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Miguel Amaya

Age: 27
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 230 lb
Number: #9

Born: March 9, 1999 in Herrera, Panama
MLB debut: May 4, 2023

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dbWAR: 3.6
PA: 254
AVG: .237
OBP: .340
SLG: .377
wRC+: 105

Miguel Amaya is a catcher for the Chicago Cubs. In 2026 he hit 6 home runs and knocked in 28 RBIs, notching 51 hits across 254 plate appearances in 77 games. His batting average was .237, 2.8% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .340 clip and slugged .377, for an OPS of .717, level with the league mark of .719 — 9th of 13 on his team, and 203rd of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 86.7 mph off the bat, hit 34.2% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 7.9% of them and made contact on 72.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 105 wRC+ puts his offence 5% above average. That comes to 1.1 dbWAR — +1.6 runs with the bat, -0.1 for the ballpark, -0.4 on the bases, -2.0 on double plays, +3.6 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 regular season.

wRC+105

wOBA.326

ISO.140

BB%9.1%

WAR1.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +10.6 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.


2026	CHC	77	254	51	6	28	23	67	.237	.340	.377	.140	.315	9.1%	26.4%	.326	+1.6	105	1.1
2025	CHC	28	103	27	4	25	4	22	.281	.314	.500	.219	.324	3.9%	21.4%	.347	+2.7	123	0.9
2024	CHC	108	363	76	8	47	23	62	.232	.288	.357	.125	.261	6.3%	17.1%	.285	-8.1	88	1.2
2023	CHC	51	156	28	5	18	12	40	.214	.329	.359	.145	.264	7.7%	25.6%	.312	-1.1	93	0.5

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	78	65	18	1	9	14	.277	.368	.385	.341	17.9%
vs RHP	176	150	33	5	14	53	.220	.328	.373	.320	30.1%

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

Barrel rate: 7.9%
Exit velocity: 86.7
Max exit velo: 105.7
Hard hit: 34.2%
Sweet spot: 38.2%
Launch angle: 21.3°

Barrel rate7.9%

Exit velocity86.7 mph

Hard hit rate34.2%

Contact rate72.7%

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 Miguel Amaya 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	254	—	—	—	—	—	—	.237	.340	.377	.326
Bases empty	130	111	27	4	4	13	34	.243	.349	.396	.338
Runner on first	58	50	8	1	3	4	19	.160	.263	.300	.261
Runners on	124	104	24	2	24	10	33	.231	.331	.356	.314
RISP	66	54	16	1	21	6	14	.296	.391	.407	.361

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.

Matt ChapmanSF

wRC+: 97
HR: 7
AVG: .235
WAR: 1.1

Tyler StephensonCIN

wRC+: 105
HR: 15
AVG: .241
WAR: 2.2

Brady HouseWSH

wRC+: 93
HR: 10
AVG: .247
WAR: 1.2

Brandon NimmoTEX

wRC+: 105
HR: 14
AVG: .260
WAR: 1.7

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.