1B · 2026

Ryan Mountcastle

Baltimore Orioles American League East1B

Age: 29
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 230 lb
Number: #6

Born: February 18, 1997 in Winter Springs, FL, USA
MLB debut: August 21, 2020
Drafted: 2015, round 1
High school: Hagerty
Salary, 2026: $6.79M

dbWAR: .2
PA: 15
AVG: .286
OBP: .333
SLG: .357
wRC+: 95

Ryan Mountcastle is a first baseman for the Baltimore Orioles. In 2026 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 1 RBI, notching 4 hits across 15 plate appearances in 8 games. His batting average was .286, 17.3% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .333 clip and slugged .357, for an OPS of .690, 4.0% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 90.0 mph off the bat, hit 41.7% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 91.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 95 wRC+ puts his offence 5% below average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — -0.1 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, 2026.

wRC+95

wOBA.311

ISO.071

BB%6.7%

WAR.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +0.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

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.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHP	4	4	1	0	0	1	.250	.250	.250	.223	25.0%
vs RHP	11	10	3	0	1	1	.300	.364	.400	.342	9.1%

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

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 90.0
Max exit velo: 111.0
Hard hit: 41.7%
Sweet spot: 33.3%
Launch angle: 8.8°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity90.0 mph

Hard hit rate41.7%

Contact rate91.2%

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 Ryan Mountcastle 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	15	—	—	—	—	—	—	.286	.333	.357	.311
Bases empty · thin	7	7	3	0	0	0	2	.429	.429	.571	.435
Runner on first · thin	5	5	1	0	0	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.178
Runners on · thin	8	7	1	0	1	1	0	.143	.250	.143	.202
RISP · thin	3	2	0	0	1	1	0	.000	.333	.000	.241

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, 2026.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2026	8	15	4	0	1	0	1	2	.286	.333	.357	.071	.333	6.7%	13.3%	.311	-0.1	95	0.0
2025	88	357	83	7	35	3	15	98	.250	.286	.367	.117	.326	4.2%	27.5%	.285	-8.8	78	-0.6
2024	124	507	128	13	63	3	27	114	.271	.308	.425	.154	.327	5.3%	22.5%	.317	+1.9	105	0.8

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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.