Players · B · C · 2026 regular season
Joey Bart
- Age
- 30
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 2"
- Weight
- 242 lb
- Number
- #25
- Born
- December 15, 1996 in Buford, GA, United States
- MLB debut
- August 20, 2020
- Drafted
- 2018, round 1
- College
- Georgia Tech
- High school
- Buford
- Salary, 2026
- $2.53M
- dbWAR
- 4.9 Regular season, 7 season(s)
- PA
- 128
- AVG
- .214
- OBP
- .305
- SLG
- .357
- wRC+
- 84 100 = avg
Joey Bart is a catcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates. In 2026 he hit 4 home runs and knocked in 13 RBIs, notching 24 hits across 128 plate appearances in 42 games. His batting average was .214, 12.2% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .305 clip and slugged .357, for an OPS of .662, 7.9% lower than the league mark of .719 — 13th of 18 on his team, and 317th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 85.8 mph off the bat, hit 34.6% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 7.7% of them and made contact on 70.8% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 84 wRC+ puts his offence 16% below average. That comes to 0.4 dbWAR — -1.9 runs with the bat, -0.3 for the ballpark, -0.2 on the bases, -0.3 on double plays, +2.2 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.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +3.5 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.
WAR by season
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | PIT/ATL/CWS | 42 | 128 | 24 | 4 | 13 | 0 | 7 | 35 | .214 | .305 | .357 | .143 | .270 | 5.5% | 27.3% | .300 | -1.9 | 84 | 0.4 | |
| 2025 | PIT | 90 | 332 | 71 | 4 | 30 | 1 | 40 | 93 | .249 | .355 | .340 | .091 | .356 | 12.0% | 28.0% | .321 | +1.5 | 104 | 1.4 | |
| 2024 | PIT | 77 | 282 | 67 | 13 | 45 | 0 | 22 | 73 | .265 | .337 | .462 | .198 | .321 | 7.8% | 25.9% | .349 | +8.5 | 123 | 2.1 | |
| 2023 | SF | 28 | 95 | 18 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 23 | .207 | .263 | .264 | .057 | .277 | 3.2% | 24.2% | .241 | -6.3 | 47 | -0.1 | |
| 2022 | SF | 87 | 291 | 56 | 11 | 25 | 2 | 26 | 112 | .215 | .296 | .364 | .149 | .326 | 8.9% | 38.5% | .296 | -3.7 | 90 | 1.1 | |
| 2021 | SF | 2 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .000 | .500 | 0.0% | 33.3% | .292 | -0.1 | 83 | 0.0 | |
| 2020 | SF | 32 | 111 | 24 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 41 | .233 | .288 | .320 | .087 | .387 | 2.7% | 36.9% | .274 | -4.6 | 67 | 0.1 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 66 | 57 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 20 | .158 | .273 | .263 | .256 | 30.3% |
| vs RHP | 62 | 55 | 15 | 3 | 4 | 15 | .273 | .339 | .455 | .348 | 24.2% |
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 78 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 7.7% 6 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 85.8 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 109.6 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 34.6% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 33.3% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 15.4° average
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.
Situational hitting
How Joey Bart hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.
| Situation | PA | AB | H | HR | RBI | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All situations | 128 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .214 | .305 | .357 | .300 |
| Bases empty | 70 | 63 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 20 | .222 | .300 | .349 | .296 |
| Runner on first | 27 | 22 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | .273 | .407 | .500 | .402 |
| Runners on | 58 | 49 | 10 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 15 | .204 | .310 | .367 | .306 |
| RISP | 31 | 27 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 12 | .148 | .226 | .259 | .222 |
Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2026.
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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.