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2026
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C · 2026

J.T. Realmuto

Age
35
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 0"
Weight
212 lb
Number
#10
Born
March 18, 1991 in Del City, OK, USA
MLB debut
June 5, 2014
Drafted
2010, round 3
High school
Carl Albert
Salary, 2026
$15M
dbWAR
6.6
3 season(s)
PA
329
AVG
.225
OBP
.301
SLG
.355
wRC+
80
100 = avg

J.T. Realmuto is a catcher for the Philadelphia Phillies. In 2026 he hit 8 home runs and knocked in 38 RBIs, notching 66 hits across 329 plate appearances in 86 games. His batting average was .225, 7.6% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .301 clip and slugged .355, for an OPS of .656, 8.8% lower than the league mark of .719 — 7th of 10 on his team, and 295th of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 89.6 mph off the bat, hit 40.7% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 4.9% of them and made contact on 76.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 80 wRC+ puts his offence 20% below average. That comes to 1.2 dbWAR — -6.4 runs with the bat, +0.2 on the bases, +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.

wRC+80
wOBA.295
ISO.130
BB%7.3%
WAR1.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +11.6 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting-6.4Baserunning+0.2Position+6.9Replacement+11.0
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

2.71.40.0242526

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 LHP8070161612.229.313.300.28415.0%
vs RHP2492235071856.224.297.372.29922.5%

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

Barrel rate
4.9%
11 barrels
Exit velocity
89.6
mph average
Max exit velo
111.2
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
40.7%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
35.4%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
9.9°
average
Barrel rate4.9%
Exit velocity89.6 mph
Hard hit rate40.7%
Contact rate76.2%

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.

.000.207.000.222.21119 AB.27818 AB.23821 AB.36819 AB.21428 AB.25927 AB.33315 AB.33321 AB.19021 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 J.T. Realmuto 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 situations329.225.301.355.295
Bases empty17615832551437.203.284.323.277
Runner on first79742129415.284.329.405.325
Runners on153135343331031.252.320.393.316
RISP746113124616.213.311.377.306

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
2026863296683832468.225.301.355.130.2647.3%20.7%.295-6.4801.2
20251345501291252835129.257.315.384.127.3216.4%23.5%.309-2.9912.7
2024994131011447227102.266.322.429.163.3286.5%24.7%.328+5.31112.7

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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.