Players · R · 3B · 2026 regular season

Austin Riley

Age: 29
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 225 lb
Number: #27

Born: April 2, 1997 in Memphis, TN, United States
MLB debut: May 15, 2019
Drafted: 2015, round CB-A
High school: DeSoto Central
Salary, 2026: $22M

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dbWAR: 23.9
PA: 630
AVG: .219
OBP: .290
SLG: .364
wRC+: 80

Austin Riley is a third baseman for the Atlanta Braves. In 2026 he hit 19 home runs and knocked in 72 RBIs, notching 124 hits across 630 plate appearances in 159 games. His batting average was .219, 10.2% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .290 clip and slugged .364, for an OPS of .654, 9.0% lower than the league mark of .719 — 10th of 14 on his team, and 327th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 91.3 mph off the bat, hit 44.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 10.5% of them and made contact on 68.1% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 80 wRC+ puts his offence 20% below average. That comes to 1.0 dbWAR — -13.8 runs with the bat, -0.6 for the ballpark, +0.2 on the bases, -0.2 on double plays, +4.2 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+80

wOBA.292

ISO.145

BB%7.6%

WAR1.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +9.3 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	ATL	159	630	124	19	72	9	48	201	.219	.290	.364	.145	.299	7.6%	31.9%	.292	-13.8	80	1.0
2025	ATL	102	447	108	16	54	2	27	128	.260	.309	.428	.168	.337	6.0%	28.6%	.320	+1.7	104	1.7
2024	ATL	110	469	109	19	56	0	37	118	.256	.322	.461	.205	.310	7.9%	25.2%	.339	+10.6	122	3.1
2023	ATL	159	715	179	37	97	3	59	172	.281	.345	.516	.234	.324	8.3%	24.1%	.364	+26.4	128	5.1
2022	ATL	159	693	168	38	93	2	57	168	.273	.349	.528	.255	.315	8.2%	24.2%	.379	+37.6	150	6.7
2021	ATL	160	662	179	33	107	0	52	168	.303	.367	.531	.227	.368	7.9%	25.4%	.382	+35.9	140	5.7
2020	ATL	51	206	45	8	27	0	16	49	.239	.301	.415	.176	.280	7.8%	23.8%	.308	-2.4	90	0.5
2019	ATL	80	297	62	18	49	0	16	108	.226	.279	.471	.245	.293	5.4%	36.4%	.309	-3.4	91	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 Austin Riley'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
2026 Post	ATL	Postseason total · through Oct 7	7	28	22	2	2	0	1	3	4	7	.091	.286	.227	.513
		Wild Card	3	13	9	2	2	0	1	3	3	1	.222	.462	.556	1.017
		NLDS	4	15	13	0	0	0	0	0	1	6	.000	.133	.000	.133
2023 Post	ATL	NLDS	4	17	17	2	6	0	2	3	0	6	.353	.353	.706	1.059
2022 Post	ATL	NLDS	4	16	15	0	1	0	0	1	1	5	.067	.125	.067	.192
2021 Post	ATL	Postseason total	16	68	65	7	18	5	2	8	3	25	.277	.309	.446	.755
		NLDS	4	16	15	3	5	0	1	1	1	4	.333	.375	.533	.908
		NLCS	6	27	25	3	5	2	1	4	2	10	.200	.259	.400	.659
		World Series	6	25	25	1	8	3	0	3	0	11	.320	.320	.440	.760
2020 Post	ATL	Postseason total	12	49	45	4	8	0	1	4	3	18	.178	.245	.244	.489
		Wild Card	2	9	8	1	1	0	0	0	0	5	.125	.222	.125	.347
		NLDS	3	11	9	1	3	0	0	0	2	3	.333	.455	.333	.788
		NLCS	7	29	28	2	4	0	1	4	1	10	.143	.172	.250	.422
Career		Postseason total · 5 Octobers	43	178	164	15	35	5	6	19	11	61	.213	.275	.354	.629

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	184	161	37	3	18	60	.230	.321	.342	.301	32.6%
vs RHP	446	405	87	16	30	141	.215	.278	.373	.288	31.6%

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

Barrel rate: 10.5%
Exit velocity: 91.3
Max exit velo: 112.2
Hard hit: 44.3%
Sweet spot: 34.9%
Launch angle: 18.5°

Barrel rate10.5%

Exit velocity91.3 mph

Hard hit rate44.3%

Contact rate68.1%

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.

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 Austin Riley 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	630	—	—	—	—	—	—	.219	.290	.364	.292
Bases empty	355	321	68	13	14	27	112	.212	.287	.368	.294
Runner on first	122	107	21	1	4	12	37	.196	.295	.262	.264
Runners on	275	245	56	6	58	21	89	.229	.295	.359	.290
RISP	153	138	35	5	54	9	52	.254	.294	.435	.310

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

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Nearest 2026 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Max MuncyATH

wRC+: 79
HR: 9
AVG: .230
WAR: 0.2

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wRC+: 73
HR: 11
AVG: .213
WAR: 0.1

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wRC+: 84
HR: 7
AVG: .222
WAR: -0.1

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wRC+: 90
HR: 6
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WAR: -0.1

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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.