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Nick Fortes

Age: 30
B/T: R/R
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 198 lb
Number: #40

Born: November 11, 1996 in Miami, FL, United States
MLB debut: September 18, 2021
Drafted: 2018, round 4
College: Mississippi
High school: DeLand
Salary, 2026: $2.54M

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dbWAR: 2.2
PA: 323
AVG: .258
OBP: .304
SLG: .376
wRC+: 88

Nick Fortes is a catcher for the Tampa Bay Rays. In 2026 he hit 6 home runs and knocked in 35 RBIs, notching 77 hits across 323 plate appearances in 101 games. His batting average was .258, 5.9% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .304 clip and slugged .376, for an OPS of .680, 5.4% lower than the league mark of .719 — 9th of 13 on his team, and 283rd of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 83.8 mph off the bat, hit 35.8% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 2.0% of them and made contact on 81.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 88 wRC+ puts his offence 12% below average. That comes to 1.1 dbWAR — -4.4 runs with the bat, -0.0 for the ballpark, -0.4 on the bases, -0.2 on double plays, +5.8 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+88

wOBA.302

ISO.117

BB%3.7%

WAR1.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +10.8 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	TB	101	323	77	6	35	0	12	45	.258	.304	.376	.117	.286	3.7%	13.9%	.302	-4.4	88	1.1
2025	MIA/TB	86	242	50	5	21	1	14	47	.229	.296	.349	.119	.269	5.8%	19.4%	.288	-5.4	85	0.6
2024	MIA	102	335	70	4	29	0	11	41	.227	.259	.318	.091	.246	3.3%	12.2%	.254	-16.1	54	-0.3
2023	MIA	100	323	60	6	26	4	17	59	.204	.263	.299	.095	.234	5.3%	18.3%	.252	-18.5	52	-0.6
2022	MIA	70	240	50	9	24	5	18	45	.230	.304	.392	.161	.252	7.5%	18.8%	.309	-0.4	97	1.0
2021	MIA	14	34	9	4	7	1	3	8	.290	.353	.677	.387	.263	8.8%	23.5%	.426	+3.1	180	0.4

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 Nick Fortes's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2026 Post	TB	Postseason total · through Oct 27	4	5	5	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
		ALCS	2	3	3	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
		World Series	2	2	2	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
2023 Post	MIA	Wild Card	1	2	2	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
Career		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	5	7	7	1	1	.000	.000	.000	.000

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	165	147	37	2	8	22	.252	.315	.361	.304	13.3%
vs RHP	158	151	40	4	4	23	.265	.293	.391	.300	14.6%

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

Barrel rate: 2.0%
Exit velocity: 83.8
Max exit velo: 112.7
Hard hit: 35.8%
Sweet spot: 26.0%
Launch angle: 7.2°

Barrel rate2.0%

Exit velocity83.8 mph

Hard hit rate35.8%

Contact rate81.7%

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.

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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 Nick Fortes 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	323	—	—	—	—	—	—	.258	.304	.376	.302
Bases empty	190	177	44	4	4	9	29	.249	.300	.367	.298
Runner on first	58	54	15	1	7	1	6	.278	.316	.407	.319
Runners on	133	121	33	2	31	3	16	.273	.310	.388	.308
RISP	75	67	18	1	24	2	10	.269	.306	.373	.300

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

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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.