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C · 2026

Hunter Goodman

Age
27
B/T
R/R
Height
5' 11"
Weight
220 lb
Number
#15
Born
October 8, 1999 in Arlington, TN, USA
MLB debut
August 27, 2023
Drafted
2021, round 4
College
Memphis
dbWAR
7.8
3 season(s)
PA
449
AVG
.254
OBP
.321
SLG
.546
wRC+
129
100 = avg

Hunter Goodman is a catcher for the Colorado Rockies. In 2026 he hit 34 home runs and knocked in 69 RBIs, notching 103 hits across 449 plate appearances in 108 games. His batting average was .254, 4.4% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .321 clip and slugged .546, for an OPS of .866, 20.4% higher than the league mark of .719 — the third best on his team, and 23rd of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 90.5 mph off the bat, hit 46.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 63.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 129 wRC+ puts his offence 29% above average. That comes to 3.5 dbWAR — +18.0 runs with the bat, -1.2 on the bases, +3.3 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+129
wOBA.367
ISO.291
BB%8.2%
WAR3.5

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +35.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting+18.0Baserunning-1.2Position+3.3Replacement+15.0
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

4.42.1-0.1242526

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 LHP1441263581753.278.361.516.37336.8%
vs RHP30527968262098.244.302.559.36432.1%

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.

.125.115.310.143.44418 AB.20824 AB.04224 AB.26123 AB.37540 AB.43546 AB.46715 AB.24129 AB.24337 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.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
20261084491033469537151.254.321.546.291.3098.2%33.6%.367+18.01293.5
20251435791503191133152.278.323.520.243.3315.7%26.3%.359+21.11174.4
2024692244013361864.190.228.417.227.1993.6%28.6%.275-6.970-0.1

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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.