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CF · 2026

Trent Grisham

Age
30
B/T
L/L
Height
5' 10"
Weight
221 lb
Number
#12
Born
November 1, 1996 in Burleson, TX, USA
MLB debut
August 1, 2019
Drafted
2015, round 1
High school
Richland
Salary, 2026
$22M
dbWAR
5.8
3 season(s)
PA
390
AVG
.213
OBP
.308
SLG
.391
wRC+
93
100 = avg

Trent Grisham is a center fielder for the New York Yankees. In 2026 he hit 13 home runs and knocked in 44 RBIs, notching 72 hits across 390 plate appearances in 97 games. His batting average was .213, 12.6% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .308 clip and slugged .391, for an OPS of .699, 2.8% lower than the league mark of .719 — 6th of 13 on his team, and 221st of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 90.6 mph off the bat, hit 44.9% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 9.1% of them and made contact on 82.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 93 wRC+ puts his offence 7% below average. That comes to 1.3 dbWAR — -2.1 runs with the bat, +0.5 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+93
wOBA.312
ISO.178
BB%12.3%
WAR1.3

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +12.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting-2.1Baserunning+0.5Position+1.5Replacement+13.0
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

4.12.00.0242526

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 LHP111982431221.245.324.408.32518.9%
vs RHP27924048103645.200.302.383.30716.1%

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

Barrel rate
9.1%
25 barrels
Exit velocity
90.6
mph average
Max exit velo
111.6
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
44.9%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
36.0%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
17.3°
average
Barrel rate9.1%
Exit velocity90.6 mph
Hard hit rate44.9%
Contact rate82.2%

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.

.167.154.000.125.14827 AB.17939 AB.13315 AB.21637 AB.29248 AB.25735 AB.16025 AB.29544 AB.30020 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 Trent Grisham 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 situations390.213.308.391.312
Bases empty24621141663444.194.306.346.298
Runner on first70641636611.250.314.453.335
Runners on144127317381422.244.313.465.335
RISP746315432811.238.311.476.335

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
20269739072134474866.213.308.391.178.22512.3%16.9%.312-2.1931.3
20251385811163474382137.235.348.464.229.25314.1%23.6%.356+19.71324.1
2024672093493112257.190.290.385.196.21710.5%27.3%.297-2.6890.5

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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.