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Rhys Hoskins

Cleveland Guardians American League Central1B

Age: 33
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 241 lb
Number: #8

Born: March 17, 1993 in Sacramento, CA, United States
MLB debut: August 10, 2017
Drafted: 2014, round 5
College: Sacramento State
Salary, 2026: $4M

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dbWAR: 17.2
PA: 317
AVG: .179
OBP: .306
SLG: .376
wRC+: 92

Rhys Hoskins is a first baseman for the Cleveland Guardians. In 2026 he hit 13 home runs and knocked in 38 RBIs, notching 47 hits across 317 plate appearances in 95 games. His batting average was .179, 26.8% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .306 clip and slugged .376, for an OPS of .682, 5.1% lower than the league mark of .719 — 9th of 15 on his team, and 278th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 89.4 mph off the bat, hit 41.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 9.6% of them and made contact on 67.6% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 92 wRC+ puts his offence 8% below average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — -2.7 runs with the bat, -0.2 for the ballpark, -0.2 on the bases, -1.0 on double plays, -5.0 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 regular season.

wRC+92

wOBA.308

ISO.198

BB%14.8%

WAR.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +0.7 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting Regular season

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


2026	CLE	95	317	47	13	38	1	47	100	.179	.306	.376	.198	.221	14.8%	31.5%	.308	-2.7	92	0.1
2025	MIL	90	328	66	12	43	2	38	91	.237	.332	.416	.179	.297	11.6%	27.7%	.327	+3.2	111	0.8
2024	MIL	131	517	96	26	82	3	53	149	.214	.303	.419	.205	.250	10.3%	28.8%	.316	+1.4	104	0.8
2022	PHI	156	672	145	30	79	2	72	169	.246	.332	.462	.216	.292	10.7%	25.1%	.348	+19.5	124	3.1
2021	PHI	107	443	96	27	71	3	47	108	.247	.334	.530	.283	.270	10.6%	24.4%	.368	+18.8	137	2.6
2020	PHI	41	185	37	10	26	1	29	43	.245	.384	.503	.258	.276	15.7%	23.2%	.385	+10.1	144	1.3
2019	PHI	159	705	129	29	85	2	116	173	.226	.364	.454	.228	.267	16.5%	24.5%	.351	+17.3	118	2.5
2018	PHI	153	660	137	34	96	5	87	150	.246	.354	.496	.251	.272	13.2%	22.7%	.368	+26.4	133	3.9
2017	PHI	50	212	44	18	48	2	37	46	.259	.396	.618	.359	.241	17.5%	21.7%	.422	+17.3	164	2.2

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 Rhys Hoskins's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2024 Post	MIL	Wild Card	3	10	9	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	.000	.100	.000	.100
2022 Post	PHI	Postseason total	17	73	69	9	11	1	6	12	4	24	.159	.205	.435	.640
		Wild Card	2	9	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLDS	4	18	17	3	4	1	1	4	1	6	.235	.278	.471	.748
		NLCS	5	20	18	4	4	0	4	7	2	5	.222	.300	.889	1.189
		World Series	6	26	25	2	3	0	1	1	1	10	.120	.154	.240	.394
Career		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	20	83	78	9	11	1	6	13	4	27	.141	.193	.385	.577

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.

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	125	102	16	6	18	42	.157	.280	.363	.288	33.6%
vs RHP	192	161	31	7	29	58	.193	.323	.385	.321	30.2%

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

Barrel rate: 9.6%
Exit velocity: 89.4
Max exit velo: 112.3
Hard hit: 41.3%
Sweet spot: 34.1%
Launch angle: 26.6°

Barrel rate9.6%

Exit velocity89.4 mph

Hard hit rate41.3%

Contact rate67.6%

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 Rhys Hoskins 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	317	—	—	—	—	—	—	.179	.306	.376	.308
Bases empty	175	146	24	8	8	29	48	.164	.303	.370	.307
Runner on first	62	48	9	1	4	13	20	.188	.371	.333	.335
Runners on	142	117	23	5	30	18	52	.197	.310	.385	.310
RISP	80	69	14	4	26	5	32	.203	.263	.420	.290

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.