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Tyler Tolbert
- Age
- 28
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 5' 10"
- Weight
- 185 lb
- Number
- #2
- Born
- January 27, 1998 in Birmingham, AL, United States
- MLB debut
- March 31, 2025
- Drafted
- 2019, round 13
- College
- Alabama-Birmingham
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- dbWAR
- .7 Regular season, 3 season(s)
- PA
- 148
- AVG
- .285
- OBP
- .347
- SLG
- .392
- wRC+
- 104 100 = avg
Tyler Tolbert is a shortstop for the Kansas City Royals. In 2026 he hit 3 home runs and knocked in 8 RBIs, notching 37 hits across 148 plate appearances in 70 games. His batting average was .285, 16.6% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .347 clip and slugged .392, for an OPS of .740, 2.9% higher than the league mark of .719 — 6th of 15 on his team, and 158th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 79.4 mph off the bat, hit 24.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 2.9% of them and made contact on 70.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 104 wRC+ puts his offence 4% above average. That comes to 0.8 dbWAR — +1.6 runs with the bat, -0.4 for the ballpark, +2.5 on the bases, +0.0 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 regular season.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +8.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.
WAR by season
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | KC | 5 | 0 | 4.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 13 | 0 | 3 | 25.07 | 16.82 | 4.29 | 0.0 | 5.8 | 600 | 402 | -0.6 | — |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 85 | 73 | 18 | 1 | 10 | 17 | .247 | .337 | .342 | .312 | 20.0% |
| vs RHP | 63 | 57 | 19 | 2 | 2 | 14 | .333 | .361 | .456 | .357 | 22.2% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 19 | 18 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .611 | .632 | .833 | .634 | 0.0% |
| vs RHB | 14 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | .545 | .643 | 1.364 | .782 | 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 104 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 2.9% 3 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 79.4 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 106.8 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 24.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 36.5% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 9.0° 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 Tyler Tolbert 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 | 148 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .285 | .347 | .392 | .331 |
| Bases empty | 74 | 68 | 23 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 17 | .338 | .392 | .485 | .386 |
| Runner on first | 31 | 27 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | .222 | .276 | .333 | .274 |
| Runners on | 74 | 62 | 14 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 14 | .226 | .300 | .290 | .273 |
| RISP | 43 | 35 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 6 | .229 | .317 | .257 | .272 |
Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2026.
Pitch sequencing
What Tyler Tolbert 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, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.
| Eephus | 68 | 46.6 | 1,198 | 32.4% | 0.0% | 19 | .579 | 1.514 | |
| Fastball | 38 | 46.5 | 1,154 | 23.7% | 8.3% | 10 | — | — |
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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.