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Garrett Mitchell

Milwaukee Brewers National League CentralCF

Age: 28
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 229 lb
Number: #5

Born: September 4, 1998 in Orange, CA, United States
MLB debut: August 27, 2022
Drafted: 2017, round 14
College: UCLA
High school: Orange Lutheran
Salary, 2026: $950,000

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dbWAR: 6.3
PA: 531
AVG: .262
OBP: .354
SLG: .416
wRC+: 117

Garrett Mitchell is a center fielder for the Milwaukee Brewers. In 2026 he hit 11 home runs and knocked in 65 RBIs, notching 121 hits across 531 plate appearances in 144 games. His batting average was .262, 7.6% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .354 clip and slugged .416, for an OPS of .771, 7.2% higher than the league mark of .719 — 6th of 16 on his team, and 109th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 92.6 mph off the bat, hit 52.7% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 11.4% of them and made contact on 64.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 117 wRC+ puts his offence 17% above average. That comes to 3.3 dbWAR — +10.8 runs with the bat, -0.1 for the ballpark, -2.1 on the bases, +3.0 on double plays, +3.8 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+117

wOBA.343

ISO.154

BB%11.3%

WAR3.3

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +31.8 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	MIL	144	531	121	11	65	14	60	167	.262	.354	.416	.154	.387	11.3%	31.5%	.343	+10.8	117	3.3
2025	MIL	24	78	14	0	3	3	7	25	.206	.286	.294	.088	.318	9.0%	32.1%	.264	-3.3	66	0.1
2024	MIL	68	224	50	8	21	11	25	71	.255	.342	.469	.214	.359	11.2%	31.7%	.354	+7.6	131	1.7
2023	MIL	19	73	16	3	7	1	7	26	.246	.315	.446	.200	.351	9.6%	35.6%	.328	+0.5	104	0.3
2022	MIL	22	68	19	2	9	8	6	28	.311	.373	.459	.148	.548	8.8%	41.2%	.366	+3.0	141	0.9

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 Garrett Mitchell'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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2026 Post	MIL	Postseason total · through Oct 28	13	54	48	7	9	1	2	5	6	20	1	.188	.278	.354	.632
		NLDS	4	16	15	3	4	1	0	1	1	6	1	.267	.313	.400	.713
		NLCS	4	17	14	3	2	0	2	2	3	6	0	.143	.294	.571	.866
		World Series	5	21	19	1	3	0	0	2	2	8	0	.158	.238	.158	.396
2024 Post	MIL	Wild Card	2	5	4	1	1	0	1	2	1	1	0	.250	.400	1.000	1.400
Career		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	15	59	52	8	10	1	3	7	7	21	1	.192	.288	.404	.692

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	129	107	25	1	14	37	.234	.341	.327	.311	28.7%
vs RHP	402	354	96	10	46	130	.271	.358	.444	.353	32.3%

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

Barrel rate: 11.4%
Exit velocity: 92.6
Max exit velo: 115.5
Hard hit: 52.7%
Sweet spot: 33.2%
Launch angle: 2.0°

Barrel rate11.4%

Exit velocity92.6 mph

Hard hit rate52.7%

Contact rate64.2%

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 Garrett Mitchell 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	531	—	—	—	—	—	—	.262	.354	.416	.343
Bases empty	283	247	61	4	4	32	89	.247	.340	.381	.325
Runner on first	112	97	26	4	11	12	32	.268	.360	.423	.352
Runners on	248	214	60	7	61	28	78	.280	.370	.458	.364
RISP	136	117	34	3	50	16	46	.291	.378	.487	.374

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.