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Tyler Stephenson

Cincinnati Reds National League CentralC

Age: 30
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 225 lb
Number: #37

Born: August 16, 1996 in Atlanta, GA, United States
MLB debut: July 27, 2020
Drafted: 2015, round 1
High school: Kennesaw Mountain
Salary, 2026: $6.8M

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dbWAR: 12.6
PA: 468
AVG: .241
OBP: .323
SLG: .404
wRC+: 105

Tyler Stephenson is a catcher for the Cincinnati Reds. In 2026 he hit 15 home runs and knocked in 54 RBIs, notching 99 hits across 468 plate appearances in 128 games. His batting average was .241, 1.3% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .323 clip and slugged .404, for an OPS of .727, 1.1% higher than the league mark of .719 — 7th of 18 on his team, and 184th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 90.8 mph off the bat, hit 44.9% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 11.0% of them and made contact on 73.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 105 wRC+ puts his offence 5% above average. That comes to 2.2 dbWAR — +1.3 runs with the bat, +0.8 for the ballpark, -1.1 on the bases, -1.3 on double plays, +6.7 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+105

wOBA.322

ISO.163

BB%10.5%

WAR2.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +20.9 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	CIN	128	468	99	15	54	0	49	128	.241	.323	.404	.163	.308	10.5%	27.4%	.322	+1.3	105	2.2
2025	CIN	88	342	69	13	50	0	37	116	.231	.316	.421	.191	.322	10.8%	33.9%	.322	+1.9	105	1.5
2024	CIN	136	515	118	19	66	1	48	117	.258	.338	.444	.186	.307	9.3%	22.7%	.341	+12.4	116	3.7
2023	CIN	136	517	113	13	56	0	47	135	.243	.317	.378	.135	.314	9.1%	26.1%	.307	-5.7	91	0.8
2022	CIN	47	183	53	6	35	1	12	47	.319	.372	.482	.163	.409	6.6%	25.7%	.372	+8.9	136	1.8
2021	CIN	130	402	100	10	45	0	41	75	.286	.366	.431	.146	.333	10.2%	18.7%	.349	+10.9	114	2.4
2020	CIN	8	20	5	2	6	0	2	9	.294	.400	.647	.353	.500	10.0%	45.0%	.438	+2.0	173	0.3

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 Tyler Stephenson's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2025 Post	CIN	Wild Card	2	8	7	0	1	1	0	0	2	0	4	0	.143	.125	.286	.411

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	117	96	19	2	21	27	.198	.342	.313	.306	23.1%
vs RHP	351	315	80	13	28	101	.254	.316	.432	.327	28.8%

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

Barrel rate: 11.0%
Exit velocity: 90.8
Max exit velo: 109.1
Hard hit: 44.9%
Sweet spot: 41.7%
Launch angle: 18.0°

Barrel rate11.0%

Exit velocity90.8 mph

Hard hit rate44.9%

Contact rate73.5%

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 Tyler Stephenson 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	468	—	—	—	—	—	—	.241	.323	.404	.322
Bases empty	252	227	52	7	7	24	63	.229	.306	.374	.305
Runner on first	109	97	26	3	11	11	30	.268	.349	.433	.347
Runners on	216	184	47	8	47	25	65	.255	.343	.440	.342
RISP	107	87	21	5	36	14	35	.241	.336	.448	.336

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.