C · 2026

Austin Wynns

Age: 36
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 190 lb
Number: #38

Born: December 10, 1990 in San Diego, CA, USA
MLB debut: June 5, 2018
Drafted: 2013, round 10
College: Fresno State
High school: Poway
Salary, 2026: $1.1M

dbWAR: .7
PA: 78
AVG: .123
OBP: .169
SLG: .164
wRC+: -12

Austin Wynns is a catcher for the Athletics. In 2026 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 1 RBI, notching 9 hits across 78 plate appearances in 25 games. His batting average was .123, 49.4% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .169 clip and slugged .164, for an OPS of .333, 53.7% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 84.1 mph off the bat, hit 28.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 3.8% of them and made contact on 74.4% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -12 wRC+ puts his offence 112% below average. That comes to -0.6 dbWAR — -10.5 runs with the bat, -0.1 on the bases, +1.5 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+-12

wOBA.156

ISO.041

BB%5.1%

WAR-.6

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to -6.4 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	33	31	4	1	1	8	.129	.156	.226	.169	24.2%
vs RHP	45	42	5	0	3	13	.119	.178	.119	.147	28.9%

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

Barrel rate: 3.8%
Exit velocity: 84.1
Max exit velo: 109.3
Hard hit: 28.3%
Sweet spot: 34.0%
Launch angle: 16.9°

Barrel rate3.8%

Exit velocity84.1 mph

Hard hit rate28.3%

Contact rate74.4%

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.

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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 Austin Wynns 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	78	—	—	—	—	—	—	.123	.169	.164	.156
Bases empty	44	42	6	1	1	2	13	.143	.182	.214	.180
Runner on first · thin	15	13	3	0	0	1	1	.231	.286	.231	.243
Runners on	34	31	3	0	0	2	8	.097	.152	.097	.125
RISP · thin	19	18	0	0	0	1	7	.000	.053	.000	.038

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	25	78	9	1	1	4	21	.123	.169	.164	.041	.157	5.1%	26.9%	.156	-10.5	-12	-0.6
2025	35	110	30	6	21	5	32	.291	.321	.544	.252	.364	4.5%	29.1%	.366	+4.6	132	1.0
2024	7	20	7	0	2	0	5	.368	.400	.579	.211	.500	0.0%	25.0%	.418	+1.7	168	0.3

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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.