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Henry Davis

Pittsburgh Pirates National League CentralC

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

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dbWAR: -1.0
PA: 298
AVG: .172
OBP: .272
SLG: .313
wRC+: 63

Henry Davis is a catcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates. In 2026 he hit 10 home runs and knocked in 38 RBIs, notching 44 hits across 298 plate appearances in 88 games. His batting average was .172, 29.6% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .272 clip and slugged .313, for an OPS of .585, 18.7% lower than the league mark of .719 — the second worst on his team, and 415th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 88.1 mph off the bat, hit 41.1% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 8.6% of them and made contact on 74.4% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 63 wRC+ puts his offence 37% below average. That comes to 0.2 dbWAR — -12.2 runs with the bat, -0.7 for the ballpark, -0.2 on the bases, +0.2 on double plays, +5.5 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+63

wOBA.269

ISO.141

BB%9.4%

WAR.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +1.8 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	PIT	88	298	44	10	38	3	28	63	.172	.272	.313	.141	.184	9.4%	21.1%	.269	-12.2	63	0.2
2025	PIT	82	283	42	7	22	2	18	76	.167	.234	.278	.111	.203	6.4%	26.9%	.231	-19.7	41	-0.5
2024	PIT	35	122	15	1	5	0	13	45	.144	.242	.212	.067	.233	10.7%	36.9%	.216	-9.7	31	-0.4
2023	PIT	62	255	48	7	24	3	25	69	.213	.302	.351	.138	.273	9.8%	27.1%	.289	-6.6	78	-0.3

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	92	85	12	3	3	23	.141	.167	.259	.185	25.0%
vs RHP	206	171	32	7	25	40	.187	.319	.339	.306	19.4%

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

Barrel rate: 8.6%
Exit velocity: 88.1
Max exit velo: 112.3
Hard hit: 41.1%
Sweet spot: 29.4%
Launch angle: 20.2°

Barrel rate8.6%

Exit velocity88.1 mph

Hard hit rate41.1%

Contact rate74.4%

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 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.
Situation	PA	AB	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
All situations	298	—	—	—	—	—	—	.172	.272	.313	.269
Bases empty	165	145	23	5	5	14	34	.159	.261	.283	.254
Runner on first	55	46	8	4	10	7	14	.174	.296	.478	.337
Runners on	133	111	21	5	33	14	29	.189	.287	.351	.288
RISP	78	65	13	1	23	7	15	.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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Similar players

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

Pavin SmithAZ

wRC+: 56
HR: 3
AVG: .183
WAR: -0.4

Drew RomoCWS

wRC+: 50
HR: 7
AVG: .144
WAR: -0.2

Osleivis BasabeSF

wRC+: 70
HR: 5
AVG: .202
WAR: 0.0

Wenceel PérezDET

wRC+: 63
HR: 7
AVG: .180
WAR: -0.2

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.