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Troy Johnston

Age
29
B/T
L/L
Height
5' 11"
Weight
206 lb
Number
#20
Born
June 22, 1997 in Tacoma, WA, United States
MLB debut
July 29, 2025
Drafted
2019, round 17
College
Gonzaga

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dbWAR
1.3
Regular season, 3 season(s)
PA
449
AVG
.277
OBP
.348
SLG
.393
wRC+
104
100 = avg

Troy Johnston is a right fielder for the Colorado Rockies. In 2026 he hit 4 home runs and knocked in 50 RBIs, notching 110 hits across 449 plate appearances in 128 games. His batting average was .277, 13.6% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .348 clip and slugged .393, for an OPS of .741, 3.1% higher than the league mark of .719 — 8th of 14 on his team, and 153rd of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 89.2 mph off the bat, hit 37.2% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 1.9% of them and made contact on 75.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 104 wRC+ puts his offence 4% above average. That comes to 1.0 dbWAR — +4.9 runs with the bat, -1.2 for the ballpark, -1.9 on the bases, -0.6 on double plays, -5.7 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+104
wOBA.332
ISO.116
BB%8.2%
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+4.9Ballpark-1.2Baserunning-1.9Double plays-0.6Position-5.7Replacement+13.8
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

1.00.50.02526

Batting Regular season

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

Trend
2026COL12844911045043783.277.348.393.116.3378.2%18.5%.332+4.91041.0
2025MIA44121314132826.277.331.420.143.3296.6%21.5%.329+1.41150.4

Pitching Regular season

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

Trend
2026COL202.000010010.006.101.000.04.50146-0.0—

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 LHP112103222520.214.252.320.25317.9%
vs RHP3372948823263.299.380.418.35818.7%
Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2026. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB430010.000.250.000.1810.0%
vs RHB541000.250.400.250.3280.0%

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

Barrel rate
1.9%
6 barrels
Exit velocity
89.2
mph average
Max exit velo
107.9
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
37.2%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
42.0%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
13.0°
average
Barrel rate1.9%
Exit velocity89.2 mph
Hard hit rate37.2%
Contact rate75.3%

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.

.286.333.087.175.12516 AB.24025 AB.54522 AB.25547 AB.33351 AB.50026 AB.14335 AB.40632 AB.40015 AB
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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 Troy Johnston 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 situations449——————.277.348.393.332
Bases empty22720956121549.268.326.364.310
Runner on first1101002629918.260.321.410.324
Runners on222188543482234.287.371.426.354
RISP11288281391316.318.420.443.383

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

Pitch sequencing

What Troy Johnston 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.

Changeup57.1%2075.41,67855.0%9.1%3——
Slider42.9%1571.31,56140.0%12.5%4——
Troy Johnston's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters. BAA and OPS are what hitters did against each pitch, credited to the one that ended the plate appearance, and are left blank under 15 at-bats.

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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.