C · 2026
Nick Fortes
- Age
- 30
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 5' 11"
- Weight
- 198 lb
- Number
- #40
- Born
- November 11, 1996 in Miami, FL, USA
- MLB debut
- September 18, 2021
- Drafted
- 2018, round 4
- College
- Mississippi
- High school
- DeLand
- Salary, 2026
- $2.54M
- dbWAR
- 2.0 3 season(s)
- PA
- 264
- AVG
- .273
- OBP
- .314
- SLG
- .380
- wRC+
- 93 100 = avg
Nick Fortes is a catcher for the Tampa Bay Rays. In 2026 he hit 4 home runs and knocked in 28 RBIs, notching 67 hits across 264 plate appearances in 82 games. His batting average was .273, 12.2% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .314 clip and slugged .380, for an OPS of .694, 3.6% lower than the league mark of .719 — 8th of 13 on his team, and 231st of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 84.4 mph off the bat, hit 36.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 82.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 93 wRC+ puts his offence 7% below average. That comes to 1.2 dbWAR — -2.2 runs with the bat, -0.4 on the bases, +5.3 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 +11.5 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 | 125 | 112 | 30 | 1 | 4 | 14 | .268 | .325 | .357 | .307 | 11.2% |
| vs RHP | 139 | 133 | 37 | 3 | 3 | 18 | .278 | .304 | .398 | .309 | 12.9% |
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 | 82 | 264 | 67 | 4 | 28 | 0 | 7 | 32 | .273 | .314 | .380 | .106 | .300 | 2.7% | 12.1% | .308 | -2.2 | 93 | 1.2 | |
| 2025 | 86 | 242 | 50 | 5 | 21 | 1 | 14 | 47 | .229 | .296 | .349 | .119 | .269 | 5.8% | 19.4% | .288 | -5.4 | 85 | 0.7 | |
| 2024 | 102 | 335 | 70 | 4 | 29 | 0 | 11 | 41 | .227 | .259 | .318 | .091 | .246 | 3.3% | 12.2% | .254 | -16.1 | 54 | 0.1 |
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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.