SS · 2026

Gunnar Henderson

Baltimore Orioles American League EastSS

Age: 25
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 230 lb
Number: #2

Born: June 29, 2001 in Montgomery, AL, USA
MLB debut: August 31, 2022
Drafted: 2019, round 2
High school: Morgan
Salary, 2026: $8.5M

dbWAR: 13.8
PA: 531
AVG: .213
OBP: .294
SLG: .384
wRC+: 88

Gunnar Henderson is a shortstop for the Baltimore Orioles. In 2026 he hit 18 home runs and knocked in 47 RBIs, notching 101 hits across 531 plate appearances in 117 games. His batting average was .213, 12.6% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .294 clip and slugged .384, for an OPS of .678, 5.8% lower than the league mark of .719 — 9th of 13 on his team, and 259th of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 89.6 mph off the bat, hit 44.9% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 75.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 88 wRC+ puts his offence 12% below average. That comes to 1.4 dbWAR — -7.9 runs with the bat, -0.5 on the bases, +5.0 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.

wRC+88

wOBA.300

ISO.171

BB%8.7%

WAR1.4

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +14.3 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	165	148	33	6	14	34	.223	.303	.432	.324	20.6%
vs RHP	366	326	68	12	32	88	.209	.290	.362	.290	24.0%

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.

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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.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2026	117	531	101	18	47	9	46	122	.213	.294	.384	.171	.247	8.7%	23.0%	.300	-7.9	88	1.4
2025	154	651	158	17	68	30	62	137	.274	.349	.438	.165	.329	9.5%	21.0%	.342	+14.3	117	4.6
2024	159	719	177	37	92	21	78	159	.281	.364	.529	.248	.320	10.8%	22.1%	.384	+42.4	152	7.8

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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.