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Emmanuel Rodriguez

Age
23
B/T
L/L
Height
5' 11"
Weight
210 lb
Number
#21
Born
February 28, 2003 in Santiago, Dominican Republic
MLB debut
September 12, 2026

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dbWAR
-.1
Regular season, 1 season(s)
PA
48
AVG
.178
OBP
.229
SLG
.400
wRC+
69
100 = avg

Emmanuel Rodriguez is a left fielder for the Minnesota Twins. In 2026 he hit 2 home runs and knocked in 5 RBIs, notching 8 hits across 48 plate appearances in 13 games. His batting average was .178, 27.1% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .229 clip and slugged .400, for an OPS of .629, 12.5% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 90.6 mph off the bat, hit 48.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 20.7% of them and made contact on 66.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 69 wRC+ puts his offence 31% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -1.8 runs with the bat, +0.0 for the ballpark, -0.4 on the bases, -0.2 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+69
wOBA.272
ISO.222
BB%6.3%
WAR-.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to -0.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting-1.8Ballpark+0.0Baserunning-0.4Double plays+0.0Position-0.2Replacement+1.5
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

Batting Regular season

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

Trend
2026MIN13488250316.178.229.400.222.2226.3%33.3%.272-1.869-0.1—

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 LHP15143012.214.267.357.27513.3%
vs RHP333152214.161.212.419.27142.4%

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

Barrel rate
20.7%
6 barrels
Exit velocity
90.6
mph average
Max exit velo
111.1
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
48.3%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
51.7%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
13.2°
average
Barrel rate20.7%
Exit velocity90.6 mph
Hard hit rate48.3%
Contact rate66.7%

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.

—————2 AB—2 AB—2 AB.5008 AB—4 AB—6 AB—6 AB—3 AB—3 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 Emmanuel Rodriguez 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 situations48——————.178.229.400.272
Bases empty333062239.200.273.467.319
Runner on first · thin5500003.000.000.000.000
Runners on · thin151520307.133.133.267.169
RISP · thin101020304.200.200.400.254

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Rows under 25 plate appearances are marked thin — at that size a rate moves several dozen points on one hit. 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.