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Sal Stewart

Cincinnati Reds National League Central1B

Age: 23
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 224 lb
Number: #27

Born: December 7, 2003 in Miami, FL, United States
MLB debut: September 1, 2025
Drafted: 2022, round 1C
High school: Westminster Christian

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dbWAR: 3.2
PA: 700
AVG: .263
OBP: .330
SLG: .457
wRC+: 119

Sal Stewart is a first baseman for the Cincinnati Reds. In 2026 he hit 32 home runs and knocked in 111 RBIs, notching 164 hits across 700 plate appearances in 162 games. His batting average was .263, 7.9% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .330 clip and slugged .457, for an OPS of .787, 9.5% higher than the league mark of .719 — the second best on his team, and 93rd of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 90.5 mph off the bat, hit 42.6% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 11.6% of them and made contact on 73.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 119 wRC+ puts his offence 19% above average. That comes to 2.9 dbWAR — +12.8 runs with the bat, +1.1 for the ballpark, -1.3 on the bases, -1.5 on double plays, -5.2 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 regular season.

wRC+119

wOBA.341

ISO.194

BB%9.0%

WAR2.9

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +27.7 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 — postseason games are listed separately below.

																					Trend
2026	CIN	162	700	164	32	111	15	63	155	.263	.330	.457	.194	.296	9.0%	22.1%	.341	+12.8	119	2.9
2025	CIN	18	58	14	5	8	0	3	15	.255	.293	.545	.291	.257	5.2%	25.9%	.354	+1.9	127	0.3

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason batting

Postseason Sal Stewart's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2025 Post	CIN	Wild Card	2	5	4	0	2	0	0	0	4	1	1	1	.500	.600	.500	1.100

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

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	183	159	42	8	22	45	.264	.355	.447	.345	24.6%
vs RHP	517	464	122	24	41	110	.263	.321	.461	.339	21.3%

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

Barrel rate: 11.6%
Exit velocity: 90.5
Max exit velo: 111.4
Hard hit: 42.6%
Sweet spot: 36.8%
Launch angle: 12.9°

Barrel rate11.6%

Exit velocity90.5 mph

Hard hit rate42.6%

Contact rate73.0%

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 Sal Stewart 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	700	—	—	—	—	—	—	.263	.330	.457	.341
Bases empty	376	337	88	18	19	35	89	.261	.338	.460	.350
Runner on first	159	148	33	2	7	11	38	.223	.277	.311	.266
Runners on	324	286	76	14	92	28	66	.266	.321	.455	.329
RISP	165	138	43	12	85	17	28	.312	.364	.609	.393

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.