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Parker Meadows

Detroit Tigers American League CentralCF

Age: 27
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 5"
Weight: 205 lb
Number: #22

Born: November 2, 1999 in Atlanta, GA, United States
MLB debut: August 21, 2023
Drafted: 2018, round 2
High school: Grayson

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dbWAR: 2.6
PA: 39
AVG: .250
OBP: .308
SLG: .333
wRC+: 83

Parker Meadows is a center fielder for the Detroit Tigers. In 2026 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 2 RBIs, notching 9 hits across 39 plate appearances in 12 games. His batting average was .250, 2.5% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .308 clip and slugged .333, for an OPS of .641, 10.8% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 85.3 mph off the bat, hit 19.2% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 79.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 83 wRC+ puts his offence 17% below average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — -0.9 runs with the bat, +0.1 for the ballpark, +0.5 on the bases, +0.2 on double plays, +0.3 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+83

wOBA.291

ISO.083

BB%5.1%

WAR.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +1.4 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	DET	12	39	9	0	2	3	2	10	.250	.308	.333	.083	.346	5.1%	25.6%	.291	-0.9	83	0.1
2025	DET	56	213	41	4	16	4	21	56	.215	.291	.330	.115	.280	9.9%	26.3%	.279	-6.4	73	0.3
2024	DET	78	298	66	9	28	9	25	76	.244	.310	.433	.189	.306	8.4%	25.5%	.323	+2.7	108	1.6
2023	DET	36	145	29	3	13	8	17	37	.232	.331	.368	.136	.302	11.7%	25.5%	.311	-1.1	91	0.5

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 Parker Meadows'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	2B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2025 Post	DET	Postseason total	8	32	29	3	4	0	0	0	1	10	0	.138	.167	.138	.305
		Wild Card	3	13	12	2	3	0	0	0	1	3	0	.250	.308	.250	.558
		ALDS	5	19	17	1	1	0	0	0	0	7	0	.059	.059	.059	.118
2024 Post	DET	Postseason total	7	29	26	3	7	2	1	1	3	6	3	.269	.345	.462	.806
		Wild Card	2	9	9	2	2	0	1	1	0	3	1	.222	.222	.556	.778
		ALDS	5	20	17	1	5	2	0	0	3	3	2	.294	.400	.412	.812
Career		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	15	61	55	6	11	2	1	1	4	16	3	.200	.254	.291	.545

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	1	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%
vs RHP	38	35	9	0	2	10	.257	.316	.343	.299	26.3%

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

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 85.3
Max exit velo: 105.0
Hard hit: 19.2%
Sweet spot: 30.8%
Launch angle: 13.3°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity85.3 mph

Hard hit rate19.2%

Contact rate79.7%

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 Parker Meadows 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	39	—	—	—	—	—	—	.250	.308	.333	.291
Bases empty · thin	22	19	5	0	0	2	3	.263	.364	.421	.353
Runner on first · thin	5	5	2	0	0	0	1	.400	.400	.400	.357
Runners on · thin	17	17	4	0	2	0	7	.235	.235	.235	.210
RISP · thin	12	12	2	0	2	0	6	.167	.167	.167	.149

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Rows under 25 plate appearances are marked thin — at that size a rate moves several dozen points on one hit. 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.