Players · P · 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, United States
- MLB debut
- August 3, 2026
- Drafted
- 2021, round 18
- College
- Columbia
- dbWAR
- .1 1 season(s)
- PA
- 11
- AVG
- .222
- OBP
- .364
- SLG
- .556
- wRC+
- 154 100 = avg
Kenny Piper is a catcher for the Tampa Bay Rays. So far in 2026 he has hit 1 home run and knocked in 2 RBIs, notching 2 hits across 11 plate appearances in 7 games. His batting average is .222, 8.9% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .364 clip and slugged .556, for an OPS of .919, 27.9% higher than the league mark of .719. He averaged 89.8 mph off the bat, hit 33.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 16.7% of them and made contact on 68.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 154 wRC+ puts his offence 54% above average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — +0.7 runs with the bat, -0.0 for the ballpark, +0.2 on the bases, +0.2 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.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +1.4 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | TB | 7 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | .222 | .364 | .556 | .333 | .200 | 18.2% | 27.3% | .397 | +0.7 | 154 | 0.1 | — |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | .333 | .500 | 1.333 | .688 | 50.0% |
| vs RHP | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .167 | .286 | .167 | .231 | 14.3% |
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 6 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 16.7% 1 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 89.8 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 102.5 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 33.3% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 16.7% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 35.8° average
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.
Situational hitting
How Kenny Piper hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.
| Situation | PA | AB | H | HR | RBI | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All situations | 11 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .222 | .364 | .556 | .397 |
| Bases empty · thin | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .167 | .286 | .167 | .231 |
| Runner on first · thin | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | .500 | .500 | 2.000 | 1.013 |
| Runners on · thin | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | .333 | .500 | 1.333 | .688 |
| RISP · thin | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 | .500 | .000 | .362 |
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.
Head to head
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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.