in 31 RBIs, notching 48 hits across 216 plate appearances in 92 games. His batting average was .241, 1.1% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .291 clip and slugged .442, for an OPS of .733, 2.0% higher than the league mark of .719 — 4th of 11 on his team, and 170th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 84.5 mph off the bat, hit 34.1% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 9.8% of them and made contact on 67.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 96 wRC+ puts his offence 4% below average. That comes to 0.7 dbWAR — +0.2 runs with the bat, -0.6 for the ballpark, +0.7 on the bases, -0.6 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+96
wOBA.319
ISO.201
BB%6.0%
WAR.7

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +6.4 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting+0.2Ballpark-0.6Baserunning+0.7Double plays-0.0Position-0.6Replacement+6.7
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

0.70.2-0.320212223242526

Batting Regular season

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

Trend
2026PHI/CWS92216481131131369.241.291.442.201.3116.0%31.9%.319+0.2960.7
2025MIA/CWS49149293117948.216.281.328.112.3136.0%32.2%.274-5.1740.2
2024MIA/TEX/SF51172397256556.241.271.420.179.3202.9%32.6%.297-2.1830.3
2023WSH13508011311.170.220.191.021.2226.0%22.0%.191-5.411-0.3
2022DET289219133528.229.270.289.060.3275.4%30.4%.250-4.657-0.0
2021DET451503631461042.259.313.388.129.3516.7%28.0%.308-1.2970.4
2020DET912100016.091.167.091.000.2008.3%50.0%.134-1.9-29-0.2

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 Derek Hill's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
SeasonTeamRoundGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBAVGOBPSLGOPS
2026 PostPHIWild Card · through Oct 1355110100020.200.200.600.800

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.

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.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP138128328743.250.289.492.33531.2%
vs RHP7871163626.225.295.352.29233.3%

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

Barrel rate
9.8%
13 barrels
Exit velocity
84.5
mph average
Max exit velo
109.8
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
34.1%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
37.9%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
11.9°
average
Barrel rate9.8%
Exit velocity84.5 mph
Hard hit rate34.1%
Contact rate67.3%

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.

.125.214.056.318.20010 AB.37516 AB.18211 AB.25016 AB.38918 AB.21414 AB.16712 AB.30020 AB.20020 AB
Below averageLeague averageAbove average
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 Derek Hill 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.
SituationPAABHHRRBIBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBA
All situations216——————.241.291.442.319
Bases empty1101012577834.248.309.495.348
Runner on first5045925315.200.250.356.267
Runners on1069823424535.235.272.388.289
RISP565314219220.264.291.415.308

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

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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.