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RF · 2026

Tyler Callihan

Age
26
B/T
L/R
Height
5' 11"
Weight
205 lb
Number
#37
Born
June 22, 2000 in Jacksonville, FL, USA
MLB debut
April 30, 2025
Drafted
2019, round 3
High school
Providence School of Jacksonville
dbWAR
-.0
3 season(s)
PA
107
AVG
.211
OBP
.283
SLG
.389
wRC+
82
100 = avg

Tyler Callihan is a right fielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates. In 2026 he hit 3 home runs and knocked in 15 RBIs, notching 20 hits across 107 plate appearances in 37 games. His batting average was .211, 13.6% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .283 clip and slugged .389, for an OPS of .672, 6.5% lower than the league mark of .719 — 11th of 15 on his team, and 272nd of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 83.2 mph off the bat, hit 27.1% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 6.8% of them and made contact on 65.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 82 wRC+ puts his offence 18% below average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — -1.9 runs with the bat, +0.1 on the bases, -1.2 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.

wRC+82
wOBA.297
ISO.179
BB%8.4%
WAR.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +0.6 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting-1.9Baserunning+0.1Position-1.2Replacement+3.6
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

0.1-0.0-0.12526

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 LHP764010.667.714.833.6650.0%
vs RHP10089163838.180.253.360.27138.0%
Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2026. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB861020.167.375.167.2920.0%
vs RHB762011.333.429.333.35814.3%

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

Barrel rate
6.8%
4 barrels
Exit velocity
83.2
mph average
Max exit velo
107.3
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
27.1%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
40.7%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
22.7°
average
Barrel rate6.8%
Exit velocity83.2 mph
Hard hit rate27.1%
Contact rate65.7%

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.

.000.2316 AB.2229 AB3 AB.2229 AB.23113 AB7 AB5 AB.30010 AB3 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 Tyler Callihan 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 situations107.211.283.389.297
Bases empty5348811419.167.231.292.236
Runner on first2523401211.174.240.261.230
Runners on544712214519.255.333.489.355
RISP2924821338.333.414.708.464

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

Pitch sequencing

What Tyler Callihan throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, and how often it misses in 2026.

Fastball45.3%2470.31,56433.3%0.0%
Slider34.0%1869.81,62416.7%0.0%
Changeup18.9%1069.01,55840.0%0.0%
Tyler Callihan's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
202637107203151938.211.283.389.179.3098.4%35.5%.297-1.9820.1
202546101001.167.167.167.000.2000.0%16.7%.148-0.8-17-0.1

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2026403.000030130.005.422.003.09.00130-0.0

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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.