C · 2026

Sean Murphy

Age: 32
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 228 lb
Number: #12

Born: October 4, 1994 in Peekskill, NY, USA
MLB debut: May 19, 2019
Drafted: 2016, round 3
College: Wright State
High school: Centerville
Salary, 2026: $15M

dbWAR: 1.9
PA: 22
AVG: .091
OBP: .091
SLG: .091
wRC+: -65

Sean Murphy is a catcher for the Atlanta Braves. In 2026 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 2 hits across 22 plate appearances in 6 games. His batting average was .091, 62.7% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .091 clip and slugged .091, for an OPS of .182, 74.7% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 83.7 mph off the bat, hit 33.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 60.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -65 wRC+ puts his offence 165% below average. That comes to -0.3 dbWAR — -4.3 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, +0.5 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.

wRC+-65

wOBA.081

ISO.000

BB%0.0%

WAR-.3

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to -3.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

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	7	7	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	42.9%
vs RHP	15	15	2	0	0	7	.133	.133	.133	.119	46.7%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2026.

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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.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2026	6	22	2	0	0	0	10	.091	.091	.091	.000	.167	0.0%	45.5%	.081	-4.3	-65	-0.3
2025	93	337	58	16	45	35	105	.199	.300	.409	.210	.243	10.4%	31.2%	.311	-1.1	98	1.5
2024	71	264	45	10	25	27	67	.193	.284	.352	.159	.223	10.2%	25.4%	.284	-6.2	82	0.8

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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.