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Brett Sullivan

Age
32
B/T
L/R
Height
5' 11"
Weight
190 lb
Number
#26
Born
February 22, 1994 in Stockton, CA, United States
MLB debut
April 18, 2023
Drafted
2015, round 17
College
Pacific
dbWAR
.2
5 season(s)
PA
233
AVG
.228
OBP
.272
SLG
.395
wRC+
77
100 = avg

Brett Sullivan is a catcher for the Colorado Rockies. So far in 2026 he has hit 7 home runs and knocked in 33 RBIs, notching 49 hits across 233 plate appearances in 75 games. His batting average is .228, 6.6% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .272 clip and slugged .395, for an OPS of .667, 7.2% lower than the league mark of .719 — 9th of 14 on his team, and 298th of 462 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 86.3 mph off the bat, hit 33.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 3.9% of them and made contact on 82.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 77 wRC+ puts his offence 23% below average. That comes to 0.4 dbWAR — -5.4 runs with the bat, -0.6 for the ballpark, -0.9 on the bases, +1.0 on double plays, +2.9 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.

wRC+77
wOBA.290
ISO.167
BB%5.6%
WAR.4

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +3.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting-5.4Ballpark-0.6Baserunning-0.9Double plays+1.0Position+2.9Replacement+7.0
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

0.40.1-0.223242526

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2026COL752334973311338.228.272.395.167.2435.6%16.3%.290-5.4770.4
2025PIT39102013.167.333.167.000.25011.1%33.3%.261-0.4620.0
2024SD617312014.188.235.375.188.1825.9%23.5%.266-0.6680.0
2023SD318617160419.210.244.284.074.2584.7%22.1%.234-6.241-0.2

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2026COL707.2000114124.705.321.701.22.3112127-0.0—

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

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.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP645815036.259.302.345.2889.4%
vs RHP1691573471032.217.260.414.29118.9%
Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2026. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB15144011.286.333.357.3116.7%
vs RHB19177110.412.421.824.5030.0%

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

Barrel rate
3.9%
7 barrels
Exit velocity
86.3
mph average
Max exit velo
107.5
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
33.3%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
32.2%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
20.2°
average
Barrel rate3.9%
Exit velocity86.3 mph
Hard hit rate33.3%
Contact rate82.9%

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.

.300.000.105.286.6258 AB.20020 AB—7 AB.12516 AB.24233 AB.20020 AB.31316 AB.08025 AB.44418 AB
Below averageLeague averageAbove average
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 Brett Sullivan 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.
SituationPAABHHRRBIBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBA
All situations233——————.228.272.395.290
Bases empty1181102045721.182.237.364.264
Runner on first5047150137.319.360.383.333
Runners on11510529328617.276.307.429.317
RISP655814327310.241.266.466.305

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

Pitch sequencing

What Brett Sullivan throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Eephus62.8%5957.51,41435.6%0.0%17.412.950
Fastball37.2%3568.11,73434.3%0.0%14——
Brett Sullivan's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters. BAA and OPS are what hitters did against each pitch, credited to the one that ended the plate appearance, and are left blank under 15 at-bats.

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Nearest 2026 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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.