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Players · B · 3B · 2026 regular season

Brett Baty

Age
27
B/T
L/R
Height
6' 3"
Weight
210 lb
Number
#7
Born
November 13, 1999 in Austin, TX, United States
MLB debut
August 17, 2022
Drafted
2019, round 1
High school
Lake Travis

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dbWAR
3.5
Regular season, 5 season(s)
PA
473
AVG
.236
OBP
.309
SLG
.371
wRC+
91
100 = avg

Brett Baty is a third baseman for the New York Mets. In 2026 he hit 11 home runs and knocked in 56 RBIs, notching 99 hits across 473 plate appearances in 140 games. His batting average was .236, 3.4% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .309 clip and slugged .371, for an OPS of .681, 5.3% lower than the league mark of .719 — 11th of 15 on his team, and 281st of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 90.2 mph off the bat, hit 42.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 8.3% of them and made contact on 70.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 91 wRC+ puts his offence 9% below average. That comes to 1.0 dbWAR — -5.5 runs with the bat, +0.3 for the ballpark, -0.1 on the bases, +0.2 on double plays, -0.4 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+91
wOBA.304
ISO.136
BB%9.3%
WAR1.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +9.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting-5.5Ballpark+0.3Baserunning-0.1Double plays+0.2Position-0.4Replacement+14.6
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

2.41.0-0.32223242526

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.

Trend
2026NYM140473991156544125.236.309.371.136.3049.3%26.4%.304-5.5911.0
2025NYM1264321001850833108.254.313.435.181.3047.6%25.0%.325+3.51072.4
2024NYM501713541601642.229.306.327.098.2909.4%24.6%.285-3.8820.3
2023NYM10738975934229109.212.275.323.110.2807.5%28.0%.267-17.465-0.3
2022NYM1142725028.184.244.342.158.1794.8%19.0%.261-1.7670.1

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 LHP91801401028.175.275.225.24130.8%
vs RHP38234085113497.250.318.406.32025.4%

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

Barrel rate
8.3%
25 barrels
Exit velocity
90.2
mph average
Max exit velo
114.0
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
42.0%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
37.3%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
12.5°
average
Barrel rate8.3%
Exit velocity90.2 mph
Hard hit rate42.0%
Contact rate70.7%

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.

.053.167.171.000.26319 AB.17229 AB.40020 AB.29737 AB.28866 AB.33342 AB.26338 AB.21347 AB.29224 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 Brett Baty 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 situations473——————.236.309.371.304
Bases empty28225253772766.210.292.341.287
Runner on first100902616930.289.360.400.341
Runners on191168464491759.274.335.417.330
RISP917820343829.256.308.436.317

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

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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.