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Andrew Knizner

San Francisco Giants National League WestC

Age: 31
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 225 lb
Number: #19

Born: February 3, 1995 in Glen Allen, VA, United States
MLB debut: June 2, 2019
Drafted: 2016, round 7
College: North Carolina State
Salary, 2026: $1M

dbWAR: .3
PA: 78
AVG: .225
OBP: .295
SLG: .366
wRC+: 87

Andrew Knizner is a catcher for the San Francisco Giants. So far in 2026 he has hit 2 home runs and knocked in 4 RBIs, notching 16 hits across 78 plate appearances in 27 games. His batting average is .225, 7.6% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .295 clip and slugged .366, for an OPS of .661, 8.0% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 87.0 mph off the bat, hit 32.8% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 5.2% of them and made contact on 74.8% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 87 wRC+ puts his offence 13% below average. That comes to 0.2 dbWAR — -1.4 runs with the bat, +0.1 for the ballpark, -0.1 on the bases, -0.9 on double plays, +1.4 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+87

wOBA.297

ISO.141

BB%5.1%

WAR.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +1.5 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2026	SF	27	78	16	2	4	0	4	13	.225	.295	.366	.141	.250	5.1%	16.7%	.297	-1.4	87	0.2
2025	SF	30	88	17	1	5	0	7	10	.221	.299	.299	.078	.239	8.0%	11.4%	.273	-3.1	71	0.1
2024	TEX	32	93	15	1	9	0	1	22	.167	.183	.211	.044	.206	1.1%	23.7%	.175	-10.5	4	-0.7
2023	STL	69	241	54	10	31	2	12	62	.241	.287	.424	.183	.288	5.0%	25.7%	.307	-2.7	88	0.7
2022	STL	89	293	56	4	25	0	26	62	.215	.301	.300	.085	.268	8.9%	21.2%	.277	-8.1	78	0.3
2021	STL	60	185	28	1	9	0	20	39	.174	.281	.236	.062	.223	10.8%	21.1%	.242	-11.6	51	-0.3
2020	STL	7	17	4	0	4	0	0	5	.250	.235	.313	.063	.333	0.0%	29.4%	.229	-1.3	37	-0.1
2019	STL	18	58	12	2	7	2	4	14	.226	.293	.377	.151	.270	6.9%	24.1%	.291	-1.6	81	0.1

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2024	TEX	2	0	3.0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	0.00	5.17	1.00	0.0	6.0	0	127	-0.0
2022	STL	1	0	0.2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.00	3.11	1.50	0.0	0.0	0	78	0.0

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	48	45	8	1	3	8	.178	.229	.289	.233	16.7%
vs RHP	30	26	8	1	1	5	.308	.400	.500	.399	16.7%

Season

No pitching splits recorded for 2026.

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

Barrel rate: 5.2%
Exit velocity: 87.0
Max exit velo: 107.6
Hard hit: 32.8%
Sweet spot: 24.1%
Launch angle: 22.3°

Barrel rate5.2%

Exit velocity87.0 mph

Hard hit rate32.8%

Contact rate74.8%

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 Andrew Knizner 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	78	—	—	—	—	—	—	.225	.295	.366	.297
Bases empty	51	48	13	1	1	2	7	.271	.314	.396	.314
Runner on first · thin	13	11	2	1	2	1	4	.182	.308	.545	.366
Runners on	27	23	3	1	3	2	6	.130	.259	.304	.264
RISP · thin	14	12	1	0	1	1	2	.083	.214	.083	.169

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.

Pitch arsenal

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

Season


Eephus	97.2%	35	47.3	1,245	20.0%	0.0%	8	—	—

Andrew Knizner'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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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.