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Leody Taveras

Baltimore Orioles American League EastCF

Age: 28
B/T: S/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 210 lb
Number: #30

Born: September 8, 1998 in Tenares, Dominican Republic
MLB debut: July 24, 2020

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dbWAR: 3.7
PA: 482
AVG: .219
OBP: .288
SLG: .345
wRC+: 79

Leody Taveras is a center fielder for the Baltimore Orioles. In 2026 he hit 8 home runs and knocked in 56 RBIs, notching 94 hits across 482 plate appearances in 133 games. His batting average was .219, 10.2% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .288 clip and slugged .345, for an OPS of .633, 12.0% lower than the league mark of .719 — the second worst on his team, and 358th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 84.1 mph off the bat, hit 32.8% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 3.5% of them and made contact on 75.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 79 wRC+ puts his offence 21% below average. That comes to 0.2 dbWAR — -13.6 runs with the bat, +0.9 for the ballpark, -0.0 on the bases, -0.2 on double plays, +0.2 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+79

wOBA.284

ISO.126

BB%8.5%

WAR.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +2.2 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	BAL	133	482	94	8	56	11	41	124	.219	.288	.345	.126	.288	8.5%	25.7%	.284	-13.6	79	0.2
2025	SEA/TEX	54	180	35	3	17	9	5	50	.205	.226	.304	.099	.269	2.8%	27.8%	.231	-12.6	43	-0.5
2024	TEX	149	529	110	12	44	23	42	112	.229	.289	.352	.123	.272	7.9%	21.2%	.284	-12.1	84	1.2
2023	TEX	143	554	136	14	67	14	35	117	.266	.312	.421	.155	.318	6.3%	21.1%	.318	-1.1	93	2.1
2022	TEX	93	341	82	5	34	11	21	88	.261	.309	.366	.105	.344	6.2%	25.8%	.298	-3.6	90	1.0
2021	TEX	48	185	28	3	9	10	9	60	.161	.207	.270	.109	.225	4.9%	32.4%	.211	-16.5	27	-0.9
2020	TEX	32	134	27	4	6	8	14	43	.227	.308	.395	.168	.319	10.4%	32.1%	.309	-1.4	91	0.6

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 Leody Taveras'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
2023 Post	TEX	Postseason total	17	67	57	8	10	1	1	1	3	10	13	4	.175	.299	.281	.579
		Wild Card	2	9	9	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	.333	.333	.333	.667
		ALDS	3	13	10	3	2	1	0	0	2	3	1	0	.200	.385	.300	.685
		ALCS	7	26	22	2	5	0	1	1	1	4	4	2	.227	.346	.455	.801
		World Series	5	19	16	2	0	0	0	0	0	3	5	0	.000	.158	.000	.158

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	162	145	28	1	13	52	.193	.258	.228	.228	32.1%
vs RHP	320	284	66	7	28	72	.232	.303	.405	.313	22.5%

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

Barrel rate: 3.5%
Exit velocity: 84.1
Max exit velo: 112.4
Hard hit: 32.8%
Sweet spot: 30.3%
Launch angle: 12.3°

Barrel rate3.5%

Exit velocity84.1 mph

Hard hit rate32.8%

Contact rate75.7%

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 Leody Taveras 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	482	—	—	—	—	—	—	.219	.288	.345	.284
Bases empty	273	249	47	4	5	24	68	.189	.260	.285	.250
Runner on first	97	85	19	2	10	7	27	.224	.290	.412	.309
Runners on	209	180	47	4	51	17	56	.261	.325	.428	.331
RISP	112	95	28	2	41	10	29	.295	.355	.442	.350

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.