RF · 2026

Ronny Simon

Pittsburgh Pirates National League CentralRF

Age: 26
B/T: S/R
Height: 5' 8"
Weight: 196 lb
Number: #63

Born: April 17, 2000 in La Romana, Dominican Republic
MLB debut: April 21, 2025

dbWAR: -.2
PA: 19
AVG: .278
OBP: .316
SLG: .333
wRC+: 79

Ronny Simon is a right fielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates. In 2026 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 2 RBIs, notching 5 hits across 19 plate appearances in 5 games. His batting average was .278, 14.0% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .316 clip and slugged .333, for an OPS of .649, 9.8% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 81.3 mph off the bat, hit 22.2% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 92.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 79 wRC+ puts his offence 21% below average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — -0.4 runs with the bat, +0.2 on the bases, -0.3 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+79

wOBA.292

ISO.056

BB%5.3%

WAR.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +0.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

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.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHP	6	6	1	0	0	0	.167	.167	.167	.149	0.0%
vs RHP	13	12	4	0	1	0	.333	.385	.417	.358	0.0%

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

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 81.3
Max exit velo: 106.4
Hard hit: 22.2%
Sweet spot: 38.9%
Launch angle: 20.7°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity81.3 mph

Hard hit rate22.2%

Contact rate92.7%

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 Ronny Simon 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	19	—	—	—	—	—	—	.278	.316	.333	.292
Bases empty · thin	9	8	3	0	0	1	0	.375	.444	.375	.377
Runner on first · thin	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
Runners on · thin	10	10	2	0	2	0	0	.200	.200	.300	.215
RISP · thin	4	4	2	0	2	0	0	.500	.500	.750	.538

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Rows under 25 plate appearances are marked thin — at that size a rate moves several dozen points on one hit. Counted from play-by-play, 2026.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2026	5	19	5	0	2	1	1	0	.278	.316	.333	.056	.278	5.3%	0.0%	.292	-0.4	79	0.0
2025	27	88	18	0	7	1	8	15	.234	.299	.273	.039	.281	9.1%	17.0%	.262	-3.8	66	-0.2

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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.