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Carter Jensen

Kansas City RoyalsAmerican League CentralC
Age
23
B/T
L/R
Height
6' 0"
Weight
210 lb
Number
#22
Born
July 3, 2003 in Kansas City, MO, United States
MLB debut
September 2, 2025
Drafted
2021, round 3
High school
Park Hill

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dbWAR
4.3
Regular season, 2 season(s)
PA
603
AVG
.239
OBP
.323
SLG
.467
wRC+
112
100 = avg

Carter Jensen is a catcher for the Kansas City Royals. In 2026 he hit 27 home runs and knocked in 81 RBIs, notching 126 hits across 603 plate appearances in 148 games. His batting average was .239, 2.0% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .323 clip and slugged .467, for an OPS of .790, 9.9% higher than the league mark of .719 — the third best on his team, and 87th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 91.5 mph off the bat, hit 44.9% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 11.3% of them and made contact on 70.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 112 wRC+ puts his offence 12% above average. That comes to 3.5 dbWAR — +12.3 runs with the bat, -1.7 for the ballpark, -0.8 on the bases, +0.8 on double plays, +4.8 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 regular season.

wRC+112
wOBA.343
ISO.228
BB%10.8%
WAR3.5

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +34.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting+12.3Ballpark-1.7Baserunning-0.8Double plays+0.8Position+4.8Replacement+18.7
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

3.51.80.02526

Batting Regular season

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

Trend
2026KC1486031262781265170.239.323.467.228.29410.8%28.2%.343+12.31123.5
2025KC2069183130912.300.391.550.250.33313.0%17.4%.406+5.21690.8

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 LHP1701523641453.237.306.368.30131.2%
vs RHP433375902351117.240.330.507.36027.0%

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

Barrel rate
11.3%
41 barrels
Exit velocity
91.5
mph average
Max exit velo
113.7
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
44.9%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
35.0%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
20.6°
average
Barrel rate11.3%
Exit velocity91.5 mph
Hard hit rate44.9%
Contact rate70.3%

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.

.074.130.103.094.15426 AB.24233 AB.23821 AB.30253 AB.26871 AB.31145 AB.28945 AB.38071 AB.26123 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 Carter Jensen 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 situations603——————.239.323.467.343
Bases empty37533673202035110.217.299.455.329
Runner on first10086265161429.302.400.593.427
Runners on228191537613060.277.364.487.366
RISP128105272451631.257.336.400.319

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.