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Kevin McGonigle
- Age
- 22
- B/T
- L/R
- Height
- 5' 9"
- Weight
- 187 lb
- Number
- #7
- Born
- August 18, 2004 in Media, PA, United States
- MLB debut
- March 26, 2026
- Drafted
- 2023, round CB-A
- High school
- Monsignor Bonner
- Salary, 2026
- $780,000
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- dbWAR
- 5.8 Regular season, 1 season(s)
- PA
- 707
- AVG
- .278
- OBP
- .376
- SLG
- .430
- wRC+
- 132 100 = avg
Kevin McGonigle is a third baseman for the Detroit Tigers. In 2026 he hit 18 home runs and knocked in 72 RBIs, notching 168 hits across 707 plate appearances in 156 games. His batting average was .278, 13.8% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .376 clip and slugged .430, for an OPS of .806, 12.1% higher than the league mark of .719 — the third best on his team, and 69th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 87.8 mph off the bat, hit 37.5% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 6.9% of them and made contact on 83.8% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 132 wRC+ puts his offence 32% above average. That comes to 5.8 dbWAR — +24.6 runs with the bat, +0.9 for the ballpark, -0.5 on the bases, +1.6 on double plays, +6.9 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.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +55.4 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | DET | 156 | 707 | 168 | 18 | 72 | 12 | 95 | 100 | .278 | .376 | .430 | .152 | .305 | 13.4% | 14.1% | .361 | +24.6 | 132 | 5.8 | — |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 207 | 182 | 44 | 3 | 22 | 40 | .242 | .324 | .335 | .301 | 19.3% |
| vs RHP | 500 | 423 | 124 | 15 | 73 | 60 | .293 | .398 | .470 | .385 | 12.0% |
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 509 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 6.9% 35 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 87.8 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 109.5 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 37.5% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 37.5% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 19.5° 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 Kevin McGonigle 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 | 707 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .278 | .376 | .430 | .361 |
| Bases empty | 422 | 360 | 93 | 13 | 13 | 60 | 56 | .258 | .367 | .417 | .354 |
| Runner on first | 145 | 135 | 43 | 5 | 13 | 10 | 25 | .319 | .366 | .489 | .374 |
| Runners on | 285 | 245 | 75 | 5 | 59 | 35 | 44 | .306 | .389 | .449 | .371 |
| RISP | 140 | 110 | 32 | 0 | 46 | 25 | 19 | .291 | .414 | .400 | .368 |
Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2026.
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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.