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Dalton Rushing

Los Angeles Dodgers National League WestC

Age: 25
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 220 lb
Number: #68

Born: February 21, 2001 in Memphis, TN, United States
MLB debut: May 15, 2025
Drafted: 2022, round 2
College: Louisville
High school: Brighton

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dbWAR: 1.7
PA: 253
AVG: .246
OBP: .328
SLG: .460
wRC+: 119

Dalton Rushing is a catcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2026 he hit 12 home runs and knocked in 36 RBIs, notching 55 hits across 253 plate appearances in 78 games. His batting average was .246, 0.6% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .328 clip and slugged .460, for an OPS of .788, 9.6% higher than the league mark of .719 — 5th of 14 on his team, and 90th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 88.7 mph off the bat, hit 43.7% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 9.3% of them and made contact on 68.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 119 wRC+ puts his offence 19% above average. That comes to 1.7 dbWAR — +5.7 runs with the bat, +0.1 for the ballpark, -0.3 on the bases, +0.1 on double plays, +2.9 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+119

wOBA.346

ISO.214

BB%9.1%

WAR1.7

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +16.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.

																					Trend
2026	LAD	78	253	55	12	36	0	23	74	.246	.328	.460	.214	.309	9.1%	29.2%	.346	+5.7	119	1.7
2025	LAD	51	155	29	4	24	0	10	58	.204	.258	.324	.120	.305	6.5%	37.4%	.258	-7.4	58	-0.0

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason batting

Postseason Dalton Rushing's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2025 Post	LAD	NLDS	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

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	66	59	13	1	5	19	.220	.303	.356	.298	28.8%
vs RHP	187	165	42	11	18	55	.255	.337	.497	.362	29.4%

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

Barrel rate: 9.3%
Exit velocity: 88.7
Max exit velo: 111.5
Hard hit: 43.7%
Sweet spot: 39.1%
Launch angle: 18.4°

Barrel rate9.3%

Exit velocity88.7 mph

Hard hit rate43.7%

Contact rate68.2%

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.

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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.

Situational hitting

How Dalton Rushing 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.
Situation	PA	AB	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
All situations	253	—	—	—	—	—	—	.246	.328	.460	.346
Bases empty	131	118	29	6	6	10	32	.246	.321	.475	.347
Runner on first	48	41	8	2	4	6	14	.195	.313	.390	.317
Runners on	122	106	26	6	30	13	42	.245	.336	.443	.344
RISP	74	65	18	4	26	7	28	.277	.351	.477	.362

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.