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Richie Palacios

Age: 29
B/T: L/R
Height: 5' 8"
Weight: 185 lb
Number: #1

Born: May 16, 1997 in Brooklyn, NY, United States
MLB debut: April 25, 2022
Drafted: 2018, round 3
College: Towson
Salary, 2026: $945,000

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dbWAR: 3.6
PA: 399
AVG: .235
OBP: .330
SLG: .374
wRC+: 100

Richie Palacios is a second baseman for the Tampa Bay Rays. In 2026 he hit 10 home runs and knocked in 57 RBIs, notching 81 hits across 399 plate appearances in 122 games. His batting average was .235, 3.8% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .330 clip and slugged .374, for an OPS of .704, 2.1% lower than the league mark of .719 — 7th of 13 on his team, and 233rd of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 85.0 mph off the bat, hit 29.2% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 3.2% of them and made contact on 79.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 100 wRC+ puts his offence 0% below average. That comes to 1.7 dbWAR — +0.1 runs with the bat, -0.0 for the ballpark, -0.1 on the bases, +0.8 on double plays, +3.2 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+100

wOBA.319

ISO.139

BB%11.5%

WAR1.7

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +16.3 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	TB	122	399	81	10	57	17	46	68	.235	.330	.374	.139	.264	11.5%	17.0%	.319	+0.1	100	1.7
2025	TB	16	48	14	1	3	4	5	9	.333	.396	.452	.119	.394	10.4%	18.8%	.372	+2.3	139	0.3
2024	TB	90	316	59	5	21	19	45	67	.223	.346	.318	.095	.280	14.2%	21.2%	.307	-1.4	96	1.2
2023	STL	32	102	24	6	16	2	6	11	.258	.307	.516	.258	.234	5.9%	10.8%	.347	+2.3	116	0.7
2022	CLE	53	123	26	0	10	2	9	20	.232	.293	.286	.054	.280	7.3%	16.3%	.260	-5.1	65	-0.3

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 Richie Palacios'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	RBI	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2026 Post	TB	Postseason total · through Oct 28	10	32	31	2	8	3	4	8	1	.258	.258	.355	.613
		ALDS	3	10	10	0	2	1	2	3	0	.200	.200	.300	.500
		ALCS	4	12	12	2	6	2	2	2	1	.500	.500	.667	1.167
		World Series	3	10	9	0	0	0	0	3	0	.000	.000	.000	.000

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	64	57	9	0	6	12	.158	.250	.228	.228	18.8%
vs RHP	335	288	72	10	40	56	.250	.345	.403	.336	16.7%

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

Barrel rate: 3.2%
Exit velocity: 85.0
Max exit velo: 106.9
Hard hit: 29.2%
Sweet spot: 33.9%
Launch angle: 12.8°

Barrel rate3.2%

Exit velocity85.0 mph

Hard hit rate29.2%

Contact rate79.3%

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 Richie Palacios 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	399	—	—	—	—	—	—	.235	.330	.374	.319
Bases empty	214	186	39	5	6	27	40	.210	.313	.328	.296
Runner on first	58	49	10	1	4	9	5	.204	.328	.327	.305
Runners on	185	159	42	5	51	19	28	.264	.350	.428	.345
RISP	127	110	32	4	47	10	23	.291	.360	.473	.364

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

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wRC+: 97
HR: 13
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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.