C · 2026

Kenny Piper

Age: 28
B/T: R/R
Height: 5' 10"
Weight: 190 lb
Number: #50

Born: July 12, 1998 in Florissant, MO, USA
MLB debut: August 3, 2026
Drafted: 2021, round 18
College: Columbia

dbWAR: .0
PA: 5
AVG: .250
OBP: .400
SLG: .250
wRC+: 104

Kenny Piper is a catcher for the Tampa Bay Rays. In 2026 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 5 plate appearances in 1 game. His batting average was .250, 2.6% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .400 clip and slugged .250, for an OPS of .650, 9.6% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 91.7 mph off the bat, hit 25.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 100.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 104 wRC+ puts his offence 4% above average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — +0.0 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, +0.1 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+104

wOBA.323

ISO.000

BB%20.0%

WAR.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +0.3 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

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.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs RHP	5	4	1	0	1	0	.250	.400	.250	.323	0.0%

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.

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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.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2026	1	5	1	0	0	0	1	0	.250	.400	.250	.000	.250	20.0%	0.0%	.323	+0.0	104	0.0	—

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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.