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Players · G · 2B · 2026

Angel Genao

Age
22
B/T
S/R
Height
5' 11"
Weight
150 lb
Number
#17
Born
May 19, 2004 in Castillo, Dominican Republic
MLB debut
August 5, 2026
dbWAR
-.2
1 season(s)
PA
134
AVG
.211
OBP
.276
SLG
.293
wRC+
59
100 = avg

Angel Genao is a second baseman for the Cleveland Guardians. So far in 2026 he has hit 2 home runs and knocked in 6 RBIs, notching 26 hits across 134 plate appearances in 38 games. His batting average is .211, 13.3% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .276 clip and slugged .293, for an OPS of .569, 20.8% lower than the league mark of .719 — the worst on his team, and 423rd of 462 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 90.6 mph off the bat, hit 51.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 3.9% of them and made contact on 76.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 59 wRC+ puts his offence 41% below average. That comes to -0.2 dbWAR — -6.4 runs with the bat, -0.1 for the ballpark, +0.0 on the bases, -0.5 on double plays, +1.1 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.

wRC+59
wOBA.261
ISO.081
BB%7.5%
WAR-.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to -1.7 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting-6.4Ballpark-0.1Baserunning+0.0Double plays-0.5Position+1.1Replacement+4.1
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2026CLE38134262611021.211.276.293.081.2407.5%15.7%.261-6.459-0.2—

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 LHP42387137.184.262.316.26316.7%
vs RHP9285191714.224.283.282.26015.2%

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

Barrel rate
3.9%
4 barrels
Exit velocity
90.6
mph average
Max exit velo
108.7
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
51.0%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
21.6%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
-2.6°
average
Barrel rate3.9%
Exit velocity90.6 mph
Hard hit rate51.0%
Contact rate76.9%

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.

——.167—.5008 AB.2229 AB—4 AB.2229 AB.13023 AB—7 AB.09111 AB.13315 AB.5008 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 Angel Genao 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 situations134——————.211.276.293.261
Bases empty77721711510.236.286.292.264
Runner on first333261217.188.212.344.241
Runners on5751915511.176.263.294.257
RISP · thin241930344.158.333.211.279

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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Nearest 2026 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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.