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Carlos Narváez

Age: 28
B/T: R/R
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 190 lb
Number: #75

Born: November 26, 1998 in Maracay, Venezuela
MLB debut: July 20, 2024

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dbWAR: 1.0
PA: 285
AVG: .161
OBP: .241
SLG: .226
wRC+: 31

Carlos Narváez is a catcher for the Boston Red Sox. In 2026 he hit 3 home runs and knocked in 10 RBIs, notching 40 hits across 285 plate appearances in 88 games. His batting average was .161, 33.9% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .241 clip and slugged .226, for an OPS of .467, 35.1% lower than the league mark of .719 — the worst on his team, and 458th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 86.8 mph off the bat, hit 37.1% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 5.4% of them and made contact on 66.8% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 31 wRC+ puts his offence 69% below average. That comes to -1.1 dbWAR — -23.0 runs with the bat, -0.2 for the ballpark, +0.1 on the bases, -1.7 on double plays, +5.2 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+31

wOBA.221

ISO.065

BB%6.7%

WAR-1.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to -10.8 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	BOS/BAL	88	285	40	3	10	2	19	90	.161	.241	.226	.065	.234	6.7%	31.6%	.221	-23.0	31	-1.1
2025	BOS	117	446	97	15	50	1	38	111	.241	.306	.419	.179	.294	8.5%	24.9%	.317	+0.8	102	2.1
2024	NYY	6	15	3	0	0	0	2	6	.231	.333	.231	.000	.429	13.3%	40.0%	.273	-0.5	72	0.0

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 Carlos Narváez'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
2025 Post	BOS	Wild Card	3	11	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	4	0	.000	.273	.000	.273

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	77	69	11	0	6	22	.159	.247	.203	.217	28.6%
vs RHP	208	179	29	3	13	68	.162	.239	.235	.222	32.7%

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

Barrel rate: 5.4%
Exit velocity: 86.8
Max exit velo: 110.1
Hard hit: 37.1%
Sweet spot: 35.3%
Launch angle: 16.4°

Barrel rate5.4%

Exit velocity86.8 mph

Hard hit rate37.1%

Contact rate66.8%

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 Carlos Narváez 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	285	—	—	—	—	—	—	.161	.241	.226	.221
Bases empty	163	145	24	3	3	15	55	.166	.258	.276	.248
Runner on first	60	53	11	0	0	1	17	.208	.250	.208	.215
Runners on	122	103	16	0	7	4	35	.155	.217	.155	.182
RISP	62	50	5	0	7	3	18	.100	.186	.100	.151

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.