DH · 2026

Kyle Farmer

Age: 36
B/T: R/R
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 205 lb
Number: #52

Born: August 17, 1990 in Atlanta, GA, USA
MLB debut: July 30, 2017
Drafted: 2012, round 35
College: Georgia
High school: Marist School
Salary, 2026: $750,000

dbWAR: -.0
PA: 16
AVG: .267
OBP: .250
SLG: .333
wRC+: 49

Kyle Farmer is a designated hitter for the Atlanta Braves. In 2026 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 3 RBIs, notching 4 hits across 16 plate appearances in 10 games. His batting average was .267, 9.4% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .250 clip and slugged .333, for an OPS of .583, 18.9% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 80.4 mph off the bat, hit 25.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 70.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 49 wRC+ puts his offence 51% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -1.0 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, -0.4 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+49

wOBA.246

ISO.067

BB%0.0%

WAR-.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to -0.8 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	11	11	3	0	0	3	.273	.273	.364	.277	27.3%
vs RHP	5	4	1	0	0	1	.250	.200	.250	.178	20.0%

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

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 80.4
Max exit velo: 96.7
Hard hit: 25.0%
Sweet spot: 41.7%
Launch angle: 6.5°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity80.4 mph

Hard hit rate25.0%

Contact rate70.0%

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.

Below averageLeague averageAbove average

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 Kyle Farmer 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	16	—	—	—	—	—	—	.267	.250	.333	.246
Bases empty · thin	6	6	1	0	0	0	3	.167	.167	.167	.149
Runner on first · thin	4	4	2	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	.446
Runners on · thin	10	9	3	0	3	0	1	.333	.300	.444	.304
RISP · thin	6	5	1	0	3	0	1	.200	.167	.400	.210

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	10	16	4	0	3	0	0	4	.267	.250	.333	.067	.333	0.0%	25.0%	.246	-1.0	49	-0.1
2025	96	300	63	8	31	0	17	66	.227	.280	.365	.137	.268	5.7%	22.0%	.284	-7.8	70	-0.1
2024	96	242	46	5	25	3	19	49	.214	.293	.353	.140	.252	7.9%	20.2%	.287	-5.0	81	0.2

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																			Trend
2025	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	9.00	16.14	3.00	0.0	0.0	216	388	-0.1
2024	3	0	4.0	0	0	0	7	3	0	1	6.75	3.92	2.00	0.0	2.3	165	96	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.