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Maikel Garcia

Kansas City Royals American League Central3B

Age: 26
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 180 lb
Number: #11

Born: March 3, 2000 in La Sabana, Venezuela
MLB debut: July 15, 2022
Salary, 2026: $4.2M

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dbWAR: 7.5
PA: 344
AVG: .268
OBP: .334
SLG: .381
wRC+: 97

Maikel Garcia is a third baseman for the Kansas City Royals. In 2026 he hit 3 home runs and knocked in 38 RBIs, notching 83 hits across 344 plate appearances in 82 games. His batting average was .268, 9.7% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .334 clip and slugged .381, for an OPS of .715, 0.6% lower than the league mark of .719 — 8th of 15 on his team, and 207th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 89.2 mph off the bat, hit 40.5% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 3.8% of them and made contact on 85.6% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 97 wRC+ puts his offence 3% below average. That comes to 0.9 dbWAR — +0.5 runs with the bat, -1.0 for the ballpark, -1.2 on the bases, -2.4 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+97

wOBA.320

ISO.113

BB%9.3%

WAR.9

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +8.8 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	KC	82	344	83	3	38	5	32	50	.268	.334	.381	.113	.309	9.3%	14.5%	.320	+0.5	97	0.9
2025	KC	159	666	170	16	74	23	62	84	.286	.351	.449	.163	.308	9.3%	12.6%	.349	+18.9	128	4.6
2024	KC	156	626	133	7	58	37	42	103	.231	.281	.332	.101	.268	6.7%	16.5%	.272	-20.7	69	1.0
2023	KC	123	515	126	4	50	23	38	115	.272	.323	.358	.086	.344	7.4%	22.3%	.301	-8.3	83	0.9
2022	KC	8	23	7	0	2	0	1	5	.318	.348	.364	.045	.412	4.3%	21.7%	.316	+0.1	103	0.1

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 Maikel Garcia'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	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2024 Post	KC	Postseason total	6	23	22	1	7	1	1	5	3	.318	.348	.318	.666
		Wild Card	2	7	6	1	1	0	1	2	2	.167	.286	.167	.452
		ALDS	4	16	16	0	6	1	0	3	1	.375	.375	.375	.750

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	82	72	25	2	10	10	.347	.427	.500	.410	12.2%
vs RHP	262	238	58	1	22	40	.244	.305	.345	.292	15.3%

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

Barrel rate: 3.8%
Exit velocity: 89.2
Max exit velo: 110.6
Hard hit: 40.5%
Sweet spot: 34.7%
Launch angle: 8.8°

Barrel rate3.8%

Exit velocity89.2 mph

Hard hit rate40.5%

Contact rate85.6%

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 Maikel Garcia 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	344	—	—	—	—	—	—	.268	.334	.381	.320
Bases empty	201	183	51	2	2	18	29	.279	.343	.415	.337
Runner on first	62	59	7	1	3	3	16	.119	.161	.169	.154
Runners on	143	127	32	1	36	14	21	.252	.322	.331	.297
RISP	81	68	25	0	33	11	5	.368	.444	.471	.406

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.