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Ezequiel Tovar

Age: 25
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 192 lb
Number: #14

Born: August 1, 2001 in Maracay, Venezuela
MLB debut: September 23, 2022
Salary, 2026: $5.21M

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dbWAR: 6.3
PA: 506
AVG: .219
OBP: .264
SLG: .353
wRC+: 64

Ezequiel Tovar is a shortstop for the Colorado Rockies. In 2026 he hit 13 home runs and knocked in 44 RBIs, notching 102 hits across 506 plate appearances in 144 games. His batting average was .219, 10.1% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .264 clip and slugged .353, for an OPS of .617, 14.2% lower than the league mark of .719 — 12th of 14 on his team, and 377th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 85.7 mph off the bat, hit 33.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 7.0% of them and made contact on 70.8% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 64 wRC+ puts his offence 36% below average. That comes to 0.3 dbWAR — -19.8 runs with the bat, -1.4 for the ballpark, +0.6 on the bases, +0.5 on double plays, +7.6 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+64

wOBA.271

ISO.133

BB%5.7%

WAR.3

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +3.2 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.


2026	COL	144	506	102	13	44	8	29	129	.219	.264	.353	.133	.269	5.7%	25.5%	.271	-19.8	64	0.3
2025	COL	95	390	91	9	33	5	21	98	.253	.294	.400	.147	.322	5.4%	25.1%	.302	-4.4	81	1.1
2024	COL	157	695	176	26	78	6	23	200	.269	.295	.469	.200	.344	3.3%	28.8%	.325	+7.3	104	3.4
2023	COL	152	615	147	15	73	11	25	166	.253	.287	.408	.155	.328	4.1%	27.0%	.300	-10.2	79	1.4
2022	COL	9	35	7	1	2	0	2	9	.212	.257	.333	.121	.261	5.7%	25.7%	.262	-1.4	57	0.1

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	169	154	31	4	12	50	.201	.262	.331	.265	29.6%
vs RHP	337	311	71	9	17	79	.228	.265	.363	.274	23.4%

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

Barrel rate: 7.0%
Exit velocity: 85.7
Max exit velo: 109.4
Hard hit: 33.3%
Sweet spot: 35.9%
Launch angle: 17.4°

Barrel rate7.0%

Exit velocity85.7 mph

Hard hit rate33.3%

Contact rate70.8%

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 Ezequiel Tovar 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	506	—	—	—	—	—	—	.219	.264	.353	.271
Bases empty	272	253	57	9	9	17	69	.225	.279	.391	.295
Runner on first	104	95	28	4	10	8	25	.295	.350	.442	.350
Runners on	234	212	45	4	35	12	60	.212	.246	.307	.243
RISP	130	117	17	0	25	4	35	.145	.163	.197	.157

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2026.

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Nearest 2026 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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wRC+: 68
HR: 8
AVG: .219
WAR: -0.0

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wRC+: 72
HR: 4
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Patrick BaileyCLE

wRC+: 67
HR: 10
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wRC+: 59
HR: 6
AVG: .224
WAR: -0.4

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.