3B · 2026
Austin Riley
- Age
- 29
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 225 lb
- Number
- #27
- Born
- April 2, 1997 in Memphis, TN, USA
- MLB debut
- May 15, 2019
- Drafted
- 2015, round CB-A
- High school
- DeSoto Central
- Salary, 2026
- $22M
- dbWAR
- 5.5 3 season(s)
- PA
- 471
- AVG
- .220
- OBP
- .295
- SLG
- .365
- wRC+
- 83 100 = avg
Austin Riley is a third baseman for the Atlanta Braves. In 2026 he hit 14 home runs and knocked in 57 RBIs, notching 93 hits across 471 plate appearances in 117 games. His batting average was .220, 9.6% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .295 clip and slugged .365, for an OPS of .660, 8.3% lower than the league mark of .719 — the second worst on his team, and 287th of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 90.9 mph off the bat, hit 44.6% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 67.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 83 wRC+ puts his offence 17% below average. That comes to 0.9 dbWAR — -8.9 runs with the bat, +0.4 on the bases, +1.9 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.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +9.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 151 | 131 | 30 | 2 | 16 | 47 | .229 | .325 | .328 | .301 | 31.1% |
| vs RHP | 320 | 291 | 63 | 12 | 20 | 100 | .216 | .281 | .381 | .293 | 31.3% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2026.
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Hot and cold zones
Batting average by pitch location, 2026.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 117 | 471 | 93 | 14 | 57 | 7 | 36 | 147 | .220 | .295 | .365 | .145 | .299 | 7.6% | 31.2% | .295 | -8.9 | 83 | 0.9 | |
| 2025 | 102 | 447 | 108 | 16 | 54 | 2 | 27 | 128 | .260 | .309 | .428 | .168 | .337 | 6.0% | 28.6% | .320 | +1.7 | 104 | 1.8 | |
| 2024 | 110 | 469 | 109 | 19 | 56 | 0 | 37 | 118 | .256 | .322 | .461 | .205 | .310 | 7.9% | 25.2% | .339 | +10.6 | 122 | 2.8 |
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Nearest 2026 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.
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.