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Hunter Goodman

Age: 27
B/T: R/R
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 220 lb
Number: #15

Born: October 8, 1999 in Arlington, TN, United States
MLB debut: August 27, 2023
Drafted: 2021, round 4
College: Memphis

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dbWAR: 6.8
PA: 574
AVG: .245
OBP: .310
SLG: .529
wRC+: 120

Hunter Goodman is a catcher for the Colorado Rockies. In 2026 he hit 41 home runs and knocked in 88 RBIs, notching 127 hits across 574 plate appearances in 138 games. His batting average was .245, level with the league average of .244. He reached base at a .310 clip and slugged .529, for an OPS of .839, 16.7% higher than the league mark of .719 — the second best on his team, and 32nd of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 89.8 mph off the bat, hit 44.5% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 13.3% of them and made contact on 66.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 120 wRC+ puts his offence 20% above average. That comes to 3.6 dbWAR — +17.6 runs with the bat, -1.5 for the ballpark, -1.7 on the bases, -1.9 on double plays, +4.5 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+120

wOBA.356

ISO.284

BB%8.0%

WAR3.6

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +34.7 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting Regular season

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


2026	COL	138	574	127	41	88	5	46	175	.245	.310	.529	.284	.280	8.0%	30.5%	.356	+17.6	120	3.6
2025	COL	143	579	150	31	91	1	33	152	.278	.323	.520	.243	.331	5.7%	26.3%	.359	+21.1	117	3.6
2024	COL	69	224	40	13	36	1	8	64	.190	.228	.417	.227	.199	3.6%	28.6%	.275	-6.9	70	-0.2
2023	COL	23	77	14	1	17	1	5	24	.200	.247	.386	.186	.277	6.5%	31.2%	.270	-3.3	60	-0.3

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

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.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHP	189	167	42	12	21	66	.251	.333	.515	.358	34.9%
vs RHP	385	351	85	29	25	109	.242	.299	.536	.354	28.3%

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

Barrel rate: 13.3%
Exit velocity: 89.8
Max exit velo: 116.2
Hard hit: 44.5%
Sweet spot: 33.5%
Launch angle: 18.6°

Barrel rate13.3%

Exit velocity89.8 mph

Hard hit rate44.5%

Contact rate66.0%

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.

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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 Hunter Goodman 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.
Situation	PA	AB	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
All situations	574	—	—	—	—	—	—	.245	.310	.529	.356
Bases empty	307	280	78	23	23	25	94	.279	.342	.589	.397
Runner on first	114	106	23	7	14	6	40	.217	.272	.434	.307
Runners on	267	238	49	18	65	21	81	.206	.273	.458	.307
RISP	153	132	26	11	51	15	41	.197	.275	.477	.308

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. 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.

Rafael Flores Jr.PIT

wRC+: 129
HR: 11
AVG: .264
WAR: 1.4

Byron BuxtonMIN

wRC+: 128
HR: 25
AVG: .254
WAR: 2.9

Matt OlsonATL

wRC+: 121
HR: 41
AVG: .251
WAR: 3.1

Joshua BáezSTL

wRC+: 116
HR: 7
AVG: .230
WAR: 0.5

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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.