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Royce Lewis

Minnesota Twins American League Central1B

Age: 27
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 200 lb
Number: #23

Born: June 5, 1999 in Aliso Viejo, CA, United States
MLB debut: May 6, 2022
Drafted: 2017, round 1
High school: Junipero Serra
Salary, 2026: $2.85M

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dbWAR: 4.9
PA: 509
AVG: .227
OBP: .287
SLG: .380
wRC+: 84

Royce Lewis is a first baseman for the Minnesota Twins. In 2026 he hit 15 home runs and knocked in 57 RBIs, notching 105 hits across 509 plate appearances in 125 games. His batting average was .227, 7.1% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .287 clip and slugged .380, for an OPS of .667, 7.2% lower than the league mark of .719 — 9th of 14 on his team, and 302nd of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 89.5 mph off the bat, hit 40.4% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 9.8% of them and made contact on 67.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 84 wRC+ puts his offence 16% below average. That comes to 0.6 dbWAR — -10.4 runs with the bat, +0.5 for the ballpark, +2.2 on the bases, -0.4 on double plays, -2.2 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+84

wOBA.294

ISO.153

BB%7.5%

WAR.6

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +5.4 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	MIN	125	509	105	15	57	16	38	130	.227	.287	.380	.153	.279	7.5%	25.5%	.294	-10.4	84	0.6
2025	MIN	105	403	89	13	52	12	25	80	.237	.283	.388	.152	.267	6.2%	19.9%	.293	-7.4	82	0.6
2024	MIN	82	325	68	16	47	0	28	74	.233	.295	.452	.219	.251	8.6%	22.8%	.318	+1.7	102	1.0
2023	MIN	58	239	67	15	52	6	20	55	.309	.372	.548	.240	.354	8.4%	23.0%	.393	+14.7	150	2.4
2022	MIN	12	41	12	2	5	0	1	5	.300	.317	.550	.250	.303	2.4%	12.2%	.372	+2.0	146	0.4

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 Royce Lewis'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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2023 Post	MIN	Postseason total	6	26	22	6	5	4	5	4	8	.227	.346	.773	1.119
		Wild Card	2	8	6	3	2	2	3	2	1	.333	.500	1.333	1.833
		ALDS	4	18	16	3	3	2	2	2	7	.188	.278	.563	.840

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	146	135	34	5	10	32	.252	.308	.430	.321	21.9%
vs RHP	363	328	71	10	28	98	.216	.278	.360	.283	27.0%

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

Barrel rate: 9.8%
Exit velocity: 89.5
Max exit velo: 112.4
Hard hit: 40.4%
Sweet spot: 35.3%
Launch angle: 20.7°

Barrel rate9.8%

Exit velocity89.5 mph

Hard hit rate40.4%

Contact rate67.2%

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 Royce Lewis 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	509	—	—	—	—	—	—	.227	.287	.380	.294
Bases empty	277	263	60	11	11	14	76	.228	.267	.411	.295
Runner on first	95	88	21	2	7	6	22	.239	.295	.364	.294
Runners on	232	200	45	4	46	24	54	.225	.310	.340	.293
RISP	137	112	24	2	39	18	32	.214	.321	.321	.292

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.