2B · 2026
Richie Palacios
- Age
- 29
- B/T
- L/R
- Height
- 5' 8"
- Weight
- 185 lb
- Number
- #1
- Born
- May 16, 1997 in Brooklyn, NY, USA
- MLB debut
- April 25, 2022
- Drafted
- 2018, round 3
- College
- Towson
- Salary, 2026
- $945,000
- dbWAR
- 2.3 3 season(s)
- PA
- 279
- AVG
- .233
- OBP
- .335
- SLG
- .350
- wRC+
- 97 100 = avg
Richie Palacios is a second baseman for the Tampa Bay Rays. In 2026 he hit 5 home runs and knocked in 34 RBIs, notching 56 hits across 279 plate appearances in 87 games. His batting average was .233, 4.2% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .335 clip and slugged .350, for an OPS of .685, 4.8% lower than the league mark of .719 — 9th of 13 on his team, and 249th of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 84.7 mph off the bat, hit 28.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 78.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 97 wRC+ puts his offence 3% below average. That comes to 0.9 dbWAR — -1.0 runs with the bat, -0.5 on the bases, +1.0 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.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +8.8 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 39 | 35 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 9 | .200 | .282 | .286 | .264 | 23.1% |
| vs RHP | 240 | 205 | 49 | 5 | 30 | 43 | .239 | .343 | .361 | .322 | 17.9% |
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.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 87 | 279 | 56 | 5 | 34 | 10 | 34 | 52 | .233 | .335 | .350 | .117 | .277 | 12.2% | 18.6% | .314 | -1.0 | 97 | 0.9 | |
| 2025 | 16 | 48 | 14 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 9 | .333 | .396 | .452 | .119 | .394 | 10.4% | 18.8% | .372 | +2.3 | 139 | 0.4 | |
| 2024 | 90 | 316 | 59 | 5 | 21 | 19 | 45 | 67 | .223 | .346 | .318 | .095 | .280 | 14.2% | 21.2% | .307 | -1.4 | 96 | 1.0 |
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Nearest 2026 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.
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.