C · 2026

Rafael Marchán

Philadelphia Phillies National League EastC

Age: 27
B/T: S/R
Height: 5' 9"
Weight: 170 lb
Number: #13

Born: February 25, 1999 in San Cristobal, Venezuela
MLB debut: September 14, 2020
Salary, 2026: $860,000

dbWAR: -.1
PA: 92
AVG: .102
OBP: .141
SLG: .170
wRC+: -21

Rafael Marchán is a catcher for the Philadelphia Phillies. In 2026 he hit 2 home runs and knocked in 6 RBIs, notching 9 hits across 92 plate appearances in 29 games. His batting average was .102, 58.0% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .141 clip and slugged .170, for an OPS of .312, 56.7% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 82.6 mph off the bat, hit 18.9% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 1.4% of them and made contact on 83.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -21 wRC+ puts his offence 121% below average. That comes to -0.8 dbWAR — -13.3 runs with the bat, -0.1 on the bases, +1.9 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+-21

wOBA.144

ISO.068

BB%2.2%

WAR-.8

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to -8.4 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

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.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHP	29	28	3	1	0	5	.107	.138	.214	.157	17.2%
vs RHP	63	60	6	1	2	9	.100	.143	.150	.137	14.3%

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

Barrel rate: 1.4%
Exit velocity: 82.6
Max exit velo: 103.7
Hard hit: 18.9%
Sweet spot: 32.4%
Launch angle: 26.0°

Barrel rate1.4%

Exit velocity82.6 mph

Hard hit rate18.9%

Contact rate83.3%

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 Rafael Marchán 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	92	—	—	—	—	—	—	.102	.141	.170	.144
Bases empty	49	47	6	0	0	1	5	.128	.163	.128	.139
Runner on first · thin	23	21	2	2	4	1	4	.095	.174	.381	.239
Runners on	43	41	3	2	6	1	9	.073	.116	.220	.149
RISP · thin	20	20	1	0	2	0	5	.050	.050	.050	.045

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Rows under 25 plate appearances are marked thin — at that size a rate moves several dozen points on one hit. Counted from play-by-play, 2026.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2026	29	92	9	2	6	2	14	.102	.141	.170	.068	.097	2.2%	15.2%	.144	-13.3	-21	-0.8
2025	39	118	22	2	13	10	17	.210	.282	.305	.095	.230	8.5%	14.4%	.266	-4.8	63	0.1
2024	15	56	15	3	6	3	8	.294	.345	.549	.255	.300	5.4%	14.3%	.383	+3.2	149	0.6

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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.