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3B · 2025

Emmanuel Rivera

Age
29
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 0"
Weight
225 lb
Number
#26
Born
June 29, 1996 in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
MLB debut
June 28, 2021
Drafted
2015, round 19
College
Interamerican University of Puerto Rico
Salary, 2025
$1M
dbWAR
.0
4 season(s)
PA
127
AVG
.250
OBP
.291
SLG
.283
wRC+
61
100 = avg

Emmanuel Rivera is a third baseman for the Baltimore Orioles. In 2025 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 13 RBIs, notching 30 hits across 127 plate appearances in 39 games. His batting average was .250, 1.9% higher than the league average of .245. He reached base at a .291 clip and slugged .283, for an OPS of .575, 20.1% lower than the league mark of .719 — 18th of 20 on his team, and 411th of 461 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 86.7 mph off the bat, hit 32.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 1.0% of them and made contact on 71.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 61 wRC+ puts his offence 39% below average. That comes to -0.2 dbWAR — -5.7 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, 2025.

wRC+61
wOBA.261
ISO.033
BB%4.7%
WAR-.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2025. These four terms sum to -1.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting-5.7Baserunning-0.0Position-0.4Replacement+4.2
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

0.50.2-0.22425

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2025. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP353310027.303.343.333.30520.0%
vs RHP9287200417.230.272.264.24418.5%
Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2025. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB4331101.0001.0002.0001.1240.0%
vs RHB985010.625.6671.125.7380.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2025.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 96 tracked batted balls in 2025. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate
1.0%
1 barrels
Exit velocity
86.7
mph average
Max exit velo
109.1
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
32.3%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
39.6%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
11.6°
average
Barrel rate1.0%
Exit velocity86.7 mph
Hard hit rate32.3%
Contact rate71.3%

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, 2025.

.125.250.2508 AB.30010 AB2 AB.33312 AB.28614 AB7 AB7 AB.25012 AB.1119 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 .245.

Situational hitting

How Emmanuel Rivera 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 situations127.250.291.283.261
Bases empty72681300312.191.236.221.211
Runner on first · thin191990103.474.474.526.439
Runners on555217013312.327.364.365.327
RISP3633801239.242.306.273.267

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, 2025.

Pitch sequencing

What Emmanuel Rivera throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, and how often it misses in 2025.

Eephus82.2%3752.91,44337.8%0.0%
Emmanuel Rivera's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
202539127300131624.250.291.283.033.3134.7%18.9%.261-5.761-0.2
2024973026352922669.238.312.343.106.2968.6%22.8%.294-4.5810.5

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2025101.0000880272.0022.1410.000.018.01,731532-0.2
2024404.000074009.007.171.750.00.0221176-0.1

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Similar players

Nearest 2025 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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.