C · 2026

Travis d'Arnaud

Los Angeles Angels American League WestC

Age: 37
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 210 lb
Number: #25

Born: February 10, 1989 in Long Beach, CA, USA
MLB debut: August 17, 2013
Drafted: 2007, round C-A
High school: Lakewood
Salary, 2026: $6M

dbWAR: 2.2
PA: 49
AVG: .205
OBP: .286
SLG: .295
wRC+: 68

Travis d'Arnaud is a catcher for the Los Angeles Angels. In 2026 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 3 RBIs, notching 9 hits across 49 plate appearances in 17 games. His batting average was .205, 16.1% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .286 clip and slugged .295, for an OPS of .581, 19.2% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 87.3 mph off the bat, hit 30.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 15.2% of them and made contact on 71.6% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 68 wRC+ puts his offence 32% below average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — -2.0 runs with the bat, -0.1 on the bases, +1.0 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+68

wOBA.269

ISO.091

BB%6.1%

WAR.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +0.6 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

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 LHP	21	19	5	1	1	5	.263	.333	.421	.336	23.8%
vs RHP	28	25	4	0	2	6	.160	.250	.200	.219	21.4%

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

Barrel rate: 15.2%
Exit velocity: 87.3
Max exit velo: 104.2
Hard hit: 30.3%
Sweet spot: 36.4%
Launch angle: 14.4°

Barrel rate15.2%

Exit velocity87.3 mph

Hard hit rate30.3%

Contact rate71.6%

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 Travis d'Arnaud 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	49	—	—	—	—	—	—	.205	.286	.295	.269
Bases empty	30	28	5	0	0	1	8	.179	.233	.214	.210
Runner on first · thin	8	8	3	0	0	0	0	.375	.375	.375	.334
Runners on · thin	19	16	4	1	3	2	3	.250	.368	.438	.362
RISP · thin	11	8	1	1	3	2	3	.125	.364	.500	.382

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.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2026	17	49	9	1	3	0	3	11	.205	.286	.295	.091	.250	6.1%	22.4%	.269	-2.0	68	0.1
2025	67	231	42	6	21	0	13	74	.197	.255	.343	.146	.269	5.6%	32.0%	.264	-9.7	64	0.2
2024	95	341	73	15	48	1	24	89	.238	.302	.436	.199	.280	7.0%	26.1%	.320	+2.3	108	2.0

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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.