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3B · 2026

Ryan McMahon

Age
32
B/T
L/R
Height
6' 2"
Weight
211 lb
Number
#19
Born
December 14, 1994 in Yorba Linda, CA, USA
MLB debut
August 12, 2017
Drafted
2013, round 2
High school
Mater Dei
Salary, 2026
$16M
dbWAR
4.7
3 season(s)
PA
283
AVG
.214
OBP
.280
SLG
.374
wRC+
78
100 = avg

Ryan McMahon is a third baseman for the New York Yankees. In 2026 he hit 10 home runs and knocked in 28 RBIs, notching 55 hits across 283 plate appearances in 92 games. His batting average was .214, 12.2% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .280 clip and slugged .374, for an OPS of .654, 9.1% lower than the league mark of .719 — 10th of 13 on his team, and 298th of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 91.0 mph off the bat, hit 49.1% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 9.4% of them and made contact on 68.4% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 78 wRC+ puts his offence 22% below average. That comes to 0.3 dbWAR — -6.7 runs with the bat, -0.6 on the bases, +1.2 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+78
wOBA.290
ISO.160
BB%7.8%
WAR.3

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +3.4 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting-6.7Baserunning-0.6Position+1.2Replacement+9.4
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

2.51.20.0242526

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 LHP585190420.176.263.216.23134.5%
vs RHP22520646101866.223.284.413.30529.3%

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

Barrel rate
9.4%
16 barrels
Exit velocity
91.0
mph average
Max exit velo
110.9
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
49.1%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
33.9%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
12.5°
average
Barrel rate9.4%
Exit velocity91.0 mph
Hard hit rate49.1%
Contact rate68.4%

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.

.000.091.111.087.27311 AB.10010 AB.2508 AB.38918 AB.10329 AB.22227 AB.26926 AB.48431 AB.25020 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 Ryan McMahon 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 situations283.214.280.374.290
Bases empty17115335661649.229.310.405.318
Runner on first4746927116.196.213.348.242
Runners on11210420422637.192.234.327.247
RISP655811215521.190.250.310.251

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
20269228355102832286.214.280.374.160.2787.8%30.4%.290-6.7780.3
20251515861092053370189.214.312.381.167.29411.9%32.3%.309-2.9851.9
20241536451372065469185.242.325.397.155.32010.7%28.7%.318+2.9992.5

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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.