1B · 2026
Spencer Horwitz
- Age
- 29
- B/T
- L/R
- Height
- 5' 10"
- Weight
- 204 lb
- Number
- #2
- Born
- November 14, 1997 in Timonium, MD, USA
- MLB debut
- June 18, 2023
- Drafted
- 2019, round 24
- College
- Radford
- dbWAR
- 4.8 3 season(s)
- PA
- 321
- AVG
- .269
- OBP
- .377
- SLG
- .433
- wRC+
- 126 100 = avg
Spencer Horwitz is a first baseman for the Pittsburgh Pirates. In 2026 he hit 10 home runs and knocked in 37 RBIs, notching 72 hits across 321 plate appearances in 81 games. His batting average was .269, 10.3% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .377 clip and slugged .433, for an OPS of .810, 12.6% higher than the league mark of .719 — 5th of 15 on his team, and 64th of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 86.8 mph off the bat, hit 32.6% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 84.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 126 wRC+ puts his offence 26% above average. That comes to 1.5 dbWAR — +11.6 runs with the bat, -0.4 on the bases, -6.8 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 four terms sum to +15.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR 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 | 56 | 47 | 10 | 1 | 7 | 9 | .213 | .321 | .277 | .283 | 16.1% |
| vs RHP | 265 | 221 | 62 | 9 | 36 | 36 | .281 | .389 | .466 | .379 | 13.6% |
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.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 81 | 321 | 72 | 10 | 37 | 1 | 43 | 45 | .269 | .377 | .433 | .164 | .286 | 13.4% | 14.0% | .362 | +11.6 | 126 | 1.5 | |
| 2025 | 108 | 411 | 99 | 11 | 51 | 0 | 44 | 73 | .272 | .353 | .434 | .162 | .313 | 10.7% | 17.8% | .347 | +10.8 | 122 | 1.5 | |
| 2024 | 96 | 381 | 87 | 12 | 40 | 0 | 42 | 70 | .265 | .357 | .433 | .168 | .300 | 11.0% | 18.4% | .347 | +10.8 | 122 | 1.8 |
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Nearest 2026 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.
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.