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Tyler Stephenson
- 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
- dbWAR
- 12.7 7 season(s)
- PA
- 464
- AVG
- .243
- OBP
- .325
- SLG
- .408
- wRC+
- 108 100 = avg
Tyler Stephenson is a catcher for the Cincinnati Reds. So far in 2026 he has hit 15 home runs and knocked in 54 RBIs, notching 99 hits across 464 plate appearances in 127 games. His batting average is .243, level with the league average of .244. He reached base at a .325 clip and slugged .408, for an OPS of .733, 2.1% higher than the league mark of .719 — 6th of 17 on his team, and 165th of 462 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 91.0 mph off the bat, hit 44.8% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 10.7% of them and made contact on 73.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 108 wRC+ puts his offence 8% above average. That comes to 2.3 dbWAR — +2.5 runs with the bat, +0.8 for the ballpark, -1.1 on the bases, -1.3 on double plays, +6.6 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 terms sum to +21.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | CIN | 127 | 464 | 99 | 15 | 54 | 0 | 49 | 126 | .243 | .325 | .408 | .165 | .310 | 10.6% | 27.2% | .325 | +2.5 | 108 | 2.3 | |
| 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 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| 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 | 347 | 311 | 80 | 13 | 28 | 99 | .257 | .320 | .437 | .331 | 28.5% |
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 281 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 10.7% 30 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 91.0 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 109.1 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 44.8% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 41.6% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 18.1° 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 Tyler Stephenson 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 | 464 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .243 | .325 | .408 | .325 |
| Bases empty | 250 | 225 | 52 | 7 | 7 | 24 | 62 | .231 | .308 | .378 | .307 |
| Runner on first | 108 | 96 | 26 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 30 | .271 | .352 | .438 | .351 |
| Runners on | 214 | 182 | 47 | 8 | 47 | 25 | 64 | .258 | .346 | .445 | .345 |
| RISP | 106 | 86 | 21 | 5 | 36 | 14 | 34 | .244 | .340 | .453 | .340 |
Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2026.
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Similar players
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.