C · 2026

Luke Maile

Kansas City Royals American League CentralC

Age: 35
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 225 lb
Number: #18

Born: February 6, 1991 in Edgewood, KY, USA
MLB debut: September 1, 2015
Drafted: 2009, round 43
College: Kentucky
High school: Covington Catholic

dbWAR: .3
PA: 19
AVG: .278
OBP: .316
SLG: .500
wRC+: 121

Luke Maile is a catcher for the Kansas City Royals. In 2026 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 5 RBIs, notching 5 hits across 19 plate appearances in 6 games. His batting average was .278, 14.0% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .316 clip and slugged .500, for an OPS of .816, 13.4% higher than the league mark of .719. He averaged 84.9 mph off the bat, hit 25.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 75.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 121 wRC+ puts his offence 21% above average. That comes to 0.2 dbWAR — +0.5 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+121

wOBA.351

ISO.222

BB%5.3%

WAR.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +1.5 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	15	15	4	1	0	5	.267	.267	.533	.337	33.3%
vs RHP	4	3	1	0	1	1	.333	.500	.333	.404	25.0%

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: 84.9
Max exit velo: 106.3
Hard hit: 25.0%
Sweet spot: 58.3%
Launch angle: 19.3°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity84.9 mph

Hard hit rate25.0%

Contact rate75.0%

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 Luke Maile 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	19	—	—	—	—	—	—	.278	.316	.500	.351
Bases empty · thin	9	9	1	0	0	0	5	.111	.111	.111	.099
Runner on first · thin	3	2	2	0	1	1	0	1.000	1.000	1.500	.959
Runners on · thin	10	9	4	1	5	1	1	.444	.500	.889	.578
RISP · thin	7	7	2	1	4	0	1	.286	.286	.714	.415

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	6	19	5	1	5	0	1	6	.278	.316	.500	.222	.364	5.3%	31.6%	.351	+0.5	121	0.2
2025	19	54	11	1	6	1	7	16	.244	.346	.356	.111	.357	13.0%	29.6%	.320	+0.2	107	0.3
2024	53	154	24	2	8	2	13	52	.178	.268	.252	.074	.268	8.4%	33.8%	.243	-8.7	50	-0.1

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																			Trend
2025	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.00	6.14	1.00	0.0	9.0	0	148	-0.0
2024	3	0	3.2	0	0	0	6	6	0	0	14.73	6.71	1.64	0.0	0.0	361	165	-0.1

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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.