Players · L · LF · 2026
Matthew Lugo
- Age
- 25
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 0"
- Weight
- 190 lb
- Number
- #24
- Born
- May 9, 2001 in Manati, Puerto Rico
- MLB debut
- May 9, 2025
- Drafted
- 2019, round 2
- High school
- Carlos Beltran Baseball Academy
- dbWAR
- -.1 2 season(s)
- PA
- 15
- AVG
- .143
- OBP
- .200
- SLG
- .143
- wRC+
- -5 100 = avg
Matthew Lugo is a left fielder for the Kansas City Royals. So far in 2026 he has hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 2 hits across 15 plate appearances in 7 games. His batting average is .143, 41.4% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .200 clip and slugged .143, for an OPS of .343, 52.3% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 83.9 mph off the bat, hit 12.5% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 53.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -5 wRC+ puts his offence 105% below average. That comes to -0.2 dbWAR — -1.9 runs with the bat, -0.0 for the ballpark, -0.0 on the bases, -0.1 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.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to -1.6 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 62.5% |
| vs RHP | 7 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .333 | .429 | .333 | .359 | 14.3% |
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 8 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 83.9 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 100.1 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 12.5% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 12.5% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 21.5° average
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.
Situational hitting
How Matthew Lugo hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.
| Situation | PA | AB | H | HR | RBI | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All situations | 15 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .143 | .200 | .143 | .167 |
| Bases empty · thin | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | .125 | .222 | .125 | .180 |
| Runner on first · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 6 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .167 | .167 | .167 | .149 |
| RISP · thin | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .200 | .200 | .200 | .179 |
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.
Head to head
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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.