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3B · 2026

Manny Machado

Age
34
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 2"
Weight
218 lb
Number
#13
Born
July 6, 1992 in Miami, FL, USA
MLB debut
August 9, 2012
Drafted
2010, round 1
High school
Brito Miami Private School
Salary, 2026
$25.1M
dbWAR
8.6
3 season(s)
PA
492
AVG
.212
OBP
.297
SLG
.420
wRC+
99
100 = avg

Manny Machado is a third baseman for the San Diego Padres. In 2026 he hit 23 home runs and knocked in 70 RBIs, notching 91 hits across 492 plate appearances in 116 games. His batting average was .212, 12.9% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .297 clip and slugged .420, for an OPS of .717, level with the league mark of .719 — 6th of 14 on his team, and 193rd of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 90.4 mph off the bat, hit 44.9% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 9.8% of them and made contact on 73.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 99 wRC+ puts his offence 1% below average. That comes to 1.2 dbWAR — -2.8 runs with the bat, -1.4 on the bases, +0.2 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.

wRC+99
wOBA.311
ISO.207
BB%11.2%
WAR1.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +12.4 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting-2.8Baserunning-1.4Position+0.2Replacement+16.4
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

4.02.00.0242526

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.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP1181022241324.216.297.422.30520.3%
vs RHP37432769194286.211.298.419.31323.0%

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

Barrel rate
9.8%
32 barrels
Exit velocity
90.4
mph average
Max exit velo
112.0
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
44.9%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
36.5%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
13.3°
average
Barrel rate9.8%
Exit velocity90.4 mph
Hard hit rate44.9%
Contact rate73.7%

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.

.208.188.184.082.30020 AB.46730 AB.12524 AB.37243 AB.29248 AB.13644 AB.28621 AB.09841 AB.09432 AB
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 Manny Machado 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.
SituationPAABHHRRBIBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBA
All situations492.212.297.420.311
Bases empty2612314710113063.203.295.390.305
Runner on first128112268231526.232.323.491.353
Runners on2311984413592547.222.300.455.319
RISP10386185361021.209.272.407.275

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2026.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2026116492912370255110.212.297.420.207.22411.2%22.4%.311-2.8991.2
202515967816927951455131.275.335.460.185.3078.1%19.3%.343+15.71224.0
2024152643163291051145124.275.325.472.197.3027.0%19.3%.341+15.21213.3

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Nearest 2026 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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.