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Players · D · C · 2026

Henry Davis

Age
27
B/T
R/R
Height
5' 11"
Weight
225 lb
Number
#32
Born
September 21, 1999 in Bedford, NY, United States
MLB debut
June 19, 2023
Drafted
2021, round 1
College
Louisville
High school
Fox Lane
dbWAR
-1.1
4 season(s)
PA
295
AVG
.166
OBP
.268
SLG
.308
wRC+
61
100 = avg

Henry Davis is a catcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates. So far in 2026 he has hit 10 home runs and knocked in 38 RBIs, notching 42 hits across 295 plate appearances in 87 games. His batting average is .166, 31.9% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .268 clip and slugged .308, for an OPS of .576, 19.8% lower than the league mark of .719 — the second worst on his team, and 420th of 462 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 88.0 mph off the bat, hit 40.8% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 8.7% of them and made contact on 74.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 61 wRC+ puts his offence 39% below average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — -12.9 runs with the bat, -0.7 for the ballpark, -0.2 on the bases, +0.2 on double plays, +5.4 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.

wRC+61
wOBA.266
ISO.142
BB%9.5%
WAR.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +1.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting-12.9Ballpark-0.7Baserunning-0.2Double plays+0.2Position+5.4Replacement+9.1
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

0.1-0.2-0.523242526

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2026PIT8729542103832862.166.268.308.142.1759.5%21.0%.266-12.9610.1
2025PIT822834272221876.167.234.278.111.2036.4%26.9%.231-19.741-0.5
2024PIT35122151501345.144.242.212.067.23310.7%36.9%.216-9.731-0.4
2023PIT622554872432569.213.302.351.138.2739.8%27.1%.289-6.678-0.3

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

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.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP9184113323.131.157.250.17725.3%
vs RHP2041693172539.183.317.337.30519.1%

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

Barrel rate
8.7%
17 barrels
Exit velocity
88.0
mph average
Max exit velo
112.3
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
40.8%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
29.1%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
20.3°
average
Barrel rate8.7%
Exit velocity88.0 mph
Hard hit rate40.8%
Contact rate74.5%

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.

.000.158.125.125.00011 AB.22218 AB.18211 AB.33315 AB.16237 AB.24233 AB.20010 AB.16131 AB.12025 AB
Below averageLeague averageAbove average
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 Henry Davis 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.
SituationPAABHHRRBIBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBA
All situations295——————.166.268.308.266
Bases empty16214221551433.148.253.275.248
Runner on first55468410714.174.296.478.337
Runners on133111215331429.189.287.351.288
RISP786513123715.200.280.262.252

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.

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.