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3B · 2026

Luis Rengifo

Age
29
B/T
S/R
Height
5' 9"
Weight
204 lb
Number
#21
Born
February 26, 1997 in Naguanagua, Venezuela
MLB debut
April 25, 2019
Salary, 2026
$3.5M
dbWAR
2.1
3 season(s)
PA
296
AVG
.239
OBP
.321
SLG
.305
wRC+
79
100 = avg

Luis Rengifo is a third baseman for the Milwaukee Brewers. In 2026 he hit 2 home runs and knocked in 27 RBIs, notching 62 hits across 296 plate appearances in 79 games. His batting average was .239, 1.8% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .321 clip and slugged .305, for an OPS of .626, 13.0% lower than the league mark of .719 — the second worst on his team, and 339th of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 86.5 mph off the bat, hit 35.6% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 3.1% of them and made contact on 80.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 79 wRC+ puts his offence 21% below average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — -7.5 runs with the bat, -0.5 on the bases, -0.5 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+79
wOBA.288
ISO.066
BB%9.8%
WAR.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +1.4 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting-7.5Baserunning-0.5Position-0.5Replacement+9.9
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

1.91.00.0242526

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 LHP1171042201021.212.284.250.24617.9%
vs RHP1791554021916.258.345.342.3158.9%

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

Barrel rate
3.1%
7 barrels
Exit velocity
86.5
mph average
Max exit velo
109.2
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
35.6%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
29.3%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
3.6°
average
Barrel rate3.1%
Exit velocity86.5 mph
Hard hit rate35.6%
Contact rate80.0%

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.

.100.156.200.09111 AB.26319 AB.18816 AB.25028 AB.34432 AB.29224 AB.12516 AB.30030 AB.33315 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 Luis Rengifo 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 situations296.239.321.305.288
Bases empty14713029001720.223.313.269.275
Runner on first5345130267.289.385.378.342
Runners on149129332271217.256.329.341.301
RISP968420225610.238.298.321.279

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
2026792966222762937.239.321.305.066.2709.8%12.5%.288-7.5790.1
20251465411199431033104.238.287.335.098.2816.1%19.2%.277-17.3720.1
20247830485630241644.300.347.417.117.3395.3%14.5%.337+6.11161.9

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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.