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Adley Rutschman

Age: 28
B/T: S/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 230 lb
Number: #31

Born: February 6, 1998 in Portland, OR, United States
MLB debut: May 21, 2022
Drafted: 2019, round 1
College: Oregon State
High school: Sherwood
Salary, 2026: $7.25M

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dbWAR: 14.3
PA: 410
AVG: .242
OBP: .315
SLG: .426
wRC+: 108

Adley Rutschman is a catcher for the Baltimore Orioles. In 2026 he hit 13 home runs and knocked in 60 RBIs, notching 88 hits across 410 plate appearances in 99 games. His batting average was .242, 0.9% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .315 clip and slugged .426, for an OPS of .740, 3.0% higher than the league mark of .719 — 5th of 14 on his team, and 154th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 88.9 mph off the bat, hit 38.8% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 7.0% of them and made contact on 83.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 108 wRC+ puts his offence 8% above average. That comes to 2.0 dbWAR — +2.1 runs with the bat, +0.8 for the ballpark, -0.9 on the bases, +0.5 on double plays, +4.5 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+108

wOBA.325

ISO.184

BB%9.5%

WAR2.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +19.7 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/BOS	99	410	88	13	60	0	39	68	.242	.315	.426	.184	.260	9.5%	16.6%	.325	+2.1	108	2.0
2025	BAL	90	365	71	9	29	0	40	57	.220	.307	.366	.146	.240	11.0%	15.6%	.301	-4.4	88	1.0
2024	BAL	148	638	143	19	79	1	58	103	.250	.318	.391	.140	.272	9.1%	16.1%	.311	-0.6	101	2.4
2023	BAL	154	687	163	20	80	1	92	101	.277	.374	.435	.158	.303	13.4%	14.7%	.354	+19.4	128	4.6
2022	BAL	113	470	101	13	42	4	65	86	.254	.362	.445	.191	.291	13.8%	18.3%	.357	+17.4	133	4.2

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 Adley Rutschman's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	H	2B	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2026 Post	BOS	Wild Card · through Sep 30	2	8	8	1	0	0	3	.125	.125	.125	.250
2024 Post	BAL	Wild Card	2	8	8	1	0	0	2	.125	.125	.125	.250
2023 Post	BAL	ALDS	3	13	12	1	1	1	2	.083	.154	.167	.321
Career		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	7	29	28	3	1	1	7	.107	.138	.143	.281

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	143	130	29	4	12	19	.223	.287	.362	.289	13.3%
vs RHP	267	234	59	9	27	49	.252	.330	.462	.344	18.4%

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

Barrel rate: 7.0%
Exit velocity: 88.9
Max exit velo: 112.1
Hard hit: 38.8%
Sweet spot: 40.8%
Launch angle: 14.7°

Barrel rate7.0%

Exit velocity88.9 mph

Hard hit rate38.8%

Contact rate83.7%

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 Adley Rutschman 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	410	—	—	—	—	—	—	.242	.315	.426	.325
Bases empty	209	184	42	7	7	24	37	.228	.321	.413	.327
Runner on first	97	87	23	2	8	9	22	.264	.340	.437	.344
Runners on	201	180	46	6	53	15	31	.256	.308	.439	.323
RISP	104	93	23	4	45	6	9	.247	.279	.441	.304

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.